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Adobe’s board elects Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen as Chairman

Adobe today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Shantanu Narayen as Chairman of the Board. Narayen will continue in his role as President and CEO of Adobe and succeeds Co-Chairs and Co-Founders of the company, John Warnockand Chuck Geschke, who will remain on the Board.

Facebook has emerged as a new kind of media platform

Facebook is neither a “traditional” media company, nor it is a “traditional” technology company, CEO Mark Zuckerburg has said, adding that it is a new kind of platform. Zuckerburg on Wednesday invited his 82 million followers on Facebook to sit in on his discussion with Chief Operating

Twitter enables longer tweets as part of growth push

Twitter announced Monday it was easing its 140-character limit on tweets, in the latest effort to broaden the appeal and boost the user base of the social network. The new policy announced in May and now in effect no longer factors in certain add-ons, including pictures, into

US music business in rare growth as streaming doubles

The US music industry Tuesday posted its strongest growth in more than a decade in the first six months as streaming subscriptions doubled, but weakness reigned in other formats. Consumers in the world’s biggest music market had 18.3 million subscriptions to paid services such as Spotify, Apple

US to hand over control of the internet naming system as of 1 October

The US will finally be handing over the naming system of the World Wide Web more specifically known as the Domain Naming System or DNS to nonprofit organisation Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), on 1 October. The confirmation brings to an end the 20-year

Siri takes control as Apple’s macOS Sierra beta arrives

Less than a month after its unveiling at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, macOS Sierra arrived today for beta testers who have signed up to try Apple’s new desktop operating system. This is the third year in a row Apple has offered a public beta of

Critics denounce Home windows 10 improve changes as PR ploy

Commenters have scoffed at Microsoft’s backtracking from a widely-criticized exercise to trick users into upgrading to Home windows 10, arguing that it changed into nothing greater than a public relations ploy employed while the loose upgrade changed into simply weeks from expiring. Smartphones tablet cellular devices cellular

Microsoft plugs area browser as electricity miser

Microsoft the day past claimed its own assessments show that side, the default in home windows 10, used 27% less energy than the No. 1 browser, Chrome, and 35% less than the slowly-sliding-into-obscurity Firefox. The Redmond, Wash. organization‘s side-eats-less campaign may additionally have been inspired by way

The Internet Is Now Officially Too Big as IP Addresses Run Out

The Internet as we know it is now officially too big for its britches. The organization that assigns IP addresses in North America — the numbers that identify every computer, smartphone and device connected to the Internet — ran out of numbers overnight Wednesday. It’s not the

Apple may rebrand OS X as ‘MacOS’ this summer

Apple may be getting ready to rebrand its OS X operating system as MacOS, according to a since-altered page on the Cupertino, Calif. company’s website. The page, which touted Apple’s environmental efforts, used “MacOS” rather than “OS X” to label the Mac’s operating system. The Apple-focused website9to5Mac