With Fortune reporting as far back as 2006 that 80% of callers hangup on voicemail, small businesses that continue to rely on voicemail for calls from their prospective customers, will find themselves at a significant disadvantage. ...

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Research In Motion Ltd. will release its much-delayed BlackBerry 10 smartphones "not too long" after a launch event on Jan. 30, a senior executive said Tuesday.

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The White House this morning attempted to down-play the significance of emails sent to top national security officials during the attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, one of which suggested a known terrorist group claimed credit for the attack in...

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If you played around with the consumer preview (read: beta) of Windows 8 earlier this year, you may not have been impressed. Certainly, impressions at that point were bitterly divided between those who love and those who hate where Microsoft is going. But hey, that's what betas are for, right? Figure out what people don't like and make improvements.

Today, Microsoft has made available the release preview—roughly analogous to the first release candidate of previous versions—and it shows a lot of improvement. If you can't stand Metro, you'll be disappointed to know it's just as prominent as before. It's more useful now, with better gestures, multi-monitor support, and greatly improved apps, but you still can't avoid it. There's a lot of polish in other areas, but still some work to be done before Windows 8 finally hits the market on tablets and PCs later this year.

Check out PCWorld's hands-on impressions of the release preview for a lot more detail about Microsoft has added and changed. If you'd like to give it a whirl yourself, download the bits from Microsoft's site. Just be sure not to upgrade your current Windows installation; install to a new partition or drive.

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Blizzard Entertainment said this week that it sold more than 3.5 million copies of Diablo III on launch day, setting the record for fastest-selling PC game. The company also sold 1.2 million copies of the game to subscribers of the World of Warcraft Annual Pass, meaning 4.7 million copies of the game were in the hands of gamers on day one.


There were a number of server slowdowns and issues for gamers looking to play the game on opening day and, as a result, Blizzard was very apologetic in its statement:

"We’re definitely thrilled that so many people around the world were excited to pick up their copy of Diablo III and jump in the moment it went live," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We also regret that our preparations were not enough to ensure everyone had a seamless experience when they did so. I want to reaffirm our commitment to make sure the millions of Diablo III players out there have a great experience with the game moving forward, and I also want to thank them for their ongoing support."

To cut down on cheating and piracy, Blizzard requires the Diablo III client to be connected to their servers at all times during gameplay, even during the single-player campaign.

Diablo III is available via Blizzard's website and at retail stores.

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BGR has learned from a reliable source that Microsoft is currently planning to release the company’s full Office suite for not only Apple’s iPad, but for Android tablets as well. The company is targeting November of this year for both launches. Additionally, our source has seen Microsoft Office running on an iPad first-hand and has said that it looks almost identical to the previous leak from The Daily a few months back, despite the fact that Microsoft flat out denied that the app was authentic. It is also plausible that Microsoft Office will be coming to the iPhone and iPod touch rather than only the iPad, as we’re told the loading screen in the app clearly said “Office for iOS” and

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