Microsoft has acquired MetricsHub, a startup focused on technology for automating cloud performance management. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Microsoft also announced Monday the immediate availability to Windows ...
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U.S. electronics dismantling site iFixit announced Tablet PC maintenance difficulty rankings, showing that Microsoft Surface Pro ranked at the end. iFixit scored over the most popular products, with 10 points as full. Higher scores ...
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Evernote, which makes business and consumer productivity software for things like taking notes and doing research, is forcing all of its 50 million users to change their passwords after detecting a hacker intrusion on its sytem. The ...
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The Game Developers Conference (GDC) has polled more than 2,500 North American game developers who attended the conference in 2012 or plan to attend GDC 2013 in March about their development practices, revealing several notable trends with ...
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The emergence of the Firefox OS is just one more reason that Microsoft and BlackBerry will need to sharpen their marketing savvy to sell more smartphones in 2013. Microsoft officials at Mobile World Congress (MWC) here conceded that the ...
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Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, a user-led organization that aims to simplify the purchasing of data center and cloud services by promoting interoperability and common standards. The alliance has gathered over 300 ...
Google confirmed today that it has ported part of QuickOffice, a popular iOS and Android app substitute for Microsoft Office, to a technology baked into Chrome OS and the company's Chrome browser. The search giant acquired QuickOffice in ...
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Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require a losing plaintiff to pay legal costs in many patent infringement lawsuits, in an effort to discourage so-called patent trolls from filing court cases. The Saving High-Tech ...
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After creating a ruckus for calling all of its telecommuters back into the office, Yahoo is trying to quell some of the furor. Yahoo last week issued a memo informing employees that the company was ending work-at-home arrangements. As of ...
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Microsoft's top Office executive yesterday dodged questions about plans to bring its lucrative suite to Apple's iPad. Talk of Microsoft porting its Office franchise to iOS -- or at least the most popular applications in the bundle, like ...
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Microsoft is about to embark on a second wave of Windows 8 client hardware promotions and user education, an executive said Wednesday. "Starting soon, you'll see us do a lot more education of the business user and consumers," said ...
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Microsoft's Yammer social network for enterprises will add message translation to help firms with multilingual operations. "Removing language as a barrier to cross-company collaboration can be a competitive game changer for multinational ...
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Microsoft will upgrade on Wednesday its existing Office 365 cloud email and collaboration suites for businesses, as well as introduce new bundles, growing even more the list of Office 365 editions, which some analysts and users had already ...
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A Texas federal judge denied Apple's move to reduce last year's $368 million jury verdict in a patent infringement case it lost, and ordered the Cupertino, Calif., company to pay more than $363,000 daily in interest and damages until a ...
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After causing uproar by calling all of its telecommuters back into the office, Yahoo is trying to quell some of the bad publicity. Yahoo last week issued a memo to employees that the company was ending work-at-home agreements. As of June, ...
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