Happy 23rd birthday, Windows 3.0

1990 saw a turning point for Microsoft's flagship OSThis week marks the 23rd birthday of Windows 3.0, which came into this world on May 22nd, 1990, and gave the world improved colour graphics and the infamous File Manager.…

• Microsoft melds SkyDrive Pro and SharePoint
• Yahoo! Oz! PAYS! Punters! Pittance! To! Search!
• AMD's three new low-power chips pose potent challenge to Intel
• Social network bins Beijing's banned buzzwords
• Footy lovers hit in Wembley playoff card snatch scam
• Fairphone goes on sale to all
• SCADA security is better and worse than we think
• Herschel Space Observatory spots galaxies merging
• Ctl-P for pizza
• Report: China IP theft now equal in value to US exports to Asia
• Kim Dotcom claims invention of two-factor authentication
• US power grid the target of 'numerous and daily' cyber-attacks
• Prenda lawyers miss sanctions deadline
• HP down on all fronts in Q2, but profits higher than expected
• Microsoft floats Azure cloud into China
• Twitter locks down logins by adding two-factor authentication
• IiNet offloads fibre network to NBN Co
• Microsoft tweaks WinPhone YouTube app to fix Google gripes
• Ethernet daddy: online education poised to transform the world
• More than half of Windows 8 users just treat it like Windows 7
• Press exposure of Federal data security hole leads to legal threats
• Big Brother security tech gets $20m
• Speaking in Tech: Portland hipsters gagging for yesterday's web tool
• Citrix halfway to Avalon with XenDesktop 7 desktop and app virtualizer
• Sony's board debates breaking up with _Spider-Man_
• Skyscape bags biggest deal on G-Cloud EVER
• Watch out, chaps, it's another storage sync 'n' share produ-ARRRGH
• Eric Schmidt: 'Google IS a capitalist country... er, company'
• Juniper, Seagate stuff cash down Cloudscaling's OpenStack trousers

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• Tesla Pays Off All $465M in Federal Loans 9 Years Early
• Holder: We've Droned 4 Americans, 3 by Accident. Oops.
• Confusion Ruled the Day at Microsoft's Xbox One Reveal Event
• Someone Paid $36,000 for Luke Skywalker's Pants
• Twitter Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Secure Your Account
• Watch 3-D Printed Shotgun Slugs Blow Away Their Targets
• Q&A: Microsoft Veep Phil Harrison Talks Xbox One, Used Games, Always-On, and More
• Navy's High-Flying Spy Drone Completes Its First Flight
• Adorably Chubby Mini-Spider Species Discovered in China
• General Zod Threatens Earth's Annihilation in Latest _Man of Steel_ Trailer
• Zite Strives to Fill the Hole Left by Google Reader
• FBI Kills Ex-MMA Fighter Tied to Boston Bombing Suspect
• How Disney and Threadless Built a 200K-Person Design Team
• New York Can Fight Airbnb and Uber, But the Share Economy Is Here to Stay
• The Funny, Occasionally Dirty, Hidden Messages in Your Favorite Games
• This Thrift Shop Junky Wears Your Grandpa's Clothes
• Stable Streaming, But Only OK Sound
• The Braver, Better Movie That _Star Trek Into Darkness_ Could Have Been
• 4 Questions Obama's Big National Security Speech Should Answer
• BMW Guggenheim Lab Maps the Trends Shaping Our Cities
• _Arrested Development_ Creator on the Future of TV and Bringing Back the Bluths
• Bitcoin ATMs: Handy Vending Machines or Money-Laundering Nightmares?
• Congress Smashes Pentagon's New Den of Spies
• Pump Up the Jams With NuForce's Mobile Music Pump
• After Apple's Tax Grilling, It's Time for Tech to Shape Up
• Steven Spielberg Working on Live-Action _Halo_ Series for Xbox
• Why _Star Trek_ Made San Francisco the Center of Its Futuristic Utopia
• Camera Traps Capture Rare and Beautiful Javan Leopards
• Jean Grey Gets in Bed With Logan in New _Wolverine_ Trailer

Storm-scattered items return home via Facebook

On Sunday, a mystery photograph fluttered from the sky and landed near Leslie Hagelberg's mailbox in West Tulsa, Oklahoma.

