Microsoft has now made its previously revealed updates for the Windows 8 and RT Mail, Calendar and People apps available for download, along with an update for the Windows 8 Solitaire game. More...
Microsoft has announced it will launch major updates for its Windows 8 and RT Mail, Calendar and People apps on Tuesday with a number of new features and improvements. More...
Microsoft has just pushed out an update for its People, Mail, Messaging and Calendar apps on Windows 8. Though there aren't any great new features the improved performance is always welcome. More...
It would seem that search giant, Google has annoyingly forgotten to include the month of December in its Date Picker feature for the People application on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). More...
Twitter has confirmed it will be making an app for Microsoft's new OS, while apps are also expected for Windows 8 from SAP, Dropbox and many other companies. More...
In a new official blog post, Microsoft talks more about how the company developed the Metro-based People social networking app for its Windows 8 operating system. More...
Microsoft has updated Windows Phone's integrated Facebook Chat feature to allow you to send messages to offline contacts, where previously it would force you to send a text message to them instead. More...
Dan Warne has tipped us off about a "bug" in Windows 7 for vision impaired people. Dr Scott Hollier of Media Access Australia wrote to APC mag to reveal the problem. Hollier says "The... More...
Corporations live and die off consumer reviews and when your product isn't getting the remarks you had hoped for what do you do? Well if you are Belkin apparently you pay people, 65... More...
Shhh! Can you hear a hiss? That's the sound of naughty facts deflating the social networking balloon a tad. Whisper it, but numbers from web analytics outfit comScore have confirmed what the chatter in bars... More...
A Lebanese Facebook group began as a collection of juvenile jokes revolving around a fellow student. After complaining to university authorities and being told that the matter was not a university concern, the woman took... More...
EBay Inc, the world's largest online auctioneer and payments company, launched on Wednesday a Web site allowing ordinary investors to buy securities aimed at improving conditions in the world's poorest countries. MicroPlace, located at http://www.microplace.com,... More...
Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive: the blind. Because hybrids make virtually no noise at slower speeds when they run solely... More...
Apparently you don't need to be a non-profit crazy, or nab few million pre-orders, to sell a laptop for $150 (or maybe you do, see update below). Medison, a Swedish consulting company, has just unveiled... More...
In April, Electronic Arts Incorporated, the world's biggest maker of videogames, hired a chief executive who isn't just satisfied with his company being number one. John Riccitiello says he worries that the Redwood City, California-based... More...
Two leading children's publishers, Scholastic, Inc., and Disney, will soon discover whether the laptop compares to the lap in the hearts of young readers. Scholastic is officially launching BookFlix, an educational Web site pairing short... More...
Backed by a group of investors with impressive track records, Jason Calacanis has launched Mahalo into alpha stage – a search engine that does not rely on computers to scan the Web and does not... More...
A new web-based television service, or IPTV, for British Sign Language (BSL) users has recently launched in the UK. VeeSee TV airs news and other programmes in BSL and is available 24 hours a... More...
Oh, the wicked 2007 predictions people make, just because it's the end of the year. The good folks over at IDC released their "Top 10 Predictions for Worldwide System Infrastructure Software, 2007." Overall, it's a... More...
Google has said it intends to crack down on the use of its name as a generic verb, in phrases such as "to google someone." The Internet search giant said such phrases were potentially damaging... More...
ExtremeTech: Maybe each of you could quickly go over what your role is in the development and implementation of DirectX 10. David Blythe: My job is basically to spend a lot of time talking... More...
LexisNexis, which compiles and sells personal and financial data on U.S. consumers, said Tuesday that personal information on 310,000 people nationwide may have been stolen. That number is nearly 10 times higher than the figure... More...
The Christmas-themed movie "Noel" most likely won't be coming to a theater near you — but if you miss it on cable, there's always the self-destructing DVD. The movie's producers hope its "trimultaneous" roll... More...
Another new version of MyDoom is worming its way through the Internet, and this variant—like the last one—uses Yahoo as part of its infection routine. MyDoom.P is similar to most of the other MyDoom variants... More...
RIAA continues with the monthly tradition of suing people today. Adding 482 more people to the list. A U.S. music industry trade group on Tuesday said it has sued 482 more... More...
LAS VEGAS -- Jan. 8, 2003 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced at the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) plans to expand the current capabilities and availability of its popular Microsoft® Voice Command software for... More...
A new glitch in one of Microsoft's server software packages is causing headaches for some small businesses. The problem affects all customers who installed SharePoint Services after Nov. 24 and prevents SharePoint... More...
Software giant Oracle, in a surprise move that shook up the tech sector, announced a 5.1 billion-dollar hostile takeover offer for business software maker PeopleSoft. "The acquisition of PeopleSoft will immediately make Oracle... More...
Videogame publisher Capcom has launched a special telephone helpline for consumers scared from playing its latest title Resident Evil Zero. Available now on 08700 46 55 20 (calls charged at national rates), the line has... More...
When I saw this on Slashdot, I was appauled that they would post such a thing: I can't believe that they had actually read through the article. This article is about how Windows 2000 Pro... More...
Thanks WishX for emailing us. The Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, announced a joint initiative this week between Technical Aid to the Disabled (TAD) and Microsoft Australia to enable people with disabilities to access... More...
Microsoft has come up with another novel way to make its software compulsory - an annual subscription licensing system for schools where you have to pay for all of the computers you're using, even if... More...
Well - what an impressive figure. It would appear that after recent survey results were published that near to half a billion people are online- heres the registers take on it. "Elsewhere,... More...
Not only is broadband not expanding as forecast, current broadband users are dropping the service in rising numbers. It is likely that cancellations are rising because of the bad economy, the rise in broadband pricing... More...