'Bingbooks' need free Office to compete with Chromebooks
Microsoft's strategy in giving away one-year Office 365 subscriptions to many of its tablet- and notebook-making partners is all about matching not just the price but also the functionality of...
View ArticleTwitter partners with Bing to add language translation
Twitter users will easier time reading tweets not in their native language thanks to a new translation feature powered by Bing.
View ArticleIs the ASUS X205 Microsoft's Chromebook killer?
The ASUS X205 is one of three Windows 8.1 notebooks, all released in November, designed to halt the encroachment of Chromebooks into the low-end Windows notebook market. (The other two are the HP...
View ArticleHow machine learning ate Microsoft
At the Strata big data conference yesterday, Microsoft let the world know its Azure Machine Learning offering was generally available to developers. This may come as a surprise. Microsoft? Isn't...
View ArticleYahoo gains U.S. search share on the back of Firefox
New measurements show that Yahoo continued to improve its share of the U.S. search market after striking a deal last year with Mozilla, the maker of Firefox.
View ArticleTwitter investigates ISIS threats against Dorsey, Costolo and employees
Twitter is working with law enforcement to investigate threats made against its executives and employees.
View ArticleMicrosoft and Yahoo shake up their search deal
Nearly six years after Microsoft and Yahoo inked a search partnership, the companies are extending their agreement while changing it up a bit, as well.
View ArticleUtah researchers make light-speed computing breakthrough
University of Utah researchers are touting an engineering breakthrough that they say could have supercomputers working at the speed of light within three years and other computers including mobile...
View ArticleToyota eyes Ford's latest smartphone interface
Toyota announced today that it may adopt the SmartDeviceLink (SDL) protocol, which is the open-source version of Ford's smartphone-linking technology called Ford AppLink.
View ArticleResearchers to use Google cloud to aid in genome analysis
Researchers at MIT and Harvard are partnering with Google to use its cloud platform to take genomic data and use it to find cures to diseases such as cancer and diabetes.
View ArticleWhat's the future for Windows Phone?
Despite rumors that Microsoft is about to kill Windows Phone, some industry observers say that's unlikely for several reasons, especially the expected gains from the rollout of Windows 10, which will...
View ArticleLongtime Microsoft partner Yahoo tests search with Google
Just months after Yahoo extended its long-term search agreement with Microsoft, Yahoo is testing a search partnership with Google.
View ArticleJavaScript rules the school, but C++ climbs in popularity
C++ is making big gains in the monthly Tiobe language popularity index, while JavaScript continues to rule the day.
View ArticleOnce-declining Java cements its lead in language popularity index
Once-faltering Java is beginning to run away with the Tiobe language popularity index, with the language getting a shot in the arm from last year's Java 8 release.
View ArticleMicrosoft hides $US43bn Apple-esque business in plain sight
Microsoft has created a $43 billion business, a potential Apple-and-OEM-esque company-within-a-company, that could be used to take up the slack if some of its computer-making partners falter.
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