Software Industry

It takes a lot to surprise the group of go-to geeks I frequently contact for this column. Paul Rosenberg, for example, has experienced plenty of computer issues as the owner of the repair shop Love Your Computer in Chapel Hill, N.C. But when he...

I came in dead last. That's why a survey caught my eye recently that compared 200 jobs by income, stress and hiring outlook. Lumberjacks elbowed out newspaper reporters for spot No. 199. I'm not going to argue with them. A pen may be mightier than...

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. -- "Do you see the bars and tubes of the bridge? See the joints?" Greenbrier East High School physics and chemistry teacher Barbara McElwain asked students as she pointed to the metal beams under the New River Gorge Bridge Friday...

U.S. Steel is spending hundreds of millions of dollars installing powerful software intended to help it manage its business more efficiently, a project that began in 2007 and that chairman and CEO John P. Surma says won't be completed until 2016....

When Apple launched its otherworldly $600 iPhone in 2007, it defined a new product category: the touch-screen smartphone. In less than six years, smartphones have become so ubiquitous that shipments of them now surpass those of so-called "feature phones"...

Microsoft Corp. is partnering with Paramount Pictures on a promotional effort for the studio's "Star Trek Into Darkness." It represents the biggest such undertaking ever for the software giant. The Redmond, Wash., company's campaign isn't short on...

Google Inc. said Wednesday it will launch add a paid streaming music service to Google Music that would compete with the likes of Pandora and Spotify. Google, the world's No. 1 search engine, unveiled the All Access music service at its annual...

SEATTLE, May 14 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp executive Tami Reller said on Tuesday the company's forthcoming update to its Windows operating system will be called Windows 8.1 and will be available later this year free to existing Windows 8 customers....

By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page provided the first public details of the voice ailment that sidelined him from speaking engagements last summer, saying that he has limited movement in his left...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Even though its ubiquitous Internet search engine practically mints money, Google Inc. was widely seen as a company whose best days were behind it. It was written off as the next Microsoft Corp. — a staid high-tech...

For at least two years, says Debra Gebhardt of Tolland, she has received assessment notices, bills and statements for a property she doesn't own and knows nothing about other than its street address in Hartford. "I have called the [city] of Hartford...

By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO, May 12 (Reuters) - To mark the Cinco de Mayo holiday this year, Domino's Pizza festooned its Facebook page with a string of posts, including an image of a Mexican-themed guacamole pizza that garnered over 2,000 "likes"....