Microsoft's pricing of its Surface RT tablet was called "aggressive" by some analysts today, "mystifying" by others, even as they all remained skeptical that it's low enough to make inroads on the dominant player, Apple's iPad. "It's an ...
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A U.K. analytics firm that warned earlier this week of an information leak in Internet Explorer (IE) today rebuked Microsoft for downplaying the bug. Microsoft, however, has announced it is working on a fix, although the nature of the ...
Tags: Computer Products, Mouse Tracking, Microsoft, IE
Samsung announced an ambitious line of Windows 8 mobile devices using the ATIV name on Wednesday, including an ATIV S smartphone with a 4.8-in. HD display and three tablet PCs. The lineup, unveiled in Berlin, Germany during a webcast, ...
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Windows 8 is finally here and the stakes are sky high for Microsoft. “We’re so happy to be here today and to celebrate the global availability of a new era of Windows and Windows-powered PCs,” said Steven Sinofsky, ...
Tags: Apple, Galaxy, iPad, Microsoft, Microsoft Surface, Samsung, Steve Ballmer
This week, consumer electronics vendors are once again congregating in Berlin for the IFA trade show, where products based on Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 and RT are expected to set the trend. The next couple of months will be an ...
Widespread Windows8 adoption by businesses is years away, primarily because it is so different from Windows 7 that the learning curve for end users will be a nightmare, experts say. Gartner says in a report coming out later this week that ...
Tags: Windows8, deployment, desktop, software
Has this ever happened to you?You're typing out an important document or email on your wireless keyboard,and as Murphy's Law would have it,this happens in mid thought: Until it decides enough is enough,the user must stop to make the ...
Logitech has launched a washable computer keyboard, responding to hospitality businesses' needs for computer equipment that can stand up to the rigours of a busy work environment. The 'ultra-durable' K310 Washable Keyboard can resist dust ...
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Energy company Centrica has carried out its first corporate agile IT project,building an employee self-service HR portal in an SAP environment for 30,000 users. Mark Tristram,agile development manager,Centrica said the SAP competency ...
Tags: Centrica, SAP selfService HR, agile testing, Mark Tristram, SAP competency
At a time when cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure have increased 17-fold(between 2009 and 2011),the need for highly trained cybersecurity professionals is acute.However,83%of federal hiring managers in a recent survey said it ...
Let's face it: offices aren't health clubs. We spend eight-plus hours a day crouched over a keyboard, swilling coffee and eating high-fructose corn syrup in hopes of staving off the lethargy only fluorescent lights and corporate art can ...
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Computerworld-Some early users of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet say they are confused or frustrated by the touch interface on the 10.6-in.display and are relying instead on the attachable keyboard with its more conventional track pad and ...
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Hewlett-Packard's Envy X2 tablet-laptop hybrid will cost from $849.99 when it starts shipping in the U.S on Nov. 14, the company revealed on Wednesday. The Envy X2 is one of several products that use Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system ...
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UK - Wet Wet Wet, recently reformed for a one-off show in Glasgow to mark their 25th anniversary, appearing on Glasgow Green to a crowd of 12,000. FOH engineer, Steve Pattison, selected an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system, ...
Samsung Electronics intends to drag the iPhone 5 into an ongoing patent lawsuit with Apple,according to documents filed with a U.S.court on Wednesday.Apple,for its part,expects to extend its suit to include the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and ...
Tags: Samsung Electronics, iPhone 5, patent lawsuit, Apple, U.S.District Court