After showing off appliances on its stand at the 2014 International CES and talking up the future of the “Cloud Home”, TCL has revealed that it will launch whitegoods into the Australian market in 2014. The news will see the ...
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A good pathway can totally change a garden. If you've got a muddy, messy path surrounded by beautiful plants, your plants won't seem quite as flashy, thanks to that ho-hum trail slashing through them...and all your garden visitors will be ...
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Get set for a fitness market buzzword likely to get louder in 2014, the quantitative self. Sensors embedded in wearable items communicating data via Bluetooth to people's watches, smartphones, and tablets will be promoted to help athletes ...
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This year will go down as the PC industry’s largest contraction, research firm IDC said Monday, with global shipments dropping by double digits and little relief in sight. The dismal numbers will not be welcomed at Microsoft, which ...
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Microsoft has announced that it will introduce message encryption for its cloud-based Office 365 service in early 2014. Dubbed Office 365 Message Encryption, the system will automatically encrypt email to anyone outside a company ...
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Microsoft has joined Google and Facebook in plotting a replacement for the cookie. For many years the humble cookie, a small text file that browsers download when they visit a web site, has been one of the mainstays of online advertising, ...
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"We must indeed all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall hang separately." Benjamin Franklin reportedly said this during the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But this quote can also be used to explain?the?Microsoft-Nokia ...
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Microsoft is to acquire Nokia's Devices & Services business, which includes the smartphone and mobile phones businesses, and license the Finnish company's patents for a total of €5.44 billion (US$7 billion) in cash, the companies said ...
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The world's number one PC manufacturer Lenovo has announced that a replacement Start button for Windows 8 will be installed on many of its devices, beginning in the next few weeks. Windows 8 has struggled to make an impact in businesses, ...
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Windows’ share of the tablet market grew slightly in the second quarter, as shipments also ticked up in the face of a slow-down by tablets overall, researcher IDC said today. But the Redmond, Washington, company’s innovative ...
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Microsoft's Surface tablet has earned the company less in revenue than it paid to write down unsold stocks of the device. The company said in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the Surface had earned ...
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Both Apple- and Windows-branded tablets lost market share in the second quarter, each retreating in the face of increased pressure from Android, a market research analyst said today. In preliminary estimates for the quarter ending June ...
Apple may acquire the Israeli chip design company that provided the motion sensing technology used in Microsoft's popular Kinect video game controller, the Israeli business daily Calcalist reported today. In a Tuesday story, Calcalist ...
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Microsoft is shutting down on Sept. 30 its MSN TV service that allowed users to browse the Web from their TVs, as there are now new ways to access the Internet including mobile phones, tablets and its own Xbox console. The Redmond, ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is to unveil a major restructuring of the software giant on Thursday. The aim, according to sources, is to achieve "functional coherence" and to better align people with corporate goals. That will mean cutting ...
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