Sales of devices based on Apple's Mac OS and iOS will overtake those of products running all flavors of Windows in 2015, a Gartner analyst predicted Monday. The switch in leadership would come roughly 13 years after Steve Jobs reinvented ...
Hewlett-Packard is joining the list of companies bringing Android to the PC, and has unveiled a 21.5-inch all-in-one desktop installed with Google's operating system. The device, called the HP Slate 21, was shown off at an HP event in ...
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Sprint announced Wednesday it will soon sell two Windows Phone 8 smartphones that run over fast LTE, the HTC 8XT and the Samsung ATIV S Neo. The HTC 8XT smartphone will be available from Sprint later this summer. (Photo: HTC) The 8XT ...
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Microsoft kicked off its Build conference in San Francisco this week by releasing a preview of the next version of its Visual Studio IDE, as well as updates to other development tools. How user input and follow-up interactions are ...
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Microsoft today shipped Windows 8.1, the free upgrade to Windows 8, with CEO Steve Ballmer calling it "a refined blend" of what many critics had called a jarring disconnect between its two radically different user interfaces. The upgrade, ...
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Microsoft today briefly previewed an Office application designed for the Windows "Modern," née "Metro," user interface (UI), and said it would launch the touch-enabled suite next year. "This is big," said Frank Gillett, an analyst ...
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Mozilla today shipped Firefox 22,enabling the in-browser audio-video calling standard WebRTC and switching on a new JavaScript module that promises to speed up Web apps. The update also included patches for 17 security ...
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) is set to abandon issuing staff with BlackBerry smartphones as the council looks to move towards a Windows 8-based ecosystem. It forms part of RBWM's overall strategy of moving towards a ...
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Gartner is giving the thumbs up to Windows 8.1, crediting the operating system refresh with overcoming the major downsides of Windows 8. Improvements to Windows 8 that will become available next week should prompt businesses to ...
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Microsoft has announced an update to its Office Web apps, focusing on collaboration between co-workers, as well as bringing new features over from its Office software package. The idea is to “make it easier for users to start and ...
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This article is about the progression in technology of animation which is very facilitative in designing the building and other images. Earlier people use to make sketches with pen or pencil. This process was time consuming. Therefore ...
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In the new 13.3-inch Toshiba Kirabook ($1,600), Windows users finally have a laptop that comes close to and even bests the Apple MacBook Air in some ways, though it falls short in others. The Kirabook was an excellent performer, with a ...
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Apple didn't try to fix or raise the prices of electronic books when it entered into the market in 2010, according to Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue. Rather, he says, the company was only working to ensure a profit for itself. ...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has discussed potential partnerships with Samsung Electronics in its bid to boost mobile advertising sales, according to the head of Samsung's handset division, Shin Jong Kyun. Zuckerberg launched Facebook in ...
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Many Metropolitan Police officers are using desktop PCs that take more than half an hour to log on, with experts suggesting that the force is to blame for its failure to develop a long-term IT strategy. John Biggs, chair of the London ...
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