On Thursday it was reported that no less than Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told a big Chinese Social Network that the first Windows Phone flavored Nokia phones would ship in the fourth quarter with launches rolling out from country to country. The executive didn’t give out a hint as to which country...

The newest Twitter client in this line-up is MetroTwit, which gets its name from Windows Phone 7′s typographical Metro UI. MetroTwit is almost the exact opposite of TweetDeck: it’s a lot lighter in terms of features; it’s snappier thanks to its native Windows nature; and it only interfaces...

Microsoft has announced the public beta of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s next generation cloud productivity service for businesses in India. With Office 365 professionals and small businesses can be up and running with Office Web Apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Lync Online and an external...

25 years ago today, Microsoft released the very first version of the operating system which now powers around 90% of the personal computers in the world. Even with the sweet analog clock to the word processing might of Write (and truly useful features like running multiple applications and a shared clipboard),...

To the average downloading public, the recent news about LimeWire being forced to shut down sounds pretty ominous. At my day job, I’ve already been asked “How do I download songs now?” While LimeWire shutting down is bad news for its users, there’s a silver lining to this cloud. *...

Some people like to display a little eye candy while their computer idles, opting for screensavers which flip through an assortment of photos or flying toasters (for example). Some of us, however, would rather have our system doing meaningful work that we don’t want going on while we’re using...

It’s widely know that Microsoft has set some pretty specific restrictions on Windows Phone 7, their new mobile OS.  For example, hardware running WP7 must have a touchscreen 3.5-inches or larger in a slate or slide out  form factor.  Now Microsoft has let slip that they’re adding another...

Microsoft and Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, announced today that the Windows Live Spaces blogging service will be phased out in favor of WordPress.com. Users of the service will have the ability to transfer their blogs via a new migration utility beginning today. In a post on Inside...

Computers and the internet, in modern times, are essential to everyday life. Such technologies are used everyday in every country of the world, by businesses and individuals, as well as for basic communications. Computers are so relied upon, that it is truly terrifying to consider that there is a danger...

Remember those days when you are typing directly from your typewriter and placing a bond paper to capture what you are typing? Those days are obsolete. Computer systems are in. When we speak of computer systems, we are not only talking about the computer itself but also all the peripherals needed to...