Is your home passive? By that, I don't mean "does your home lie there like a bump on a log"! The passive home movement, which originated in Europe, is crossing over to US shores in a big way, and it's changing the way we think about energy ...
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Two days after a Microsoft-made YouTube app arrived for Windows Phone, Google blocked Microsoft's access??- Sometimes, it just ain't easy being a Windows Phone owner. A mere two days after a revamped,?Microsoft-made YouTube app landed on ...
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Microsoft has directly accused Google of sabotaging the YouTube app on the Windows Phone platform with "impossible roadblocks", accusing the web company - which owns the video streaming network - of demanding unnecessary development ...
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Google has bowed to concerns over unauthorised eavesdropping by announcing that it will start to automatically encrypt data stored in Google Cloud Storage. The company says that it will use 128-bit advanced encryption standard (AES) ...
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As the BlackBerry brand slowly dies, considerations are being made about what do do with its assets, including more than 5,000 US patents built up over a decade of innovation in the mobile marketplace, and more than 3,700 wireless ...
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Nokia is to release its own tablet computer running Windows RT in September, according to sources in China, where it will be made. The device will feature a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 and will include support for 4G wireless ...
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and McCarthy Building Cos. might soon reach a negotiated settlement in their dispute over the allegedly defective windows the building contractor had installed five years ago. The Federal Reserve Bank ...
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Material scientists have published a study describing how they engineered a spray-on nanocrystal coating that that can control how much light or heat passes through it using electricity. The team, from the US Department of Energy's ...
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Shoppers who tried to buy a Windows RT tablet at Dell's website Friday morning would have seen one listed for US$299. By the end of the day the cheapest tablet came bundled with a keyboard for $479. Dell made several changes to the?RT ...
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After a closed beta for a few months, Lenovo has opened for public preview its Reach consumer cloud service, which is a “cloud desktop” service through which applications can be launched without downloading and installing them ...
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Microsoft has confirmed the release date for Windows 8.1 as 17 October. The firm said on the Windows blog that it the Windows 8.1 update will be live at 12am on 18 October in New Zealand, so that’s midday on 17 October here in the ...
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The much-anticipated update for Windows 8 will begin shipping on October 17, delivering a set of changes that Microsoft hopes will calm critics and improve sales of the tablet-optimized OS. Windows 8.1, previously known as Windows Blue, ...
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Microsoft will start selling its struggling Surface devices to business customers abroad via channel partners on Thursday. The move builds on a similar effort Microsoft launched in July to tap distributors and resellers to push Surface ...
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Nokia is hoping to boost the number of applications available for the Asha 501 to make it more competitive with low-cost Android smartphones with the release Thursday of the first version of a software development kit (SDK) for the phone. ...
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The market for x86 open-source PCs is now a two-horse race, with GizmoSphere releasing schematics and design documents for hobbyists to build from scratch a Windows 8 computer based on open design. The barebones PC runs on an Advanced ...
Tags: Windows 8, Open-Source PCs