(CNN) — Microsoft made a major leap skywards this week with the release of a cloud-based version of its Office software to businesses called Office Web Apps. But can it dominate cloud-based computing or will new giants emerge? Microsoft’s new product launch counters what many tech commentators thought the preeminent software company would never do. [...]
BEIJING: Cissy Ding says she finally gave in at the start of the year and joined China’s social networking bandwagon, setting up an account on local micro-blogging service Weibo. “If I hadn’t gotten started, I would have felt totally lame, and out of touch,” says Ding, an editor at a women’s magazine. China’s domestic social [...]
Alcatel-Lucent SA, the world’s biggest supplier of fixed-line phone networks, fell the most in more than three months after it lowered its profit-margin targets for this year. Shares tumbled as much as 8.7 percent after the Paris-based company said it is aiming for an adjusted operating margin of between 1 percent and 5 percent “in [...]
Google Inc.’s effort to offer Internet access at speeds 100 times faster than those available today raises the bar for U.S. cable and phone companies as the government readies a national broadband plan. “They’ve just defined the new minimum,” said Reed Hundt, who was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 to 1997 and [...]
CAPE CANAVERAL: The US space shuttle Endeavour docked on schedule Wednesday with the orbiting International Space Station, NASA announced. The shuttle docked with the ISS, orbiting 346 kilometers above Earth over the Atlantic ocean west of Portugal at 0506 GMT, NASA TV said, showing live images of the maneuver. The Endeavouor crew blasted off Monday [...]
