Microsoft buys British keyboard apps firm SwiftKey The Guardian Tech company reportedly paid $250m for UK-based business, whose software is installed on more than 300m smartphones and tablets | @stuartdredge | Microsoft has acquired British apps firm SwiftKey for a reported $250m (£173.2m), promising that it will continue to develop the company’s Android...
Microsoft recalls 2.44 million power cords of Surface Pro tablets The Times Of India is recalling about 2.44 million AC power cords for its Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2, and Surface Pro 3 computers sold before March 15, 2015, because of a potential fire hazard. | The US Consumer Product Safety Commission says users have reported 56 incidents of the cords overheating and emitting flame...
GoPro and Microsoft ink patent licensing deal Engadget GoPro and Microsoft have forged a partnership, and it's a very secretive one. The two companies have signed a patent licensing "for certain file storage and other system technologies." That is seriously all they're willing to tell us at this point, a...
Welder's IIT-ian son lands Rs 1.02 crore job from Microsoft DNA India 21-year-old Vatsalya Singh Chauhan, who bagged the dream job, hails from Khagariya village in the eastern state where his father runs a small welding workshop. | In an inspiring tale of triumph against adversities, a final-year student of IIT Kharagp...
Microsoft, GoPro Strike Licensing Deal Wall Street Journal Microsoft Corp. said Friday that it has struck a patent-licensing deal with GoPro Inc. that will cover file-storage technology. ... ...
Microsoft&aposs; Biggest Hits And Flops Forbes Released in 2001, Windows XP proved popular enough to last a good decade. It was Microsoft&aposs; first mass-market OS to support Windows NT, a powerful multiprocessing, multi-user OS. | Near the end of his tenure, Steve Ballmer said one of his ...
Zika virus found in saliva, urine samples Denver Post Tests raise the possibility of another way the disease can be transmitted. | RIO DE JANIERO — Brazilian researchers said Friday that they had found the "active" presence of the Zika virus in saliva and urine samples, raising the possibility that the infection could be spread through kissing and other contact involving bodily fluids. | Until n...
EU ministers want to buttress borders to stem migrant flow Business Insider AMSTERDAM (AP) — European Union foreign ministers anxious to stem the flow of migrants coming through the Balkans are discussing with their counterparts from the region better ways to protect borders. | With Greece unable to control the thousands of migrants making the crossing from Turkey, some EU nations are now looking to help non-member Maced...
