Twitter has detailed its ongoing efforts to curb the spread of fake news related to the U.S. presidential elections. The company will also be reverting some product changes that had a negative impact.
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Microsoft has outlined the changes it'll be making to Project Islandwood - its open source tool to port iOS apps to Windows - with better implementation of UIKit combined with XAML.
Microsoft may be in our heads, but they won't be selling tech that's on our heads. Not yet anyway, shelving plans for virtual reality glasses due to patent restrictions within Kinect's technology.
According to Bloomberg the Surface Mini did exist but was scrapped due to the lack of differentiation between it and other small tablets. A source claimed it "wasn't different enough" to be a success.
AT&T has introduced two new Mobile Share data plans hoping to match T-mobile's change to its own Simple Choice plan. Will it be enough? Or is T-Mobile's Un-carrier strategy starting to edge out AT&T?
giffgaff - a carrier famed for offering unlimited data at low cost - has revealed its 4G 'goodybags', but its top-tier 4G package offers just 2GB of data, 500 mins and unlimited texts for £15 a month.
Sprint has just released a statement about the explosion of data usage among its users. The coy title also hides the fact that they are now adding a '$10 per month Premium Data add-on charge'...
Netflix has been toying around with offering a streaming-only plan for the past few months. In a new blog post, Netflix VP in Marketing, Jessie Becker released an update to the available Netflix plans and...
Today at a packed out keynote for Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft's Ray Ozie hinted at the next generation of Internet Explorer. According to sources close to Neowin, Microsoft VP Steven Sinofsky is set...
Microsoft today announced new details about how developers can build and sell applications for Windows phones through its Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Microsoft unveiled the application marketplace available with the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system...
At the Mobile World Conference this week it was expected that Verizon would announce its LTE (Long Term Evolution) agenda. What was not expected was how specific Verizon would be with its plans. ...
Once again Microsoft is going back on its push for 64-bit computing for the masses. In an interview with ars technica Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Division gave the following response...
Ever heard of "Morro"? Neither had I until today. It appears the boys and girls at Microsoft have been planning a nice surprise for consumers. Focused on "core anti-malware protection", Morro is a streamlined solution...
Last month, the FCC officially ruled that Comcast acted unlawfully and dishonestly when they decided to throttle peer-to-peer traffic from applications such as BitTorrent. The giant Internet provider was then ordered to amend its network...
Skype on Monday launched an aggressive $9.95-a-month international calling plan for U.S. customers that includes landlines and some cell phone calls to 34 countries. The action by the eBay unit comes just days after eBay's...
Yahoo Inc on Sunday detailed plans for its forthcoming Web advertising management system that gives its ad sales-partners access to online ad space both on Yahoo and other major sites. The widely anticipated system, known...
DivX, Inc., a digital media company, today announced that the Company will cease operation of its Stage6.com video service on February 28, 2008. Following an exploration of strategic options that began in July 2007, the...
Although the Xbox 360 has been, in many regards, a success for Microsoft, Japan has yet to embrace the console like the rest of the world, preferring instead Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3. Tokyo-based...
Creative Labs is in the process of designing a new high-end sound card based on an X-FI design, but this time it plans to launch a high-end card. It will launch something similar to the...
Don’t you just love how Facebook has an application for everything possible? Don’t you just love wading through your friends’ Facebook profiles with the simple goal of finding their Wall? Don’t you just love how...
At the CES 2008 show in Las Vegas, Cisco Systems Incorporated announced that the DPC3000 Channel Bonded Modem, which is designed to facilitate broadband services in excess of 100 Mbps, would be commercially available to...
In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection software that has long restricted the use of...
In response to rumours whispered by members of the Blu-ray camp, Warner Home Video announced that it will not be ditching HD DVD for Blu-ray. Warner Brothers is currently the only major studio to support...
Advanced Micro Devices Inc AMD.N Chief Executive Hector Ruiz says he has no plans to step down as head of the microprocessor maker next year. AMD has in the past two years struggled with market...
Social networking site Facebook has cancelled its advertising program, that showed what members were purchasing from ecommerce web sites. The advertising system, dubbed Beacon, let partner sites like eBay and Sony advertise the fact that...
Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and most are delaying any plans to upgrade until 2009 at the earliest. One year after the business launch of Vista,...
News Corp's popular online social network, MySpace, plans to launch Facebook-style "news feeds" in the next 30 to 45 days, Fox Interactive Media President Peter Levinsohn said on Monday. News feeds, which alert a user...
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. announced today they have canceled their plan to combine the high-speed wireless networks they are building. The two companies originally announced the agreement this July, but were unable to...
Three computer scientists are hoping to turn London's Underground subway system into a thriving network for sharing music unencumbered by copyright. The project, London Undersound, would let commuters download and upload tracks to each other...
Symbian is the leading developer of smart phone operating systems and is intent on keeping its lead. A key part of maintaining that lead falls under the purview of David Wood, executive vice president of...
Advanced Micro Devices has notified its partners that starting from next Monday, the 8th of October, it plans to decrease the pricing of some of its dual-core AMD Athlon 64 X2 chips. The price corrections...
An ambitious plan to blanket Chicago with wireless broadband Internet will be shelved because of its cost and projected limited usage, city officials said Tuesday. "We realized - after much consideration - that we needed...
Sharp has announced its new slim LCD TV: 29mm thick at its widest point and 20mm at its thinnest point. For my American friends, that's between 1.14 inches and 0.78 inches thick. Sharp claims the...
Microsoft is working on a "service in the sky" for unified communications, an executive said Tuesday at the VoiceCon conference in San Francisco. The company's current focus for the fast-growing trend of combining voice, video,...
Microsoft Corp. will release nine sets of security patches next week, including six critical updates for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and its Visual Basic development software. The updates will come as part of Microsoft's regular...
Dell has outlined its plans to sell Linux computers in the UK. The company will offer the Inspiron 6400n and the Inspiron 530n with Ubuntu 7.04 installed at the factory. The computers will be priced...
Apple plans to upgrade its iMac desktop PC line on Tuesday with a flashier design and thinner keyboard, according to comments and photos on industry blogs. Apple did not return calls for comment, but has...
Yahoo, who's own video site offering is losing ground to Google's YouTube, the dominant player in the burgeoning online video market, has decided that a makeover is needed if it is to truly compete with...
The ever expanding, and potentially lucrative, market of search engines may soon be welcoming another player into the fray. Last Friday, at OSCON in Portland, Oregon, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that his commercial startup,...
Microsoft later this year plans to raise the bar on a popular software trial program in response to reports that some partners have been illegally selling its software. The Action Pack allows Microsoft's Registered level...
