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Trapeze artists, TouchPads, Angry Birds … and other quotes of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “I am last to speak at #is15. The… Read More

Future Microsoft division Skype makes buy of its own, striking a deal for GroupMe

Skype, in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, this afternoon got more company on the road… Read More

Chart: Hundreds of thousands of apps, but only a fraction really matter in the end

Much is made of the sheer size of each mobile platform’s library of third-party apps. iPhone and Android ring up… Read More

Weekend Humor: Hitler gets the bad news about HP ditching the TouchPad

I am huge fan of Downfall, a classic war film that depicts Adolf Hitler’s last days in Berlin. But even… Read More

Microsoft explains Office 365 outage, offers customer credit

Microsoft’s new Office 365 cloud-based service took a hit this week when customers were unable to access email and other… Read More

Can ex-Microsoft employees make great entrepreneurs?

Guest commentary: I was casually talking with a partner at a local venture firm recently, and he lamented: “We don’t… Read More

Microsoft app coordinates meetups on a map — stepping on Glympse’s toes?

[Updated below with comments from Glympse and Microsoft] A new Windows Phone app released by Microsoft Bing this week —… Read More

HP, Apple, iPad, webOS and the upheaval of the PC market

Hewlett-Packard is the largest PC maker in the world, significantly outpacing even longtime rival Dell these days. So it was… Read More

HP shedding PC business: Why Microsoft should buy it

Bloomberg News caused a big stir in the tech world today with a report that Hewlett-Packard is looking to spin off… Read More

Dilbert creator likes Windows Phone, ‘hipster credibility’ aside

Scott Adams, the guy behind the Dilbert cartoons, turns tech reviewer on his blog today, offering his take after testing… Read More

Google seeks Cloudboard patent, Ray Ozzie’s Live Clipboard rolls over in its grave

How’s this for a copy-paste? Google wants to patent a technology called “Server-Based Data Sharing in Computer Applications,” which describes… Read More

Does working at Microsoft really turn your brain numb?

Call it the Silicon Valley invasion. Facebook, Google, HP, Zynga and Salesforce.com — driven by an insatiable need for talented… Read More

Microsoft cloud service Office 365 hit with outage

We’ve been hearing reports today that Microsoft’s Office 365 service — which includes new online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and… Read More

Skype WiFi: Another iOS app for Microsoft’s portfolio

Skype today released its free Skype WiFi app for iPhone and iPad. It’s the latest in a flurry of new product… Read More

Windows Phone games: Details on Microsoft’s ‘Fast Async’ service

As part of an update about upcoming Windows Phone gaming features, Microsoft this week offered a teaser about a new service… Read More

Amazon launches U.S. ‘GovCloud’ with plug from NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

Amazon Web Services is aiming to land more business from the U.S. government and its contractors with the rollout of… Read More

Google overhauls search results with giant swaths of sitelinks

Google is making a major change to its search results pages, giving a huge amount of real estate to the… Read More

Netflix for Kids, LinkedIn apps, and other new stuff to try

Interesting new releases and downloads catching our attention today … Netflix rolled out a new section of its website called… Read More

Firefox releases get smaller, as do Internet Explorer cakes

Mozilla debuted Firefox 6 today, less than two months after coming out with Firefox 5. The new rapid release schedule might seem… Read More

Former Xbox chief Robbie Bach resurfaces on Sonos board

Robbie Bach, the former head of Microsoft’s Xbox business, is returning to the technology world, sorta. Bach, a 22-year Microsoft… Read More

Ballmer critic boosts Microsoft stake by more than 60 percent

David Einhorn isn’t a Steve Ballmer fan, but he’s still a big believer in Microsoft — at least at its… Read More

Microsoft adding more voice to Xbox, Windows Phone, and pretty much everything else

Speech technology from Microsoft’s Tellme group is quickly becoming a bigger part of the company’s products, starting with the upcoming revamps… Read More

Microsoft downgrades Linux threat, and Sinofsky blogging again

News and notes from the Microsoft beat … Linux no longer a Windows threat? Microsoft’s latest annual report with the… Read More

Google, Motorola, and Microsoft’s role in one of the strangest tech deals ever

Companies sometimes do odd things in response to their competitors, but Google’s $12.5 billion agreement to acquire Motorola ranks up… Read More

Microsoft goes to the matte: Xbox 360 losing its glossy sheen

Should home electronics come in glossy or matte? OK, so it’s not exactly the weightiest debate of our time, but… Read More

The real risks of being a geek, and other quotes of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “I FULLY UNDERSTAND: (a) that the Experiments… Read More

Chart: The PC isn’t dead, it’s just another one of our devices

Today is the 30th anniversary of the unveiling of the IBM PC, one of the landmark moments of the digital revolution. This… Read More

Five weird (and wacky) pursuits of rich tech moguls

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” That line from F. Scott… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘KinectFusion’ creates real-time, 3D model of an entire room, and more

Is this a glimpse of the future of Kinect for Xbox 360 and Windows? During a Microsoft Research demo event… Read More

Geek of the Week: Adnan Mahmud, Jolkona co-founder

Our latest Geek of the Week, Adnan Mahmud, thinks big about technology as a way to tackle the world’s problems.… Read More