IDG News Service - Texas Instruments will lay off 1,700 employees as it refocuses its efforts away from the wireless sector -- including cellphones and tablets -- and toward embedded systems, the company announced Wednesday. The news ...
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Computerworld - The best move Microsoft could make after Steven Sinofsky's departure is to ditch the culture of secrecy he brought to Windows, analysts said today. "One thing that may be a benefit to Microsoft is to drop the belief that ...
Just two weeks after revealing its plans for adopting ARM for low-power server technology,chip designer AMD has put itself up for sale–with a slew of industry companies,including Intel,Google,Samsung and Facebook–mentioned as ...
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Microsoft today patched 19 vulnerabilities in Windows,Internet Explorer 9(IE9),Excel and the.Net development framework,including four flaws in the just-released Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. Of Tuesday's six security ...
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IDG News Service-Honda will begin tests next year of a small electric vehicle that uses a driver's tablet for displaying dashboard readings,audio,navigation and images from its rearview camera,it said Tuesday. The company's new"Micro ...
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IDG News Service-HTC and Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced the Droid DNA smartphone,which comes with Android 4.1 and a 5-inch high-definition display that the company said is the most advanced in the market today. The Droid DNA ...
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Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky helped introduce the Microsoft Surface tablet on Oct.25. Computerworld-Steven Sinofsky,Microsoft's top Windows executive,abruptly left the company Monday,a move that some analysts saw as an ...
Tags: Windows 8, Microsoft Surface tablet, Sinofsky, Kremlinologist
IDG News Service-AT&T will start offering the first Windows RT tablet with LTE capabilities on Friday with prices beginning at US$499,the U.S.wireless carrier said on Tuesday. AT&T will offer Asus'VivoTab RT tablet,which has a 10.1-inch ...
Tags: Asus Windows, RT tablet, VivoTab RT tablet, 32GB of storage
Getting to grips with Windows RT's development environments, and converting full-strength Windows 8 apps down to its cut-down RT partner is "nuanced" work that requires "quite a lot [that developers] will need to implement specifically", ...
Tags: Microsoft, Win RT, Win 8, Wade Wegner
Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky helped introduce the Microsoft Surface tablet on Oct. 25. IDG News Service - Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind its new ...
IDG News Service-Intel is in final negotiations to invest up to$500 million in struggling Sharp of Japan,the Kyodo News agency reported Tuesday. Japan's largest news agency said the companies were discussing an investment of between 30 ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced this evening that Steven Sinofsky -- long rumored as Ballmer's replacement, and the man who fixed the Windows Vista debacle and championed the radical and largely unloved overhaul that became Windows 8 ...
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Anyone who finds it hard to believe that the average U.S. mobile subscriber sent 696 text messages per month in the second quarter of this year may be relieved to know that this figure fell to 678 per month in the third quarter. It was ...
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Microsoft will release a preview of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7 on Tuesday, according to a report from a Chinese website, citing the company's head of IE marketing. The Chinese blog iFanr said that the preview, which ...
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When customers buy Microsoft SQL Server 2008 retail products, they will receive a free tablet. Depending on order size, customers will have their choice of one of the following: iPad Mini, Microsoft Surface, Google Nexus 7, or Amazon Kindle ...
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