Microsoft Demos Super Fast Touchscreen Display

As popular as Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones and iPads is, it functions largely the same as it did when it was first introduced more than six years ago.

Google is hosting a 10:30 AM EST press conference today in New York. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office says he will be there. What's the news? Nothing has been announced.

Microsoft is is working on a new version of Windows, which is expected to be available sometime this year. It's codenamed "Windows Blue" and a lot of details about it have leaked, including an early version that several people were able to install on their PCs and Windows tablets.

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Outgoing Microsoft CFO Peter Klein said today that Microsoft expects to have a "new small" touch device "in the coming months."

Today Samsung unveiled the final details for its newest tablet, the Galaxy Note 8.0. (Read the full review here). 

And now for something completely different. In the Mother of All Demos (MoAD), Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the NLS (“oN Line System”) to 1,000 computer professionals in San Francisco’s Convention Center. Arguably, Engelbart’s demo was more important than anything else going on in San Francisco in 1968. Here’s the video:

So concerned was U.S. Senator Ron Wyden about a delicate — and very important — question he gave James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, 24 hours notice before asking it. “Does the NSA [National Security Agency] collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Mr. Wyden, a long-standing member of the Intelligence Committee, asked Mr. Clapper at a congressional hearing in March. “No, sir,” Mr. Clapper replied. Mr. Wyden: “It does not?”