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The Most Important Tech Product Is the Kindle, Not the iPhone The Amazon e-book reader is revolutionizing an industry that hasn't changed since its inception.

Journalists attend a Microsoft Open House at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct.

Recently, Silverlight 3 gained the ability to use custom pixel shaders as was already available in WPF.

Software titan may run a weak third in Web searches, but its sites are high on users' agendas.

MICROSOFT AND SAMSUNG will jointly promote the green IT benefits of buying each others' products.

When Kevin Johnson was hired as CEO of Juniper Networks last year, analysts said the veteran Microsoft executive could help the Sunnyvale networking equipment company find new growth and ramp up competition with the much-larger market leader, Cisco Systems.

Among customers' spending priorities are technologies that promise high return on investment and nondiscretionary products like security and compliance software.

Office 2010 will be released into a far different competitive landscape than Office 2007 faced By Elizabeth Montalbano When Microsoft releases the next version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, it will be into a very different competitive landscape than the one Office 2007 faced in late 2006.

Despite a sobering presentation about sexting and a Twitter promo from one of the world's most popular tweeters, the main message of the day at the first Wired Moms summit on Friday was pretty low tech: talk to your kids.

If you are thinking about upgrading to Windows 7 from Windows XP, you are not alone.

It has near-monopoly status and nimble, disruptive competitors. Wea TMve seen this movie before.

Broadband Market Still Expanding [November 2, 2009] Global economic slowdown isn't slowing down the move to broadband.

In this week's World Tech Update, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tours Asia and talks about the future of television, HTC launches the HD2 smartphone that runs Windows Mobile 6.5, Intel gets slapped with an antitrust lawsuit, Motorola's Droid gets ready to go on sale, an iPhone app from Harvard Medical School helps protect you from swine flu and new ...

Is a price war for email cloud offerings on the horizon? Although Microsoft has just taken the plunge into Google's $5 bargain basement, others have already set their prices even lower for comparable services -- e.g., IBM at $3, Rackspace at just $1. Microsoft's sudden decision doesn't bode well for its partners, though, who may feel as though ...

Microsoft is looking to expand ties with Japanese universities and has unveiled a multi-million dollar long-term plan to deepen its research roots in the country.

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled a preview of its most significant home page redesign in over a decade.

Microsoft's Courier project - a dual-display "book" style electronic journal - has been intriguing us since it first leaked back in September , and the latest spillage of UI details courtesy of Gizmodo's mysterious tipster is doing nothing to temper our interest.

What: Keynote speech. The Microsoft Tech-Ed Europe 2009 keynote speech with Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division, and Robert Wahbe, corporate vice president of the Server and Tools Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp., will discuss the state of IT and the new generation of business solutions that help customers reach their full ...

Blackboard Inc. today announced an alliance with Microsoft Corporation to offer students and learners access to information from their online courses on Web browsers, enabling them to keep up with important course updates while surfing the Web, not just when logged into their BlackboardA accounts.

Filed under: Competitive strategy , Google , Microsoft Google Inc.'s Google Apps project has gained steam since its introduction a few years ago.