Microsoft plans to accelerate improvements in Office Web Apps, the browser-based version of the Office suite, adding features like real-time co-authoring of documents and the ability to run in Android tablets via mobile Chrome browser ...
Microsoft is retooling the latest version of its Windows operating system to address complaints and confusion that have been blamed for deepening a slump in personal computer sales. The tune up won't be released to consumers and ...
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Microsoft has extended a guarantee that provides Yahoo with financial protection as part of the two companies' internet search partnership An arrangement requiring Microsoft to pay Yahoo a minimum amount per search on Yahoo's website ...
Google has started rolling out a new feature in Gmail that lets users create Google Calendar entries from their email messages. Gmail now detects dates and times in the text of email messages and highlights them. Users can click on the ...
New tablet shipments will outnumber laptops for the first time in 2013, as touch display capabilities drive buying patterns rather than new operating systems like Windows 8 and Windows RT, research firm NPD DisplaySearch reported on Monday. ...
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Taiwanese PC maker Asus plans on getting behind Google's Chrome OS and will launch a notebook running the OS in the second half of this year, said company CEO Jerry Shen. The Google-developed OS is still in its early stages, but "market ...
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Apple climbed the Fortune 500 this year to the No. 6 spot, its highest-ever ranking, its first time in the top 10, and the top technology company on the influential list, replacing sagging HP. Fortune, which ranks firms by annual revenue, ...
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Microsoft has admitted that it's prepared to make alterations to Windows 8 in order to make it easier to use. At the same the firm has released new figures that show that 100 million licences for the operating system were sold in its first ...
As part of Microsoft's loan of $2 billion to a group trying to buy PC maker Dell, the two companies must modify the payment terms of Dell's current agreements with Microsoft, a document filed with U.S. regulators said. CEO and founder ...
By modifying a Microsoft Kinect sensor, a research project at the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference demonstrated how gamers in a wheelchair could interact with motion games. To see the prototype in use, watch a video on YouTube. ...
Intel’s upcoming Atom chips with new CPU architecture will be up to three times faster and five times more power efficient than their predecessors and break the “myth” that ARM processors are more power efficient, Intel ...
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Economic woes in recent years have spurred companies of all sizes to shake up data center hiring, training, development and other processes to better align IT and business operations -- and boost the bottom line. Many companies now look ...
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Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates today stuck to the company line on tablets, and disparaged rival Apple's iPad for its lack of a keyboard and its inability to run Office. In an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box" program, Gates, ...
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As developers create tiny computer devices like smartwatches, one question they face is how to make tiny keyboards usable. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say they have a solution to that problem. They have developed what's ...
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Adding to its portfolio of IT management software, Dell has acquired Enstratius (formerly called EnStratus), which offers software for managing workloads in hosted cloud environments. Enstratius' software, which can run on premises or ...
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