Mumbai: The much awaited Microsoft Office productivity suite for Apple iPad will launch on November 10 this year, according to a report of The Daily. So far, Apple iPad users have been using the Apple's iLife set of apps which are equivalent solution for the Microsoft Office suite. However, folks who require using MS Office day in and out, heavily demanded the MS Office apps for the iPad tablet. The...
11:15 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Helsinki: Nokia struck back at Google on Friday over its accusation that the cellphone maker was colluding with Microsoft to make money out of their patents. "Though we have not yet seen the complaint, Google's suggestion that Nokia and Microsoft are colluding on intellectual property rights is wrong," Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant said on Friday. "Both companies have their own intellectual property rights portfolios and strategies and operate independently." He...
10:12 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Redmond: Microsoft is nearly done with a much-anticipated overhaul of its Windows operating system. The software maker signalled the makeover is nearly complete with Thursday's release of the final test version of Windows 8. Windows 8 is considered to be the biggest change in decades to Microsoft's widely used operating system. The software displays applications in a mosaic of tiles and has been designed so it can run desktop, laptop...
01:25 PM, Jun 01, 2012
San Francisco: Google lashed out at Microsoft and Nokia in a regulatory complaint, accusing them of illegally feeding mobile patents to a technology troll scavenging for billions of dollars in licensing fees that threaten to drive up the prices of cellphones and other wireless devices. The claims were spelled out Thursday in a complaint filed with the European Commission, the chief regulator on that continent. Google Inc. also shared the...
12:42 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Lucknow: Microsoft founder Bill Gates will meet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow on Wednesday to discuss healthcare in the state. The 56-year-old Gates is likely to discuss a host of healthcare programmes that the Bill and Melinda Foundation plans to take up in the state. An advance team from Gate's office has met senior officials in the state last week and done the ground work for the...
12:29 PM, May 30, 2012
Baghdad: Microsoft Corp. says it has appointed a local company to distribute its products in Iraq in what it says is a sign of growth for the war-plagued country. Manager of Business Development for Emerging Markets Rajai S. El-Khadem said Monday that the software giant had chosen the Baghdad-based Legend Lands Co. as its Iraqi partner. El-Khadem called on Iraq's government to approve laws protecting intellectual property and usage of...
10:12 AM, May 29, 2012
San Francisco: Google's Internet search engine receives more complaints about websites believed to be infringing on Microsoft's copyrights than it does about material produced by entertainment companies pushing for tougher online piracy laws. A snapshot of Microsoft's apparently chronic copyright headaches emerged in new data that Google released Thursday to provide a better understanding of the intellectual property abuses on the Internet. Google has a good vantage point on the...
11:56 AM, May 25, 2012
Bangalore: Global software major Microsoft will incubate 10 early-stage technology start-ups in cloud computing, internet and mobile using its Accelerator for Windows Azure programme to help them build businesses, a top official said Wednesday. "The start-ups will have access to our resources such as BizSpark programme and $60,000 in Azure credit through BizSpark Plus programme to take advantage of the cloud," Microsoft India (R&D) Managing Director Amit Chatterjee told reporters...
11:06 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Microsoft has silently launched its social network So.Cl, which has been in private beta since December 2011. The site is now out of beta and is available to all users. So.cl, pronounced "social", is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft's FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning. So.cl combines social networking and search, to help people find and share...
01:37 PM, May 21, 2012
Washington: Some Motorola Mobility smartphones infringe on a Microsoft patent and will be barred from importation to the United States, a US trade panel said on Friday. The order by the US International Trade Commission has been sent to President Barack Obama, who has 60 days to consider whether to overturn it for policy reasons. The legal fight at the ITC is one of dozens globally between various smartphone makers....
01:15 PM, May 19, 2012
Hyderabad: Microsoft India employees have developed a technology that would help for hearing and speech impaired people to communicate with others. The employees have also developed a device for the blind that helps them navigate their way to destination safely through objects in an indoor space. A team of employees of the company, led by Bangaru Venkatesh, said 'Kinect Bridge' technology, developed for hearing and speech impaired people, will recognise...
04:45 PM, May 17, 2012
Helsinki: Google's Android smartphone software stretched its market lead in early 2012, helped by new models from handset makers like Samsung and HTC and piling the pressure on rivals like Research In Motion and Nokia. Research from Kantar WorldPanel on Tuesday showed Android gaining share strongly in most of seven major markets - Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States - in the 12 weeks to mid...
04:21 PM, May 15, 2012
Seattle: Microsoft Corp unveiled a new design on Thursday for its second-ranked Bing search engine, introducing elements from Facebook and other social networks, as it tries to claw market share from leader Google Inc. Slow off the mark in Internet search, Microsoft has racked up losses of more than $6 billion in its online unit since launching Bing three years ago, but has yet to make a mark on Google's...
11:30 AM, May 11, 2012
London: Addressing Nokia Oyj employees in January 2011, Chief Executive Stephen Elop - at that point only four months into the job - dramatised the company's predicament by comparing it to standing on a burning platform. Nearly a year and a half on, and with Nokia's Lumia mobile phone range failing so far to revive sales, its position still looks frail. Its shares have lost 90 percent in five years...
04:22 PM, May 06, 2012
New York: Barnes & Noble Inc. and Microsoft Corporation are teaming up to create a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary that will house the digital and college businesses of the bookseller and include a Nook application for Windows 8. The companies said Monday that they are exploring separating those businesses entirely. That could mean a stock offering, sale, or other deal could happen. The deal gives Barnes & Noble ammunition...
07:04 PM, Apr 30, 2012
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