Stories by Juan Carlos Perez

Report: Google building home-entertainment system

Google is planning to enter the home entertainment market with a Google-branded wireless device that streams music within a house, according to the Wall Street Journal.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 10 February, 2012 08:57

Tags: Google, consumer electronics

Microsoft details Windows 8 for ARM devices

Microsoft has released technical design details about the new version of Windows for devices that use ARM chips, outlining in a lengthy blog post different ways in which this OS, called WOA and still in the works, will be alike and different from existing versions of Windows.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 10 February, 2012 08:13

Tags: Windows 8, Windows, tablets, software, operating systems, Microsoft, laptops, hardware systems, desktop pcs

Microsoft exec: Lync-Skype integration a 'compelling opportunity'

Microsoft is looking at creating a bridge between Lync, its enterprise IM, voice and video communications product, and Skype as part of its broader initiative to extend the Office platform, a company executive said on Wednesday.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 09 February, 2012 12:07

Tags: software, Microsoft, financial results, business issues

Microsoft teams up with 24/7 for customer service software

Microsoft has entered into a broad partnership with customer-service software provider 24/7 that the companies expect will yield a superior cloud-based platform that large companies can use to better address their customers' needs.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 08 February, 2012 01:07

Tags: software, Microsoft, collaboration, applications

Office 365's Lync Online to gain interop with consumer IM networks

Lync Online, the instant messaging, online meeting and PC-to-PC voice and video communications tool in Office 365, will gain interoperability with non-Microsoft IM networks.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 04 February, 2012 06:21

Tags: software, Microsoft, Internet-based applications and services, instant messaging, collaboration, applications

Microsoft partner: Office 365 app dev model to change, expand

External developers will be able to build much more sophisticated applications and tools for Office 365 once Microsoft releases the next upgrade of that cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite, according to a Microsoft partner.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 31 January, 2012 04:49

Tags: Software as a service, software, Microsoft, internet, e-mail, collaboration, cloud computing, applications

Cisco aims to simplify, unify collaboration products' design, interfaces

Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their interfaces a uniform, consistent design in order to make them easier to use and more effective at helping employees work with each other.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 28 January, 2012 07:51

Tags: software, collaboration, Cisco Systems, applications

Google+ offers more restrictive user experience for teens

Google+ is now officially welcoming teenagers and tailoring the experience of the social networking site for them by making it more restrictive and potentially safer.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 27 January, 2012 05:43

Tags: social networking, social media, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Google

Yahoo continued to struggle with online ad sales in Q4

Yahoo struggled selling both display and search advertising in the fourth quarter, as its revenue and net income both dropped year-on-year.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 25 January, 2012 09:17

Tags: Yahoo, search engines, Internet-based applications and services, internet, financial results, business issues, advertising

Google+ adds support for pseudonyms -- sort of

Google has relaxed somewhat its strict real-names policy on Google+, by letting existing members attach an alternate moniker to their profile name and by letting new members sign up with just a pseudonym, provided it is an "established" identity online or offline.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 January, 2012 09:27

Tags: social networking, social media, Internet-based applications and services, internet, Google

Microsoft gives details on mobile broadband improvements in Windows 8

Microsoft has given details on a variety of ways in which the upcoming Windows 8 operating system does a better job than its predecessors at letting users manage their connections to Wi-Fi and mobile broadband networks.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 21 January, 2012 09:07

Tags: Windows 8, Windows, Telecommunication, software, operating systems, Microsoft, 4g, 3g

Google to punish sites with many ads at the top of pages

Websites that load the top of their pages with ads, forcing visitors to scroll down to view content, will take a hit on their Google rankings.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 21 January, 2012 04:18

Tags: search engines, internet, Google, advertising

Microsoft Q2 revenue up 5 percent, net income slightly down

Microsoft revenue rose in the second fiscal quarter, while its profits dipped a bit.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 20 January, 2012 08:46

Tags: software, search engines, operating systems, middleware, Microsoft, internet, financial results, business issues, applications, advertising

Twitter acquires social media feed condenser Summify

Twitter has acquired Summify, a startup that summarizes content in people's Google, Facebook and Twitter social media feeds and delivers a daily digest via email, on a website or to a user's iPhone.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 20 January, 2012 05:26

Tags: twitter, social media, mergers and acquisitions, Internet-based applications and services, internet, business issues

ZestCash closes $73 million in funding

ZestCash, a startup that aims to disrupt the "payday" loans market with new search and data analysis techniques for underwriting loans, has closed a US$73 million round of funding.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 19 January, 2012 23:10

Tags: ZestCash, internet, e-commerce

 
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