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What the Web is Saying: Windows Phone 7
Hot on the heels of the death of its Kin phone line, Microsoft is scrambling to get Windows Phone 7 (WP7) ready for its October launch. The company has said it is sending out “thousands” of preview...
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New Numbers Reveal: Cord Cutting Is Real
U.S. pay TV subscriptions have declined for the first time in history last quarter, according to new data from SNL Kagan. The business intelligence company reports that cable companies lost 711,000...
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What to Read This Weekend: How Nielsen Works
If you’re only going to read one article this weekend, then let it be this neat magazine-style story about the Nielsen ratings system from iO9. The article features lots and lots of Star Trek pictures...
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AOL Acquires Video Syndication Startup 5min
Amidst reports from Om that AOL is close to buying TechCrunch, the web giant announced today that it has acquired online video-syndication specialist 5min Media. The purchase will help boost the...
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Apple Beats Microsoft’s Third Quarter Revenue
Apple keeps taking things away from Microsoft. First, it was smartphone market share, knocking down poor Windows Mobile. Then, it was size as measured by market capitalization, with Apple moving into...
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Why Internet companies are abandoning home energy plans
Throughout 2009 and 2010, Internet companies like Microsoft, Google and even router giant Cisco launched experimental software and hardware to help building managers and home owners monitor and control...
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Microsoft cloud to power environmental big data
Cloud computing can be a powerful tool for scientists and researchers sharing massive amounts of environmental data. At the United Nations climate conference (COP 17) in Durban, South Africa this week,...
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Microsoft building clean powered data center at waste water plant
Microsoft has unveiled details of an experimental small data center that it’s building next to a waste water treatment plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The tiny data center will be powered by a fuel cell...
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Microsoft to buy Texas wind energy to power its San Antonio data center
Microsoft is buying clean energy to help power a data center for the first time. On Monday morning the tech giant announced that it has entered a deal to buy 110 MW of wind energy from a wind farm that...
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Microsoft Will Use Fuel Cells to Create Self-Powered Racks
Microsoft is doing something super interesting and experimental: using fuel cells to create self-powered racks in data centers. Microsoft, which is now testing the tech, says such a set up could make...
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Say What? Nuance Buys Jott for Speech Recognition Service
Nuance Communications, a provider of various speech recognition and predictive text products, said today it’s purchased Jott, whose service translates spoken messages into text and then emails or...
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Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft Azure
Microsoft today unveiled pricing details for its Azure services platform — possibly because customers were reluctant to build an application on the beta platform without knowing what it may one day...
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A Stick Figure Explains Microsoft Azure, and Other Cloud Video Gems
Yesterday I wrote almost 1,000 words on Microsoft’s Azure platform, but I think this video does a good job explaining the basics without all that pesky reading. Steve Marx, who works for Microsoft,...
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Eric Schmidt Not Paid By Apple, Just Took Some Souvenirs
Former Apple Board of Directors member and current Google CEO Eric Schmidt wasn’t paid for his time at Cupertino. This despite Apple’s habitual practice of offering stock options and a $50,000 retainer...
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VMware to Buy SpringSource for $420M
VMware today said it’s agreed to buy SpringSource, maker of an open-source platform for Java developers, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $420 million. The virtualizaiton vendor will acquire...
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Microsoft-Nokia Pact: Logical, But Not Necessarily Appetizing
[qi:083] Updated: The deal expected to be announced between Nokia and Microsoft today, which would see Microsoft adapt its Office products for Nokia smartphones, would be is a desperate play. But not...
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Facebook App Developer: Apple Doesn’t Trust Us
Have you been checking the App Store on your iPhone for that lovely little red badge that signals available updates? I have. I want the Facebook app update that might – finally – prompt me to want to...
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VMware Wants to Provide the OS for the Cloud
If the data center is the new computer, then the job of providing the de facto operating system of that new computer is up for grabs, as was made clear this week at VMware’s industry conference,...
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Intel, Microsoft Gorging on Multicore Programming Startups
[qi:gigaom_icon_chip] Microsoft and Intel this summer both snapped up companies with technology that helps software developers build programs that take advantage of multicore chips. Last July I pulled...
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Are White Spaces the Future of Mobile Broadband?
Claudville, Va., is a small town of about 1,000 people that was served primarily by dial-up Internet service. But thanks to a group of technology companies it is now home to the nation’s first...
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With Video Conferencing Deals, Polycom in Sharp Focus
First Cisco Systems decided to buy Norwegian video conferencing equipment maker Tandberg for about $3 billion. This week, Logitech, a Swiss computer peripherals maker, acquired LifeSize, an Austin,...
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For Xcel Energy Customers, Microsoft's Hohm is Now Live!
On Friday Microsoft plans to announce that its energy management online tool Hohm is now live and available to utility Xcel Energy’s 3.4 million customers. Troy Batterberry, Microsoft’s product unit...
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Microsoft's Future Lies in Software and Data
[qi:gigaom_icon_cloud-computing] Microsoft today at its developer conference in Los Angeles unveiled its Pinpoint service, which looks kind of like an app store aimed at enterprise developers and...
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With Chatter, Salesforce Takes a Facebook Approach to Collaboration
Salesforce.com today announced Salesforce Chatter, an application that provides a social network for enterprise businesses. Salesforce Chatter incorporates social networking and real-time connection...
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Microsoft Azure Walks a Thin Blue Line
With Azure, Microsoft is trying to strike a balance between giving customers the ease of a platform as a service and the customization that power users need to build tailored applications — both...
