There are two great new email mobile apps from Google and Microsoft and both offer helpful features, such as location-aware emails and calendar scheduling. While both apps offer something unique, I think one way to compare them is based on a single metric: which app gets me to inbox zero fastest. I don’t enjoy email — I just want to get my daily digital chore done and get on with my life.
Microsoft and Duke University have developed Kahawai, a new utility that can cut bandwidth used while playing games online by approximately 83%.
A now-removed product page for the addition of the Halo 3: ODST campaign to Halo: The Master Chief Collection was found in the Xbox Games Store on Wednesday.
Game developers are gearing up for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) occurring Tuesday, June 16 – Thursday, June 18. Only game creators and press are invited, but PlayStation and Xbox plan to allow gamers to experience the event via movie theater screening and Xbox Daily: LIVE @ E3, respectively.
The European Union has been involved in what seems like a permanent investigation of Google for abusing its search-engine dominance. There is a certain through-the-looking-glass quality to Reuters’ report on the latest developments, as Google is punished with anti-competitive regulations for allegedly engaging in anti-competitive practices.
Is the search-engine market ready for a little dash of creative destruction? We’ve grown accustomed to a landscape dominated by the formidable Google mountain, their company name becoming the preferred euphemism for the very act of using a search engine.
Americans are accustomed to the dominance of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo as search engines, but on the global stage, a Chinese service called Baidu is now second only to Google in popularity.
Last Spring, Breitbart Texas reported on a new teacher climate survey pushed through the 83rd legislative session called “Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning” or TELL Texas. In August, Texas Education Agency (TEA) statistics revealed that only about 20 percent of
My former Kernel colleague James Cook, Business Insider‘s intrepid European tech reporter, published a list of the “coolest” women in the UK technology industry this week. But I think he’s missed a trick. I mean, “cool” is such a subjective, nebulous thing,
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group of hackers believed to be loosely affiliated with the Syrian government, launched a Thanksgiving day widespread cyber attack on major news sites, including the Los Angeles Times, UK Daily Telegraph, Forbes, and others. The
Silicon Valley and technology leaders were left wanting more after Obama’s Thursday evening declaration of sweeping executive expansion of legal status for approximately five million illegal aliens. Despite the mass expansion, high-skilled workers seeking visas and green cards, along with
If you’re planning on nefarious activity at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus, think again; Microsoft has installed security guards around the grounds that are robots 5 feet tall and weighing 300 pounds. Knightscope manufactured the robots, sans weapons, but they do
Friday at the The Heritage Foundation, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said President Barack Obama’s executive action amnesty is not putting the American worker first saying, “The average working truck driver is just as important as Mr. Zuckerberg.” Sessions said, “It’s time
A Silicon Valley-based startup has developed a five-foot tall, burly-bodied robotic security guard, that resembles a Dalek, and has already deployed a fleet of five of them to patrol Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus. Knightscope masterminded the creation of the K5, according to Gizmodo,
Hours after pulling off Romania’s biggest political earthquake since the revolution which overthrew Nicolae Ceausescu, the country’s soft-spoken new president followed through Monday on his vow to tackle corruption. Klaus Iohannis, the ethnic German mayor of the medieval Transylvanian city
Hefty tax breaks enjoyed by sports franchise owners allows for the new Los Angeles Clippers proprietor Steve Ballmer to save about 50% of his recent purchase price. Ballmer bought the Clippers after Donald Sterling was relieved of his duties in
If memory serves correctly, the first random access storage device I seriously considered purchasing, as a preteen with some odd-job money to fuel his insatiable appetite for high technology, was a floppy disk drive that stored 128K per disk. (Gather
The tech industry is pressuring the White House to quickly enact President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty. Linda Moore, the chief executive of TechNet, which has called for more high-tech visas and amnesty legislation on behalf of many Silicon Valley
Politico tries to sum up what we may have learned from the 2014 mid-term elections. This gem somewhat stands out, even if it isn’t surprising — “… equal-sized majorities of yesterday’s electorate held unfavorable views of each party.” What may be
Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science purged thousands of “unsuitable” school textbooks from schools, eliminating the business of many of the nation’s book publishers. The purge is raising eyebrows, as the only company unaffected is the Soviet-era publisher Enlightenment, owned
Al-Qaeda leaders have called on Mujahideen fighters to launch attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Gibraltar and other choke points, strategic waterways through which 75 percent of all global trade passes every year in a mission which strongly
A Silicon Valley tech company that reportedly made $200 million last quarter was importing foreign workers from India and paying them $1.21 an hour. According to the Labor Department, “about eight employees of Fremont-based Electronics For Imaging [EFI] were flown
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen said Thursday he was boosting his donations to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to $100 million. Allen, who has made earlier donations to the health effort, said his latest pledge would include
Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said President Barack Obama will take “aggressive executive action” on immigration, which Perez said will bring about more “shared prosperity.” Addressing the National Press Club this week, Perez, who is reportedly on the short list to
Since there is nothing more self-righteous than an addict who just got out of rehab, it was not surprising that Microsoft’s General Counsel Brad Smith at a Silicon Valley panel discussion on NSA surveillance would say, “You own your data.
