For EasyJet, tablets running on Windows 8 - such as Microsoft Surface Pro - would be preferable to Apple's iPad because they're more compatible with the rest of the office ecosystem. That's according to CIO Trevor Didcock who made the ...
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American Airlines has completed the successful rollout of its industry-leading Electronic Flight Bag program with the discontinuation of paper revisions to terminal charts, making it the first major commercial airline to fully utilize ...
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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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The National Restaurant Association (NRA) Expo held in Chicago this year draws over 58,000 industry professionals from all 50 states and over 100 countries to seek or share the latest innovations and information about trends and issues. At ...
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Mozilla has effectively postponed Firefox's controversial third-party cookie-blocking policy for several months. Yesterday, the open-source developer announced it was collaborating with a new initiative, dubbed "Cookie Clearinghouse," or ...
Every Los Angeles school student will be given an iPad with the forging of a record $US30 million contract. The Los Angeles Board of Education said it had approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a ...
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Foreground, background, midground - all these are to become a thing of the past as the Lytro camera lets you refocus on any point on an image. Picture: Lytro Source: Supplied Post processing camera Lytro has gone wireless and has launched ...
Windows 8 is a ‘disappointing' operating system and Microsoft has six months to convince doubters otherwise, or risk being frozen out of the enterprise IT environment. That is the view of Jean-Christophe Lalanne, CIO of Air France ...
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Microsoft has reversed the DRM [digital rights management] policy for its upcoming new console, the Xbox One, only a week after it was announced. The policy, made public on 10 June 2013 at the Electronics Entertainment Expo [E3] in LA, ...
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Welcome to chew-controlled gaming. Stride gum today announced the release of its iOS game, 'Gumulon', a groundbreaking game controlled by chewing. Using the front-facing camera (available on select mobile devices), players use their ...
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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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Microsoft's Office Mobile for iPhone is a "half-baked" effort that breaks basic features like file compatibility, according to the chief executive of rival CloudOn, which provides Office compatibility across the Apple iPhone, iPad, and ...
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Smart phones, tablets, and laptops do lots of things well, but providing great sound quality usually isn't one of them. The small speakers in many of these devices produce audio that you could charitably call weak or even tinny. So what do ...
Tags: Tiny Satechi, Speaker, Mobile Devices
There's been a lot of buzz surrounding the Tesla Model S, so I was anxious to get a chance to live with it for a few days and see if I felt it deserved the top score awarded by my engineer colleagues. I am happy to say, the car did not ...
Microsoft let slip its plans for the future life of its ARM-powered Surface RT device recently, during a keynote speech at TechEd Europe 2013 e-learning and and education technology summit. When Computing asked Microsoft strategic ...
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