A version of Microsoft's Age of Empires game franchise will be developed for iPhones and Android devices, the first time an official Microsoft title will be released for the mobile platforms. The initial title will be developed in English ...
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Microsoft today confirmed that Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) will be ported to Windows 7, but declined to name a release date. The announcement, made during a Wednesday session at the company's BUILD developers conference, was first ...
While important, Google's new policy of scanning apps for malware before making them available on the official Chrome Web Store falls short of providing maximum protection, one expert says. Google launched an automated process for malware ...
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As mobile device shipments overtake those of PCs,cross-platform tool developer Xamarin hopes to get more enterprises to adapt their apps for Android and iOS with the help of its.Net Mobility Scanner. Xamarin's new tool shows how much of a ...
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Microsoft needs "to do a better job of telling the world" about Windows 8's features as a "fully-fledged" HTML 5 application platform, the company's general manager of platform strategy, Tim O'Brien, said today. Speaking at a session on ...
Each time any one of the billion Facebook users visits the social networking site,the company's servers must assemble data--user posts,likes,shares,images--from hundreds or even thousands of different servers around the globe.The page must ...
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MICROSOFT has debuted a "re-blended" version of the overhauled Windows 8 operating system released late last year. also previewed new office apps for its Windows Metro interface, but said they would not be released until next year. ...
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LOOKING for a safe password? You can give HQbgbiZVu9AWcqoSZmChwgtMYTrM7HE3ObVWGepMeOsJf4iHMyNXMT1BrySA4d7 a try. Good luck memorising it. Sixty-three random alpha-numeric characters - in this case, generated by an online password ...
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One little video game console.170+new games and growing.17,000 registered game developers.And gamers ready to play.OUYA is here. OUYA,a new kind of video game console,launches today at retail locations across the U.S.,Canada,and ...
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BD Diagnostics and Diagenode have jointly announced the Europe-only launch of a new real-time Diagenode Bordetella pertussis/parapertussis real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) kit for use on the BD MAX System. Timely detection of ...
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Microsoft today must deliver on expectations that have been mounting since the sluggish start of Windows 8 eight months ago, analysts said. "This is an important turning point; this is about keeping the energy in Windows 8 and keeping ...
Spanish operator Telefonica is worried about the Android-iOS smartphone duopoly, and has joined with Microsoft in a marketing blitz that it hopes will convince consumers to pick up smartphones based on Windows Phone. For one year, ...
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Sprint announced Wednesday it will soon sell two Windows Phone 8 smartphones that run over fast LTE, the HTC 8XT and the Samsung ATIV S Neo. The HTC 8XT smartphone will be available from Sprint later this summer. (Photo: HTC) The 8XT ...
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Developers find Firefox OS the most compelling among new smartphone OSes, generating more interest than Tizen and BlackBerry 10, even though no commercial products have been launched for it yet. For the first time, IDC and cross-platform ...
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Microsoft kicked off its Build conference in San Francisco this week by releasing a preview of the next version of its Visual Studio IDE, as well as updates to other development tools. How user input and follow-up interactions are ...
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