Industry

A Cold War is brewing between Microsoft and game developers

Game developers from Valve, Blizzard, and id Software don't like Windows 8 and they aren't keen on Microsoft competing with them. Should Microsoft be picking fights?

With Samsung, Apple dominating smartphones, where’s the rest of the field?

Some question whether Nokia, RIM, Motorola and others can grow, much less hold on

Salesforce.com app lets companies build online communities

Companies can use the new Salesforce Communities to build sites for customer service and marketing campaigns

Inside the real economy behind fake Twitter accounts

How online merchants are building armies of fake Twitter accounts to sell to users, businesses, and maybe even presidential candidates

Yammer seeks to simplify enterprise social network usage with upgrade

Yammer wants to help end users better manage and act upon content and notifications in their enterprise social networks

Verizon launches new LTE broadband service for rural U.S.

The service will cost from $60 per month and include 10GB of data

Gartner: Android extends smartphone OS dominance in Q2

Smartphone sales continue to grow even as overall phone sales struggle

Google being investigated by India’s antitrust agency

A consumer watchdog wants India to investigate the company because of its dominant role in online search in India

Twitter acquires intellectual property from iOS app testing firm Clutch.io

Clutch.io specializes in testing of apps running iOS

HBO’s CIO Airs Strategies for IT Success and Developing Next-Gen IT Leaders