Tag Archives : Microsoft

The war of patent infringement in regards to Google Android has now taken a new turn, as one of the primary Android powered smartphones manufacturers, Samsung has reportedly relented to the mounting pressure from Microsoft, while agreeing the pay the latter a royalty fee for each Android device sold. The row began with claims laid down by Microsoft [...]

In a world where smartphones are evolving with each passing day and mobile operating system such as the like of Apple iOS and Google Android, keep bringing new features and functions for the devices, Microsoft has been considerably behind in competition. Now, this one name that rules virtually every home PC and office computer system is planning a [...]

Folks living in South Korea have much to rejoice about, such as progressive society, a flourishing economy and now as per a recent study, the world’s fastest Internet speeds. That’s right, for all of you residing in the United States, home to some of the biggest online entities such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft etc. a recent study shown that [...]

Nieman Journalism Lab is open of the most important labs that we know today. If you were looking for something that is abysmally great and somehow futuristic, you should keep a track of what the lab is up to. Lately, they have brought this video straight from New York Times R&D Lab which is about the usage of Surface. Surface 1.0 is one of the greatest [...]

Microsoft is not really known for its skills outside its traditional areas of forte, which includes personal computing, video games and mobile technology. However, you might be shocked to learn that Microsoft is making its very own fashion statement, and that too by combining wearable technology, social accountability and a really keen sense of what [...]

Facebook’s highly anticipated ‘announcement’ has now been made and as per the speculations, this event was indeed centered around the social network’s giant’s efforts to integrate Skype deeper into its activates. Facebook has now announced the launch of video chat feature in Facebook that has been made possible in collaboration with VoIP [...]

Google has begun preliminary negotiations to purchase the video streaming site Hulu, says the LA Times. Sources told the publication that Hulu has met with Google, as well as Microsoft and Yahoo, in order to get one interested in business. As shown in the LA Times story, the fact Hulu is the rights holder for the display of a season of popular series [...]

  Google, with all its services, such as YouTube and Google Maps, this May reached a milestone by having over a billion unique visitors to its sites. Among the services are very popular sites such as your browser, YouTube, and why not, Orkut. According to the Telegraph site, the data were compiled by ComScore, which uses a panel of over 2 million [...]

  Some investors, facing the new scenario set with the purchase of Skype by Microsoft, started making their bets. The idea is to support and strengthen an online platform to communicate by voice and video capable, at least in theory, compete with Skype. For this, Fring just pick a nice amount of investments. The challenge facing a Skype maintained [...]

The King of the Internet, Google Inc. might have lost one round of hoping to snag in Skype, since now it has become a part of Microsoft, but in no manner is the search behemoth going to let it bother even a bit.  At highly coveted developer conference, Google I/O 2011, one of the most cherished and widely revered Internet firm finally unveiled and [...]