The co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates said on Monday during an interview with journalist Charlie Rose from a program on U.S. television network PBS, the first Apple tablet, the iPad, was much better than his first attempt to enter this market . Asked if he had thought of a tablet with touch system before Steve Jobs, Gates replied: “long...
Gunmens set fire to the Microsoft headquarters in Athens during the early hours of Wednesday, damaging the front of the building and forcing the software company in the United States to suspend its operations in the city, according to information from Reuters. According to a police source, the group used a van with three gallons of flammable...
Malcolm Gladwell, a British journalist from The New Yorker, gave an interview at the Toronto Public Library explaining why history will remember Bill Gates and forget Steve Jobs . According to the publication’s site Business Insider, discussing capitalism and entrepreneurship, Gladwell argued that the amorality (lack of moral principles...
Since smartphones have become fashionable, the mobile phone market took a turn. People began to exchange their phones “common” by more modern models, driving a lot to the market for gadgets. Thus, there was a competition between Google, Microsoft and Apple to see which companies dominate the market with their respective operating...
Microsoft said Saturday in his blog that completed a review of Windows 8, which will launch in the market by the end of the year and promises to be the biggest reform of company’s operating system since Windows 7. “Since the first distribution of a preliminary version in September, millions of people now use the product daily...
Can be handled with one hand, the Next Unit of Computing (NUC) is the new Intel motherboard and has small proportions. Measuring just 4 “x 4″, it ends up being smaller than the mini-ITX, which was about 2.7 “longer. Designed to work with the iCore3 processor , it is likely that the NUC also accept models more powerful, since...
According to Security Week, a flaw in the security service from Microsoft allowed any of the 364 million accounts were stolen without major difficulties. The attack was made from the system password recovery, which should be the mechanism to prevent such actions. The problem is that Hotmail uses a system of “tokens”...
Ever thought to yourself that those Smart Covers would be so much better if they somehow had a keyboard built in? Perhaps not, but Logitech is looking to fill the void anyway. The outfit has announced its Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for this year’s iPad. On the business side of the accessory, you’ll find a full Bluetooth keyboard...
According to The Verge, the Linux Foundation announced that for the first time, Microsoft is among the 20 largest contributors to the Linux kernel. The company added one percent of the code from version 6.2.36 to version 3.2 in 2010and launched in January, which represents a fundamental change in attitude compared...
The store of Microsoft applications is growing rapidly. According to All About Windows Phone, Windows Phone Marketplace has already surpassed 80,000 apps. And the numbers indicate that this should increase at an incredible speed. According to data collected by the site, just over the last month were more than tenthousand...
Last year, Microsoft opened registration for Kinect Accelerator, a program for developers wishing to create applications of all kinds for the motion sensor Kinect - and not represent its games, but other ways to use the device. Now, were released from Microsoft, 11 partners who managed the space after playing over 500 different developers. Startups (which can...
In March, the use of Internet Explorer (IE) increased 1% and overcame a fall that Microsoft’s browser had a record in recent years. IE went up from 52.8% to 53.8%. The numbers are from Net Applications and show that the field of Internet Explorer (in all its versions) is still absolute. All rival browsers have...
The Pirate Bay has always given a way to keep in the air, but there is something that they cant control: Microsoft is now blocking site links sent by instant messaging and all its systems. “We block instant messages if they contain malicious links or URLs of spam based on our intelligence algorithms, third-party...
The ArsTechnica cites Bloomberg and an online forum to explain that we have a Release Candidate (RC) of Windows 8 already during the month of June. The materialize this prediction, Microsoft seems to be on track for commercial launch of the new operating system during the month of October. Thus, the Redmond company seems...
The site can be viewed in any modern browser, but Microsoft ”recommends”, of course, the use of Internet Explorer. On this page we can see some of the scenes from the movie The Hunger Games, which will debut this week in Portugal. The novelty is that the page was built using the HTML5. The visual effects are out...
