In an attempt to bring the experience of a Microsoft Store to Best Buy, Microsoft has revealed in a recent announcement that it has worked out a strategic partnership with the big box retailer to bring `store within a store' demo areas to Best Buy locations.

According to the announcement made by Microsoft, the move to create the Windows Store at Best Buy will - from later this month onwards - result in Microsoft's `store within a store' demo areas coming up at 500 Best Buy locations across the US and over 100 Best Buy and Future Shop locations in Canada.

Against the backdrop of Sony's recent statement that it will not restrict used games on its next-generation PlayStation gaming console - the PlayStation 4 (PS4) -, a PR staff-member of the company has revealed that Sony's "used game position for PS4 is exactly the same as PS3."

According to the information shared by the Sony PR person, the company's used game position for PS3 is supported broadly by publishers and consumers; and the company's interactions with all publishers has revealed that they all agree with the company's position.

The recently-revealed schedule for Google's forthcoming I/O developer conference shows that the company will hold only one, three-hour-long, keynote session this year, for announcing all its planned products.

The decision to hold one single keynote session marks a departure from Google's traditional practice of splitting its I/O speeches over two days, to separately highlight the announcements from its two main developer platforms - Android and Chrome.

According to a new study released by Piper Jaffray, the usage of Facebook has come down among the teenagers, even though the social network still continue to be an important communications platform for them.

With the findings of the study pointing out that teenagers are drifting from Facebook - as also from Google's popular video-sharing site YouTube -, the statistics released by the study showed that there has been a 9 percent fall in Facebook usage among teenagers since last year.

According to Kantar Worldpanel's recently-released findings for the three-month period that ended February 13, Microsoft's 2010-launched Windows Phone platform has started flinching the market share of its rivals; with the platform having witnessed decent growth in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Italy and Mexico, during the last one year.

As per the Kantar statistics, underscoring a year-on-year comparison, the market share of Windows Phone increased to 4.1 percent in February this year; as against the last February figures of 2.7 percent market share.

In its latest report into the service providers in the UK, communications regulator Ofcom has revealed that the two most complained-about networks in the country are: Orange and T-Mobile.

According to the Ofcom report, Orange was the least popular network with the customers during the last three months of 2012; with its popularity apparently plunging chiefly due to its decision to withdraw its `free broadband' offer.

A Chinese labor watchdog has accused Samsung of violating laws pertaining to labor rights in the country.

According to China Labor Watch, HEG Electronics, where Samsung mobile phones and DVD players are assembled, forces employees to work for unreasonably long hours and child labor is prevalent in the factory.

The Chinese labor watchdog said, "The Company has clearly violated Chinese labor laws. A serious light needs to be shined on these issues."

The next version of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser promises to present better memory management and important speed enhancements.

Confirming the release of the beta version of the next version of the browser, Firefox engineer Nicholas Nethercote wrote in a blog post that Firefox 15 would prevent most memory leaks that have so far been causing by add-ons, including Firebug.

Nethercote added that the newest version would considerably slash the browser's memory consumption, without any need to upgrade to add-ons.

Samsung Series 9 NP900X3C-A01 portable ultrabook has several striking features that allow it to standout in the crowd of rival machines.

The 13-inch Samsung Series 9 ultabook is incredibly light & thin. It weighs just 2.6 pounds, and is slightly thinner at its thinnest point than the new 13-inch Air Acer, Aspire S5, and Dell XPS 13.

Popular video-sharing site YouTube has announced a new tool that allows users to blur faces in videos they upload to the website.

YouTube announced the one-click face-blurring tool in a blog, and said that the tool was introduced to give anonymity to users who might fear act of vengeance by public viewers.

After uploading a video onto YouTube, you will see Video Enhancements tool that will lead you to "Additional features," where you can click "Blur All Faces." Clicking on "Delete original video" will trash the original copy of the video with exposed faces.