How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked the Valley - BusinessWeek17 May 2012

How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked the ValleyBusinessWeek(Gloom from the recession had depressed Facebook's valuation from the earlier $15 billion established by the Microsoft deal.) Instead, Zuckerberg and his team brokered a deal with Digital Sky Technologies, a barely known Russian firm whose primary ...and more »

Google goes on a data storage drive - The Hindu6 May 2012

The HinduGoogle goes on a data storage driveThe HinduAnnouncing the introduction of its cloud storage service on its official blog, Internet giant Google poked fun at itself by comparing the Google Drive to the Loch Ness Monster. The Drive has been in the making for over half a decade now, during which ...and more »

Microsoft: Media Center not part of 'the future of entertainment' - ZDNet (blog)4 May 2012

Microsoft: Media Center not part of 'the future of entertainment'ZDNet (blog)By Ed Bott | May 3, 2012, 4:45pm PDT Summary: A new blog post from Microsoft fills in details about how Media Center will fit in Windows 8, as an extra-cost option. And it's pretty clear that Media Center is not part of “the future of entertainment in ...and more »

Xamarin has ported Android from Java to C# - PC Advisor3 May 2012

Ars TechnicaXamarin has ported Android from Java to C#PC AdvisorWhen working on how to improve the performance of its tool for Android, the company hit a wall because of performance issues with Dalvik, which is Android's virtual machine, it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. One idea the Xamarin team had was to ...C# ported to AndroidTechEyeall 29 news articles »

Mono team ports Android to C# - ZDNet UK (blog)2 May 2012

Mono team ports Android to C#ZDNet UK (blog)NET framework is also covered by Microsoft's legally binding community promise," Zamarin chief Miguel de Icaza wrote in a blog post. De Icaza said that, based on the idea that Mono provided a better-performing VM than Dalvik, the Xamarin team had set ...and more »