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1 response - Posted 02.28.10
Apple Is In negotiations with Microsoft to replace Google as the default search engine in both Safari and the iPhone, according to industry insiders. If you want to use Microsoft's Bing at the moment, you need to go to bing.com. The talks confirm just how much relations between Apple and Google, ...continue
no responses - Posted 10.12.09
It wasn't so long ago that Microsoft was considered a dirty word. Dare to defend the company and the outpouring of scorn was enough to leave you wondering whose puppy you'd just shot. To be fair, the software giant hadn't done itself many favours. Its response to antitrust investigations stopped ...continue
no responses - Posted 10.03.09
THE PALM PRE smartphone ($200 with a twoyear contract from Sprint) isn't perfect, but its WebOS operating system is clean, engaging, and intuitive. The phone's main shortcomings relate to hardware. Hardware The glossy-black Pre has a curved slider body that's dominated by a 3.1-inch, 320-by-480-pixel capacitive: touch display. At 3.9 by 2.3 ...continue
1 response - Posted 08.31.09
MICROSOFT announced in late: May that its Zune HD will debut sometime this fall, setting up a battle with Apple's iPod Touch. The touchscreen portable media player, Microsoft says, will be the first one to combine an OLED (organic lighlemitting diode) display, an HD Radio receiver, Wi-Fi, and high-def video. ...continue
1 response - Posted 08.20.09
GOOGLE HAS released to developers an early version of a complex colaboration and communications tool that consolidates features of e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, and multimedia management, as well as document sharing. Called Wave, the Web application is the equivalent of a Swiss army knife for consumer online services and is ...continue