Category Archives: NEWSBYTES

Simply Windows

Simply Windows – Could Microsoft Be Taking Simple Branding to a New Level with Upcoming OS? Simply Windows – Could Microsoft Be Taking Simple Branding to a New Level with Upcoming OS?Rumors are now suggesting that Microsoft’s next Windows iteration, which is known tentatively and unofficially as Windows 9, may be getting renamed and rebranded, with Microsoft possibly… Read More »

Millions of Public Domain Images Now Available Online

Awesomeness: Millions Of Public Domain Images Being Put Online Here’s some nice news. Kalev Leetaru has been liberating a ton of public domain images from books and putting them all on Flickr. He’s been going through Internet Archive scans of old, public domain books, isolating the images, and turning them into individual images. Because, while the books and images are all… Read More »

Facebook Battles “Click Bait”

What is ‘click bait’ and why Facebook wants to display less of it (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) Ever seen those headlines that start with “You will NEVER believe…” that are shared by your friends or promoted by advertisers on your Facebook news feed? Now the social network says it’s trying to crack down on exactly those kinds of headlines, which it describe… Read More »

Windows 8 and Chromebooks Force Microsoft to Face Reality

Dirt cheap Windows PCs already hitting the streets, with help from Microsoft Microsoft is helping hardware makers build low-priced Windows PCs to combat Chromebooks and the early results of that effort are hitting the market. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo are selling laptops priced less than $250 that run on Windows 8.1 with Bing, a royalty-free version of the OS. The… Read More »