Microsoft‘s two-pronged push into the tablet market, consisting of the Windows RT and Windows 8 operating systems, confuses customers, an IDC analyst said on Wednesday. The company should instead focus on the more robust Windows 8 ...
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Google's decision to bring its Android and Chrome divisions together under Sundar Pichai should result in greater work between the two platforms, but Pichai first needs to rein in the fast expanding operating system and bring some order to ...
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Twitter has released an app for Windows 8, with several features designed specifically for the new operating system from Microsoft. The company said the app features two Windows charms for searching and making posts on Twitter. The search ...
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Qualcomm has a big, well-funded research and development operation, but its program for commercializing innovations is still a learning experience for the wireless chip maker. Qualcomm Labs was set up about two-and-a-half years ago to ...
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Mozilla won't be building Firefox for iOS unless Apple changes its rules, a company executive said Saturday. Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's vice president of product at Mozilla, told an audience at South by Southwest Interactive (SxSW) that the ...
Until late January, Apple's App Store servers did not encrypt all communications with iOS clients, which exposed users to several potential attacks, according to a Google security researcher. "The Apple App Store and associated ...
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Yole Développement announced today its new report “UV LEDs: Technology & Application Trends” which presents UV LED new applications and associated market metrics for the period 2012-2020, and a deep analysis of UV LED ...
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Microsoft on Monday kicked off a two-month promotion that gives college students Office 365 for up to six months free of charge. The deal is the first trial offered for Office 365 University, a four-year subscription plan that lets ...
The WB250F is part of Samsung's new SMART Camera 2.0 range of 6 relatively inexpensive WiFi enabled pocket cameras. Source: The Australian SAMSUNG today launched a new range of cheap, WiFi-connected cameras in Australia in a push to snare ...
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LiveHive Inc. today launches LiveHive, a solution that enables anyone to seamlessly collect, organize, share and discuss their work from anywhere at anytime. LiveHive uniquely redefines collaboration for the cloud generation by bringing ...
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In yet another nod to the explosive growth of lighting technologies, Philips has announced the launch of software that will enable people to control lighting through their iOS devices - be it an iPad tablet computer or just their iPhone ...
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New ways in which people can use their voices, hand gestures and head-and-eye movements to operate computers are being developed by software engineers using Intel tools, it was reported last week. In coming years, their research is ...
Tech enthusiasts at South by Southwest Interactive exploring the exhibit hall's gizmos and apps on Sunday were greeted a little differently at one booth -- the figure approaching them was not a person but a television-sized monitor mounted ...
Could anonymous chat be the next big thing? At this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the place that helped put Twitter and FourSquare on the map, a fledgling app for anonymous chatting is gaining some traction. GhostPost is giving ...
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Apple's new parental security offering includes finger painting - you roll your finger over areas of an iPhone display to stop your kids accessing content. It's an intriguing feature implemented with little fanfare but one of many options ...