BlackBerry starts looking for buyer or partner as new OS struggles

Follow:   08.12.2013  View in a Browser BlackBerry starts looking for buyer or partner as new OS struggles 08.12.2013 5:50 AM Blackberry's board of directors has formed a committee to explore strategic alternatives for the future of the company that could include joint ventures or a sale of the company, as it struggles to turn its new BlackBerry 10 operating system into a success. Kim Dotcom's Mega vows to create useable encrypted email for the masses 08.12.2013 7:59 AM Kim Dotcom's Mega organization vows to create a new encrypted email system that would include functionality such as email search. -ADVERTISEMENT-   Windows 8 Starter Guide Start learning Windows 8 Lenovo IdeaPad Y500 »See what we think about it. »Check its price.   Microsoft tweaks Windows 8.1 again to help new users 08.12.2013 8:33 AM Microsoft makes a few more adjustments to Windows 8.1 before shipping the update to users, and OEMs, which should happen any day now. Review: Notable.ac lets teachers and students share slides and notes 08.12.2013 9:00 AM Notable.ac makes it easier to share notes and make comments. It's a much better solution than having dozen (or hundreds) of people trying to copy the teacher's slides by hand. The New York Times joins IFTTT to provide users with targeted alerts 08.12.2013 9:05 AM IFTTT.com announces the addition of an official New York Times channel to its news and event alert service. Review: Gateway's DX4870-UB2C is an affordable workhorse desktop 08.12.2013 3:30 AM Gateway's DX4870-UB2C is an old-school midtower desktop that delivers good productivity performance and copious storage for a very reasonable price. Bitcoin wallets on Android at risk of theft, developers say 08.12.2013 6:16 AM Bitcoin wallets on Android are vulnerable to theft because of problems in a component that generates secure random numbers, developers said. Review: Adobe Premiere Pro CC moves to the cloud 08.12.2013 7:00 AM Nothing about Premiere Pro CC screams "gotta have it," with the possible exception of the new closed-captioning capabilities, but Adobe certainly checked several things off of the request list. And if it has fully embraced the cloud, additional tweaks should be appearing frequently. Numbers are in. Touch features aren't selling Windows 8 hardware 08.12.2013 10:43 AM Buyers reject touchscreen laptops, spooked by higher prices and concerns about the value of Windows 8's touch-based user interface. NBC News buys Stringwire smartphone streaming-video service 08.12.2013 7:11 AM Stringwire lets you take multiple live smartphone video feeds and turn them into an online news broadcast. Run an old program on a new PC 08.12.2013 7:39 AM John P. wants to continue playing a game he bought when running Windows 98 Meet Darknet, the hidden, anonymous underbelly of the searchable Web 08.12.2013 3:00 AM Learn what lurks beneath the Internet you use every daya place where free speech, and illicit activity, can flourish.       You are subscribed to this newsletter as: messi1927@gmail.com More PCWorld Newsletters / Manage Subscriptions / Unsubscribe IDG Consumer & SMB Privacy Policy © 2012 IDGCSMB, 501 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107