Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones took shots at both iOS and Android today, calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's is "a mess." Speaking at a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal's All Things D, ...
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Google won't do anything to thwart Facebook's recently launched Home software for Android devices if it becomes explosively popular, according to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Home, which became available for download April 1, ...
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The creators of Android originally dreamed it would be used to create a world of "smart cameras" that connected to PCs, a founder said, but it was reworked for mobile handsets as the smartphone market began to explode. "The exact same ...
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Users for many years have viewed enterprise applications through the " green screen." Even now the typical business app rarely wins kudos for approachability and intuitive appeal, with functionality trumping user interface (UI) design and ...
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Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones took shots at both iOS and Android on Tuesday, calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's is "a mess." Speaking at a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal's All ...
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Microsoft and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd - Apple's largest manufacturing partner, which trades as Foxconn - have signed a patent deal to protect Foxconn clients from patent claims that could arise from the use of Google's Android and ...
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In an effort to attract a more diverse set of contributors, enterprise software vendor Citrix has donated its open source Xen hypervisor to the Linux Foundation. Citrix announced the donation Monday at the Linux Foundation's Collaboration ...
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Chip maker LSI is hoping to improve networking performance and flexibility with its ARM-based Axxia 4500 processor family, the company announced Monday ARM-based processors are best known for powering smartphones and tablets. But the ...
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Microsoft is reportedly working on designs for a touch-enabled smart watch, a move one analyst called a "snipe hunt" that would distract it from the critical chore of getting Windows 8 off the ground. Another expert, however, said ...
Yahoo's profits rose more than 30 percent in the first quarter, due to a variety of factors including lowered operating costs, though sales at the company declined. Net earnings for the quarter ended March 31 were US$390 million, a 36 ...
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Viralheat, the social media marketing suite provider, today announced it is unveiling Flint 2.0, a new version of its popular publishing tool for Chrome.Flint 2.0 now also includes social sharing for Firefox and Safari. The easy-to-use ...
The changing world of server manufacturing has got Altera and AppliedMicro together to jointly develop server chips. The server world is changing in that the big users of servers - Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc - are now defining their ...
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AUSTRALIA'S supermarket behemoth Woolworths will cast Microsoft into the annals of history by switching to Google software wall-to-wall, in a move the internet giant describes as its largest worldwide deal. The decision has bigger ...
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Google's proposed settlement of a European Union antitrust case amounts to continuing its discrimination against other search companies -- but putting a warning label on the practice, said an industry group. The search giant has proposed ...
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BLU Products announced today improvements to its best-selling BLU Vivo 4.3 smartphone device including the availability of three new fashionable colors: energy neon yellow, pearl white, and glimmer pink, in addition to its Android 4.1 Jelly ...
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