Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, the world’s top software and PC firms, on Thursday announced plans for a new technology center in Taiwan, the world’s computer-manufacturing hub.
Companies such as HP and Dell are the world’s top sellers of PCs, but most of the actual hardware–about 80 percent of all laptops–is made by Taiwan firms, including Quanta Computer […]
Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, is sure he has a good handle on where technology is going. When is another story.
Mundie, who took over as Microsoft’s lead visionary from co-founder Bill Gates in 2006, is preparing the company for a technology shift that he expects will be as big as the rise […]
newsmaker For years, Marc Benioff appeared in public wearing an “End of Software” button on his lapel–just to rankle Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or any other software mugwump making a killing on selling packaged applications.
Nowadays, the peripatetic entrepreneur might just as well swap the old buttons out with a replacement bearing a new slogan: “Told […]
Mobile applications are turning into big business, and Nokia is looking to launch a few start-ups on their way.
Nokia’s developer arm, Forum Nokia, announced the results of its Mobile Rules contest Wednesday night at San Jose City Hall. Nine companies were chosen, representing four application categories, best business plan, and four winners of the best […]
How many of you, at least once, have been thiking of trying a sex toy? Be frank to yourselves as you’re answering not just a random question but one that lays deep inside your mind now for quite a long time.
Sex toys where always available on the shelves of sex shops and appeared long before […]
or some children, watching Dora the Explorer on television is becoming passe. Now they want to be Dora.
Tapping into this desire, media companies are increasingly entering the marketplace for online games–called casual games–and treating them as new programming, not just online add-ons to their television properties.
In addition to building brands, one of the big lures […]
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What: Woman, sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering her husband, appeals on Fourth Amendment grounds. Conviction based in part on GPS tracking and her Internet searches.
When: Texas appeals court rules on March 13.
Outcome: Sentence upheld.
What happened, according to […]