Microsoft has admitted that it's prepared to make alterations to Windows 8 in order to make it easier to use. At the same the firm has released new figures that show that 100 million licences for the operating system were sold in its first ...
Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates today stuck to the company line on tablets, and disparaged rival Apple's iPad for its lack of a keyboard and its inability to run Office. In an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" program, Gates, ...
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As developers create tiny computer devices like smartwatches, one question they face is how to make tiny keyboards usable. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say they have a solution to that problem. They have developed what's ...
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Below-normal temperatures and the 10th largest March snow coverage on record sent IBD sales into a deep freeze compared with an unusually warm and record-setting March last year, according to March retail sell-through data from Leisure ...
Some 1,183 students biked to school on Monday in Northeast Ohio. That set a daily record in the six-year old Bike to School Challenge. Monday's numbers were a third higher than on the first day of the week-long challenge last year. The ...
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Design has always been right at the heart of the appeal of the Peugeot RCZ,so it comes as no surprise that the mid-life upgrade to Peugeot’s hero car is all about styling. The Peugeot RCZ, which arrived in 2010, has been given a new ...
Aviation biofuel's newly minted ability to generate tradable US renewables credits, known as RINs, may be key to the industry's economics, according to market watchers. "The availability of RINs is a critical bridge to commercial ...
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LED-based lighting is saving 71 trillion BTUs across ten identified applications, but those savings could increase more than 50 fold with a complete transition to SSL. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new report entitled ...
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Arla Foods Ingredients has unveiled a new Nutrilac Natural Improvers toolbox range designed to provide optimized production processes, better quality end-products, reduced waste and cleaner labels for bakers. The Nutrilac Natural ...
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Samsung Electronics grabbed Apple's smartphone market in Q1 and Samsung mobile phone takes one third of global market share. International Data Corporation expressed that with the help of iPhone 5, Apple's mobile phone sales in Q1 rose by ...
Chinese government decided to postponed the porn purchasing and storage plan to the end of May. Peasant households have more time to sell corn plant. Before that, the breakout of bird flu cracked down the corn's demand. The State ...
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Traditionally, Red envelopes or red packets; Hokkien: 'ang pow' (POJ: âng-pau); Hakka: 'fung bao'; are passed out during the Chinese New Year's celebrations, from married couples or the elderly to unmarried juniors. It is also common ...
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A reunion dinner is held on New Year's Eve during which family members gather for celebration. The venue will usually be in or near the home of the most senior member of the family. The New Year's Eve dinner is very large and sumptuous and ...
The sharemarket has opened more than1 per cent higher after strong US jobs numbers pushed American stocks to a record high and helped miners outperform the market. At 10.30am AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 54.5 points, or 1.06 ...
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On the back end of an earnings season that by many accounts could have been worse, tech investors appeared to be in the mood to celebrate on Friday, sending shares of IT companies higher as key stock-market indexes hit milestone highs. ...
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