At the high-tech Cross Campus in Santa Monica on Thursday, President Barack Obama suggested that he is considering taking executive action to grant more guest-worker visas for high-tech companies. He said this even though there is a surplus of American
The new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers has a new plan. He wants to turn his team into “America’s Team.” Billionaire Steve Ballmer, who Forbes last week tagged as the richest man in sports, plans to forever erase the
President Barack Obama revealed that he had lunch with Bill Gates “the other day” during a Friday town hall event at an Indiana steel manufacturing plant. Gates was in Washington, D.C. on Monday for a Politico event, and he praised
On Wednesday police were summoned to Donald Sterling’s Beverly Hills home to investigate a possible burglary only to find that the suspect was no other than V. Stiviano. In case anyone has been in a coma for the last six
Microsoft Windows is so uncool these days that some people are embarrassed to admit they’re not using a MacBook – cripes some people go ahead and buy an Apple computer then, you know, install Windows on the sly hoping no
You don’t have to be rich (or even own your own horse) to be a top show jumper, or come from a rich family, but it doesn’t hurt…financially, that is. Taking a fall from a horse hurts just as much, no
Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer features prominently as the 18th richest on the newest Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, but he isn’t the only sports figure on the big list. This year’s Forbes 400 list numbers many
Former Microsoft CEO and the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers Steve Ballmer vowed to ban all Apple products from his newly-acquired team. Ballmer, who served on the board of Microsoft, and was the company’s CEO between 2000 and
As high-tech billionaires push for more guest-worker visas, the income gap between the elite and the rest of Silicon Valley is widening. According to The Wall Street Journal, an “analysis of U.S. census data” by the “non-profit think tank Joint
The Silicon Valley tech giants that have been engaging in widespread internet surveillance of their customers’ shopping preferences, general attitudes, and deepest life-style secrets have failed to appreciate the mounting global concern over their record on online privacy and security. Yet
A prominent public policy professor said massive increases in guest-worker visas for some of the most prominent high-tech companies will only pull the ladder out from under Americans trying to move into the middle class. On The Laura Ingraham Show
The Los Angeles Unified school board, under fire because of the release of internal emails outlining a possibly inappropriate relationship between its executives and Apple, as well as textbook publisher Pearson, has decided to buy a service that will automatically
Call it the Donald Sterling effect. On Sunday, Atlanta Hawks Controlling Owner Bruce Levenson announced that he will sell his interest in the team after self-reporting an “offensive” email from 2012 in which he said that white fans may be
With Chinese Internet behemoth Alibaba being preliminarily valued at $165 billion as it prepares for its initial public offering (IPO), it seems that investors are playing the same type of dangerous game they played in 1999. At the time, “I
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is acknowledging that computer hackers broke into the accounts of several celebrities to steal personal photos that have been posted online, a security breakdown that the iPhone maker blamed on the intruders’ ability to figure
