Windows 8 logo hacked to Chinese Web site
An image of the Windows 8 logo leaked last week was hacked from the design studio’s network and posted to a Chinese Web site, according to a published report. The new logo, in the same Metro style that permeates the operating system user interface, was supposed to be released Feb. 26, QUIZ:…
Apple iPhone is Almost Entirely Handmade, ABC Report Reveals
Following the growing interest in the fate of Chinese workers who ‘slave’ over Apple’s highly sought-after gadgets, ABC aired a detailed investigation into Foxconn factories. The host of late evening news show Nightline, Bill Weir, delivered a series of insights that give a glimpse into the manufacturing process of the…
No iPhone leads 700000 customers to flee T-Mobile
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — It hurts to be the only national carrier that doesn’t sell the iPhone. T-Mobile lost 706,000 customers under contract during the last three months of 2011, the struggling carrier announced Thursday. It was the only national carrier to lose customers last quarter. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless company had…
10 Android App Hidden Gems
Words With Friends? Check. Skype, Netflix? You have them, of course. What else is out there? With more than 400,000 selections in Google’s Android Market, not to mention the thousands of apps in Amazon’s Appstore for Android, and in other app bazaars, it’s not easy for you to uncover hidden The…
Twitter Adds Another International Google Exec To Its Sales Team: Stephen McIntyre
Twitter says that 70 percent of its users come from outside the U.S. at the moment, and so it makes sense that this is where it is also investing more to grow the rest of its business. Today the company announced that it has appointed another sales executive to beef…
Windows 8 Will Deliver a Cloud Service to Rival or Beat iCloud
In Windows 8 Microsoft will merge its free online storage service SkyDrive and syncing software Mesh to provide the backbone for what looks to be a service that will rival or beat iCloud. In Windows 8, those tools together will automatically sync all your important files to the cloud, and then Those…
Global tie-up between TiVo and Pace
A global partnership has been announced between advanced television services provider TiVo and the set-top developer Pace. Pace has licensed TiVo’s Hardware Porting Kit and will work with TiVo to build a TiVo-verified platform which will provide operators licensing the TiVo solution the choice of utilizing Pace set-top boxes and…
Three Ways Windows 8 Improves Language Support
Microsoft’s desktop OS has let users install additional display languages since Windows 2000. This made Windows computers accessible to billions of people, but installing and switching languages on a PC wasn’t easy. Businesses generally assigned only one language to a computer, limiting its use to those who understood that selected The…
Will Windows 8 sticker shock leave Microsoft unstuck?
“Sticker shock” is a US phrase that denotes a shopper’s surprised and generally disgusted reaction upon discovering the true price of an item they’re buying. Microsoft experienced a different kind of sticker shock a few years back with Windows Vista: such a memory and CPU hog was Windows Vista that…
Windows 8 will deliver a cloud service to rival or beat iCloud
In Windows 8 Microsoft will merge its free online storage service SkyDrive and syncing software Mesh to provide the backbone for what looks to be a service that will rival or beat iCloud. In Windows 8, those tools together will automatically sync all your important files to the cloud, and then Those…
