Microsoft goes green: data centers, offices to be carbon neutral come July
This summer, Microsoft is launching a new green energy initiative in which all of the company's direct operations, "including data centers, software development labs, air travel, and office buildings," will go...
Daily Update for May 8, 2012
It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world.
You can listen to today's Ap...
Microsoft: ‘iCloud might not be enough for you’
We covered the release of Microsoft’s new SkyDrive for Mac and updated iOS apps last month, and today the company is once again trying to convince iCloud users to make the switch. On the Office for Mac blog and SkyDrive blog, Microsoft posted a video today titled “iCloud not enough? Try SkyDrive,” alongside the following three reasons to...
Nokia being sued by investor for fraud after share price tumbles
Nokia has been hit with a class-action lawsuit for failing to turn around its smartphone business in six months and reporting substantial losses for the first quarter of this year.
Investor Robert Chmielinski says that betwe......
Meet Track 8, The Music Player That Brings Metro To iOS [Review]
Everyone knows that Apple leads and others follow, right? It’s iOS that people are copying elsewhere. No-one would ever dream of making a music player for iOS that uses the same UI as Microsoft’s Metro) mobile OS design language. Would they? Wait – would...New Nook Company To Take Apple’s iPad Textbooks Head-On
Barnes & Noble’s announcement that it was spinning off its Nook business and that Microsoft would be a significant stakeholder in the new company raised a lot of eyebrows. The partnership seemed unnecessary in order to...Windows 8 to integrate cloud services, ditch Windows Live branding
The Windows Live branding that Microsoft has used since 2005 for its range of consumer-oriented cloud services will fade away over the next few months, as the company positions the online services as an integral,...
Motorola wins sales ban on Xbox and Windows 7, but can’t enforce it
Motorola Mobility has won an injunction preventing the sale of the Xbox 360 and Windows 7 from a German court.
Motorola can't enforce the injunction right away, however. Microsoft will appeal the ruling, and a...
Apple, Microsoft asked to explain pricing to Australian government
Apple and Microsoft are among a few tech companies going before the Australian Parliament this week, asked to explain what many are seeing as price gouging in the Australian market. Here in the US, for example, Apple's Mac OS X Server 10.6 sells f...
Who converts more PC users, Apple or its retail partners?
What Tim Cook didn't say in last week's earnings call
FORTUNE -- When it reports on Mac sales in its retail stores, Apple (AAPL) likes to make the point -- as Tim Cook did again last week -- that roughly half of the Macs sold in Apple Stores are sold to customers who never owned a...
Apple is (finally) confirmed as Bloom Energy’s customer
Last month I exclusively reported that Apple was buying fuel cells from Bloom Energy for its data center in Maiden, North Carolina. Well, on Monday morning Bloom Energy has finally confirmed that yes, it is supplying fuel cells for Apple's data center, reports CNET.
Windows RT Versus The iPad In Business [Feature]
While it will be six months or longer before Microsoft releases Windows 8 and its companion products, the company has been putting out a lot of information about its plans lately. One big Windows 8 mystery to date is Windows for...
