Stephen Shankland

Microsoft-Nokia Advanced Talks Recently Broke Down

online.wsj.com — Microsoft was recently in advanced discussions with Nokia about a purchase of the Finnish company's device business, in a marriage that could have reshaped the mobile-phone industry.

Adobe beats analyst profit expectations, mulls subscription changes

news.cnet.com — The company's Creative Cloud subscriber base grew to 700,000 in the second quarter, but Adobe is considering other options to woo those who don't like the monthly payment plan.

W3C Pointer Events Gains Further Web Momentum with Patch For Mozilla Firefox

msopentech.com — MS Open Tech Contributes Mozilla Firefox Patch for W3C Pointer Events

Project Zero tiltrotor shows off battery-powered flight

news.cnet.com — At the Paris Air Show, AgustaWestland shows off an exotic single-person aircraft designed to investigate all-electric, no-hydraulic flight systems. (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) LE BOURGET, France -- Sure, there are electric vehicles on the road now. But aviation company AgustaWestland thinks they may have a place in the air, too.

Ready or not, compulsory Creative Cloud cometh

reviews.cnet.com — Adobe's controversial all-Creative Cloud transition for its Creative Suite applications is now available to subscribers. (Credit: Lori Grunin/CNET) It's been a bumpy few weeks for Adobe since announcing its controversial decision to move all its "perpetual license" Creative Suite applications to a subscription-only plan -- almost 32,000 people have signed a petition against the move and our own survey with Jeffries indicates that " Creative Suite users loathe Adobe's subscriptions" -- but as of Monday night it's officially here.

Nvidia's graphics brawn powers supercomputing brains

news.cnet.com — The company's graphics chips are finding a foothold in neural networks, a biology-inspired form of computing that is moving from research to commercial tasks like Google's photo recognition. (Credit: Nvidia) Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.

The Document Foundation welcomes France’s MIMO in the Advisory Board

blog.documentfoundation.org — MIMO (Inter-Ministry Mutualisation for an Open Productivity Suite) represents several bodies of the French government, and fosters the diversity of TDF Advisory Board by adding the voice of 500,000 professional users Berlin, June 17, 2013 - The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that MIMO - the working group of the French government including several ministries and administrations [1], for a total of 500,000 desktops - is now an official member of the foundation's Advisory Board.