Feeling good? Ready for the weekend? Pumped about life? Microsoft can change that in a hurry: Just upload your photo to the tech giant’s How-Old.net, so its algorithms can attempt to guess how old you are. Ther…
[caption id="attachment_11820" align="aligncenter" width="520"] Ballmer.[/caption] Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will retire within the next 12 months, according to the company. Microsoft has appointed a special…
[caption id="attachment_10913" align="aligncenter" width="618"] What are they doing in there?[/caption] Once upon a time, Microsoft dominated the IT industry so completely that even federal antitrust sanctions…
Windows Azure Mobile Services includes native SDKs for most major mobile platforms.[/caption] In conjunction with its BUILD conference this week in San Francisco, Microsoft has unveiled a handful of new service…
People-led, tech-powered. That’s what Walmart Global Tech delivers every day, while helping people save money and live better. And that’s not just for customers. Living better is also a goal the company has for…
At its annual user conference this week, Red Hat rolled out a variety of updates, including ones meant to streamline the building of private-cloud infrastructures via open-source software, as well as easier mig…
[caption id="attachment_10139" align="aligncenter" width="588"] Microsoft wants to make its Virtual Machines a cheaper proposition.[/caption] In a bid to better compete with Amazon and other Infrastructure-as-a…
Microsoft wants a chunk of Amazon Web Services’ business. The former is making that abundantly clear with the just-announced general availability of its Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, which offer all th…
[caption id="attachment_8171" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Crashes suck.[/caption] CloudFlare essentially "dropped off the Internet" for about an hour on March 3, as all its edge routers (used by its 23 wor…
How did Microsoft forget to renew their SSL certificate for Windows Azure? At this point, the company's not saying. But Stackify launched a new service this week for employees to proactively ensure that they're…
Windows Azure fizzled Feb. 22, as a worldwide outage affected the compute resources for several regions. The reason? An expired SSL certificate. Microsoft began reporting an “issue” with its worldwide storage s…
This year, The Walt Disney Company is celebrating 100 years of storytelling, dreams and innovation. As we approach our centennial celebration, we caught up with three technologists to learn more about how techn…