A petition on Change.org demanding that Adobe back away from its subscription-only model for its creativity software, including Photoshop, has collected over 4,400 signatures by late Thursday. And those thousands of customers were unhappy ...
Are you tired of paying for cable channels that you never watch? So is Senator John McCain: He's introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013, a bill that would offer incentives to cable companies to offer what's called "a la ...
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Zinio has launched an app now available exclusively for Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices.The app allows readers to buy, download, read and subscribe to some of their favorite magazines from around the world – from Rolling Stone and ...
Microsoft yesterday took a swipe at long-time partner Adobe for the latter's wholesale shift to rent-not-buy software subscriptions, and along the way seemed to promise it would continue to offer Office as old-school perpetual licenses for ...
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Skype's Web-based management tool Manager for businesses is now available in over 170 countries and for all subscriptions, allowing companies to centrally control their usage of the service. Using Skype Manager, administrators can create ...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that the "lack of a delete button on the internet is... a significant issue". In an interview by economist Nouriel Roubini at New York University's business school, Schmidt was asked what he believed ...
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Yahoo has acquired Astrid, a to-do list and personal assistant mobile app, and the developers behind it for an undisclosed sum. The Internet company has acquired both the talent and the technology in the deal, a spokeswoman said in an ...
Just weeks before Microsoft's promised 21 May announcement concerning the next phase of its Xbox 360 gaming platform, the company has released further details of its projector-based IllumiRoom technology. In a video published yesterday, ...
Microsoft's Business division, which manages the company's Office cash cow, recorded a 5% revenue bump in the first quarter over the same period in 2012, an increase driven by a surge in enterprises signing long-term licensing agreements. ...
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Walmart and Target win out over drugstore chains like Rite-Aid, CVS, and Walgreens, as well as supermarkets, on prices for dozens of common, brand-name and generic over-the-counter drugs, according to our team of Secret Shoppers. They ...
SAP reported strong growth in cloud subscription and support revenue in the first quarter, even as the company saw a decline in software and cloud subscription revenue in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region. The business software company ...
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A NEW way for US families to stay close to independent elders that blends modern technology with old fashioned parcel post debuted on crowd-funding website Kickstarter. The system - the brainchild of a startup called Lively - uses ...
Lighting’s sister title The Architects’ Journal has teamed up with Philips to launch Light Shots, a short film competition with a first prize of £500. Architects, architecture students and lighting designers are invited to ...
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Microsoft has sold its Mediaroom IPTV platform to Ericsson in order to solely focus on the Xbox. For Ericsson, the deal will make it the largest provider of "IPTV and multi-screen solutions," it said onMonday. The two companies didn't ...
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DeLorme, which makes personal satellite communications and navigation technology, has announced the launch of its newest product inReach SE (Screen Edition). With 90 percent of the world's surface lacking cell phone coverage, inReach SE is ...
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