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Image by nick see via Flickr It looks like Microsoft are preparing some goodies for its users. The next Windows operating system will not only boost users’ overall experience, but also hardware performance. This sounds like good news for all Windows users! It looks like chipsets from Intel, Nvidia, and Advanced Micro Devices will perform better with MS Windows 7. For now, Microsoft is working [...]

Image by michperu via Flickr The largest company in the world, Microsoft, reported disastrous results for the April to June quarter. Their profits went down by almost a third. The group is also expecting financial difficulties in the following months. “It looked like a pretty tough quarter for Microsoft. The top line was very weak,” – Toan Tran from Morningstar. It looks like [...]

Image via Wikipedia Microsoft are reported to be pursuing the strategy of Apple and branding/controlling the environment in which they sell in, by opening up Microsoft flagship stores. Now while the internet is buzzing with this revelation, which comes after they hired Walmart sensation, David Porter, who no doubt was brought in to help mastermind this venture; I am left wondering what a branded [...]

Image by James Hicks via Flickr The bad news for today is that Apple updated iTunes to iTunes 8.2.1, putting an end to the Palm Pre-iTunes synchronization. In May, before the official release of Palm Pre, Palm executives stated that iTunes will work with their product. In their opinion, Palm Pre was an iPod. Last month, Apple sent out a warning under the form of a knowledge base article in which [...]

We’re just on our way to The Europas. TechCrunch Europe’s First Annual Web Awards. Catch the live stream here from 6pm GMT: The actual awards start at around 8:30pm GMT. We’ll keep you updated with the winners and all the news from the event.

Regulars at Sporkings know that we are massive fans of twitter and iPhones, so we thought it about time to review another twitter app for the iPhone. A couple of weeks ago TweetDeck joined the apps market and I’ve been testing it ever since. Here is how it stands up against TwitterFon, my previously preferred app. 1. TweetDeck allows you to manage multiple personalities. Yep, that’s right [...]

We came across a very interesting article on Demonized, that we just had to share with you. Facebook being the largest social networking website in the world has also managed to supress freedom of speech and contribute to the suppression of breaking news. Since the last few weeks, Facebook along with twitter and youtube has proved essential for Iranians to release information and spread videos and [...]

Microsoft have announced, they will be releasing the much anticipated new operating system on October 22nd, Windows 7 is going to be available to all new computers from launch and on a cd for other pcs. It’s been alleged that free upgrades to windows 7 will be available to pc buyers before launch, which could be as early as August. This news comes a day after Microsoft unveiled their new gaming control [...]

Opera has announced that it is set to release the first edition of Opera 10, codenamed Peregrine, the browser is alleged to offer an assortment of new features, including compression technology that is said to be 40% faster than it’s predecessor (Opera 9.6). Opera 10 has also got a new tab design, “we introduce a resizable tab bar. Drag the handle underneath the tabs to reveal thumbnails of your [...]

Much hype will be made in the press today about Facebook raising an additional $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies valuing it at a hefty $10 billion. Granted this sounds like a lot, but isn’t as much as its 2007 valuation. Back then Microsoft threw $240 million into the ring which gave Facebook a worth of $15 billion. DTS the Russian owned company walks out of the deal with a 2% stake [...]