This morning, twenty four of the world’s largest telecom companies announced their plans to create the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), a unified open platform that lets developers build an application once, and deploy it to work on any carrier, device, and OS. The roster of supporters...

“ The greatest trick Microsoft ever pulled was convincing Apple that Google didn’t exist. “ If Microsoft plays its cards right, that may be a statement we’re saying years from now. What does that mean? Aside from being a riff on one of the best lines in movie history, what I...

I just returned from the Microsoft campus, where some students from Carnegie Mellon University are showing off their awesome project , a version of D&D that runs on the Surface . Now, before you start rolling your eyes, just recognize that this isn’t just a holy grail for tabletop gaming nerds....

Yesterday, California’s Chief Technology Officer, P.K. Agarwal, wrote that the government is using a crowdsourcing tool, IdeaScale, to get a consensus on the ideas to spur IT innovation around the California’s IT systems. IdeaScale, which is a crowdsourcing tool produced by startup Survey...

While Google is a company built on advertising, for the most part it has stayed out of advertising itself on the dominant medium: television. Yes, there have been those short ads for Chrome and a few for Android that it has been involved with. And Google is even said to have considered an ad during...

When it comes to display advertising on its own site, Facebook is taking full control of its inventory away from Microsoft. Even prior to Microsoft’s initial $240 million investment in Facebook in 2007, the two companies had an advertising partnership giving Microsoft the ability to serve display...

By Chris Scott Barr When Microsoft entered the console gaming market, it was a great day for gamers here in the US. Now I don’t have anything against Nintendo or Sony, I love their consoles. What I don’t love is all of the exclusive hardware that Japan gets from these companies, since they...

By Andrew Liszewski The feedback regarding Apple’s recently unveiled iPad has been mixed at best, falling anywhere between cautiously positive to vehemently negative, so it’s no surprise that The Onion felt obliged to weigh in with their own thoughts, outlining some of the iPad’s lesser...

Marketing software company Unica has made its second acquisition of 2010. The Nasdaq-listed company is buying up UK-based MakeMeTop, a UK-based search bid management technology. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Earlier this year, Unica acquired Pivotal Veracity an email marketing startup, for...

Sometimes tips come in that seem too good to be true. Take today, for example. I got a tip that Bill Gates’ new site, The Gates Notes , was running on a Linux-powered server. This would be ironic since Gates is of course the founder of Microsoft, which is Linux’s biggest competitor in the...

This isn’t a rumor, it’s just a wish. I’m hoping that the Apple Tablet that is announced tomorrow will have a capacitive touch interface that extends past the screen and to the actual case. Particularly the back of the device where the fingers will naturally rest during two-handed...

By Andrew Liszewski At Microsoft’s PDC09 conference, Tim Higgins was showing off his Wi-Fi Warthogs game which you can think of as a slightly smaller, live-action version of Halo . Using an XBox 360 controller you take control of one of 6 remote control jeeps, but instead of using some tiny RC...