Sources: Microsoft And Barnes & Noble To Announce Tablet With Xbox Live Streaming Tomorrow
There's a ton of speculation around what Microsoft will be announcing on Monday in Los Angeles. Both the Wrap and ATD claim the event will showcase a Microsoft built Windows RT/Windows 8 tablet.
Make Way For More Tech Investment: Index Ventures Raises Another €350M Fund
The economic signals coming from Europe are leading some to predict a big drop in startup investments up ahead, but that's not the message coming from one of the region's biggest VC firms.
Mozilla takes aim at the iPad browser market with its ‘Junior’ prototype
When it comes to browsing the web on iOS, there are plenty of third-party alternatives to Apple's Safari. Atomic, Dolphin, Mercury, Opera, and Skyfire are just a few that have enjoyed some measure of...
U.S. Government Requests For Google Users' Private Data Jump 37% In One Year
Updated with a correction from Google below. — The American government's appetite for Google's data is growing. — In the second half of 2011, Google received 6,321 requests that it hand over its u...
How Depressives Surf the Web
IN what way do you spend your time online? Do you check your e-mail compulsively? Watch lots of videos? Switch frequently among multiple Internet applications — from games to file downloads to chat...
How Apple Store Seduces You With the Tilt of Its Laptops
Walk into any Apple Retail Store when it opens in the morning and you might notice that all of the new MacBook Pro notebooks with retina display are positioned at exactly the same angle. Employees wh...
Hacked companies fight back with controversial steps
(Reuters) - Frustrated by their inability to stop sophisticated hacking attacks or use the law to punish their assailants, an increasing number of U.S. companies are taking retaliatory action. — Kno...
Wearable Gadgets Upset F.A.A. Curbs on Devices
Pity the poor flight attendant. They didn't sign up for this: millions of petulant airline passengers surreptitiously reading digital books and magazines on their iPads or Kindles during takeoff and ...
Inside Google's Plan to Build a Catalog of Every Single Thing, Ever
There's a lot more to Google's Knowledge Graph than might be apparent from what you see in a casual search. — The ugly truth is that computers don't know anything. They have no common sense.
Acxiom, the Quiet Giant of Consumer Database Marketing
IT knows who you are. It knows where you live. It knows what you do. — It peers deeper into American life than the F.B.I. or the I.R.S., or those prying digital eyes at Facebook and Google. If yo...
Vizio reboots the PC: a quiet American success story takes on sleeping giants
McRae is more blunt, as usual. “Trackpads have sucked for a really long time,” he says. “We wanted to get it right.” The machines I saw at CES had finicky pre-production trackpads, but McRae says t...
Worldreader: An E-Book Revolution for Africa?
Schools in developing countries are experimenting with digital books; endless titles, spotty electricity — Humble school students learning how to use Kindles in February. ‘It took the kids just a f...
The Great Replacement: Microsoft, Yammer, and a New World in Enterprise Computing
As with Facebook's Instagram acquisition, Microsoft's reported $1.2 billion purchase price for business-software company Yammer likely doesn't really reflect what the startup is worth in earning poten...
Were Facebook Investors Fooling Themselves? Psychologists Say Yes
Despite plenty of ominous signs leading up to Facebook's initial public offering last month, legions of small-time investors walked eagerly toward their financial doom. Why? Psychologists think they...