Taking benefit from its recent Nokia’s mobile business acquisition, Microsoft has decided to take advantage of Nokia’s Here mapping and location services  to better compete against Google Maps. In a presentation on the strategic rationale for the Nokia deal, Microsoft mentioned Nokia’s Here products as below: “Need an effective alternative to Google; more than one ...

We are expecting several new features in the upcoming Xbox One gaming console. And, at the current rate of change-attrition-and-general-withdrawal by Microsoft, we’ll have to wait until the final launch to know precisely how they’ll function. Apart from hardware and software features, there is one more thing that will be available for Xbox One users, which ...

Anonymous hacktivists just announced that they’ve taken down the Syrian Electronic Army hacktivists. Just last week, Syrian Electronic Army hit with a number of notable scalps, and took control of the New York Times, numerous Twitter domains, and the UK version of the Huffington Post. The hack conducted by Syrian Electronic Army was followed by ...

Microsoft has just started an independent developer initiative, apparently named the Independent Developers @ Xbox program, with a focus to support free-to-play, microtransactions, and premium pricing models. The program was outlined last week and will be launched along with the upcoming Xbox console later this year. “On Xbox One, games that come through ID@Xbox are no ...

New Zealand government has just passed the new Patents Bill that will forbid the software patents. After a long five years of debate, delay, and intense lobbying from multinational software vendors, the country has finally nailed the law to ban the software patents. “This is a significant step towards driving innovation in New Zealand. By ...

Skype is all set to give its users the next level experience in video calling by implementing 3D video calling technology. The same was revealed by Mark Gillett, Microsoft’s corporate vice-president for Skype on Skype’s 10th Anniversary, who also said that it might take a while for the technology to go live. “We’ve done work ...

With increasing concerns over data security and virtualized mission critical workloads, VMware security systems provider HyTrust has come up with a secondary approval solution, which delays the actions taken by administrators until external approval for a particular action is granted. The solution enforces the “two person rule” for high impact administrative operations so that virtual ...

All those who could not digest the Grasshopper (not the real one!) may have a reason to be delighted as Atlassian has renamed some of its products, which includes Grasshopper. From now on, GreenHopper–Atlassian’s Agile planning software–will be known as JIRA Agile. The company has also rebranded some of its other products, including: Bonfire as ...

The idea of graphene supercapacitors may be novel and interesting, but what’s even more interesting is the method by which materials engineers at Monash University used to produce them. Using a method as simple and similar to traditional paper making, the engineers at Australian University have created graphene supercapacitors that have the same power density ...

Apparently for tech leaders in the Silicon Valley, there is always a shortage of skilled professionals and that’s why most of them request H-1B visas for foreign workforce. But a recent study conducted by Bright.com, a California-based company suggests that for the top 10 jobs where H-1B visas are requested, only three do not currently ...