Facebook buys Instagram

Facebook, the biggest social- networking service, is buying the Instagram mobile photo-sharing application for about $1 billion in cash and stock, using its biggest acquisition yet to attract users of mobile devices. The transaction is expected to close [...]

Windows 8 Beta is Now Available for Download

Windows 8 Beta, Windows Server 8 Beta and Visual Studio 11 Beta are now available to academic users via Microsoft’s DreamSpark Program. Students, faculty and staff world-wide can easily download these great products at no cost from their institution’s [...]

Start8: Bring the Start menu back to Windows 8

If you’ve installed the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, you can’t have failed to notice that there appears to be a glaring omission. The absence of a familiar Start button is something that has fazed many users who have taken the plunge and decided [...]

Mozilla Announces Platform-Independent App Store

Mozilla has released the latest version of the Firefox Add-on SDK. For those unfamiliar with the Add-on SDK, it is a toolkit designed to make it easy to create Firefox add-ons using web development languages and tools, and features a simplified API. A [...]