Facebook will face a new legal challenge from Europe with the Telegraph reporting that a new law will prohibit the company from using users' information to produce bespoke advertising. The new directive from the European Commission would mean that Facebook would be unable to sell individuals' in... Read more...
Let me start offby saying that in the natural order of things, girls appear to be the preference. They tend to make up 51% of the population overall, because men tend to do stupid things and die off before they're 40. So if you trust in nature, nature is saying that the world is a better place when ... Read more...
On October 4th, the Zune HD mysteriously disappeared from Microsoft’s Zune website, prompting rabid speculation that the hardware was no more. Later, the multimedia player was restored to its place of former glory. Now, however, the official Zune support page suggests that the original tidings... Read more...
The Dutch government is to “basically [...] exclude” U.S. cloud providers from government IT contracts amid concerns of the reach of the Patriot Act in Europe. To prevent sensitive citizen data from being compromised by U.S. authorities, the move to bar U.S. companies from providing cloud-bas... Read more...
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23/08/2011,
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Microsoft made the following video spoofing Google's Gmail for its Microsoft Global Exchange (MGX) event, which is a gather of its salesforce. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley got it from an attendee, and while Microsoft hasn't officially commented, it looks real -- it has the "Contoso" brand that Micro... Read more...
Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies' CEOs, Steve Ballmer and Tony Bates, will host a press conference later today to give details of the acquisition. Over the last week, the voice and video communications company had been rumor... Read more...
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07/05/2011,
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Consumer technology companies reporting financial results this week are looking like rowboats bobbing in the wake of Apple Inc.'s supertanker. Close to oblivion in 1997, Apple is now the world's second-most valuable company, after Exxon Mobil Corp. On April 20, it reported net income of $5.99 b... Read more...
Google has made no bones about its not-so-modest intention to “organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” It turns out, unsurprisingly, Microsoft has similar ambitions and is planning to “index every database in the world and expose it in a structur... Read more...