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Microsoft on Thursday unveiled the latest version of its Windows 8 Release Preview in 14 languages This is the second preview release of the OS. The first, called -- appropriately -- "Windows 8 Consumer Preview," was released in February....

Google users in China will now be notified when they are using search terms that could trigger Internet blocks set up by the country's government. This new feature is perhaps Google's boldest move yet in a censorship battle with Beijing that has been going on for two years On Thursday the search giant announced that it made a technical change to ho...

Google is nixing its free product search model, opting instead to charge merchants and retailers to appear in Google product search listings Currently, retailers can provide information about their products and then add them to the search listings for free, where they are ranked by popularity and price. Under the new model, dubbed "Google Shopping,...

Engaging the customer has always been fundamental to doing good business. It's just that now that engagement often starts in digital, social media realms The trick is to figure out how to make one's content as interesting as all the other content that shows up in the newsfeed, and this is where social media marketing companies come in....

Consumers face a number of hurdles if they want to switch banks -- which they increasingly do, as their banks continue to raise fees, raise minimum balances, and create entirely new charges Some bank policies are, in fact, designed to make it challenging -- and expensive -- for customers to walk away, found a study by Consumers Union, the policy a...

RingCentral, an app from RingCentral, is available for free at Google Play, with various monthly rate structures for the accompanying service.I've been looking for an alternative to Google's Google Voice product that provides onenumber for all my phones -- mobiles and landline -- and includes online voicemail anddiscounted calling....

PaaS (Platform as a Service) solutions for the cloud are continuing to pop up all over in the world of software due to their simplicity, efficiency and strong developer orientation. Several different PaaS platforms are being built for specific technology stacks At the application level, most PaaS solutions provide a suitable way to scale the applic...

SpaceX's Dragon space capsule returned to Earth on Thursday, 10 days after it took off into the wild blue yonder to resupply the International Space Station The capsule touched down in the Pacific Ocean at 11:42 a.m. ET a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico....

Gigabyte introduced its new X11 notebook computer on Thursday, calling it the lightest notebook on Earth. Weighing in at just 975g (2.13 lbs.) and having the thickness of just 0.3cm (0.12 in.), the computer is certainly sleek. But does this weight game really even matter? ...

For all the ruckus raised by security software vendors, it's unclear whether the Flame malware, which has mainly hit computers in Iran, is a cause for major concern or something of a dud Yes, it has been around for several years and has hit computers in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa. But its tot...

It appears thatPinterest may have a greater propensity to inspire its users to buy products after viewing them on the site than other social networks, based on recent research. For example, Pinterest users are 79 percent more likely to purchase something spotted on Pinterest than Facebook users are to buy something they see on Facebook, according ...

Sony's next-generation gaming console will arrive next year, according to The Wall Street Journal. Users of the upcoming system will be able to play games by inserting discs, just like they do with the present-day PlayStation 3. However, Sony executives reportedly came very close to limiting the console to downloadable games only Currently, PS3 use...

What does the future of TV look like? Is it cable TV, IPTV, Satellite TV, Google TV, Apple iTV or something crazy like watching TV over the airwaves like we used to do? Is it on your television, your computer, tablet, smartphone or whatever is coming next? Who will be the industry leaders? These questions and many others were asked at last week's Cable Show 2012 in Boston. You may be very surprised by some of the answers...

In a past life, I was a bosun's mate in the U.S. Navy. A bosun's mate's job is best described as "sailor stuff" -- running small boats, tying up and casting off in port, steering the ship, maintaining things, and lots and lots of painting Bosun's mates also stood lookout watches, and plenty of them. These watches involved simply monitoring the envi...

With Verizon's recent announcement that it intends to drop its grandfathered unlimited wireless data plan for existing customers who were around before tiered its pricing came into being, crackdowns are in the air Both T-Mobile and Sprint continue to offer unlimited data plans, although T-Mobile slows data transmission after a point....

The growing world population combined with an increasing number of smart devices, faster broadband speeds, more Internet videos and growth in WiFi connections will see global Internet traffic surge, Cisco predicts By 2016, global IP traffic will hit 1.3 zettabytes a year, nearly four times its 2011 level....

Salesforce.com is close to acquiring social media marketing manager Buddy Media for about US$800 million, according to AllThingsD Buddy Media's main business is helping corporations manage their brand presence on Facebook. It has branched out to other social media platforms, including Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn....

Samsung has launched two new computers running Google's Chrome OS ...

Sprint has put a date on the phase-out of its iDEN Nextel National Network: June 30, 2013. The company first said it would be shutting down the 2G network in 2010, and in the meantime has discontinued selling iDEN devices in certain channels Over the next several months, it will cease selling iDEN devices in all channels, Sprint said....

Tech companies, particularly those just starting to take off, need to consider a myriad ofbusiness and legal issues in their vision for the future. Especially in light of the dot-com bubbleburst, startup tech companies need to pay particular concern to how shareholders can bestprotect their interests -- and the interests of the company -- if and when a dispute betweenshareholders arises.