Microsoft on Friday reopened online sales for the 128GB Surface Pro after nearly a week of stock outages, telling buyers that the tablets would ship in two to three weeks. According to Microsoft's e-store, a 128GB Surface Pro ordered on ...
HTC and Nokia are separately expected to announce super-high-quality cameras in new smartphones expected to be unveiled over the next week. It remains unclear whether the new cameras alone can lure new customers to either smartphone ...
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Microsoft yesterday confirmed that a retail copy of Office 2013 is permanently tied to the first PC on which it's installed, preventing customers from deleting the suite from one machine they own and installing it on another. The move is ...
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IDG News Service - The growing number of shareholders voicing opposition to Dell's US$24.4 billion plan to go private appears to be putting the company increasingly on the defensive, raising questions about the terms of the deal. This is ...
PTC announced PTC Windchill PDM EssentialsTM, a product data management (PDM) solution for the small business market. The new offering, which will be sold exclusively through PTC's channel partners worldwide, takes PTC's enterprise-class, ...
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Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac by as much as 17 percent, and has also stopped selling multi-licence packages of the application suite. The move puts Office for Mac 2011 on the same pricing schedule as the new ...
The Microsoft Surface Pro delivers on its promise to provide the most laptop-like performance yet from a tablet. But like most groundbreaking devices, it has flaws—including limited storage and hefty weight and size—that mean ...
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Microsoft last week reminded customers that the first edition of Windows 7, which was launched more than three years ago, will be dropped from support in early April. At that time, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will become the only ...
Questions are being raised about the terms of Dell’s $24.4 billion buyout deal, as the number of shareholders voicing opposition to the plan appears to be growing. Dell is now increasingly on the defensive. This is not good news ...
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Chinese authorities may be exploiting a security hole in Microsoft Office for Mac to target the Uyghur people, an ethnic group of people who live in parts of Asia and are seeking independence from Chinese rule, according to Kaspersky and ...
Google's Android system was used on 70.1 per cent of smartphones shipped in the quarter, while Apple held 21 per cent, according to research firm IDC. "The dominance of Android and Apple reached a new watermark in the fourth quarter," ...
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Microsoft Corp. announced the Microsoft Surface family of PCs is growing with Surface Pro, the newest member of the growing Surface family, along with a number of new products and accessories available tomorrow. Surface Pro with Windows 8 ...
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Mobidia Technology, Inc., a provider of mobile analytics, today released new insight into mobile usage of messaging and VOIP applications. Mobidia's data highlights the continued and growing importance of these applications to smartphone ...
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Microsoft's new touchy-feely Windows 8 works well on a tablet or touchscreen notebook, but what about a traditional desktop machine? With no touch, desktop punters wrangling Windows 8 are reliant on the old keyboard and mouse combo for ...
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Buyers of Windows 8 smartphones need to check that apps that offer vital functionality on their iPhone and Android devices are available for their new Microsoft-inspired handset. Apps can be either missing, of relatively poor quality ...
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