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After a few months of public beta testing, Microsoft is taking the preview label of its updated Office Web Apps for SkyDrive on Monday and making these new versions of its free web-based versions of Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint the standard for all SkyDrive and Outlook.com users. With this update, Microsoft is also introducing Continue Reading →

It’s another bad day for customers of Amazon’s AWS and EC2 hosting. The company is presently reporting an outage in its Service Health dashboard which seems to be affecting a number of Internet favorites. Reddit, Coursera, Flipboard, FastComapnay, VYou and many more are working hard to keep things under control as their Web host fights Continue Reading →

Clever, a graduate of Y Combinator’s most recent batch of startups, launched in late June to bring a bit of Twilio’s vision to education. That is to say, the startup has been developing a standardized API that makes it easy for K-12 schools to unlock their data and for developers to access and build applications Continue Reading →

Microsoft shocked everyone when it announced it was buying Skype for $8.5 billion last year. Slowly but surely, we were expecting Skype to replace Microsoft’s own Live Messenger client as the default messenger and to be slapped it into every Windows Phone device and Xbox 360. While Microsoft’s stance is that Skype will remain in Continue Reading →

It appears that Amazon is no longer selling the Kindle Touch, the touchscreen e-reader that preceded the front-lit Kindle Paperwhite. Amazon also seems to have discontinued the large-screen Kindle DX last week. I’ve asked the company for comment, but the Kindle Touch’s product page lists it as “currently unavailable,” and a link points to “a Continue Reading →

Apple executives will put the spotlight on the iPad’s educational value at its planned San Jose event on Tuesday, according to a new Bloomberg Businessweek report. The report cites “a person with knowledge of the planning” of the event as the source, but doesn’t go into further detail about how specifically they’ll be promoting it Continue Reading →

After months of leaked rumors and speculation, Apple will officially unveil the iPad mini on Tuesday, October 23rd. In terms of price, rumors have persisted that the tablet would go head-to-head with competing 7-inch tablets such as the Google Nexus 7 and Amazon Kindle Fire HD, selling for between $249 and $399. But according to Continue Reading →

Anyone who buys Microsoft Office 2010 now will be able to upgrade for free to Office 2013 when it comes out, the software giant announced on Friday. The offer, which is not available to those who bought Office 2010 before 19 October, gives Home and Student, Home and Business and Professional customers the option of Continue Reading →

Most companies don’t plan to switch to Windows 8 immediately after its release, and some may never make the switch, Reuters reports. The new operating system from Microsoft, which hits the market on Oct. 26, has numerous touch-friendly features which should make it equally as interesting to tablet owners as it is to PC owners. Continue Reading →

InteraXon wants to read your mind. Well, certain signals from it, and turn that information into actionable data that developers can use to develop applications that you can control with your mind. If that sounds a bit sci-fi to swallow, I have to agree. Taking the call with the firm TNW was a bit skeptical. Continue Reading →