Microsoft has launched its Surface tablet, which it hopes to compete with Apple and Google in the increasingly competitive tablet market this Christmas.

The company has unveiled the device, priced £399, at its Windows 8 launch in the US. It will play games, videos and have a pre-installed version of Windows 8 software called RT...

Computer giant Microsoft is to launch a tablet device competing head-on with Apple's iPad, for the fast-growing tablet market. The Surface, which offers a slightly larger screen than the iPad, will "be priced like comparable tablets".

The new device was unveiled by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer at an event for...

Microsoft has invested $300m in Barnes and Noble, forming “a new subsidiary” of the bookselling chain to include the store’s Nook, digital and college business.

The companies have announced the new “strategic partnership”, which aims to “accelerate the transition into e-reading", today (30th...

The Google Settlement judge Denny Chin heard a barrage of complaints about the revised deal at the Fairness Hearing held yesterday in New York (18th February), but gave little away as to his own thinking or when he would deliver a ruling.

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