Linux operating system vendor Canonical has unveiled a mobile version of its Ubuntu operating system which, it says, will be available from 2014. Ubuntu for Phones is based on the Linux kernel and uses the Unity user interface that ...
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Computerworld-U.S.officials today struck at six long-running scams,freezing assets of 14 companies charged with bilking consumers by posing as tech support from Microsoft,Symantec and others. In a press conference,the Federal Trade ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft said Monday that two more companies had signed patent agreements covering their Android and Chrome devices,under the company's IP(intellectual property)licensing program that already has more than 1,100 licensing ...
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Specialist charities such as housing associations and social enterprises face paying nearly four times as much for Microsoft software due to licensing changes to be introduced by the software giant in September. The changes will see ...
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Microsoft has revealed the pricing details of its new operating system (OS) Windows 8, due to be released on the 26th of this month. An upgrade edition of Windows 8 Pro is now available for $69.99 in the US, or £49.99 in the UK. ...
Windows users can expect a 15% increase in the cost of licensing key Microsoft products as the software giant raises its prices. From December 1 2012, Microsoft will increase the price of per-user licensing of several products including ...
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When it comes to consumers' rights to control their own browsers, everybody wants to sound like they're pro-choice. But with many millions of advertising dollars on the line, the definition of pro-choice tends to align with the financial ...
Lenovo said on Thursday the company was not worried about Microsoft's new Surface tablet, with its CEO stating the PC maker is confident it provides better hardware than its competitors including Microsoft. "They (Microsoft) are strong in ...
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The strongly worded order by a California judge saying Oracle has to keep porting its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers is not the end of the nasty legal battle between the two companies, but it could have an effect on the ...
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Yammer is adding functionality to its cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software that lets organizations gauge the types of emotions expressed in employee posts. The new capability will be provided via an integration with ...
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Microsoft has launched Bing Fund, an angel fund with an incubator program that will make Microsoft resources available to startups and potentially provide it with acquisition targets in the future, Microsoft said in a blog post Thursday. ...
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Microsoft is inspiring teachers, through the use of a forum, to find out new and interesting ways in which technology can be used within lessons. The software giant’s Partners in Learning (PiL) programme was designed to get teachers ...
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Oracle and Google both said they will appeal findings from the Java API infringement case which found Google not guilty of embedding unlicensed lines of code in its Android platform. Oracle filed the request on Thursday that it would ...
Microsoft has revealed to many of its partners a price increase that will see user client access licences (CALs) rising by 15 per cent. From December 1 2012, Microsoft will increase the price of user CALs, which allow an individual user ...
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Acer,one of the big-five PC vendors,has put back the launch of its own Windows RT tablets following the launch of the Microsoft Surface and the mixed reviews that it has received. The company is unlikely to release a similar product ...
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