When you learned about the Doppler Effect in high school physics class—the wave frequency shift that occurs when the source of the wave is moving, easily illustrated by a passing ambulance—you probably didn’t envision it helping control your ...

A blog post on the ‘Building Windows 8 blog’ unveils the steps Microsoft have taken to make SkyDrive a more powerful online storage service than ever before. What is SkyDrive? In case you need a primer, SkyDrive is a service from Microsoft ...

Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million for hundreds of patents that originated with AOL, beefing up its intellectual property arsenal. The deal gives social network Facebook 650 patents and patent applications and license to another 275 patents ...

Some of those who use Microsoft security software received a security patch a couple days ago that lead to malware warnings for users trying to visit Google.com. Softpedia posted a picture of the warning. Microsoft quickly learned about the issue on ...

Google and Microsoft don’t share a stage often, being increasingly fierce competitors in areas such as Web search, mobile, and cloud computing. But the rivals can agree on some things—like the importance of artificial intelligence to the future ...

Microsoft and Nokia are just starting to roll out Windows Phone devices, but a survey suggests the hardware is spiking developer interest in the platform. Whether Microsoft’s alliance with Nokia results in more Windows Phones sold, it has produced ...

Microsoft’s Bing now includes deeply baked integration with Facebook. How that will affect the two companies’ competition with Google remains to be seen. Microsoft’s Bing really likes Facebook. Bing likes Facebook so much, in fact, that ...