The latest figures from IDC show that growth in Windows Phone helped Microsoft's mobile OS to jump to third place in global smartphone shipments, as BlackBerry market share fell from 6.4% to 2.9%. More...

The saga of the Zune hardware has been one for the record books. First it was rumored to be dead, then Microsoft said it wasn't, and then rumors surfaced that the Zune software will live,... More...

Microsoft is hard at work on the successor to Internet Explorer 8. To date, it has released three IE9 platform previews. Each preview has become progressively better than the last. The previews may have been... More...

Back in 2005 Windows Live was announced and many products were moved from the MSN platform to the Windows Live platform. New products and services were announced including Windows Live QnA. The service name explains... More...

If you believe Microsoft... Prior to Microsoft's "Big Picture" gaming showcase held today in San Francisco, corporate vice president John Schappert reminded us that, despite what you may have heard, the Windows PC is... More...

Stardock has launched their new digital platform today called Impulse. The new platform is designed to allow users to associate PC games, applications, and utilities with a unified account that users can then update and... More...

According to Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft is readying a new platform for telco carriers to offer subscribers Windows Live and other forthcoming Microsoft services. Foley had a chance to take a peek at... More...

Before my whiney enemies all get up in arms about yours truly once more beating up on Microsoft, I'd like to point out that the idea of Microsoft buying Yahoo being a tacit admission that... More...

Online social network site Facebook has opened up its developer platform to other social networking sites, with rival site Bebo the first major rival to implement the platform. The move comes in response to criticism... More...

The New York Times' Saul Hansell has interviewed Microsoft's J Allard, an important figure behind the Xbox who is now working on the Zune and a few other secret product efforts. I would strongly recommend... More...

Google negotiators this weekend continue to hammer out agreements with wireless carriers, handset makers, software developers and hardware providers, as the company prepares to announce on Monday an ambitious platform for creating mobile applications. Although... More...

For more than a year, Google and MySpace have been working together to give the world's largest social network access to the Internet search leader's platform that allows outside developers to write programs for social... More...

Advanced Micro Devices plans to update its family of chipsets with built-in DirectX 10-compliant graphics cores in January, 2008, sources with knowledge of the matter revealed. The new products will help AMD to offer more... More...

The dual-processor enthusiast-class code-named Skulltrail platform from Intel, which the company demonstrated at Intel Developer Forum, will be available in Q1 2008. But while the new extreme gaming machines will offer outstanding performance, they will... More...

Mobile social networking and communication platform Zingku announced it had entered into an agreement to have Google acquire its service, but Google remained silent of the move. The service, launched in the United States in... More...

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) unveiled the latest version of its Internet television software platform, which it promises will offer features that will set the telecommunications companies apart from the cable providers. The Redmond, Wash., software titan... More...

Microsoft Corporation has unveiled Ignition, a cross-platform soapbox for the world's musical talent. The company has previously proposed a huge network of media, music and gaming that would span multiple devices: Windows computers, Xbox game... More...

Yahoo has announced that its Panama search advertising platform is open to third-party developers via the new Yahoo Search Marketing Commercial API Program, giving businesses and individual developers access to a series of application program... More...

23 year old Harvard Student Mark Zuckerberg launched the highly anticipated Facebook Platform yesterday at a developer event held in San Francisco. The platform API would allow, for example, a third party to recreate Facebook... More...

Hot on the heels of Dell's recent announcement to begin shipping laptops preloaded with the Ubuntu Linux operating system, Canonical (corporate backer of the Ubuntu project) announced today the development of a Ubuntu Mobile operating... More...

At IDF Beijing, Intel recently introduced its 2007 ultra-mobile computing platform Menlow. Targeted for 2008, Menlow contains a new 64-bit processor with near 2 GHz clock frequencies, DDR2 memory running at 400MHz or 533MHz, solid-state... More...

Microsoft refreshed its video platform today with a new beta version of MSN Video. The updated site reflects the design, layout and features of Soapbox, Microsoft's answer to Google's user-generated video site YouTube.com. The new... More...

Intel offers up cheaper, simpler mobile platform for consumers Just over a year ago, Microsoft and Intel announced the Origami platform which would lay the foundation for Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs). UMPCs were supposed... More...

By the second half of this year, Intel plans to launch "Weybridge", its new vPro platform, a business desktop platform which officially launched in April and began to ship to OEMs in September. This updated... More...

IBM and Cisco will announce today at the Spring 2007 VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Florida, a joint effort to create an industrywide unified communications and collaboration platform. The expectation is that a single open platform,... More...

