Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella needs an editor, according to investor 
and former tech executive Jean-Louis Gassée. Today, we have a report that seems to confirm Gassée’s interpretation about Nadella’s true message: Winter is coming. Gassée critiqued the long-winded, 3,100-word strategy m…
Intense rivalry at Silicon Valley’s tech giants led to the search engine introducing generous counter-offers to prevent social network stealing key employees, court documents have revealed Google instigated a policy in 2007 that saw the search giant make generous counter-offers to employees being…
Microsoft has disabled an option to set Google as the default search engine on some of its latest Lumia Windows Phones. The option is currently supported on the majority of Nokia’s Lumia devices, thanks to an advanced setting in Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 8.0. Microsoft acquired Nokia’s p…
Microsoft’s energetic new hope Satya Nadella is still in his honeymoon period, judging by the warm reception he got at the Fortune Brainstorm tech conference Monday. But his animated conversation with Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Institute was long on big ideas and short on specifics for …
Last month Apple confirmed that it would soon beef up encryption for iCloud email following a report detailing security flaws in major email services. While Apple previously encrypted emails sent between its own iCloud customers, now the company has enabled encryption for emails in transit betwee…
With more of our attention being gobbled up by smartphone screens it’s no wonder phone displays have gotten bigger. But there’s a natural limit on how big a phone’s screen can get before you’re basically holding a tablet. And not everyone wants such a whopper. Wither next, then? Well, what about …
Tim Draper
A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states got a boost on Monday, when the billionaire venture capitalist behind the proposal said he had gathered enough signatures to place it on the ballot in two years. Timothy Draper, a founder of a Silicon Valley…
Researchers at MIT have come up with a novel use for the humble drone, turning them into flying photography lights. Rim lighting is a technique used to illuminate the side of a subject, with the light source usually positioned behind or next to the subject. Also known as backlighting, the techniq…
Shazam today updated both its free and paid iOS apps to version 7.7.0, adding Rdio integration. When a Shazam user identifies a song with the app, the recognized song can then be played directly within the Shazam app via Rdio. While it was previously possible to listen to songs identified within …
Launching initially as a beta product last August, Sympler hit the App Store as a means to help users create 20-second music videos through mashing together a range of content. Since then, the app was iterated and refined, with a new experience and slew of fresh features added to the mix. However…
