http://www.mail.com/companies/14698-microsoft-corporation.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/companies/14698-microsoft-corporation.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1862300-sony-to-unveil-playstation-feb-20.html NEW YORK (AP) — Sony is poised to unveil the next PlayStation game console on Feb. 20, a date that would give the Japanese electronics company a head start over Microsoft's expected announcement of an Xbox 360 successor in June. Sony Corp. invited journalists to an evening press event in New York City. The company has not said what it plans to show off, b... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1862300-sony-to-unveil-playstation-feb-20.html 2013-02-01T17:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1859796-idc-apple-dominates-tablets-share-shrinks.html NEW YORK (AP) — Apple continues to dominate in tablet computers, although its market share is shrinking because of growing competition from Samsung and others, research firm IDC said Thursday. Apple Inc. shipped 22.9 million iPads worldwide in the October-December quarter, during which it released a smaller version and updated its full-size models. That's... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1859796-idc-apple-dominates-tablets-share-shrinks.html 2013-01-31T20:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1859948-grand-theft-auto-v-to-launch-sept-17.html NEW YORK (AP) — Video game publisher Take-Two says the next installment of the long-awaited "Grand Theft Auto" series will launch worldwide on Sept. 17. The game was scheduled to go on sale this spring. Take-Two said Thursday that it is delaying the game to give developers more time to work on it. Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. says "Grand Theft Auto ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1859948-grand-theft-auto-v-to-launch-sept-17.html 2013-01-31T19:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855514-blackberry-wont-released-us-until-march.html NEW YORK (AP) — Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled new, versatile BlackBerrys after excruciating delays allowed Apple, Samsung and others to build commanding leads in an industry that is redefining society. But the first phone won't come out in the United States until March, and one with a physical keyboard will take at least a month longer. The stock fell ... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855514-blackberry-wont-released-us-until-march.html 2013-01-30T22:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855518-review-microsoft-office-pricey-good-value.html NEW YORK (AP) — As much as I like Google Docs for word processing and spreadsheets, I find the online software clunky at times. So I was skeptical when I heard Microsoft is trying to sell its new version of Office as an online subscription. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the subscription gets you the same software you'd get buying it at a retail... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855518-review-microsoft-office-pricey-good-value.html 2013-01-30T19:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855638-nintendo-returns-to-profit-lowers-sales-forecasts.html TOKYO (AP) — Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co. returned to the black for the first nine months of its business year and more than doubled its profit forecast for the full year, getting a perk from a weaker yen, despite pessimism about sales prospects. April-December profit for the Kyoto-based maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games totaled 14.55 billi... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855638-nintendo-returns-to-profit-lowers-sales-forecasts.html 2013-01-30T08:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1853470-microsoft-retools-office-touch-screen-web-use.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is aiming its redesigned Office software at the growing number of people who expect their favorite applications to be at their fingertips, wherever there's an Internet connection. In an attempt to extend a lucrative franchise beyond personal computers, the world's biggest software maker is selling a retooled version of Offic... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1853470-microsoft-retools-office-touch-screen-web-use.html 2013-01-29T23:19:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1854546-activist-prison-calif-fraud.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former social activist convicted of defrauding a California charity backed by celebrities Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte was sentenced Tuesday to three years and four months in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer also ordered Hari Dillon to pay back the victims of his $2.5 million fraud, which contributed to the finan... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1854546-activist-prison-calif-fraud.html 2013-01-29T22:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1851914-yahoos-4q-report-signs-progress.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo got a little healthier during the last three months of 2012 as the long-suffering Internet company took advantage of higher ad prices and more money coming in from overseas investments to deliver numbers that exceeded analyst forecasts. The results announced Monday covered Yahoo's first full quarter under CEO Marissa Mayer. Yaho... