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Just a short heads up: Microsoft is deadly serious about SkyDrive becoming the consumer cloud storage tool of choice. The product will be a key part of Windows 8, and Windows Phone 8 I suspect. However, Microsoft knows that to be truly mass market, all platforms must be supported. To that end, the company today Continue Reading →

Hey, look at this: Yet another YouTube app overhaul, which features a bunch of … features. See if you can guess what’s most important about the new Xbox app from Google’s perspective, via a PR email YouTube sent out Tuesday morning: “Today we updated the YouTube app on Xbox, making it up to 5X faster Continue Reading →

The next time Facebook sends you an email about a friend tagging you in a new picture, be cautious — it could be a trap. A new strain of malware identified by security firm Sophos as Troj/Agent-XNN has been circulating the social networking site, encouraging members to view photos as an attachment. After clicking on Continue Reading →

There have been rumblings in some corners of the tech press that Google ought to be quaking in its boots in the wake of the Apple v. Samsung patent verdict because it could give Apple enough juice to take out Android all together. This is highly unlikely to ever happen for a multitude of reasons, Continue Reading →

Just 24 hours after it shared the news that its Prime shipping service is now more popular than its free Super Saver delivery option, Amazon has followed up with the news that titles exclusive to its Kindle marketplace have been downloaded over 100 million times. Amazon says that its Kindle store now features 180,000 exclusive Continue Reading →

Windows 8 changes a lot of things about how the operating system works, but one of the features Windows traditionalists will find jarring is the lack of a Start button. Although the button’s functions are still present in various places, users may miss its easy click-and-start-typing familiarity. Well, Samsung‘s bringing it back. The all-in-one PCs Continue Reading →

The iPad might have the bulk of the tablet mind share, but the Nexus 7 has Google.com. The $199 tablet is now advertised on Google’s homepage with an attention-getting animation. It’s hard to miss as the tablet on Google.com as it bounces up and eventually rests under a tag line of “The playground is open. Continue Reading →

Last week, Barnes & Noble spilled its plans to bring its popular e-reader to the UK through its own storefront, and now retailer John Lewis is getting in on the fun. This fall, the Nook Simple Touch and Simple Touch with GlowLight will be hitting the chain’s 37 UK locations, offering up customers a chance Continue Reading →

You know all those people who use the phrase “iPhone killer” on Twitter? They’re probably psychopaths. So are, very likely, those who wanted Apple to “bury” Samsung. How do I know this? Well, I am privy to new scientific information that indicates something very powerful about the language used while expressing one’s feelings in social Continue Reading →

Yahoo Inc named veteran executive Kathy Savitt its chief marketing officer on Monday in the latest move by new CEO Marissa Mayer to overhaul her top leadership team. Savitt, a former marketing executive at Amazon.com and American Eagle Outfitters, most recently founded Lockerz, a social commerce website that let online shoppers share links to clothing Continue Reading →