Since HTML5 runs on all modern Web browsers and supports many of the capabilities of modern mobile devices, it can serve as a universal platform for applications. A universal platform provides significant business benefits, not only in terms of developer […]
Microsoft Ropes In 10th Android Licensee
Microsoft’s relentless pursuit of royalties from manufacturers of Android handsets might actually be a win-win. “Since Microsoft is making so much money from Android, I don’t think they’re as interested in limiting it, and that’s beneficial to Android,” observed 451 […]
Will Microsoft Get Lucky With Yahoo
The world’s leading SSL certificates now offer more protection and security. Now from Symantec. Download your free trial of the world’s leading SSL certificates at verisign.com/ssl/free-30day-trial. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer recently commented on Yahoo’s (Nasdaq: YHOO) present situation […]
Android 4.0: The stakes for Google are huge
Google unveiled Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, and to say the search giant has a lot riding on the mobile operating system would be an understatement. Along with Samsung, Google execs walked the tech world through Android […]
Has the hybrid hard drive arrived via the Ultrabook?
Are future mainstream Ultrabooks going to usher in the hybrid hard-disk drive? Acer may have kicked off this trend with the hybrid-drive-packing Ultrabook Aspire S3, which sports a 20GB solid-state drive matched with a standard 320GB spinning hard disk. So, […]
Steve Jobs’ last big project: The next iPhone
The iPhone 4S is not the last major project that Steve Jobs worked on, according to one analyst. That would be the next iPhone–let’s call it the iPhone 5. The next-generation iPhone “was the last project that Steve Jobs was […]
Tech World Mourns Loss of Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Unix
Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist responsible for C and Unix, has passed away at age 70. His career leaves behind an operating system and programming language that form the basis of some of the world’s most widely used technologies. Best […]
Which OS will users choose for their next smart phone?
Google’s Android platform seems likely to remain the most popular choice among smart phone users. When Connected Intelligence, a New York-based analytic group that studies the consumer handheld market, asked smart phone users which OS they were likely to chose […]
Windows 8 Metro Sees Flash Axed From Internet Explorer 10
jpgWhen running on tablets, Windows 8 will run a different version of Internet Explorer 10, consigning Flash to the desktop mode. Does anyone still love Flash? Off Like a Flash After all the hoo-hah of the Windows 8 unveiling, and […]
Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV
A new era in television begins this holiday where your entertainment becomes instantly searchable, easily discoverable and enjoyable in extraordinary new ways from a single device — Xbox 360. Today, Microsoft Corp. announced plans to roll out the next generation […]