Microsoft has dumped the Metro name for the tile-based interface used for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone. According to an internal Microsoft memo seen by technology news site TheVerge, a discussion with one of the firm's European ...
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Tablet makers have tried to chip away at Apple’s popularity by offering much cheaper products, but Microsoft has taken the unusual step of going head-to-head on pricing with the iPad. An analyst says there’s good reason for ...
Danish company The Eye Tribe is leading a new project that will make it possible to control smartphones and tablets using eye movements. The three-year project is called "Eye Tracking for mobile devices" and toy maker Lego Systems is ...
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VMware has fleshed out its desktop virtualisation strategy with a suite of products designed to make desktop computing more manageable by using workspace aggregation. As 30 June, 2014 – the end of support date for Windows XP – ...
Microsoft confirmed yesterday that the new Office 2013 will not run on older PCs powered by Windows XP or Vista. "The new Office will work with Windows 7 and Windows 8," a Microsoft spokesperson said Monday in an email reply to questions ...
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Hewlett-Packard has no plans to launch a smartphone next year but will need to sell one eventually to avoid missing out on "a huge segment of the population," CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, clarifying remarks she made last month. Whitman ...
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Lenovo reported record sales of $8.4bn during its fiscal third quarter 2012, an increase of 44% year-over-year, in its latest results. Lenovo said it experienced increased demand in commercial PC opportunities across Western Europe and ...
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A Microsoft-commissioned report published last week said companies can save tens of thousands of dollars in support and development costs by standardizing on one browser. Although the report, conducted by Forrester Research and paid for ...
According to the new research results announced by EMCO Software, enterprise and SMB companies can reduce power consumption by 40% using a PC power management solution. REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, July 09, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- EMCO ...
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Acer saw sales stalll in its second quarter, down 2.2% compared to the first three months of the year. The Taiwanese company said it didn’t expect revenue to pick up until its fourth quarter. But Acer will start shipping ...
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The Scorpius Forge Gmbh (www.scorpius-forge.com), is a young company that is currently working on the conception, development and realisation of a new game generation for mobile end devices (smartphones, tablets). BLAUSTEIN, GERMANY, July ...
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Microsoft's first-time move Tuesday to update Windows 8 before the OS launches is a sign of the company's continued edging toward practices long held by rivals Apple and Google, analysts said today. On Tuesday, alongside the usual Patch ...
Vodafone is the latest UK technology company to invest in start-up technology businesses in London. The mobile giant will open a new technology and incubation centre in East London, an area dubbed as Tech City due to its proximity to the ...
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Microsoft today launched a new version of its development centre for Windows Phone devices, hoping to encourage more developers to create apps compatible with the mobile software. The Dev Centre has evolved from the App Hub previously ...
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Since 2010, solid state drive (SSD) prices for some models have plummeted from $3 to less than $1 per gigabyte. After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year, according ...
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