Microsoft has warned customers that Windows 7 is no longer "fit" for business use. The popular operating system, which is eight years old this July, "can no longer keep up with the increased security requirements" of the mid-2010s, the company says. After a painful three years with Windows Vista, PC users found Windows 7 to be a breath of fresh air. It was simpler and more efficient,...
Windows 10 might be a nice upgrade for most PC users — especially when it was free — but many just aren't interested in it. Businesses especially are avoiding Microsoft's latest operating system, according to new data. Softchoice, which has obtained data from the TechCheck IT asset management service that is supplied to 169 firms in the U.S. running over 400,000 Windows machines, has...
Facebook will start putting ads into its Messenger apps in Q2 2016, according to a leaked internal document. Businesses will be able to send promotional messages to Messenger users, but only if they've interacted with them before. "To prepare, the document recommends that businesses get consumers to start message threads with them now so they'll be able to send them ads when the...
Businesses have always tried to be at the cutting edge of technology. If you have the latest tools it may just give you that edge you need to beat our your competition. This has always been true, and looking at some of the technology in this film on the latest tools from 1946, it's just mind blowing where businesses are at now. A spreadsheet that takes up an entire wall? A desk that...
Some videos hit the Web and fizzle out, others pick up momentum slowly and build over time. But every once in a while, a genuine hit takes off on the Internet and spreads out like sailors hitting the big city during Fleet Week. The industry calls it a “viral video,” and companies and marketers seek out its elusive appeal like a corporate holy grail. Toward that end, Unruly set up a...
Is Apple secretly CEO shopping? That's what anonymous "Wall Street" sources tell Forbes writer Gene Marcial. Of course, a healthy dose of skepticism is always warranted whenever unnamed sources are involved, and concrete evidence of a Tim Cook–overthrow is hard to come by. Even so, there's little doubt that shakeholders are growing restless with the tumbling stock prices. And, says...
It’s good to be a star. Or in this case, a talented coder in Silicon Valley. Well, same thing. You work hard and play hard. Tech companies vie to give you fat paychecks. You get driven around, to and from home, work and appointments. And if you’re chauffeured around a bit too much, you can walk past the free gourmet treats and hit the on-site gym for some wall-climbing or cardio. Not...
HTC has been in a tough spot in the U.S. market. To this day I can show friends a new HTC device and the response is almost always "who is that?" It's not a good place to be in, especially for a manufacturer that makes some of the best phones available in the world, and especially as HTC prepares for the launch of its latest flagship, the HTC One, in the United States. The good news?...
Amazon announced on Thursday its intentions to acquire Goodreads, a popular social network in the literary world. Neither Amazon nor Goodreads disclosed the terms of the agreement, so it's unclear what the selling price was, although Goodreads will keep its headquarters in San Francisco. The social network has upwards of 16 million users who have created more than 30,000 book clubs. "...
If you didn’t know Nick D’Aloisio, he might seem like any other teen — he goes to school, has cool hair and contends with protective, yet proud parents. But he has become something of a legend lately, a bona fide geek idol for every youngster with digital dreams. The young Brit runs with celebrities. He appears all over television and the Internet. And he gets tech luminaries and...