1340 blog results for "microsoft competition"

The software maker is helping NBC deliver HD video of the Olympic Games using Silverlight, offering new features, including the ability to pause a live event.

Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried

In a New York Times op-ed piece, former Tablet PC team member Dick Brass laments that people are turning to Apple, Amazon, and Google to find the next big thing.

Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried

Sony's CFO says though it's "a little behind," the company would like to be competitive with the iPad. Why weren't they thinking of this before?

Posted in Circuit Breaker by Erica Ogg

Software freedom requires more than just a license. It also needs an open market to be meaningful--witness Apple, Canonical, and others flirting with Microsoft.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

Amazon Web Services continues to take the lead in cloud services, including pricing. Will "free" be the only way to beat AWS?

Posted in Software, Interrupted by Dave Rosenberg

Nexus One gets multitouch but the rest of the Android universe is left out in the cold. Plus, Motorola's not using the "Droid" name for its upcoming Android phones. What's going on here? Plus, we revel in the intellectual awesomeness of imagining Windows

Posted in Buzz Out Loud Podcast by Tom Merritt

After Apple said its iPad doesn't support Flash, Adobe is sticking up for its technology. The Open Web movement challenging Flash has increasing clout--but still plenty of chaos, too.

Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland

Hit by weak fourth-quarter results, Taiwanese mobile handset maker expects sales to rise in 2010 as it juggles both Android smartphones and Windows Mobile devices.

Posted in News - Wireless by Lance Whitney

Search giant is quickly catching up to Redmond as a tech power to be reckoned with in Washington D.C., according to recent filings.

Posted in News - Microsoft by Kara Swisher, AllThingsD

The stable release of the new Chrome brings extensions, bookmark sync, faster performance, and HTML5 features. But there's no Mac or Linux version yet.

Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland