DELL has unveiled plans to go private in a $US24.4 billion ($23.4bn) deal which would give founder Michael Dell a chance to reshape the former number one PC maker. "I believe this transaction will open an exciting new chapter for Dell, ...
IDG News Service - Users of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service (RDS) can now keep track of their databases with new notifications via email and SMS. Amazon's Simple Notification Service (SNS) will give administrators a ...
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Office 365 Home Premium for Windows 8 brings with it massive change, possibly the biggest since Office 2003. But the change is not so much about adding Windows 8 touchscreen capability to Office. Sure, it's there, but Office 365HP is ...
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Lenovo showcased its ThinkPad Tablet 2 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, and within days had it on sale globally, including through its online store. At 10mm thick and weighing from 565g, it is a stylish, ...
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The pace of development in the Google ecosystem means that Apple is fast losing it's first-mover advantage in mobile, with sales of Android apps in the Google Play store booming in the fourth quarter of 2012, while the growth in sales of ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft today announced that it would open five new retail stores by summer, including one it's transmuting from a "pop-up" outlet created last year to drive holiday sales. The new stores will be in Honolulu (Ala Moana ...
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Microsoft's XNA development environment-a platform popular with independent videogame programmers for the Xbox 360 console-has been marked for retirement by the company. In an email sent to Microsoft MVPs(most valued professionals)on ...
Global smartphone shipments grew 43% annually from 490.5 million units in 2011 to a record 700.1 million units in 2012, according to a report from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service. Samsung was the star ...
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Office 365 Home Premium for Windows 8 brings with it massive change, possibly the biggest since Office 2003. But the change is not so much about adding Windows 8 touchscreen capability to Office. Sure, it's there, but Office 365HP is ...
D|C|CADD, a leading Autodesk solutions provider offering software and services to the building, infrastructure, and manufacturing communities, recently announced the release of an updated version of D|C|Tools, its popular collection of ...
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Windows 8 fell further behind the pace of Windows Vista's uptake last month, a metric company said today, even as usage share of the new operating system continued to slowly climb. Statistics from Net Applications showed that Windows 8's ...
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A coffeemaker embedded with Swarovski crystals seems a little over the countertop but maybe it takes a little bling to make an everyday appliance seem less prosaic. Fortunately, the Cuisinart Crystal coffeemaker had other attributes ...
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The Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Roadster launched this week at Miami’s Homestead Speedway this week with some sobering news – the supercar will be priced from US$795,000, plus taxes. That’s a US$33,500 hike on the ...
Net Application’s January desktop usage data was released last week, showing that Windows 8 adoption has been worse than Vista’s was after just three months of it being released. However, Microsoft found a silver lining in the ...
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Nokia last week began rolling out a Windows Phone 7.8 updated for its Lumia smartphones. The mobile phone manufacturer is gradually releasing Windows Phone 7.8 for the Lumia 510, 610, 710, 800 and 900 over the course of February. Users ...
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