News from the technology industry.
Microsoft has announced that it will be discontinuing its Windows Live Messenger on March 15th, 2013. All users aside from those in mainland China will be required to switch to Skype, which Microsoft acquired in 2011. As this OnSoftware blog post notes, this is an unusually bold action for Microsoft, which normally puts great effort […]
Samsung has unveiled its new 85-inch “Ultra” HDTV. The Samsung UHDTV is not the only one at CES 2013, of course, but it is the focus of this Engadget article. CES is a major technology trade show held each January in Las Vegas, where major electronics manufacturers commonly debut their latest products. Consequently, the technology […]
Microsoft’s lightweight version of Windows 8 for tablets and ultra-low-end PCs, Windows RT, has apparently been hacked to allow desktop applications to run, albeit only those compiled for the ARM platform. An article from CIO reports that a hacker known as “clrokr” has developed a method for circumventing Windows RT’s code signing restrictions. This would […]
Facebook has recently released an update to its iPhone Messenger app that allows free VoIP mobile calls. Currently the feature is only available on iOS and only in Canada. Also receiving a lot of coverage recently is Facebook’s new voice message feature, designed for short, one-way messages and available worldwide. The Toronto Sun gives a […]
