Microsoft's new Windows RT tablets will cost up to$300(£191)less than their Windows 8 counterparts,PC maker Lenovo has said. Microsoft will launch its latest operating system on 26 October and in order to gain traction in the ...
Microsoft's new Windows RT tablets will cost up to$300(£191)less than their Windows 8 counterparts,PC maker Lenovo has said. Microsoft will launch its latest operating system on 26 October and in order to gain traction in the ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft and Nokia will hold a press conference in three weeks, an event that will likely center around Windows Phone 8, the next version of Microsoft's OS for mobile devices. Nokia is a close Microsoft partner in the ...
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Microsoft has decided to stop publishing new apps for Windows Phone on Marketplace,while it addresses an issue that led to users experiencing problems with application downloads this week,the company said in blog post on Tuesday. The ...
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IDG News Service - Android continued to increase its dominance of the smartphone market during the second quarter, powered by Samsung's success. Competitor Apple in contrast struggled somewhat as consumers held out for the next iteration of ...
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Microsoft has opened Windows Phone Dev Center,a new portal for smartphone developers that promises better performance and ease of use along with more markets and support for PayPal,the company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Windows ...
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Qualcomm on Monday said it has appointed a former Intel executive to run marketing as the company expands in the mobile device space. As chief marketing officer, Anand Chandrasekher will handle Qualcomm's global marketing and external ...
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IDG News Service-Box has received$125 million in funding,an infusion the company will use to boost its international expansion and strengthen its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration,storage,file-sharing and content management software. ...
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SkyDrive seemed destined to be another Microsoft also-ran product.Although introduced long before the current wave of cloud-based synchronization and storage services,SkyDrive had a number of frustrating limits,and comprised two separately ...
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Advance demand for Apple's next iPhone is at an all-time high,said a research firm today,predicting huge sales later this year for what most have dubbed the"iPhone 5." A survey of more than 4,000 North American consumers by ChangeWave ...
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Intel isn't actively porting Android to work on tablets based on the upcoming Atom chip code-named Clover Trail,which is purpose built for Microsoft's Windows 8,according to a source familiar with the company's plans. Initial tablets ...
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Quarterly earnings from some of the biggest tech companies in the world this week were decidedly mixed,but showed some signs of strength,particularly in enterprise IT spending. Tech vendors with exposure to the hardware market have ...
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Microsoft reported its first operating loss since the company went public, during its results call last night. The software giant made some revenue gains in the fourth quarter of 2012, rising 4% year-on-year to $18.06bn, but it also ...
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Nokia shipped 10.2 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2012 – 39% less than the same period last year. The company reported its results for Q2 today, which revealed only four million of the 10 million handsets sold were ...
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Nokia has announced its second quarter results for 2012 - and they didn't make pleasant reading. A 19% drop in sales, a 39% fall in smartphone shipments and just four million Lumia devices shipped – compare with Apple, which sold 35 ...
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