A Guatemala insurance firm has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, claiming the company tried to extort money from the firm as part of a raid of its offices in 2012. Microsoft has denied the charges. More...
Microsoft claims to have freed "at least 2 million PCs" from the criminal Citadel botnet that it went after earlier in June, although the people behind the botnet are still at large. More...
Microsoft Research's Socl network has added some new features for its users, including a quick way to create animated images and quick meme photos with the new Picotales feature. More...
Microsoft has launched a revamp of its MSDN message boards, offering forum users a number of new features, such as adding previews of message threads, improvements to search and more. More...
Microsoft has announced that it has reached the 0.9 milestone release of TypeScript and have added a bunch of features and tooling capabilities to the platform as they march on towards 1.0 More...
The chairman of Huawei's consumer business says the company is considering an acquisition of Nokia, hinting that Windows Phone might be dropped in favour of Android, if Nokia is willing to negotiate. More...
Huawei has announced its Ascend P6, "the world's slimmest smartphone" at just 6.18mm-thick. The handset features Android 4.2.2, a 1.5GHz quad-core CPU and an "industry-leading" 5MP front camera. More...
One year after Microsoft surprised the world with the announcement of Surface, we look back on the launch, and reflect on how the tablets have done since then, and what's still to come. More...
Microsoft's Phil Spencer, who is the head of Microsoft Game Studios, has stated that the Xbox One is 3x as powerful as the Xbox 360 but then later corrected that statement on Twitter. More...
Microsoft Open Technologies has announced it is adding support for its Pointer Events web standard to Mozilla's Firefox web browser, after previously adding support to Google's Chrome browser. More...
Microsoft's advertising division is showing off some new concepts for upcoming in-app ads that will be used for Windows 8, including client such as Dell, Mercedes-Benz USA and more. More...
Microsoft has announced some more statistics concerning the adoption of its Windows Azure cloud services, including word that over 50 percent of the Fortune 500 companies now uses Windows Azure. More...
Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 game console outsold all of the other consoles in the US in May 2013, with 114,000 units, making this the 29th straight month on top of the US game market. More...
With voice searches becoming a staple after the release of Siri, The Bing Speech Team and Microsoft Research have developed an improved system to more accurately and quickly return search results. More...
Two of the many executives to have recently left HTC have launched Kazam, a new smartphone brand promising a range of devices with "stunning design, robust hardware and outstanding customer service." More...
Starting today, and until August 31 2013, Microsoft will be making its Surface RT 32GB tablet available to students for just $199, through their schools and universities. More...
After seven years and billions of tweets, the key word behind Twitter's main success, 'tweet' has been included as a valid definition for the English language by the Oxford English Dictionary itself. More...
Apple's iOS 7 announcement showed us what the OS will look like on the iPhone, but not the iPad. But developers have taken images from the iPad iOS 7 emulator, giving a hint of what's to come. More...
Microsoft has announced that Outlook.com and Hotmail will soon stop supporting linked accounts which means you may need to make changes to how you check your email each morning. More...
Skype's video messaging feature has exited preview and is now available for free in the Skype Windows client, Mac client, Windows 8 app, iOS app (both iPhone and iPad), Android app and BlackBerry app. More...
Analyst firm DFC Intelligence has released a new report stating the future of Microsoft's Xbox division is in question following the company's recent DRM requirement announcement for the Xbox One. More...
If you have been wondering when GDR2 was going to land for Windows Phone users, it looks like July might be the release window that will bring several new features to the Windows Phone platform. More...
The man behind the recent leak of information of the NSA's large-scale surveillance program will be taking part in a live question-and-answer session at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. More...
We ask Neil Papworth, the man who sent the world's first text message, how he thinks texting has changed things, the social effects of SMS and where he sees the future of the technology. More...
Samsung has just announced they have started mass production of their latest SSD series. The new lineup will use PCIe and this will provide more than double the performance compared to current SSDs. More...
Some leaked slides seem to point toward an 8-core desktop CPU from Intel coming late next year. The chip is supposedly based on the Haswell architecture and brings DDR4 support and great performance. More...
Microsoft will sell its first party Xbox One games such as Forza Motorsport 5 and Quantum Break for the retail price of $59.99, although the prices for third party Xbox One games are unknown. More...
A beautiful Android 5.0 concept has folks hoping for lots of improvements and better design in the next major version of Google's mobile OS. It includes a minimalist design and "hidden" widgets. More...
A new rumor claims that Nokia is indeed working on a 5.5 inch to 6 inch Lumia phablet smartphone with Windows Phone that could be launched later in September or October. More...
Thomas Penfield Jackson, the federal judge who tried and failed in 2000 to break up Microsoft because he thought it was a monopoly, has passed away at the age of 76. More...
In Win's latest open-air chassis has to be their finest creation yet. The D-Frame is a limited edition aluminum pipe and tempered glass case that is unique and equally pricey. DIY'ers will be pleased. More...
Users who have been banned from Xbox Live or get banned from the gaming service will retain access to their purchased games on an Xbox One console, Microsoft's Larry Hryb has confirmed. More...