Microsoft has finally decided to adopt marketing strategies like its two biggest competitors, Google and Apple in an effort to take the leaders head on and expand its market presence. The company also hopes that the Windows 10 update will return the spotlight back to the company.
Technology companies such as Google and Apple are scrambling to create a patch that will fix a major security flaw that for more than a decade has left their devices vulnerable to hacking when they visited websites that were considered secure.
New phones and tablets featuring the latest version of Google's Mobile Operating System, Android 5 "Lollipop," will not have device encryption enabled by default despite earlier promises made by Internet giant.
Though many believed that technology powerhouse Apple would prevail against what the company is calling a “patent troll”, this week Apple was ordered to pay $532.9 million in fines as a result of patent infringements. And while the petitioner, Smartflash won’t receive its full $852 million in damages, the ruling is setting a pretty hefty precedent for future lawsuits against the technological innovator.
Google boss Eric Schmidt has predicted that the Internet will soon be so pervasive that it will become a part of every facet of our lives that soon it will effectively "disappear" into the background.
Apple has long enjoyed a lead in the number of apps available for their iPhones and iPads compared to the other mobile leaders, Android and Amazon. However, times are changing and according to a new report from appFigures, the Google Play mobile market has surpassed Apple in two key areas - developer community growth and number of apps.
The new deal between Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser and Yahoo have shifted Internet search usage with Yahoo seeing some of its biggest gains in years while Google slips slightly in its Internet Search dominance.
Thanks to the jolly volunteers at NORAD, the original Santa trackers, and Google, the more recent Santa trackers, kids only need to log onto a website, app, Facebook or Twitter and they can find out where Santa is at that instant.