The TNW Microsoft Week: HTML5, homebrew, and Ballmer’s Facebook math

It is Friday all over again, and that means that we here at TNWmicrosoft are going to walk you through the biggest stories from the last seven days. For our weekly question, we would love to know if you would like to see more coverage of Microsoft’s enterprise work on TNWmicrosoft. We are not sure if it is something that people want to see, so we have been reticent to focus on it....

3 min · 602 words · Maureen Obrien

The TNW Microsoft Week: Internet Explorer 9, Bing’s war, and Batman

If you look at the nearest clock you will notice that it is Friday, and that means that its time for us here at TNWmicrosoft to walk you through the biggest and best stories from the last seven days. There is simply too much news from the last week to include even half of it in this post, so we apologize if we miss a topic that you were hoping for us to touch on....

4 min · 675 words · Melissa Murphy

The TNW Microsoft week: The gifts of CES

As it is every year, this has been the week of CES, and Microsoft played its usual part. Microsoft news was dominated by a press briefing and keynote that Microsoft held the day before the main floor at CES opened. This has been a massive week for the world of Microsoft As a note, we missed a weekly recap or two over the holidays due to a general dearth of news and constricted schedules....

3 min · 594 words · Carolyn Simpson

The TNW Startup Rally winner Silk gets funded by Atomico

Last month, atThe Next WebConference,Silk, an Amsterdam based startupwonthe TNW Startup Rally after two vigorous days of competition. Silk is an app for the web that helps you collect, sort and view the information that you need without making you comb through the data yourself. It also allows content creators to provide their content in a more structured manner on the web. This is an app that will allow you to better navigate the semantic web seas, also known as “Web 3....

3 min · 508 words · Jasmine Flores

The Tonga volcanic disaster shows we need to rethink telecom infrastructure

In the wake of a violent volcanic eruption in Tonga, much of the communication with residents on the islands remains at a standstill. In our modern, highly-connected world, more than 95% of global data transfer occurs along fibre-optic cables that criss-crossthrough the world’s oceans. Breakage or interruption to this critical infrastructure can have catastrophic local, regional and even global consequences. This is exactly what has happened in Tonga following Saturday’s volcano-tsunami disaster....

5 min · 909 words · Ian Stephens
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