Developers find Firefox OS the most compelling among new smartphone OSes, generating more interest than Tizen and BlackBerry 10, even though no commercial products have been launched for it yet. For the first time, IDC and cross-platform ...
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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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In its ongoing challenge to attract more users to Windows 8, Microsoft is offering bits of its Bing Internet search service to boost the functionality of third-party Windows Store applications. "We're opening up Bing as an application ...
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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 ...
If you don't have an Internet-connected television or Blu-ray player but would still like access to the growing amount of content available online, a separate streaming media player is an easy, inexpensive solution. While Apple TV and Roku ...
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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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Google is hoping to appease developers that want better portability for their hosted apps by working with Red Hat on running App Engine in private clouds. The Google Cloud Platform team has been working with Red Hat’s JBoss ...
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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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Mobile Helix, the enterprise application and data security platform provider, has launched Link, which it describes as the industry’s first pure HTML5 platform. Link unlocks enterprise productivity by combining unparalleled security ...
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Organize and share your digital life with Badger! Badger is a social content-sharing application available for Android that lets you organize and share your videos, photos, and locations. Create beautiful badges to group your favorite ...
Blackboard today unveiled Mosaic, a unique platform that gives schools and universities a radically different approach to deploying mobile apps. While institutions can spend months developing apps and lack flexibility to make changes once ...
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Capgemini is introducing a hybrid cloud orchestration service focused on Microsoft products, although enterprises will be able to manage any load with the offering, including applications running on Linux, the company said. The core of ...
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Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group is putting yet more effort behind Mozilla's Firefox OS, and plans to hire up to 3,000 people in Taiwan with expertise in HTML5 and cloud computing. On Thursday, Foxconn said it was looking ...
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Samsung on Thursday announced nine new products, including smartphones, tablets and a smart camera, but the biggest breakthrough product was a 13.3-in. convertible tablet called the ATIV Q that runs both Android Jelly Bean and Windows 8. ...