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A timely gift for people that need it: Facebook rethinks its much criticized real-name policy
Since Facebook laid the hammer down and started to get on some people’s nerves by implementing a real-name policy more than a year ago, the social-media master has taken a lot of flak from the public. One such criticism has come from LGBTQ people who have voiced that in some circumstances they have not been ...
Microsoft releases new Office app for better collaboration
Microsoft has released a new app, the Office 365 Planner, for people on the First Release testing program. The app works as a collaboration tool in which employees can work as a team, each sharing plans, files, updates on projects, chatting in real-time and assigning work to each other. Planner works by making use of ...
Now you can read and comment on stories in your Facebook News Feed offline
Facebook has come up with a way for mobile users to read and comment on stories in the News Feed offline in a move that Facebook says is to bring the most relevant stories to those people with crawling, non-loading 2G connections. Facebook says it is “now testing an update in which we look at ...
End of year prediction: The app market is dying … apps are killing it
As part of our end-of-year predictions, we spoke with David Lavenda, VP of harmon.ie, an Israeli-US based company that develops mobile collaboration tools for Microsoft services in the enterprise sector. Lavenda writes a counter-point to some of last year’s predictions that apps were killing the web, advising us that such statements were a little knee-jerk ...
If you’re a Windows user you need these patches
Microsoft has released a flurry of patches addressing all sorts of problems in Windows, IE, Windows Server and more. The 71 patches and 12 bulletins in total include fixes for Office and the Windows kernel, which are presently being attacked. One of the more worrying attacks is that on Microsoft Office, CVE-2015-6124, which Redmond has ...
Microsoft has now launched its first low-cost Windows 10 phone
We’ve heard a lot about Microsoft’s flagship Lumia phones, the 950XL and 950, but the third Windows Phone released by Microsoft has taken somewhat of a back seat. The Lumia 550 is Microsoft’s answer to the budget-minded buyer, retailing at far less than the previously released flagships. In a recent blog, Microsoft revealed that the ...
Is Microsoft’s singing to Apple before Christmas a cry for peace or a commercial travesty?
So a bunch of Microsoft employees turned up unannounced outside the Apple Store on New York’s 5th Avenue earlier this week to sing to the opposing tech giant about peace on Earth so that we can watch it on TV. The song, “Let There Be Peace,” sung by Microsoft employees and a local youth choir, ...
An upset Steve Ballmer calls Microsoft’s revenue report ‘bullshit’ while criticizing Satya Nadella on Windows Phone
Former Microsoft CEO and presently the company’s largest individual shareholder isn’t thrilled with the way Microsoft reports its finances, according to a recent report in Bloomberg. Microsoft disclosed on Wednesday its financial figures at its annual shareholder meeting in Bellevue, Washington, although Ballmer criticized the way in which those figures were reported. Microsoft reported what ...
Here’s what Halo 5: Guardians looks like through HoloLens
Microsoft has shown us what its augmented reality headset can do during demonstrations, such as put Minecraft in a living room and see inside a holographic body for learning purposes. But besides these great spectacles, alongside Microsoft attempting to send the headset to the international space station and news about the release of the $3,000 ...
Microsoft unlocks cities for the blind
Just over a year ago, we reported Microsoft’s efforts, along with the charity Guide Dogs, to use technology to help the blind. At the time, the navigational headset that could be worn by blind people to give them a sense of what was around them was still in its developmental stage. The technology was called, at ...
