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Investors heart GOOGLE, king of post-PC world — MS ships RDP for iOS and Android — POGUE pans WINDOWS 8.1 — OBAMACARE website: Testing? What testing?

October 18, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Windows Azure Offers Up To 22% Price Drop For Memory-Intensive Apps While Questions Remain About Running An In-House Cloud

Windows Azure is offering up to 22 percent off the cost of memory-intensive compute instances across Windows, Linux and its “Cloud Services” offerings. The price drop is primarily for running applications such as Sharepoint, SQL Server, third-party databases, in-memory analytics and other enterprise applications. The news is one of a host of new services launched today […]

Windows 8.1 debuts — NSA chief leaves — IBM leads legacy tech down, down — FB ads on iOS crush Android — YAHOO worth meh without Alibaba

October 17, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

FACEBOOK buys Israeli mobile player — MICROSOFT’s Windows Phone update — NETFLIX on the cable clicker? — Senior TWITTER dev earns, um, $10M

October 14, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

GitHub For Windows Makes Layout Changes, Abstracts Time Zones To Simplify Updates

GitHub for Windows has received some updates to make the user experience for the popular version of the code collaboration platform “lighter and brighter.” The changes to the layout are part of a number of other minor changes that GitHub has made. As a starter, the company is adopting some basic themes that developers are accustomed […]

New iPHONE, same old Wall St. blues — New WINDOWS, same old mess –- FEDS use travel alerts to seize devices — BUSINESS INSIDER cans bigot CTO

September 11, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Parallels Launches Access For iPad, A Virtualization App That Gets Windows, Mac Apps To Work Like Native iOS Apps

Timed to coincide with VMware’s conference this week in San Francisco, one of its bigger rivals, Parallels, today is unveiling a new app that takes its own virtualization software to a new screen: the iPad. More than a year in the making, Parallels Access for iPad is not the first tablet-friendly product released by the […]

DECLASSIFIED docs nail NSA domestic spying — HP way down, Donatelli out, VEGHTE in — YAHOO passes Google — UBUNTU Edge tanks — WINDOWS PHONE sweeps Latin America

August 22, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

NSA Privacy Rule violations vastly greater than believed — Clash tanks DELL 72% — GOOGLE Heisman to Windows Phone YouTube app — SAMSUNG’s Droid-powered Galaxy Gear watch — GATES patents text-to-image mapping — Crossing SARAH LACY

August 16, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Yammer Releases Open Source SDKs For iOS And Windows Phone

Today Yammer announced two public, open-source SDKs for its social enterprise communications service: one for Windows Phone 8 and one for iOS. Android, for now, remains on the outside of the Yammer love circle. The APIs will, according to the Microsoft subsidiary, work for smartphone and tablet applications (presumably this means iPads and not Windows […]