Today Symantec announces it will spin off its storage business, following Hewlett-Packard, eBay and others in a flood of Silicon Valley corporate splits. Symantec to divide into security, storage companies.
Apple will hold its next product launch event on 16 October, the company has confirmed in an invitation sent out to journalists. New iPad models are expected to be the focus for the event.
Get ready, guys! Facebook is about to go anonymous. Kind of. Yup, just days after Facebook agreed to change its policies requiring users to employ their real names on the site, news that the social network plans to launch a mobile app that will allow us all to go by whatever name we desire hit the scene. Read more at The New York Times - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/facebook-readies-app-allowing-anonymity/ Facebook Readies App Allowing Anonymity bits.blogs.nytimes.com The app, which is expected to be released in the coming weeks, reveals a different, experimental take on Facebook’s long-established approach to identity. ...
T-Mobile CEO speaks about iPhone 6 bendgate and what Tim Cook couldn’t! “What the **** are you putting it in your pants and sitting on it for?” he asks. “You know what, those 9 people that sat on their phones, first of all they need jeans that fit them a little better, cause if your jeans are cutting your phone. What idiot [tries to bend the iPhone 6]? Give me a break. Take your laptop, you know, do handstands on it, throw it against the wall. That’s bull****. This thing doesn’t f***ing bend.” ...
Bill Gates is very happy with Microsoft’s new CEO! Gates Says He’s Very Happy With Microsoft’s Nadella: Video www.bloomberg.com Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp. and co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, talks about financial payment systems in Africa, Microsoft’s strategy and the outbreak of Ebola. Gates, speaking with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart,” also d… ...
Why Microsoft named its new operating system as Windows 10 instead of Windows 9? A Reddit user claims to be a Microsoft developer, and cites rumors that early testing with the name “Windows 9” ran into problems with code some third-party developers used as a shortcut to detect when apps are running on Windows 95 or Windows 98. Strange! http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x www.reddit.com www.reddit.com http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x
Why Microsoft named its new operating system as Windows 10 instead of Windows 9? A Reddit user claims to be a Microsoft developer, and cites rumors that early testing with the name “Windows 9” ran into problems with code some third-party developers used as a shortcut to detect when apps are running on Windows 95 or Windows 98. Strange! http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x www.reddit.com www.reddit.com http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x
Superstitious hotels skip to over number 13 to avoid bad luck. Microsoft has decided to take a similar tack with its new Windows version, which it has dubbed Windows 10. Yes, there is no Windows 9. “We want all these Windows 7 users to have the sentiment that yesterday they were driving a first-generation Prius, and now with Windows 10 it’s like a Tesla,” - Microsoft Vice President Joe Belfiore said at today’s event. ...
Superstitious hotels skip to over number 13 to avoid bad luck. Microsoft has decided to take a similar tack with its new Windows version, which it has dubbed Windows 10. Yes, there is no Windows 9. “We want all these Windows 7 users to have the sentiment that yesterday they were driving a first-generation Prius, and now with Windows 10 it’s like a Tesla,” - Microsoft Vice President Joe Belfiore said at today’s event. ...
Apple releases iOS 8.0.2, claims that they fixed broken 8.0.1 update. Let’s try this again!