The ride-hailing firm, Ola, has launched in London. Seeing Uber's experience, Ola is putting safety and driver support first and foremost. The firm is offering perks for those who sign up early.
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Microsoft has lost its second executive in less than six months. Stephen Elop, part of Microsoft's senior leadership team, is departing the company after joining in January 2008. During his brief time at the company he...
Microsoft today released a press statement stating that Steven Sinofsky has been named President of the Windows division. He now assumes responsibility of the Windows business unit including both the engineering and marketing functions for...
Critics asserting that Windows Live OneCare didn't succeed on its own have got it wrong, according to Microsoft's chief security advisor for the EMEA region. Roger Halbheer, in a blog posting on Monday, said...
Sarcasm can be a powerful tool, and a Microsoft executive recently wielded it against industry sources who claim that a loophole exists in one of the software giant's licensing policies. In a scathing blog post...
Michael Callahan, executive vice president and general counsel at Yahoo Inc., has apologized for failing to inform U.S. lawmakers about the circumstances under which the Internet company gave the Chinese government information on one of...
Yahoo Inc.'s chief marketing officer, Cammie Dunaway, is leaving the company in two weeks, joining a management exodus that has unfolded as the Internet icon struggles to snap out of a financial funk. The Sunnyvale-based...
An executive in Microsoft's entertainment and games division Tuesday hinted that Microsoft may be developing its own Windows Mobile OS-based rival to Apple's iPhone. Speaking at Citi's annual Global Technology Conference in New York on...
Mike Volpi, who previously headed up Cisco's routing business, has been appointed chief executive at online video start-up Joost. He left Cisco in February citing personal reasons after working for 13 years with the networking...
Earlier this month, Sony UK boss Ray Maguire said that the current PlayStation Portable is just the "first iteration" of the handheld, and that an improved version will eventually follow. Two weeks after his initial...
Rumours, hints and leaks have all suggested that Google was working on a GPhone. Official confirmation comes from Isabel Aguilera, Google's chief executive in Spain and Portugal. The woman has admitted that the search giant...
A senior Microsoft Corp. executive says the company is concerned that uncertified third-party software loaded onto new computers by manufacturers could hurt the launch of consumer versions of its Windows Vista operating system later this...
A Korean executive at Samsung Electronics has agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time in the United States in connection with a global price-fixing conspiracy, according to the government. Young Hwan Park, president of...
It hasn't been a good month for Microsoft's Google-fighters. So bad that one left abruptly last week, and another decided this week to switch teams. Vic Gundotra, a general manager for platform evangelism...
Instinct Technology has announced the appointment of Mike Gamble, a former Microsoft and THQ executive, to the role of business development director. Gamble will be responsible for overseeing the company's flagship product, the Instinct Studio...
Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday they agreed to settle pending litigation that had barred a former Microsoft executive from heading up the Web search firm's research efforts in China. Microsoft said the...
Microsoft executive Robbie Bach predicts that half of Xbox 360 owners will signup for Xbox Live, even though only 2 million or around 10 percent of current Xbox owners are Live subscribers. However, his...
Google sued Microsoft yesterday as part of a legal battle over Google's hiring of a Microsoft executive to run its Chinese research center. Google filed its lawsuit in state court in San Jose, Calif., two...
Opening GDC, John Batter sends a message to programmers, gamers, industry: EA Mobile is for real. NFSU will act as flagship title; up to 20 more franchises to appear on mobile devices in the next...
Microsoft Corp. still hopes to settle with the European Commission over the sanctions ordered against it to correct its anticompetitive behavior, even as its appeal of the case winds its way through the legal channels,...
Peder Ulander, the top marketing executive for Sun Microsystems' Desktop Solutions Group, is leaving the company to join embedded Linux specialist MontaVista Software, CNET News.com has learned. At MontaVista, Ulander will be vice president of...
Jon Kimmich hops from Microsoft to a key Xbox partner Jogn Kimmich has announced that he will be leaving the company to join Day 1 Studios. 1 Studios is known for their...
Microsoft Corp.'s instant messaging architect Paul Haverstock stated the case for messaging interoperability at the opening keynote address of the Instant Messaging Planet Spring 2004 Conference and Expo here Wednesday. Haverstock, one of...
A top Intel executive said 64-bit technology, which gives computers greater memory capacity and more powerful data crunching abilities, would not become relevant to home PC users until sometime in 2006, later than anticipated by...
Macromedia Inc. Tuesday announced it has hired a former Microsoft Corp. executive to run its Macromedia Mobile and Devices Division. The San Francisco company announced the appointment of Juha Christensen, who until...
Novell's top channel executive, Nancy Reynolds, left the company last week, a Novell spokesperson confirmed. Solution providers have credited Reynolds, vice president of North American channel sales and a 14-year company veteran,...
IBM MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST choice of friends for AMD if the attitude of Bill Zeitler is anything to go by. He is predicting IBM and Intel will be the only players at the...
Duane Zitzner isn't your typical Silicon Valley executive. The 55-year-old drives a secondhand pick-up truck to work and until recently went back regularly to his hometown of Viroqua, Wis., to bale hay...
The CEO of Microsoft Israel has played the FUD card against Linux, raising doubts about the provenance of the intellectual property in the software, and advising potential customers to seek indemnification from the supplier in...
September 26, 2002--America Online Inc. (AOL), already under investigation for questionable accounting practices, could become further muddied as reports surfaced Thursday that the U.S. government's fraud investigation into real estate Web site operator Homestore.com Inc....
A former Cisco Systems executive has pleaded guilty to illegally transferring some $50 million in company stock and funds to an offshore shell account in the Bahamas, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Assistant...
Thanks Vla for this interesting bit of news! A MICROSOFT EXECUTIVE, who on Wednesday said that the next version of Microsoft's server operating system would be released in mid-2003, now says he gave incorrect information....
One of the more controversial items in the Microsoft v. Stubborn States hearing is the uniform licensing agreement with OEMs, which, depending on who you talk to, is either a triumph of egalitarianism, or a...
Microsoft attorney Dan Webb yesterday engaged in the somewhat redundant exercise of trying to prove that former Intel exec and trial star witness Steve McGeady was biased against Microsoft. This is about as difficult as...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Windows XP will help pull the PC market out of its tailspin in 2002, as the new operating system will give consumers plenty of reasons to upgrade, according to one of Microsoft's key...
Leaked Samsung Galaxy S25+ images reveal a design that looks familiar
Acronis backup, cloning app gets Windows 11 24H2 BitLocker support; won't work on old CPUs
PowerToys 0.87 is out with a new utility for Windows 10 users and a lot of improvements
Samsung 85-Inch QLED 4K 120Hz QN85D with Dolby Atmos falls to lowest price
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