The name Microsoft can induce strong reactions in technology users, fans and critics alike. But the fact remains that the company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 has grown to become one of the most successful software ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw his bonus shrink a little in 2012 while that of other Microsoft executives rose significantly, the software maker said Tuesday. Ballmer received a bonus payment of US$620,000, about 91 percent of his ...
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today called Windows 8 "puzzling" and "confusing initially," but assured users that they would eventually learn to like the new OS. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, left the company ...
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Infoworld - Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is concerned that Apple's smartphone prowess could be threatened by rival products coming to market. Speaking at an Avaya event in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, Wozniak said when iPhone ...
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Pope Benedict XVI used his first tweet to bless the approximately 648,000 people who followed him before he had even made his first Twitter appearance. Pope Benedict XVI posts his first tweet using an iPad on ...
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US based EcoMotors International has completed its Series C funding worth $32.5m to expand its research and development capability for the Opposed-Piston-Opposed-Cylinder (opoc) diesel engine development. This round of funding was led by ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced this evening that Steven Sinofsky -- long rumored as Ballmer's replacement, and the man who fixed the Windows Vista debacle and championed the radical and largely unloved overhaul that became Windows 8 ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that sales of its new Surface RT tablets have started "modestly". Ballmer, who took over from Bill Gates as Microsoft chief in 2000, told French newspaper Le Parisien that the new tablets' first ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touts the personalization features of Windows Phone 8 in a new 46-second ad. The ad,now accessible on YouTube,was first shown at the formal launch of Windows Phone 8 on Monday,where Ballmer appeared onstage ...
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Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs will give the opening keynote at the giant Consumer Electronics Show in January, a logical choice for an event whose focus is increasingly mobile, but one that might not garner the attention of a Bill Gates or Steve ...
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Said Furniture Trade, had to put music from, and bring music from, you have to talk about the Louvre. Louvre International Furniture Exhibition Center, construction area of more than 20 million square meters, is the world's largest single ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft has won a motion to dismiss a seven-year-old,$1.3 billion lawsuit from Novell charging Microsoft with illegal antitrust actions around its Windows 95 release. In his ruling,U.S.District Judge Frederick Motz ...