Just weeks before Microsoft's promised 21 May announcement concerning the next phase of its Xbox 360 gaming platform, the company has released further details of its projector-based IllumiRoom technology. In a video published yesterday, ...
Intel's outgoing CEO took a few parting shots at Microsoft's Windows 8 Tuesday as he explained a slump in both revenue and profits for the first quarter. Paul Otellini, who will retire from Intel next month, joined a chorus of others, ...
Don't blame Windows 8 for plummeting PC sales, a retail analyst said today. "It wasn't about Windows 8, it was much more about the price challenges facing OEMs," said Stephen Baker of the NPD Group, citing U.S. retail sales data the firm ...
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Microsoft’s Lync Conference 2013 this week saw a demonstration of the Lync unified communications platform, including clients for Android devices, iPhones and iPads that support VoIP. The VoIP capability means that formerly ...
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According to Gartner, by the end of next year, Apple laptops and notebooks will be just as accepted by IT professionals as Windows-based ones. Driven by Apple’s efforts to make its OS X operating system more compatible with the ...
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Lenovo's CEO said sales of its Windows 8 PCs have been "normal", neither surpassing nor falling behind expectations, but added that PC-tablet convertible devices using the OS are helping the company break into the high-end segment for the ...
Microsoft reported a drop in profit for the second quarter of its fiscal year, though revenue increased, thanks partly to a 24 percent jump in sales from its Windows division. Microsoft's revenue increased 2.7 percent to US$21.46 billion ...
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Chinese firm Lenovo has overtaken Acer in the volume of EMEA PC sales made by quarter, to become the second biggest PC maker in the region, behind HP. According to figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 from analysts IDC, a sustained ...
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With Facebook preparing for its mysterious press conference on Tuesday, speculation is surging that the announcement could be about anything from a new smartphone, a new mobile plan to a new search feature. Last week, Facebook invited ...
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Defending Windows 8 against reports that sales have been sluggish, one of Microsoft's top executives said it will take time for customers to digest the new operating system and for device makers to ramp up production of the hardware users ...
Corel® annnounces release of its new app for Windows 8, Roxio® MediaBook™, now available through the Windows Store. MediaBook enables consumers to easily combine their photos and videos with audio and text to create dynamic ...
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In our most recent lab reviews of smart phones, we finally got our hands on some of the newest Windows 8 devices. While we were all excited to put the new operating system through its paces in our labs, we noticed something before we even ...
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Microsoft has sold some 60 million Windows 8 licences since the OS's launch, according to the finance and marketing head of Windows business, Tami Reller. Reller was speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where ...
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Microsoft has acquired a small home entertainment technology start-up called id8 Group R2 Studios, which recently launched a Google Android application enabling users to control home heating and lighting systems from their mobile devices. ...
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Global IT spending will total $3.7tn (pound 2.28tn) in 2013, a 4.2 per cent increase from 2012, according to analyst firm Gartner. In 2012, $3.6tn (pound 2.23tn) was spent on IT and this was set to rise in 2013 by only 3.8 per cent, ...
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