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AUSTIN, Texas-Thirty-two hungry entrepreneurs showed off their products and services at the SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft BizSpark on March 14 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival. The …

AUSTIN, Texas – Thirty-two hungry entrepreneurs showed off their products and services at the SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft Corp. BizSpark on March 14 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive …

Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Corp.’s newest and fastest-ever browser, has scored around 2.3 million downloads since it launched on Monday evening. Microsoft has issued a back-slapping blog post detailing the feat, and certainly seems pleased as punch that people are flocking to their new browser.

Business News Americas | March 16, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Improved security elements of Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) web browser were a key contributing factor to the …

AUSTIN, Texas – As the nerds packed up their DSLRs and laptops, the music contingent descended upon Austin, marking the end of SXSW Interactive. Day five meant for an interesting melange …

It’s hard to think of a more universally hated piece of software than Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer 6. The aging browser came bundled with Windows XP, which had the unfortunate side-effect of making it wildly popular, as people used it day-in and day-out for their browsing needs, oblivious to the growing security holes and alternatives available.

Since last week’s catastrophic earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown triple-threat devastated large parts of northeastern Japan, many large organisations have jumped in to aid donations that will go towards helping those affected by the crisis.

There’s no need for Symbian developers to go nok, nok nokia-ing on heaven’s door just yet, because Samsung plans to lure them over to a Bada life.

Fox News | March 9, 2011  | Karla Palomo At 17, Colombian-born Hernán Rincón was working at a bottling plant to support himself while attending college. Today, he heads up all …

Industry analytics outfit ComScore Inc. has released their latest figures for mobile operating system market share, covering the fourth quarter of 2010. The quarter is always the biggest period of the year for any retailer, covering Black Friday and the festive season. So how did the major operating systems do?

This week at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, RCR caught up with one of the world’s largest ISPs, Level 3, which was touting its role as the messenger …

Nokia Corp.’s announcement it would be dropping MeeGo and going Windows Phone 7 caused quite a “kerfuffle” inside Intel Corp., admitted Peter Biddle, general manager of Intel’s AppUp products and services.

How embarrassing for poor old Microsoft. First they were late to the whole smartphone party, and now Windows Phone 7’s first firmware update since the OS’s launch has obviously gone awry, as users of Samsung’s Omnia 7 have been taking to the internet in droves to complain of apparently bricked devices.

BARCELONA, Spain – Stephen Elop delivered what can only be described as a cheese-fest during his appearances during MWC at the Barcelona Fira this week. Laying it on thick, the Microsoft Corp. transfer refused to talk about the new MicroKia partnership, instead opting for the same old spiel about how Nokia Corp. was saving the world.