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Apple Tech Support Tips: 4 Steps to Bend Apple to Your Will
We usually love our Apple products. They work well, are easy to understand and when we have a problem, Apple works quickly to resolve it. Most of the time. What happens when Apple simply won’t play...
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Gmail IMAP Problem for Travelers — Solution Provided
Reader Murray Chapman has been doing some international traveling lately and noticed an odd problem using Gmail on his trips. Murray found that he would not be able to access his Gmail, and once he...
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Dell Kicks Netbooks to the Curb With Ultra-Thin V13 for $450
Super-thin notebooks are all the rage, but they invariably come at a big price premium. Dell proved that with the release of the swanky Adamo XPS, a notebook just 0.65-inches thick for $1,799. It was...
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SpinVox: From Flush to Flushed
After losses and drama, more than $100 million in outside funding and a $500 million valuation, reports say London-based Spinvox could be bought for a mere $150 million by Nuance Communications, as...
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MIT's Thin LCD Lets Your Fingers Do the Talking
MIT's Media Lab today showed off a thin LCD screen that can respond to both touch and gestures. They call it a bidirectional screen, or BiDiScreen for short. The tech on display uses LCDs with built-in...
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Will Rackspace Partnership Save FathomDB?
Rackspace today said it would offer a database in the cloud through a partnership with FathomDB, a company that provides a relational database as a service. The move brings competition to the cloud...
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When Google Attacks: Toktumi's Tale
Toktumi CEO Peter Sisson talks about how he's managed to grow despite launching the wrong product initially and Google's entry into his market. He also highlights how he plans to take his hosted...
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Can the Cloud Help Drive Mobile TV Adoption?
The mobile TV market has been a disappointment for years, but emerging efforts from cable companies and content providers to make entertainment available everywhere via the web may finally drive...
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Why Tech May Rebound in 2010
While the economy’s longer-term health remains as uncertain as ever, the outlook for tech is - for the next several months, at least - getting brighter. Companies feel more comfortable spending on new...
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IBM Chalks Up a Win in Email Wars
IBM's deal to move all of Panasonic's employees to its LotusLive hosted email and collaboration service is a blow to Microsoft, whose Exchange product is being shown the door. Expect more enterprise...
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What’s Next for YouTube? Self-Serve Overlay Ads
YouTube might reach profitability this year, which means it’s time for parent company Google to figure out ways to make it even more profitable. That might happen by making it even easier for small...
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Yes, Virginia, HR Execs Check Your Facebook Page
A survey done by Microsoft in conjunction with Data Privacy Day on Thursday found that 70 percent of HR professionals have rejected a job candidate because of information they found about that person...
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iPad: Around the Network
In addition to our own coverage of the recently launched iPad, our fellow GigaOM sites have also been writing up their fair share of great perspective on Apple’s latest product launch. Video on the...
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Microsoft Finally Opens Azure for Business
Microsoft today finally opened up its cloud platform, Windows Azure, for business. Today the rubber meets the road -- and we will soon see how Azure does against larger players such as Amazon and...
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Obama Budget Spells Benefits for the Cloud
In President Obama's budget announced yesterday, the feds may have opened a window of opportunity for cloud computing companies large and small hoping for some government largess. The federal budget...
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Can Microsoft's Azure Find True Blue Developers?
Microsoft on Tuesday opened up its Azure cloud computing platform, after more than a year of development. Derrick Harris takes an in-depth look at Azure over at GigaOM Pro to see what exactly Microsoft...
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Microsoft Hohm to Connect with Devices this Summer, One Day Offer Its Own?
By this summer you can expect to find the first energy devices -- smart meters, energy management dashboards, connected thermostats -- that can link with Microsoft's online energy management tool,...
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Helping to Ease AT&T’s Network Pains — Goodbye iPhone!
AT&T's CEO says that the carrier handles half of all data traffic generated in the U.S. Being a good samaritan, I abandoned my iPhone to ease the 3G network. Did you know you can port away a number...
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Australian Website Hints at New Macs, Higher Prices
An Australian tech website has started running ads featuring Mac Pros and MacBook Pros whose entry-level prices are noticeably higher than those in the current Mac lineup. So what, right? The ads are...
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Microsoft's Data Centers Take a Page From Henry Ford
Microsoft recently outlined its plan for data centers as it begins its expansion into cloud services with its Azure platform, and the software company's emphasis on commodity gear and modular...
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Why Ford Wants Microsoft to Manage the Electric Vehicle Influx
Ford and Microsoft's move to use Hohm to minimize energy costs for electric vehicle drivers and limit strain on the grid represents a big step toward a "smart charging" ecosystem. But they say tools...
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Windows 7 Upgrade Prices Drop, But Only For New Computers
Microsoft just kicked off a special pricing deal for it's Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade program. You can save nearly 40-percent to move a netbook from Starter Edition to Home Premium, for example. But...
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WWDC: Video Calling on iPhone 4 With FaceTime: Wi-Fi Only
Steve Jobs demonstrated the new FaceTime video calling app on the iPhone 4 at WWDC, but had to ask the audience to turn off their Wi-Fi devices first. Why is that? The new video call feature is only...
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From Microsoft to Nuclear, 10 Questions for Nathan Myhrvold
Bill Gates might be the most prominent high-level Microsoft exec to focus on energy innovation, but he's certainly not the first. A decade ago its then-chief technology officer, Nathan Myhrvold, left...
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Foursquare Looking for Deals with Search Giants
Foursquare is in talks with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft about deals involving the service's location-based checkin data, CEO Dennis Crowley told The Telegraph. None of the search providers have...
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