Microsoft has used its MIX08 event in Las Vegas to announce beta releases of web tools including Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio 2 products. Along with IE8, the new versions of Silverlight and Expression Studio are targeted...
Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia smart phones later this year. The two companies are scheduled to announce today at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference that Microsoft will write a version of...
The company also offered more details of its Expression suite of graphics tools. The company outlined plans for three graphics programs: Acrylic Graphic Designer, a painting, illustration and effects tool that combines vector-based and bitmap...
Jonathan Ive, the UK designer credited with helping revitalise Apple's fortunes, has been awarded a place in Who's Who - the UK's biographical record of the great and the good. He was also named "Designer of the Year" by London's Design Museum in...
ARM is to pay $910m in cash and shares for Artisan, the US-based transistor-level designer for systems-on-a-chip. ARM chairman Sir Robin Saxby said in a conference call: "This will be a combination of the two leading silicon IP (intellectual...
Italian Ferrari designer Sergio Pininfarina has turned his hand to mobile phones. He has teamed up with Samsung to design the company's latest phone that it claims is targeting the fashion-conscious users.