A picture is worth a thousand words; the grey line in a graph from MetroStore Scanner, a site that keeps unofficial tabs on new additions to the Windows Store, shows the growth rate over the Windows Store over the past 15 days. It’s a ...
NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc., a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the highly anticipated NOOK for Windows 8 app, available to Windows 8 PC and tablet customers ...
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We've seen smart phones getting bigger and bigger, and now tablets are following suit. The newest Vizio Tablet PC is a whopping 11.6-inch device that weighs 1.8 pounds. It's the largest tablet we've seen, but it didn't feel overly bulky or ...
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Corel® annnounces release of its new app for Windows 8, Roxio® MediaBook™, now available through the Windows Store. MediaBook enables consumers to easily combine their photos and videos with audio and text to create dynamic ...
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The Lumia 920 and HTC Windows Phone 8X, two of the first Windows Phone 8 models, turned in some of best performances of phones in our newest Ratings—just a few points behind top-scoring Android phones from LG and Samsung, and the ...
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A hacker claims to have found a method of bypassing the code integrity mechanism in Windows RT,therefore allowing for desktop-style programmes to be installed on the platform. The hacker,who uses the online moniker"clrokr",documented the ...
IDG News Service-Samsung plans to launch its first cell phones this year based on Tizen,a Linux-based operating system that will principally rival Google's Android OS. Tizen is being developed by Samsung and Intel in part to reduce their ...
Infoworld-Microsoft's formal introduction of Visual Studio 2012 IDE today gives a nod to devops by enabling IntelliTrace,which lets users track issues in code.Although Visual Studio 2012 has been shipping for about three weeks,Microsoft ...
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Apple's App Store had the top score among mobile application storefronts ranked by ABI Research, but Microsoft's Windows Store narrowly beat the field for its degree of innovation. The rankings point to a central issue with application ...
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Microsoft has told Windows 8 app developers that if they use the word"metro"in the name of their software,the app will be denied access to the Windows Store. The warning now appears in online guidelines for developers,in a section ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is now available for download. The update allows users to develop applications for Windows XP and more thoroughly test their work. The previous version of Microsoft's development ...
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Windows 8 might, or might not, prove to be a big hit with enterprise customers. But SAP is betting it will become an important platform in workplaces and figures Windows 8 tablets will outpace Android tablets, an SAP executive said ...
Microsoft claims Windows 8 is"a better Windows"than Windows 7.In particular,the company has focused on improving security to ensure users of Windows 8 tablets can securely connect to corporate networks. It is building antivirus(AV)and ...
Computer game platform maker Valve is to port its Steam gaming and distribution platform to Ubuntu Linux in a move intended to protect the company from the impending "catastrophe" of Windows 8. Further reading Developers lose interest ...
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Microsoft's upcoming Surface Pro tablet sums up the company's seeming strategy with Windows 8: That business users can do with one device what they currently accomplish with two. "The Surface Pro is designed for people who want a premium, ...
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