Apple still hasn’t said anything about the official release date for iOS 5 and iCloud, but it looks like that date will be coming relatively soon. Apple has already begun training it’s store employees about said products.
Read MoreA belated Spring cleaning hit several projects at Google. The search giant announced the closure of ten ventures that have been replaced by newer products or simply remained stagnant since launch. Google CEO Larry Page announced the end of many projects at Google as well as the closure of Aardvark, a start-up that Google acquired in 2010 that was experimenting with social search.
Read MoreApple released yet another beta version of its iOS 5
software to developers, the seventh time it's done so since offering a
test version of the software in June. The new version of iOS brings an
overhaul of the notifications system,
alongside a new messaging platform called iMessage that lets iOS users
text and chat with one another free of charge.
Microsoft is currently pushing out new announcements like crazy on the Building Windows 8 blog. The company will improve file management features like copying in the new operating system. Windows Explorer will receive a complete redesign and will ship with many changes when the Windows 8 operating system comes out.
Read MoreMozilla is expanding development of Firefox for Android with new efforts to improve its performance, lower its power consumption, adapt it for tablets--and keep the browser maker relevant in the hottest area of computing.
Read MoreGoogle TV will be launched in Europe early next year, despite its rocky start in the U.S., company Chairman Eric Schmidt told an audience in Edinburgh, Scotland. Delivering the keynote MacTaggart Lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV Festival, one of Britain's premier television industry events, Schmidt sought to reassure broadcasters, according to a Reuters report on the speech.
Read MoreIt became a very heated debate over a very small thing: whether accelerated releases of Mozilla Firefox going forward will contain version numbers in its About dialog box. The opposition to Mozilla's plan to remove version numbers, and perhaps omit referring to them in consumer-focused marketing, centered around the difficulties IT departments face in managing end-users browsers, and that developers face in creating support products for them, such as add-ons.
Read MoreApple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs resigned as chief executive officer from Apple. His place at the top of the company will be taken by Tim Cook, previously Apple's chief operating officer.