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Office Online vs. Office 365: What’s free, what’s not, and what you really need

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Microsoft Office, once an expensive investment (or furtive appropriation), is now available in free as well as paid forms, on basically any device with a screen. And the goodies keep coming. The original, browser-based Office Online has steadily gained features. Microsoft also recently revealed that Office for Windows 10 apps will be  preinstalled and free to use on Windows 10 smartphones and small tablets—joining native, no-cost apps that already exist for iOS and Android.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Sorry Samsung, Apple’s probably the smartphone king

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Apple's Q4 2014 may not only have been its best quarter ever for iPhone sales, but the point at which it overtook arch-rival Samsung in the smartphone business. The Cupertino firm announced a massive 74.5m iPhone sales in the final three months of last year, setting itself a new record and - according to at least one research firm - … Continue reading

More Than 80% Of Facebook's Daily Users Are Mobile (FB)

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Facebook reported earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2014 on Wednesday. It made $3.85 billion in revenue last quarter, a 49% increase year-over-year, beating analysts' expectations of $3.77 billion. Facebook said nearly 70% of its $3.59 billion in ad revenue came from mobile, which was reflected by the company's breakdown of its daily active users. Based on company data charted for us by BI Intelligence, Facebook logged an average of 890 million daily active users in December 2014, an increase of 18% year-over-year.

NPD: Mobile Gaming Popularity On The Rise

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Most of us have games installed on our mobile phones. Some of us might play games to help pass the time on the subway or bus to work or school, while others might be a bit more hardcore and actually turn to their mobile device as one of their primary means of playing video games on. That being said, it hardly comes as a surprise to see that there has been a rise in popularity in mobile gaming.This is according to the NPD who recently revealed that the amount of time spent playing games on mobile devices has seen an increase to an average of 2 hours.

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