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1851914-yahoos-4q-report-signs-progress.html 2013-01-28T23:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1846100-exxon-passes-apple-valuable-company.html NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon has once again surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company after the iPhone and iPad maker saw its stock price falter. Apple Inc.'s stock has been on the decline since the company's quarterly earnings report Wednesday suggested that its fast growth phase, rare for a company of its size, may be coming to an end. Apple's stock... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1846100-exxon-passes-apple-valuable-company.html 2013-01-25T20:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1844214-microsofts-2q-earnings-dip-despite-windows-8-lift.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft's latest quarterly earnings slipped, even as the world's largest software maker showed modest progress adapting to a shift away from the personal computers that have been its financial foundation for decades. The results announced Thursday are the first to include Windows 8. The program is a dramatic overhaul of the Microsof... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1844214-microsofts-2q-earnings-dip-despite-windows-8-lift.html 2013-01-24T23:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1843362-analysts-to-apple-bend-your-knee-to-wall-street.html NEW YORK (AP) — Apple needs to start making nice with Wall Street, analysts said Thursday as investors hammered the company's stock. The sell-off put Apple a hair's-breadth away from losing its status as the world's most valuable company. At Thursday's close, it was worth $423 billion, just 1.6 percent more than No. 2 Exxon Mobil Corp. ... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1843362-analysts-to-apple-bend-your-knee-to-wall-street.html 2013-01-24T22:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1842788-nokia-returns-to-profit-sales-dropping.html HELSINKI (AP) — Struggling Nokia Corp. turned a fourth-quarter net profit of €202 million ($270 million) compared with a loss of $1 billion a year earlier, but revenue fell 20 percent as it failed to make gains in the fiercely competitive smartphone market. The Finnish company said Thursday that revenue dropped to €8 billion ($10.6 billion) from €10 billi... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1842788-nokia-returns-to-profit-sales-dropping.html 2013-01-24T16:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1838656-apple-maintain-shine.html NEW YORK (AP) — For many investors, Apple's best days are behind it. Competitors are catching up, they believe, and the latest iPhone is stumbling. The company's doubters have backed their conviction with billions of dollars. Last week, the stock fell below $500 for the first time in 11 months. Since Apple's stock peaked at $705.07 on Sept. 21 —the day of... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1838656-apple-maintain-shine.html 2013-01-22T20:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1838206-reports-microsoft-invest-dell-buyout.html NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft has joined the negotiations to buy struggling computer maker Dell, according to media reports. Both CNBC and The Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft Corp. may invest some of the money needed to take Dell Inc. private after 25 years as a publicly traded company. Tuesday's stories cited unidentified people familiar with the... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1838206-reports-microsoft-invest-dell-buyout.html 2013-01-22T18:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1825604-ebays-4q-performance-caps-companys-best-year-yet.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — EBay finished last year with a flourish as bargain-hunting holiday shoppers flocked to its Internet shopping mall and digital payment service to help lift the company's fourth-quarter earnings above analyst projections. The results announced Wednesday served as the exclamation point on the best year yet for eBay Inc., an e-commerce pi... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1825604-ebays-4q-performance-caps-companys-best-year-yet.html 2013-01-16T23:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1822584-facebook-unveils-social-search-feature.html MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new search feature that's designed to entice people to spend more time on his company's website and will put the world's largest online social network more squarely in competition with Google and other rivals such as Yelp and LinkedIn. Called "graph search," the new service unveiled Tuesday... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1822584-facebook-unveils-social-search-feature.html 2013-01-16T15:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1824714-analysts-potential-facebook-search-feature.html NEW YORK (AP) — Industry watchers see in Facebook's new, expanded search feature an opportunity to make money through search advertising. CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed Graph Search Tuesday. It's currently available to only a small number of Facebook users. It lets them search their friend lists for people who, for instance, live in a particular city or lik... Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1824714-analysts-potential-facebook-search-feature.html 2013-01-16T15:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1819508-apple-stock-wilts-worries-iphone-demand.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple's stock slipped below $500 for the first time in 11 months on Monday as investors reacted to reports signaling the company's latest iPhone is falling further behind a slew of sleek alternatives running Google's Android software. The latest indication that Apple, the world's most valuable company, is seeing sluggish demand for it... Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1819508-apple-stock-wilts-worries-iphone-demand.html 2013-01-14T23:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1814470-microsoft-exited-gadget-prematurely.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — Microsoft may have relinquished its starring role in America's gaudiest gadget show a year too early. After 13 straight years in the spotlight, Microsoft's decision to scale back its presence at this week's International CES deprived the software maker of a prime opportunity to explain and promote a new generation of redesigned computers ... Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1814470-microsoft-exited-gadget-prematurely.html 2013-01-11T22:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1806860-gadget-watch-pen-monitors-touch-ready.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — Many people who have tried Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system without a touch screen have hated it because of the inability to use touch and swipe commands to get things going. Now, a company has made a digital pen to allow people to use Windows 8 on their old monitors for less than the cost of buying a new touch-enabled computer. ... Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1806860-gadget-watch-pen-monitors-touch-ready.html 2013-01-08T17:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1803002-lenovo-to-release-giant-27-inch-coffee-table-pc.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — Dismayed that family members are spread out over the house, each with a separate PC or tablet? Lenovo has something it believes will get them back together: a PC the size of a coffee table that works like a gigantic tablet and lets four people use it at once. Lenovo Group Ltd., one of the world's largest PC makers, is calling the IdeaCent... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1803002-lenovo-to-release-giant-27-inch-coffee-table-pc.html 2013-01-07T03:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1797908-google-emerges-ftc-probe-unscathed.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has settled a U.S. government probe into its business practices without making any major concessions on how the company runs its Internet search engine, the world's most influential gateway to digital information and commerce. Thursday's agreement with the Federal Trade Commission covers only some of the issues raised in a wide... Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1797908-google-emerges-ftc-probe-unscathed.html 2013-01-04T11:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1798524-huge-gadget-gears-up-vegas.html Think your high-definition TV is hot stuff — as sharp as it gets? At the biggest trade show in the Americas, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas, TV makers will be doing their best to convince you that HDTVs are old hat, and should make room for "Ultra HDTV." It's the latest gambit from an industry struggling with a shift in consumer spending from TVs,... Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1798524-huge-gadget-gears-up-vegas.html 2013-01-03T22:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1796034-microsoft-renews-plea-crackdown-google.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft began the new year harping on a favorite theme: The software maker is arguing that government regulators need to crack down on Google to preserve fair competition in the Internet and smartphone markets. The latest refrain came Wednesday in a blog post by Dave Heiner, Microsoft's deputy general counsel. His attack amounted to... Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1796034-microsoft-renews-plea-crackdown-google.html 2013-01-02T21:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1785362-stocks-dip-with-budget-deal-doubt-years.html Stocks fell in light trading Monday during a shortened holiday trading session with lawmakers running out of time to reach a budget deal that would prevent the U.S. from going over the so-called fiscal cliff. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 52 points to 13,139.08. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gave up 3 points to 1,426.66 The Nasdaq composite slip... Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1785362-stocks-dip-with-budget-deal-doubt-years.html 2012-12-24T18:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1776248-kodak-sells-digital-imaging-patents-525m.html ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Eastman Kodak is selling its digital imaging patents for about $525 million, money the struggling photo pioneer says will help it emerge from bankruptcy protection in the first half of next year. Apple Inc., Google Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Corp., China's Huawei Technologies, Facebook Inc. and... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1776248-kodak-sells-digital-imaging-patents-525m.html 2012-12-19T19:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1776974-internet-ad-revenue-rises-18-pct-to-93b-3q.html NEW YORK (AP) — Internet advertising hit a new high in the third quarter as marketers continued to shift money from print and broadcasting. The $9.3 billion spent on Internet ads from July through September is an 18 percent increase from $7.8 billion at the same time last year, according to a breakdown released Wednesday by the accounting firm Pricewaterh... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1776974-internet-ad-revenue-rises-18-pct-to-93b-3q.html 2012-12-19T18:02:00Z