It’s coming up on a year since the original release of Microsoft Office for iOS, but in all that time there’s been no iPad-specific version to be found. And now it’s here (for free, to try) as of two o’clock this afternoon, as a gift from Microsoft’s new cloud-guru CEO Satya Nadella. There are already…
Twitter is getting a little more photo-happy, adding the ability to tag up to 10 Twitter users in an image. If you’re not keen on the idea of being tagged in OPTs (other people’s tweets – feel free to use it in casual conversation), you’re able to toggle your tagability under your account settings. Tagging…
Facebook is spending $2 billion to acquire Oculus, maker of Rift, a headset designed to immerse you in 3-D games and other virtual realities. The Facebook social network is used by over 1.2 billion people across the globe, but the world is moving away from desktop web browsers — where the social network began —…
Google on Monday announced a partnership with the Luxottica Group, the largest eyeglass company in the world, to design, manufacture and distribute frames for Google Glass, the Internet-connected eyewear. The announcement is Google’s biggest effort yet to make Glass attractive and available to mainstream consumers as it prepares to sell it more widely later this…
US technology giant Microsoft is working on a next-generation technology that will enable ‘no-touch’ phones, tablets and televisions that can be operated from afar, without the need to swipe them. According to Microsoft, the technology will allow users to control a screen with their fingers even from the other side of the room and put…
