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A banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, is displayed at Central, Hong Kong's business district, Wednesday, June 19, 2013.
(photo: AP / Kin Cheung)
Microsoft, NSA collaborated closely on spying, report says
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
WASHINGTON -- Microsoft has collaborated with the National Security Agency more extensively than it previously acknowledged, providing the spy agency with up-to-date access to its customer data whenever the company changes its encryption and related software technology, according to a new report bas...
A Microsoft employee walks past a sign for Bing, the company's recently upgraded search engine, at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., Wednesday, July 29, 2009.
(photo: AP / Elaine Thompson)
Microsoft Is Going To Run Bing Ads On Millions Of PCs When Windows 8.1 Arrives
Business Insider
David Pann, GM of the search network at Microsoft |   | See Also | Microsoft is expanding its Bing Ads platform to work with a new search feature in Windows 8.1 when it arrives later this year.  | Last week at its Build developer conference, Microsoft unveiled a preview version of Windows ...
Microsoft Letting Indies Self-Publish On The Xbox One, Every System Will Also Be A Dev Kit
IMDb
by Matt Hawkins | Indie developers have essentially become the prettiest girl at the dance, at least in the eyes of Sony and Nintendo. Both opened their arms nice and wide at E3, by offering the opportunity to directly distribute games via the Wii U ...
Microsoft: A Low Risk Play In The Evolving Cloud Ecosystem
Seeking Alpha
Additional disclosure: Clients of Smith Patrick Financial Advisors own Microsoft and Intel at the time of this writing. This is article is written for informational purposes and we believe investors should perform their own due diligence before makin...
How can Microsoft fix the Surface Tablet
The Verge
How can Microsoft fix the Surface Tablet | Posted by Ehtesham Shahzad on July 25, 2013 03:40 pm 1 | Surface RT is full of problems and compromises. From its form factor to the low number of good quality apps. And all we can do is guide Microsoft how ...
Microsoft rolls out Internet Explorer 11 developer preview for Windows 7
The Verge
Microsoft today rolled out a developer preview of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7. The release contains many of the performance boosts included with the browser in Windows 8.1, though it lacks any of that operating system's "Metro" styling. Instea...
Microsoft readies IE 11 for Windows 7, too
CNET
Internet Explorer 11 ships by default in Windows 8.1, and a developer preview of the browser for Windows 7 confirms that the older OS won't be left behind -- for now. by | The Lite Brite demo on the developer's preview for IE 11 on Windows 7. (Cr...
Xbox One to welcome indie games makers says Microsoft
BBC News
Microsoft is to allow independent games developers to self-publish on its Xbox One games console, in a reversal of its previous policy. | "Indies" will be able to create their own games, publish to the Xbox when they like, and set their own...
Nokia does what Google and Microsoft couldn't, releases YouTube Upload app
The Verge
Windows Phone's tortured relationship with YouTube has been well documented, but the schisms between Microsoft and Google have evidently not prevented Nokia from introducing a new YouTube Upload app. As the name makes abundantly clear, the app's desi...
Science
Tap water in the house - drinking water
(photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Rural areas must be targeted to exacerbate global clean drinking water crisis: Study
Zeenews
Washington: A recent study has revealed the efforts made to provide clean drinking water has been limited to affluent areas, while it is required much more in the rural areas suffering acute shortage of accessible drinking water supply. | Alex Scott, senior editor of Chemical and Engineering News (CandEN) magazine for Europe, has pointed out that m...
Technology
File - An unidentified male talks on a mobile phone.
(photo: WN / Geeta)
Exclusive: 'Bigger than phone hacking' - Soca sat on blue-chip dirty tricks evidence for years
The Independent
Banks and pharmaceutical companies are on a secret list of blue-chip firms that hired private investigators who break the law, The Independent has learned. | The revelation that firms from two of this country’s biggest industries may have commissioned corrupt PIs – without facing prosecution – will fuel concerns that corporations potentially ...



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