Microsoft's Search Head: Google 'Realized We Were Ahead And They Overextended' With Social Search Business Insider | Microsoft thinks it's done a pretty good job with social search so far, according to Bing Search director Stefan Weitz — so much so that it prompted Google to start its own social search program called Search Plus Your World. | But there's been a little bit of controversy surroun...
Microsoft withdraws one of its claims against BN in patent fight Seattle Times | Microsoft has withdrawn one of its patent claims against Barnes & Noble in a case before the International Trade Commission. | The case stems from Microsoft's allegations that Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader and Nook Color tablet, which run on Google's Android operating system, infringe on some of ...
Microsoft Flight Release Date Announced, First DLC Is Hawaiian Adventure Cinema Blend Microsoft Studios revealed today that they're wrapping up the beta for Microsoft Flight, successor to Microsoft Flight Simulator. The flight sim will launch worldwide on February 29th. | Flight will be free to download and play. All players will be a...
The smartphone wars and the end of Steve Ballmer. Maybe Microsoft. The Examiner | The smartphone wars are a global, multi-trillion-dollar decade long fight. | We are in year 4. | Meaning...much will happen, much will change and no one, no platform, no device, no company can yet be declared the winner. | But Microsoft conti...
Microsoft Flight is free as a bird on Feb. 29 Joystiq | Microsoft clearly has no care for the silly paramaters we call "seasons," as its launching Microsoft Flight on February 29, bucking the original "spring" launch window. Microsoft Flight's official site will be hosting downloads of the free applicat...
Microsoft Is Wrong In Its Fight Against Barnes & Noble, Says ITC Lawyer Business Insider | Barnes & Noble just gained a big ally in its patent-infringement battle with Microsoft. | An attorney in the U.S. agency where the fight is being waged said he thinks the bookseller is in the right. | Jeff Hsu, a staff attorney at the U....
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Dell fluffs up fatter Microsoft private clouds The Register | Dell is hedging its bets in the private cloud war that is ranging between VMware and Microsoft and has crafted two different versions of its vStart prefabbed clouds: one to run t...
Microsoft To ARM Win8 Tablet Makers: No Dual Boot For You Crunch Editor’s Picks Apple Facebook Google CES 2012 Crunchies Awards Comment Microsoft To ARM Win8 Tablet Makers: No Dual Boot For You | John Biggs posted 41 mins ago Comments...
Microsoft Bringing Its CRM App to iPhone, iPad and Android All Things Digital | Microsoft said Monday it is bringing its customer relationship management software to Android and iOS as part of the next release of the mobile Dynamics CRM. | The new release will support the iPhone, iPad and Android devices as well as BlackBerry ...
Resellers smack down Microsoft's 'single-digit' price rise claim The Register | Microsoft says that a planned overhaul of volume licensing pricing due in the summer will be capped at single digit percentage rises. | Redmond said that Open, Select and Select Plus agreements struck in the UK after 1 July would be aligned to euro...
Plastic Pollution in the Oceans is Causing Problems for Whales, too. Treehugger | /CC BY 2.0 | Every year, humans consume 70 million tons of seafood. Though this is an astonishing volume—one that has a serious impact on ocean populations—it cannot compare to sperm whales which consumer more than 100 million tons of seafood annually. Most of this consists of squid and small fish but—increasingly—plastic ...
Zynga’s First Super Bowl Commercial … Kind Of All Things Digital | Zynga’s popular puzzle game Words With Friends was featured in Best Buy’s Super Bowl commercial yesterday, calling attention to the game’s founders as some of the “greatest mobile innovators.” | The game, which is a take on Scrabble, has been working its way into the cultural fabric, as Zynga is happy to remind us wi...
