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How to make Windows 8 a more compelling platform for advertisers? That would be Ad Pano, Microsoft's new format for enabling rich, interactive multiscreen ads.

Is Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer giving the search company an intelligence facelift? That's what tech blogger Drew Alanoff said when Yahoo purchased social-recommendation app Jybe, one of at least 14 tools Yahoo has acquired in the past year, including OnTheAir, Summly and Tumblr .

I recently started using the Office 2013 suite and noticed some things have changed.

Ryan has spent more than five years covering business, technology, and telecom-related subjects for a variety of publications based in New York and San Francisco.

Technology's biggest names have rushed to disclose the number of law-enforcement requests for data they receive, a result of allegations that they have provided the National Security Agency "direct access" to customer data on their servers.

What would get your average teenager to ditch their favorite video chat app and switch to a competitor? Co-browsing may just be one of those features.

We know which companies to hate , but which ones do we actually love? Answer: anything with a screen or a toasted baguette.

Companies are racing to get their Google Reader replacements out before the plug gets pulled on July 1, with the latest announcement coming from Digg, who plans to unveil their solution next week.

I think I finally got the point of a Kindle on a recent flight, watching the ease with which my neighbour scrolled through his screen, especially when food was served, while my brick-sized book kept sliding around my lap.

Microsoft has announced Office Mobile for iPhone and has made it available at the App Store at no extra charge for Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 ProPlus subscribers.

BlackBerry spies British spies have reportedly succeeded in cracking the security of BlackBerrys, taking the surveillance controversy to a new level.

Ever, since Skype acquired Qik , it was somehow clear that they'll add sooner or later video messages to its Skype service, which was so far about real time voice and video telephony.

Skype has taken Skype Video Messaging out of beta, pushing the three minute clip-sharing service to most of its desktop and mobile apps.

Out of beta and free, Skype today launches its video messaging service across all its major platforms.

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Deployed to Afghanistan with the Utah National Guard's 624th Engineering Co. 1457th Battalion, he left last June when his wife, Camille, was about eight months pregnant.

I'm going to various countries in Europe this summer and can't figure out the best way to use my smartphone.

Watching William Hague doing his avuncular routine in the Commons on Monday , I was reminded of the way establishment figures in the 1950s used to reassure hoi polloi that they had nothing to worry about.

Do you pay for text messaging? If you have a smartphone, you don't have to. There are plenty of mobile messaging app alternatives that you can try at no cost.