As previously announced, Yahoo launched its Project Panama ad-ranking platform in the United States in an effort to compete with Google. The Sunnyvale, California-based company said the project would be constantly evolving based on user... More...

Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp., said on Thursday they had jointly developed technology to mass produce cutting-edge chips. The platform developed by the three Japanese companies will be used to make system... More...

AMD today announced its dual-socket Quad FX platform featuring AMD Athlon 64 FX-70 series dual-core processors, the newest additions to the Athlon 64 FX processor family. The platform currently supports up to four CPU cores... More...

Vodafone and Microsoft are collaborating on developing software to help users take their office with them while they travel. The agreement will see the companies co-operate so that applications available to Vodafone users, such as... More...

By the fourth quarter of this year, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and ATI Technologies will jointly launch a new notebook platform, currently codenamed Yokohama, that utilizes AMD's Turion 64 X2 processors and ATI's future chipsets,... More...

CNET News.com is reporting that a cross-platform virus for Windows and Linux has been created, a scary thought for users of all computers. The virus (which a Russian antivirus company under the name of Kaspersky... More...

It doesn't get much more clever. You've flogged consumers an expensive Intel PC, with OS X, and then let them pay for the privilege of running Windows XP on it. Welcome to 21st century Apple,... More...

Intel Corp. is touting its next mobile platform, dubbed Napa, as another major milestone in notebook PC history. At a session for reporters and business analysts here Tuesday, Erik Reid, product marketing director at Intel's... More...

While Office 12, Microsoft's next-generation desktop suite, is not expected to hit Beta 1 until later this fall, Microsoft officials are set to show off a number of its components at the company's annual Professional... More...

The Radeon 9600 Pro PC and Mac Edition graphics card offers dual-link capabilities, 256MB of on board memory and is AGP 2.0 compliant, among other things. Graphic cards maker ATI is thinking cross platform with... More...

Cheap mobile phones--possibly costing $20 or less--are the goal of a new hardware and software platform currently under development by Philips Electronics. The move is part of an initiative announced this week by the Dutch... More...

Microsoft Corp. will demonstrate how it continues to raise the standard for computer gaming next week as Games for Windows® offers even more ways to play at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2005, the interactive... More...

The Microsoft® Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) provides the documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools you need to develop applications that run on Windows. The applications you develop with this edition of the SDK... More...

Intel Corp., as expected, introduced a breed of new platform components for multiprocessor servers. Targeted at the mid-tier enterprise market segment, the platform consists of five new Xeon MP processors for servers that use four... More...

One of key players in notebook industry, Asustek introduced its future implementation of the AMD Turion 64 platform at CeBIT. The product, initially called A6000K, will come out with 15- or 15.4-inch TFT LCD display,... More...

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) software is the premier solution for rapidly developing and deploying mission-critical, enterprise applications. It builds upon Java technology's cross-platform support and robust security model with new features and functionality,... More...

Online study states the obvious: online gamers prefer to play online via their PCs, even if there's a networked console nearby. Research mavens The NPD Group, those folks who tally weekly and... More...

The IBM PowerPC® 970 CPUs are well-designed, high-performance chips that ship in millions of end-user systems under Apple Computers' Power Macintosh G5 moniker. These CPUs greatly lower the bar for 64-bit computing on the desktop... More...

Little surprise at the recent Comic-Con Convention in San Diego that several game publishers were in attendance. After all, they were there to show off licensed products and to hopefully lure in another wave of... More...

The GNOME 2.6.2 Desktop and Developer Platform has been released: "This point release from the stable branch of the GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform contains a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the... More...

Peter Moore (Microsoft corporate VP) has issued a statement asking for competitors (Sony & Nintendo) to embrace the XNA model. For those who don't know the XNA model is a global software development platform... More...

When exactly does Intel plan to align its desktop and notebook processor families around the same architecture? Recent roadmaps cited by Japanese web site PC Watch put it in 2006 with the launch of 'Merom'... More...

NVIDIA Driver Supports Beta Version of Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition for Extended Systems and AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron Processors NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing... More...

ERSP 3.0 is a comprehensive development platform for creating robotic products. It provides critical infrastructure, core capabilities and tools that enable developers to build powerful applications quickly and easily. Breakthrough Feature... More...

Microsoft's chief software architect Bill Gates took centre stage at last week's software developer day in London in a bid to convince UK software developers to stick with Microsoft's roadmap, even though Longhorn, its next... More...