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Microsoft on Wednesday announced a plethora of new features for app developers in Windows Phone 8, its next mobile operating system Windows Phone 8 will share a core with Windows 8, meaning app devs can write one app and have it run across mobile devices as well as desktops supporting Windows 8....

Research In Motion is issuing pink slips as part of a massive cost-cutting effort that could save the company US$1 billion in expenses. RIM is laying workers off in small batches, starting with the quality control, operations and parts departments, according to The Wall Street Journal....

HP announced on Monday that it will use an Intel Atom chip code-named "Centerton" in the first production server in its Project Moonshot program. This server is code-named "Gemini." Moonshot is aimed at creating servers with low power requirements that will cut data-center energy and space requirements, as well as costs....

London is no stranger to the Olympic Games. The UK capital hosted the Summer Olympics on two past occasions in 1908 and 1948, and with the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics, it will be the first city to have hosted the modern games of three Olympics. It will also be the first Olympics to embrace social media, as well as being the first to actually step in and place limitations on how said media can be used...

Sharp introduced its new 90-inch Aquos LED TV on Tuesday -- what it's calling "the largest TV on the planet." At 4-ft. tall and 6-ft., 8-in. wide, it's sure to dominate the room -- and this week, at least, the consumer electronics conversation ...

Facebook has changed its payment system, doing away with its Credits program as well as allowing app developers to offer subscription billing. Facebook currently sells in-app purchases for Credits -- digital tokens that allowed users to buy virtual goods within games or apps. But the company found that Credits didn't catch on as a Facebook currenc...

YouTube's attorneys have sent a cease-and-desist letter to YouTube-mp3 demanding that it stop allowing users to extract audio clips from YouTube videos in order to copy them onto personal devices. YouTube-mp3 is a highly user-friendly service. All a user must do is enter a video's URL, and the audio is generated within moments. That process is the...

From a PR standpoint, Microsoft's launch of its new Surface tablets was executed just about perfectly. The company's pre-event publicity dropped enough minor hints with major outlets (All Things D, in particular), ignored faulty diversions (Barnes & Noble, anyone?) and insisted on such severe levels of secrecy that it wouldn't have been surprising if the media buzz around the Los Angeles venue set off sympathetic vibrations deep within the San Andreas fault...

Last week I lamented how the legacy software establishment was focusing on the easy-to-sell parts of cloud computing without really providing the essence of cloud. Since then, I have been inspired by a couple of articles at Business Insider that point in a different though not opposite direction "Oracle Is Starting to Look a Lot Like SFDC" makes t...

Despite Android device makers' best efforts, Apple has ruled the tablet market for years with its iPad line. But one of the company's oldest rivals will soon come knocking, and this week it showed off just how it plans to enter the tablet scene Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system will be built with tablets in mind -- that much has been known for...

No matter how much you change your desktop background image and switch distro themes, staring at the same computer's screen day in and day out can become humdrum. Conky can be used to decorate the desktop in endless ways and provide a stream of useful system monitors in the process....

Netflix has announced changes to its public API (application programming interface) that will prevent developers from accessing information about its customers As of September 15, users' rental history and information about what they viewed will no longer be included in the API, putting that data out of reach for developers creating third-party app...

Facebook is moving forward with its acquisition of Face.com, reportedly paying between US$55 million and $60 million in a mix of cash and stock for the facial recognition technology startup. The Face.com technology could give Facebook users quicker and easier photo-tagging abilities, but it also raises privacy questions "There are a bunch of concer...

Morgan Stanley upgraded Groupon to "overweight" from "equal weight" causing the daily deal company's stock shares to jump by as much as 13 percent The reason for Morgan Stanley's apparent change of heart is a shift in the competitive landscape. Daily deal clones are still coming to market, but there is no evidence they are gaining any significant ...

Microsoft recently announced a new line of tablets dubbed "Surface." However, instead of partnering with any of its traditional hardware friends, Microsoft is going it alone when it comes to Surface manufacturing -- Redmond will make the hardware on its own and load it with its Windows 8 operating system. ...

Microsoft on Monday announced two Windows tablets in its new Surface line -- one running Windows 8 RT, and one running Windows 8 Professional ...

It's a cute little robot learning how to say "green" and "blue." And as part of a major project undertaken by robotics researchers at the University of Hertfordshire, it's also promising to transform perceptions of how robots -- and humans -- learn language DeeChee, which is built to look, act and learn like a 6-to-14-month-old child, is the subjec...

In the heyday of harvesting forests in the U.S., lumberjacks often used dynamite to break up clusters of timber that formed when thousands of logs were floated on rivers to market. In the last 18 months, the U.S. government has floated hundreds of pages of proposals into a river of policy "reforms," dealing with innovative information technology ...

Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy S III smartphone will be the company's first device to be officially branded and sold under its new SAFE program. SAFE stands for "Samsung Approved for Enterprise."

If you're in IT and your job involves securing your organizations' infrastructure, you've probably spent a good deal of time thinking through control selection -- in other words, picking the controls that most directly help you accomplish the goal of securing your environment. And you've probably also spent an equally large amount of your and your staff's time evaluating how the controls you've selected perform. ...