Get a NEW artist-designed Marketplace sweatshirt when you donate $8/month ... for a limited time! Give Now

Microsoft getting all Googly with Office 365

Jun 28, 2011
As discussed on Marketplace Morning Report this morning, Microsoft is launching another effort to take on Google in the area of cloud computing, t...

Myspace to lay off 150 people

Jun 28, 2011
If that was Microsoft or Google, you wouldn't think twice about it. But Myspace only has about 400 employees as of today and by end of day tomorrow...

Mozilla walks away from Firefox 4, businesses

Jun 28, 2011
After all, the browser is three months old. How could Mozilla be expected to support a dinosaur like that?...

"Kinect is amazing and everyone loves it. Let's put ads all over it!" - Microsoft

Jun 21, 2011
Okay, that's a bit of a paraphrase. Today Microsoft will announce NUads (short for natural user-interface ads) for the Xbox Kinect system. It lets...

Yeah, you might want to think twice before buying a Blackberry

Jun 17, 2011
Research In Motion, the company behind Blackberry (the official smartphone of your dad's boss), is having a rough go of it. Its first quarter...

iCloud won't work on old operating systems

Jun 9, 2011
Look, if you refuse to upgrade past Windows XP, well, you're doing it wrong. Come on, Grandpa. Put away the Boston album, park the Pacer, get rid...

Xbox schedules event at the same time and people show up

Jun 7, 2011
Yeah, it was a real fun day to be following live blogs. Larissa and I were yelling back and forth. Must have really thrilled the Krista Tippett...

For public good, not for profit.

Skype down again

Jun 7, 2011
This latest outage seems to be affecting Europe, primarily, although reports are coming in from Japan and Australia about problems there as well....

Sony's descent into the abyss

Jun 3, 2011
Sony's become the tool of hackers all over the world. And you might be wondering why this is happening now? A lot of techies blame it on Sony's ...

Microsoft unveils Windows 8

Jun 2, 2011
Microsoft showed off early prototypes of the new operating system at the All Things D conference yesterday. It has a much more tiled look, like a...