All Horizons
- Microsoft Office 15 will open Office experience to tablets, smartphones: reportOffice 15, the forthcoming software suite from Microsoft, incorporates the Metro interface from Windows 8.聽
- Firefox 11, live this week, gets dev tools and add-on sync, but not much moreFirefox 11 goes live this week. Will the new edition of the popular browser help revive Mozilla's fortunes?聽
- The new iPad: a review roundupApple launches its latest iPad this week. So how does the device compare to the iPad tablets of yore?聽
- Akira Yoshizawa: Why origami mattersAkira Yoshizawa, honored Wednesday with a Google doodle on his 101st birthday, helped introduce to the world an art form that has proven very useful in mathematics and engineering.
- iPad pre-order stock is already depleted, says AppleWant the new iPad? Get ready to line up or sit on your hands 鈥 Apple says it has already sold out of online pre-order stock.聽
- Mini iPad set for release by end of 2012: reportAn iPad with a 7.85-inch screen is allegedly due to arrive here by the end of the year. But is the iPad "Mini" for real?聽
- Akira Yoshizawa: The grandfather of modern origamiAkira Yoshizawa, a pioneering origami artist and honoree of Wednesday's Google doodle, would have turned 101 today.
- Ice Cream Sandwich to hit Galaxy S II soonSamsung says Galaxy S II will soon see an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. But some users will see the software sooner than others.聽
- Hacking for the good guys: Chrome cracked at Pwnium contestGoogle offered cash prizes this week to hackers who could break its Chrome web browser. Less than 24 hours after the winner brought Chrome down, Google developers had a security fix ready.
- International Women's Day: From communist roots to global holidayInternational Women's Day took a long and winding road before the United Nations officially adopted it. Over time, the holiday has taken on many different flavors, from communist protests to lavish gifts to a flowery Google doodle.
- Google Play: Android's new home for apps, video, and musicGoogle Play replaces the Android Marketplace with a single clearinghouse for Google purchases.
- AT&T institutes caps on hungriest data usersAT&T says unlimited data subscribers will experience throttled service if they top 3GB of data in a single billing cycle.聽
- Cell phone jammer admits to 'taking the law into his own hands'A cell phone jammer in聽Philadelphia聽has admitted to blocking the phone calls of his fellow public transportation riders.聽
- Windows Azure outage: Leap year was to blame, Microsoft saysWindows Azure weathered a series of outages this week, and Microsoft has traced the whole mess back to the wonky 2012 calendar.
- iPad 3: Will Apple unveil an 8GB edition of its popular tablet?According to a new report, Apple is prepping an 8GB of the iPad 3.聽
- Windows 8 launches in preview modeWindows 8, the latest operating system from Microsoft, is available this week as a Consumer Preview.聽
- Google privacy changes go live tomorrowAmid criticism from a top French watchdog group, Google is set to launch its new privacy policy.聽
- Apple schedules iPad event for March 7The newest Apple tablet, the iPad 3, is expected to be introduced at any event next week. So what's inside the iPad 3?聽
- Eric Schmidt: Google hoping for an Android 'in every pocket'Android activations now total 850,000 a day, Google chairmen Eric Schmidt said Tuesday at Mobile World Congress.
- Encrypt your computer, get out of jail free? Not quite.An appeals court ruled last week that in certain cases, handing over the password to an encrypted hard drive is a form of giving testimony, and is protected under the Fifth Amendment. But that doesn't mean criminals can use password protection to hide evidence -- decryption is only protected if prosecutors don't know what's on the drive.