MICROSOFT is trying to fix what it got wrong with its radical makeover of Windows. It's making the operating system easier to navigate and enabling users to set up the software so it starts in a more familiar format designed for personal ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft, Windows 8
Apple CEO Tim Cook reassured investors yesterday that the company is not going to stand still with its products portfolio, and that it has been working on "some incredible plans" for a while. Speaking at the D11 Conference in California, ...
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The National Retail Federation and a broad cross-section of retailers asked a federal judge to reject a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees that drive up prices for consumers by $30 billion a year, ...
Jabra, hands-free audio solutions provider, and Siemens Enterprise Communications, a global provider of unified communications (UC), have joined forces to improve mobile UC. The latest Jabra Bluetooth headset will support Siemens ...
Microsoft has poked fun at Apple in a new 30-second advert, in which it mocks the iPad. The advert, dubbed "Windows 8: Less calling, more doing", pits the iPad against the Asus VivoTab Smart tablet, which runs on Windows 8, with Siri ...
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Google's Drive cloud storage service has undergone a facelift for Android users, and is now capable of capturing a document by converting a photo of it to text. The upgrades, announced today on the Google Drive blog page, also includes a ...
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The National Retail Federation announced that it will formally oppose a proposed settlement of a federal antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees charged by Visa and MasterCard, and urged retailers to carefully consider their own ...
We recently wrote about Panasonic's new ZT60 plasma TVs (TC-P60ZT60 and TC-P65ZT60), which will be the company's flagship televisions for 2013. We knew a lot about the TVs—the 60- and 65-inch screen sizes, the new customizable home ...
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Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance Wednesday at the Google I/O conference, where he overcame problems with his throat to take questions from developers in the audience for almost an hour. Page hadn't been expected to speak ...
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Co-CEO Bill McDermott raised the roof of the Orange County Convention Center in Florida today during the opening keynote of SAP's annual customer conference Sapphire Now. Focusing on smart technologies, technology delivery times, and ...
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Take that, Spotify! At its I/O developer's conference today, Google took the wraps off a new music subscription service, called Google Play Music All Access, that blends your own personal music collection—songs stored in your Google ...
Tags: Google, Music, Consumer Electronics
Imagine driving while using your iPad to play music, and look at Google maps. Now imagine your iPad is built into the car and also runs your climate control, phone, and even basic car controls, such as braking, steering, suspension, and ...
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Nokia has expanded its line of phones with the Asha 501, which comes with an improved touch user interface to help keep low-cost Android-based products at bay. The launch of the second new member of the Asha family in about two weeks ...
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Microsoft yesterday took a swipe at long-time partner Adobe for the latter's wholesale shift to rent-not-buy software subscriptions, and along the way seemed to promise it would continue to offer Office as old-school perpetual licenses for ...
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Although we're just a few days away from posting new TV ratings—which include both smart TVs and more bare-bones models from LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Vizio, among others—our engineers are already hard at work testing the next ...
Tags: HD TV, Plasma TVs