As recently as eight years ago, Microsoft had a monopoly on the internet connected computers of the world. Today, not so much. This chart comes from Goldman Sachs, and it shows Microsoft losing its market dominance of computing devices as smartphones and tablets have come into the market. It's c... Read more...
Here's an awesome chart from Horace Dediu of Asymco that shows the collapse of Microsoft and Intel's monopoly in personal computing. It's been making the rounds today. As you can see, Android and Apple have successfully eaten into Wintel's marketshare. That's not to say Microsoft is going to coll... Read more...
Steve Wozniak really, really doesn't like the cloud. The Apple cofounder slammed cloud computing during a Q&A after a recent performance of The Agony And The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, the controversial play by Mike Daisy. "I really worry about everything going to the cloud," Wozniak told the ... Read more...
Scam emails usually have two things in common: they're comically bad, and they're from a Nigerian prince. You might think that's a silly strategy, but it turns out it's not. Microsoft released a new white paper from its research division this month that explains why scammers use such a "terr... Read more...
Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of real-time information. Twitter will give Yandex access to its so-called firehose of all pub... Read more...
Previously, 16-year old Pakistani computer prodigy Arfa Karim Randhawa, the world's youngest MicrosoftCertified Professional, had been hospitalized after a seizure and heart attack. She has since passed away, reports The Express Tribune. She will be buried in her family's village outside F... Read more...
Over 40,000 Hotmail and MSN email addresses, along with passwords, have been discovered on a phishing Web site. Read about the incident here. You know those spam emails that ask you to provide your username/password credentials for your bank, email, Facebook, or otherwise? Well, one user on... Read more...
Your Facebook phone may be the equivalent of having a KGB agent tailing you. Mark Zuckerberg will be in your pocket. You might as well wear one of those ankle bracelets for tracking. The Facebook phone is in play—again—and it appears we have another 12 to 18 months to go before mobile a... Read more...
In case big email providers like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo hadn't already been scared stiff by recent online communication trends, this news should wake them up. A huge French company has just banned the use of email within the company. Instead, having concluded that the vast majority of email i... Read more...