• 5 'Iron Man'-like robot suits
• Here's how to pronounce 'GIF'
• 10 fun Tumblr blogs to follow
• 'Toilet of the future' solves big issues
• The etiquette of Google Glass
• It's settled! Creator tells us how to pronounce 'GIF'
• 10 fun Tumblr blogs to follow
• 5 robot suits to make us superhuman
• What you should know about Tumblr
• Recharge your cellphone in 20 seconds
• Meet the Rules of the Internet
• Why disc drives are an endangered species
• Netiquette: Saying farewell
• 10 smartphone habits to avoid
• Five texts you should never send
• An open letter to texting-mad teenagers
• Meet the real Robocop
• Gamma-ray burst riddle
• Designs to define the future
• Google+: One tool to bind them all
• Meet your robot bartender
• Tech tools tell you you're drunk
• 'Star Trek' or 'Star Wars'?
• 7 mobile tools to help you survive tornadoes
• Google+: One tool to bind them all
• Kepler or not, we'll find life in space
• Photos: Big acquisitions in the tech world
• 10 fun facts about Mark Zuckerberg
• We the Geeks: a nerdy Constitution

Facebook Teens Weary of 'Drama'

A recently released Pew study shows that teenage users have been moving some of their online sharing to other social media services like Twitter and Instagram to escape the "drama and pressure" of Facebook.

• Twitter Beefs Up User Security
• Xbox One: Will Apple Strike Back?
• How Do You Pronounce 'GIF' Anyways?
• Will 3-D Printer Make Food on Mars?
• New Xbox Details Coming Today
• Xbox One: Microsoft's Next Console
• Lost and Found Facebook Page for Victims
• Yahoo, Tumblr CEOs Dish on Merger
• Tumblr and Yahoo: How It Affects You
• Yahoo Gives Flickr a Makeover
• GrubHub, Seamless to Merge
• Yahoo Buys Tumblr for $1.1B
• Speed Dating? Watch Your Mouth
• App of the Week: Buycott
• Photos: Facebook's IPO Anniversary
• Dinos Dancing Across Google Hangouts?
• Toddler Reviews Google Glass
• Congressmen Question Google Glass
• 'Smart Rifle' Begins Shipping to Owners
• Google Glass Can Add Facebook, Twitter
• Very Smart Phone Reimagines 'Talk to the Hand'
• Microsoft Hides Job Posting in Bing
• Redesigned Subaru Forester Ranks High in Front Corner Crash Test
• Map Shows Hotspots for Hate Tweets
• Google Not Done Fighting Social Giants
• $10K for Apple's 50 Billionth App
• Google's New Features: Music, Hangout, Photo Editing
• Google to Bring Hangouts to Glass
• Photos: Google I/O in Photos

China's Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd's bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall in decades.

• Ireland says will not be U.S. 'whipping boy' on tax
• Dish on national security PR offensive against SoftBank
• Apple, former Washington wallflower, now at center of tax fight
• HP raises 2013 outlook as Whitman's plan takes hold
• Twitter beefs up security after hacking spree on media
• China's Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals
• 'Irrational' hackers are growing U.S. security fear
• Europe targets Switzerland in fight against bank secrecy
• Former Yahoo executive Shashi Seth to head Tribune digital
• SAP looks to recruit people with autism as programmers
• EU leaders talk tough on tackling Amazon, Google over taxes
• Pearson agrees $75 million settlement in U.S. e-books case
• British opposition leader says Google tax behavior 'wrong'
• Video game maker Atari seeks court approval for sale of assets
• Telefonica cuts handset prices to win back Spanish clients
• Talks over Vimpelcom's Djezzy at delicate stage: source
• Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row
• Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row
• Entertaining change: Sony to look at activist's spin-off idea
• Sony to assess spin-off plan; cuts targets for cameras, smartphones
• Apple CEO makes no apology for company's tax strategy
• Microsoft unveils Xbox One with Spielberg, Activision tie-up
• Microsoft unveils Xbox One with Spielberg, Activision tie-up
• UK opposition party leader says Google tax behavior 'wrong'
• Is Sony un-Japanese enough to entertain change?
• PayPal to increase marketing this year for offline push
• Apple CEO makes no apology for company's tax strategy
• Ireland rejects blame for Apple's low tax rate
• Some U.S. utilities say they're under constant cyber attack