Windows XP has fewer than 500 days left to live,according to Microsoft and third-party countdown clocks. Microsoft will end support for XP on April 8,2014,when it will issue a final security update for the 11-year-old operating ...
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Last year I had the privilege of meeting the fine folks from Three by Three Seattle at the National Stationery show and I ended up reviewing their bamboo dry erase entry butler which I also picked as one of the top office supplies for ...
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Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council's datacentre. It is not a bad place to have an office because the datacentre has been somewhat rejuvenated, thanks in part to modern IT that takes up far less ...
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New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has outlined her strategy for the company, with the focus firmly fixed on mobile and improving the "user experience" of the company's services. Further reading Yahoo's Mayer brings fellow ex-Google exec on ...
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More than 250 touch-screen digital signage displays from LG Electronics are at the heart of a unique program that's bringing interactive kiosks to Manhattan and the outer boroughs over the next several months, LG Electronics USA announced ...
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Usability guru Jakob Nielsen has slammed Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system, accusing the company of hiding everyday features, imposing a tablet paradigm on desktop users, as well as a single-window user interface instead of ...
Microsoft's decision to put two user interfaces (UIs) inside Windows 8 was a strategic mistake that fails novice and experienced computer users alike on both tablets and traditional PCs, a usability expert said Monday. "That was the true ...
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Western Digital today released a 4TB version of its highest performance desktop drive,the WD Black. The new drive has twice the available capacity and its dual processor has double performance of its predecessor.The 4TB WD Black is a ...
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A German couple are not liable for the filesharing activities of their 13-year old son because they told him unauthorized downloading and sharing of copyrighted material was illegal,and they were unaware the boy violated this ...
Computerworld-Enterprise IT decision makers are about half as enthusiastic about the new Windows 8 as they were three years ago about the then-just-released Windows 7,an analyst said today. Employees,however,have a higher-than-expected ...
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Google this week announced it had shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome,making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. Chrome 23,which ...
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SAP has introduced its first cloud-based financial application for the enterprise, which provides real-time data based on the company's Hana in-memory database system. The product is part of SAP's wider One Cloud strategy, which brings ...
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Hewlett-Packard has twice revised its message to customers about downgrading new PCs equipped with Windows 8 to the older Windows 7 in an attempt to clarify its position. In the revisions, HP left open whether it would provide drivers to ...
Dropbox today announced that it has passed 100 million users,and said its customers now save 1 billion files every day. Dropbox,a cloud storage company,also has paying users in more than 200 countries,it said. As of June,about 7%of ...
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Western Digital today introduced a new version of its My Book Studio desktop drive for Mac OS X systems that offers USB 3.0 connectivity and as much as 4TB of storage capacity in a single drive. Drives with USB 3.0,also known as ...
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