Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its usage share last month, and now accounts for nearly 11% of all copies of IE in use, a Web measurement company said today. IE10, which Microsoft launched last October for Windows 8 and in ...
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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, ...
Facebook is acquiring Parse, a cloud service company that makes it easier for developers to build mobile apps by providing them with a hosted back-end infrastructure, the companies announced Thursday. The deal appears to put Facebook in ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Friday started shipping its US$169.99 Slate 7 tablet with Android 4.1, which signals the company's reentry into the consumer tablet market after the TouchPad imploded in 2011. The tablet became available first in the ...
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Microsoft garnered just a "niche" in the global tablet market in the first quarter of 2013, following a period of user confusion after the launch of Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets, analysts say. According to Strategy Analytics, Windows ...
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Microsoft's failure thus far to significantly spark PC and tablet sales with Windows 8 has put high expectations on an expected 2013 refresh of the OS, dubbed "Blue." But changes to the operating system's feature set, tweaks to its user ...
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Hewlett-Packard in the next few days will ship the $169 Slate 7, the company's first product for the consumer tablet market since the spectacular failure of the WebOS-based TouchPad in 2011. Buyers will be able to order Slate 7 by the end ...
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Tumblr is giving its users more options to share their posts across other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, with a new iOS app released Wednesday. Available for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, the mobile app lets users ...
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Apple's Mac has been punished by shifting consumer tastes just as has the overall PC industry, data from the company's earnings statements show. But in the end, Apple may not care. "I think PC, and Mac, volumes will continue to shrink ...
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Microsoft's Surface Pro will finally be available in the UK next month, with the announcement that the tablet will be shipped to 19 countries, mostly across Europe and Oceania before the end of May. It will also launch in Korea, Malaysia, ...
The easy upgrades from Windows XP are done, say migration experts, who predict that a sizable number of large enterprises will still be running the aged operating system after Microsoft stops supporting it. Microsoft plans to retire ...
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Microsoft Took another hard knock this month when top tech researchers laid much of the blame for dwindling first-quarter PC sales on the beleaguered Windows 8 operating system. Estimates of first-quarter shipments, from both IDC and ...
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Some of the biggest names in IT including IBM, Microsoft, Google and Intel reported quarterly earnings this week, revealing a picture of the tech sector that, while not as gloomy as had been feared, is nevertheless mixed. The earnings ...
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Microsoft's chief financial officer yesterday confirmed that the company and its hardware partners would ship smaller, lower-priced Windows tablets in the next months. "We are working closely with OEMs on a new suite of small touch ...
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Researchers from security firm Trusteer have found a new variant of the Gozi banking Trojan program that infects a computer's Master Boot Record (MBR) in order to achieve persistence. The Master Boot Record (MBR) is a boot sector that ...
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