Google Play speeds up instant gratification
Google has released what it calls a "fresh look" for Google Play, with a goal of making a purchase quick and easy.
Google has released what it calls a "fresh look" for Google Play, with a goal of making a purchase quick and easy.
The trend toward browsing from phones and tablets has helped some browser makers, dramatically in one case, but hurt others in the battle for usage share, data from a metrics firm showed.
Mozilla has added automatic third-party cookie-blocking to a preview version of Firefox 22, a move that will put the feature in most users hands by late June and the company on a collision course with the online ad industry.
Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team.
Office 365 has accounted for about 25% of all Office retail unit sales in the U.S. since its introduction two months ago. But the new "rent-not-own" strategy has not boosted overall sales, an analyst said today.
A Web and app designer has stolen a page out of Microsoft's own playbook in urging users to abandon three of the company's four newest browsers because Microsoft is "standing in the way" of progress.
Feedly, which today announced it has added more than 3 million new users to its free RSS service since Google decided to retire Reader, said that it plans to offer a paid option this year.
Move over Glass. Google is also reportedly working on an Android-based 'smartwatch.'
It's been a tough Monday morning for some Google Drive users who have been dealing with a service outage.
Feedly, a free Web-based RSS service that also offers iOS and Android apps, has added half a million new users since Google announced it would pull the plug on its Reader RSS feed this summer.
Americans took to the Internet Thursday as tens of thousands signed petitions on sites pleading for Google Reader's life.
Microsoft today said it restored full service to Hotmail and Outlook.com around 9 a.m. ET, about 15 hours after the online mail sites went partially dark.
Microsoft has started to warn customers who signed up for Office 365 subscription previews that their free ride is about to end.
Microsoft may upgrade Office 2013 as often as four times a year, the company's top Office executive said this week, a massive change from decades of more measured development.
Google confirmed today that it has ported part of QuickOffice, a popular iOS and Android app substitute for Microsoft Office, to a technology baked into Chrome OS and the company's Chrome browser.