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Yahoo to lay off 2,000 workers

As expected, Yahoo today announced that it will lay off a large number of its employees. The company said this morning that it will begin notifying about 2,000 employees of their “job elimination or...

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Twitter, Facebook go retro like Google Maps

Here is some funny news! If Google’s April Fools’ Day re imagining of its Maps service for the Nintendo Entertainment System didn’t provide you with enough retro absurdity for one week, check out Dutch...

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Facebook Security Hole Found on iPhone, Android Devices

Exclusive Facebook’s iOS and Android clients don’t encrypt users’ logon credentials, leaving them languishing in a folder accessible to other apps or USB connections.   Turns out Facebook was already...

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Windows 3.1: Twenty Years Later – WOW!

Wow already 20 years past!   Two decades ago, Microsoft launched Windows 3.1. This first attempt to move beyond the operating system’s DOS roots introduced many features we recognize in Windows today....

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Microsoft to pay $1 billion for rights to entire AOL patent portfolio

Microsoft has agreed to pay AOL $1.056 billion to acquire 800 patents and gain licenses to the rest of the patents AOL will continue to own after the pending sale. It leaked out a few weeks ago that...

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New Chrome OS for ChromeBooks

The new Chrome OS window manager is dubbed “Aura.” According Google, Aura will offer “rich visuals, large-scale animated transitions and effects that can be produced only with the assistance of...

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New Security Features on Windows 8

When Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 8, hits the market on Oct. 26, it will be chock-full of new and enhanced features aimed at giving users more security than ever before. Windows 8 uses an...

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