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Expect two tech announcements on Monday from Microsoft and its competitor Apple. Source: Yahoo! News

A software programmer who wrote a jailbreak application that would replace and improve upon Apple's own iPhone notification system has been hired by Apple, AppleInsider can confirm. Last week, word went out that Peter Hajas had stopped work on his "MobileNotifier" application for jailbroken...

Respected analyst firm Ovum says that while reports of Microsoft and Windows’ “imminent demise are somewhat over exaggerated”, it notes that the somewhat tardy software maker still has a lot of work to prove that Windows 8 will rate. With Apple launching its OS X 10.7 Lion, its iOS 5.0 and its...

Ahh John Gruber . He only ever writes long articles when it comes time to defend Apple , doesn’t he? Source: Yahoo! News

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen claims there will be 130 million smartphone devices running Flash by the end of 2011. Maybe - but what about performance and power drain? Indeed, as Walt Mossberg of All Things D told Narayen during a recent interview at the D9 conference, he has "yet to test a...

What angle will he take in what could be his last keynote? Source: Yahoo! News

The debate about Windows 8 rages on in this episode of Fly or Die . CrunchGear editor John Biggs, who joins me from Las Vegas where he is attending a watch conference (don't ask) thinks nothing has really changed because users can always switch back from the touch interface to the old Windows. I...

Microsoft’s newly unveiled Windows 8 demo has showcased the company’s ability to, after a bazillion previous tablet attempts, finally come up with an OS and UI that looks like it might finally marry the tablet and desktop PC worlds into one harmonious union – despite some Apple-like behaviour...

Closed is the new open Microsoft is becoming more like Apple by bringing some hardware discipline to Windows 8 tablets, to the annoyance of OEMs who've had decades of freedom.… Server Hosting Solutions Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft says the next version of Windows will not be out this fall, making 2012 a better candidate. Will Apple be on iOS 6 by then? Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft Corp Windows President Steven Sinofsky previewed a touch-screen version of the operating system that can work on tablets, offering a glimpse of his company’s response to Apple Inc’s iPad. Link Removed

Opinion In Windows 8, Microsoft has something that can wreck Apple's 2012 Link Removed

Opinion In Windows 8, Microsoft has something that can really wreck Apple's 2012 Link Removed

Reports out of the All Things Digital Conference in California and the Computex show in Asia say Microsoft (MSFT) showed off its Windows 8 operating systems for use on tablet computers in recent sessions of the meetings. The operating system is Microsofts challenge to Apples (AAPL) iPad and...

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. Windows president Steven Sinofsky previewed a touchscreen version of the operating system that can work on tablets, offering a glimpse of his company’s response to Apple Inc.’s iPad. Windows 8 resembles Microsoft’s software for mobile phones and uses “tiles,” rather...

Microsoft today said that the next version of Windows will not be out this fall, making 2012 a better candidate. Will Apple be on iOS 6 by then? Link Removed

Just hours after Apple updated a security update to protect Mac users against a rash of scareware attacks, a new variant began circulating that completely bypasses the malware-blocking measure. The trojan arrives in a file called mdinstall.pkg and installs MacGuard, a malicious application...

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said a "gang of four" rules technology today: Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. The four companies are "exploiting platform strategies" to create enormous value both for consumers and shareholders, he said here today at...

Samsung has fired back at Apple with a motion that would require the company to turn over advance copies of the "final, commercial versions" of the company's unannounced next-generation iPhone and iPad by June 13, 2011. Apple and Samsung are locked in a heated dispute over whether Samsung's...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have misspoken when he said Windows 8 was coming in 2012, but now we hear MS will definitely demo a Windows 8 tablet PC next week. So its anti-Apple plans will get their first real public airing--just don't expect Ballmer to be there. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer...