A Federal Communications Commission-led initiative has launched a program that will allow U.S.organizations to donate used computers to low-income people. "The costs of digital exclusion are rising,"said Federal Communications Commission ...
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Microsoft is adding mobile connectivity between Windows applications and the Windows Azure cloud platform with the introduction this week of Windows Azure Mobile Services. The technology will enable users to connect client and mobile ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows, Windows 8, Computer Products
Stardock today released a beta version of its "Start8" utility that restores a Start button to the desktop of Windows 8. The beta follows a series of preview versions that kicked off in March from Plymouth, Mich.-based Stardock, best ...
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Motorola Mobility and Verizon Wireless have scheduled a press conference for Sept. 5 in New York City, reportedly to unveil a new Droid Razr M smartphone. Reports in Engadget and BGR indicate that the Razr M will have a 4.3-in. Super ...
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IDG News Service - By offering users of Windows 7, XP and Vista discounts to upgrade to Windows 8, Microsoft is putting itself in a position to reap both benefits and criticism in the consumer operating system market. Giving PC owners an ...
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Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
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PC World - Lazarus (so named because it's an older project, reborn) is a full-featured graphical IDE for Free Pascal, an open-source implementation of Object Pascal. While the Lazarus developers politely ask that it not be called a Delphi ...
Tags: Lazarus, graphical IDE, Object Pascal, computer
In a package aimed to mobilize small-business employees, Verizon Wireless has packaged a version of the Microsoft Office 365 online office suite to run on its own cellular services, pricing the service at US$6 per user per month. Verizon ...
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Microsoft has blocked a popular work-around that let users boot directly to the Windows 8 desktop, a co-author of an upcoming book on the operating system confirmed today. "Microsoft made some changes to Windows that prevent the .scf hack ...
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IDG News Service - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added PowerShell to the management options for its cloud, in a move that reaches out to the Windows community. Part of Amazon's Microsoft push is to let developers and administrators manage ...
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IDG News Service - China will take the wraps off its latest 8-core Godson processor early next year to show its chip-making ability compared to Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ARM. Loongson Technology, partly funded by the Chinese ...
Tags: PCs, Servers, 8-core Godson processor, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, ARM
IDG News Service - Google on Tuesday released a Chrome upgrade that improves how the browser renders 3D applications, including mouse-controlled games. The improvement comes via the inclusion of the Pointer Lock JavaScript API, commonly ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft is updating its C++ compiler for its Visual Studio 12 integrated development environment, or IDE, so that Windows application developers can use parts of the latest version of the programming language, C++11. ...
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Computerworld - Ransomware is a growth industry that puts at least $5 million annually into criminals' coffers, Symantec said Thursday. "If you look at the nature of the beast, it really puts the screws to you," said Kevin Haley, director ...
Infoworld - When it comes to virtualization on the desktop, two products stand front and center: VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. The former is the long-standing original keeper of the flame, from the company that gave us PC-centric ...
Tags: VMware Workstation, VirtualBox, PC centric, virtualization technology