Computerworld - Even as the market for Surface RT and other Windows RT tablets grows more dire by the day, chip supplier Nvidia said it remains bullish to the platform and is committed for the long term. Nvidia's commitment to Surface RT ...
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Microsoft on Sunday slashed prices on its Surface RT tablets by as much as 30%, with the entry-level 32GB model selling for $349. The 64GB Surface RT was also discounted by $150, and now sells for $449, or 25% off its former price. When ...
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LG is using a new video to promote an Aug. 7 event in New York City, evidently to unveil its new G2 smartphone running a faster Snapdragon 800 processor. The G2 would be the successor to the Optimus G, first launched last September with a ...
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Brandished on stage at Microsoft's Build conference last week by Steve Ballmer himself as the next great thing in Windows 8 tablet hardware, Acer's Iconia W3 is the first 8-in tablet with the ability to run the full version of the company's ...
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Microsoft is launching a channel partner program on Monday to help drive sales of its Surface tablet to companies, schools and other organizations. The program is operational now in the U.S. with a small set of partners and will be ...
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Submissions to Microsoft's Windows Store, after stalling earlier this year, are again on the increase, perhaps because developers have been reinvigorated by talk of Windows 8.1 and this week's BUILD conference. According to the MetroStore ...
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Microsoft today confirmed that Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) will be ported to Windows 7, but declined to name a release date. The announcement, made during a Wednesday session at the company's BUILD developers conference, was first ...
Microsoft needs "to do a better job of telling the world" about Windows 8's features as a "fully-fledged" HTML 5 application platform, the company's general manager of platform strategy, Tim O'Brien, said today. Speaking at a session on ...
Sales of devices based on Apple's Mac OS and iOS will overtake those of products running all flavors of Windows in 2015, a Gartner analyst predicted Monday. The switch in leadership would come roughly 13 years after Steve Jobs reinvented ...
Microsoft kicked off its Build conference in San Francisco this week by releasing a preview of the next version of its Visual Studio IDE, as well as updates to other development tools. How user input and follow-up interactions are ...
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Microsoft today shipped Windows 8.1, the free upgrade to Windows 8, with CEO Steve Ballmer calling it "a refined blend" of what many critics had called a jarring disconnect between its two radically different user interfaces. The upgrade, ...
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Microsoft today briefly previewed an Office application designed for the Windows "Modern," née "Metro," user interface (UI), and said it would launch the touch-enabled suite next year. "This is big," said Frank Gillett, an analyst ...
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Microsoft is close to another restructuring that could see several senior managers moved sideways or leaving the company as it reduces its number of business units from eight to four. The restructuring is being prepared by a small group ...
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The successor to LG's Optimus G smartphone, due sometime in the third quarter, will run a faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, the companies announced late Wednesday. The 800 series chip is notable for integrating support for faster ...
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Microsoft let slip its plans for the future life of its ARM-powered Surface RT device recently, during a keynote speech at TechEd Europe 2013 e-learning and and education technology summit. When Computing asked Microsoft strategic ...
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