Microsoft bets on Windows Phone 8 to regain foothold in smartphone market. On Monday in San Francisco, Microsoft has the launch event for Windows Phone 8, the latest version of the company's 2-year-old smartphone platform. It's Microsoft's newest … Focus of Windows 8 is touch, not clicks - Boston Globe
With its colorful square icons, Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system is sending millions of computer users back to square one. Windows 8 is Microsoft's most radical upgrade to Windows since the 1990s, combining the traditional keyboard and mouse … 
For all that we're told to live digitally in the cloud, there are still plenty of people who rely on handwritten notes in a Moleskine or similar to keep their lives in order. Livescribe wants to build a bridge between paper and digital, and the new Livescribe Sky WiFi … 
Microsoft released its new operating system, Windows 8, on Thursday, but some students who use Windows said they do not feel it's necessary to upgrade right away. Windows 8, the first update since Windows 7's release in 2009, has several new features, … 
Livescribe keeps making its smartpens smarter. The company has created a pen that can capture writing, record audio, and then wirelessly transfer the captured data to a smartphone, tablet, or Evernote note-taking software on a PC. By doing so, the company … 
The Microsoft Windows Phone 8 event happens tomorrow, get your liveblog here! We know tomorrow's Windows Phone 8 event will finally answer all of those burning mysteries that we've been yearning to hear more about since Microsoft first announced the … 
Microsoft bets on Windows Phone 8 to regain foothold in smartphone market. On Monday in San Francisco, Microsoft has the launch event for Windows Phone 8, the latest version of the company's 2-year-old smartphone platform. It's Microsoft's newest … 
32GB Nexus 7 tablet spied at Office Depot for $250. The beefier version of Google's Nexus 7 tablet has apparently gone from rumor to reality, as one blogger reports that his local Office Depot has one for sale. Edward Moyer. by Edward Moyer. October 28 … 
Pros. Nice display. Runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Good battery life. Cons No 4G. Average processor. Price is a little too high. Bottom Line. The Samsung Galaxy Reverb is a solid midrange Android smartphone for Virgin Mobile, but it's a little too … 
Pros. Massive high-definition screen. Fast quad-core processor. Includes a pressure-sensitive stylus and well-designed note-taking and drawing software. Runs Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" out of the box. Fast LTE, if you can get it. Good call quality. Cons Very … 
Amazon is understandably partial to its Kindle Fire HD. And it surely wants you to feel the same way, especially given the splashy arrival of a new kid tablet in town. The e-commerce giant with the tablet business sideline today spruced up its home page with a … 
A New York man was arrested on Friday on charges he forged documents in a multibillion-dollar scheme to defraud Facebook and its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, through a lawsuit claiming a huge ownership stake in the internet company. Paul Ceglia … 
Microsoft's Sinofsky responds to complaint over Office 2013 on Surface RT. Summary: An emotional complaint from an early buyer of the Surface RT went viral, inspiring a long discussion of the issue on the popular Hacker News discussion board. That thread … 
I.B.M. scientists are reporting progress in a chip making technology that is likely to ensure the shrinking of the size of the basic digital switch at the heart of modern microchips for more than another decade. The advance, first described in the journal Nature … 
Tulsa's Surface Store. A product like Windows 8 only comes along once every 15 years or so–Windows 95 was the last such product–and it's disappointing to think that the whole thing left me a little underwhelmed. One possible reason for my disappointment … 
You can currently pick up a CPU that's been designed using a "32 nanometer" process - which is to say, the width of each of the billions of tiny transistors on the chip measures far, far less than the width of a single piece of hair on your head. That's pretty small … 
Microsoft released the new Windows 8 Operating System on October 26, 2012 with the Surface RT - will the new OS change the way users interact with Windows? The Surface RT tablet computer offers the new ARM version of the operating system, keeping … 
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a case that examines whether a California student who sold textbooks made in Thailand over eBay violated laws that govern the resale of foreign-made goods in the US. Retail and ecommerce … 
Another week has gone by, and it went by quickly, but that doesn't mean that nothing crazy happened. It was a big week for Android news; more rumors of the next Nexus device made their way around, and Google's major Android event scheduled for … 
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Microsoft bills Windows 8 as a "re-imagining" of the personal computer market's dominant operating system, but the company still has a lot of work to do before the makeover captures the imagination of most consumers, based on the … 
PARIS Oct 28 (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande is in favour of a law to force Internet search engines like Google to pay a fee for displaying links to newspaper articles, daily Le Figaro reported on Sunday. Press associations in France and other … 
The shrinking size of features on modern processors is slowly approaching a limit where the wiring on chips will only be a few atoms across. As this point approaches, both making these features and controlling the flow of current through them becomes a … 
With Windows 8 in enterprises, it's increasingly looking like a Tale of Two Versions. Despite having an entrenched user base of hundreds of millions of potentially-upgradeable PCs, CIOs and other IT leaders are showing more interest in Windows 8 on tablets … 
The Irish American businessman who claimed he was the majority shareholder in Facebook has been arrested for attempting to defraud the company and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. Paul Ceglia has been charged with a multi-billion-dollar scheme to … 
Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) lost the first round of a U.S. trade case brought by Apple Inc. (AAPL), its second big defeat this year in America as the companies battle worldwide over smartphone and tablet computer technology. Samsung infringes four … 
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft bills Windows 8 as a "re-imagining" of the personal computer market's dominant operating system, but the company still has a lot of work to do before the makeover captures the imagination of most consumers, based on the … 
AP Technology Writer. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Microsoft bills Windows 8 as a "re-imagining" of the personal computer market's dominant operating system, but the company still has a lot of work to do before the makeover captures the imagination of most … 
Microsoft is still planning its Windows Phone 8 launch event for Monday, but Google drops its Android event in NYC thanks to the Frankenstorm. Search engine giant Google announced the cancellation of a hotly anticipated media event in New York City, … 
Tablets may still be new compared to other tech on the market, but even the "normals" have begun buying them en masse. Everyone seems to have something, whether it's an iPad, a Nexus 7, a Kindle Fire, or even a regular e-ink reader. And as many of us … 
Stop me if you've heard this one before. An employee of one of the most powerful and influential tech giants in the world walks into a bar. The employee presumably begins to partake in adult refreshments and happens to be carrying an unreleased prototype …