IDG News Service - Citrix Systems has started to detail the future of Windows desktops and applications in its virtual environments with tech previews of Excalibur and Merlin, the first versions of its Project Avalon. Project Avalon, ...
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The latest release of Google's Chrome browser can render webpages with the resolution of Apple's Retina display, the company said on Tuesday, making good on a commitment it made several weeks ago. This means that users of 15-inch MacBook ...
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Computerworld - The PC isn't experiencing as dramatic of a decline as many have predicted. It's just becoming part of a new spectrum of computing, according to an Intel executive. PC sales have been sluggish over the past year because of ...
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Windows 8 is finally here and the stakes are sky high for Microsoft. "We're so happy to be here today and to celebrate the global availability of a new era of Windows and Windows-powered PCs," said Steven Sinofsky, president of ...
Monday, Microsoft unwrapped the next edition of its Office money maker at a press event and simultaneously launched a public preview for users to try out now. CEO Steve Ballmer touted the new software as "the most ambitious release of ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will probably tie Office apps for the iPhone and iPad to its Office 365 "rental" subscription plans to prevent the mobile apps from cannibalizing sales and to skirt the "Apple tax," analysts said today. "I do see ...
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PC World - There's been plenty of excitement surrounding Firefox OS ever since Mozilla announced its first hardware partners earlier this year, but now it looks like there's yet another open-source operating system entering the scene. Now ...
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Advanced Micro Devices is looking to speed up the delivery of virtual desktops through servers with its latest FirePro S9000 and S7000 graphics cards, which the company started shipping on Monday. The FirePro S9000 server graphics card ...
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Have you noticed that it's just not cool to be in the PC business these days? Granted, it's been no secret that the PC industry has been taking it on the chin for more than a year. With a down economy and people excited about new, smaller ...
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Looking to give developers even more time to migrate to Java 7, Oracle has extended support for Oracle JDK (Java Development Kit) 6 again. Instead of ending support for the JDK, which is Oracle's implementation of Java Platform Standard ...
The company that invented NAND flash, Toshiba, plans to become the third hard drive manufacturer to offer a hybrid drive. Hybrids combine a spinning disk with flash cache to offer near solid-state drive (SSD) performance at a fraction ...
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Oracle has released an out-of-cycle security update to patch newly identified vulnerabilities in Java 7 that have been widely exploited, after the security community urged the company not to wait. The move comes hot on the heels of news ...
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Rapid Protect [TM], a leading mobile solutions company based in NJ, is continuing its innovation in the mobile app field. It recently announced availability of Full Rapid Tracker application on J2ME non-smart feature phones and did major ...
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Windows 8's learning curve isn't as steep as some have claimed, according to PC Helps, an enterprise support and training firm. The operating system "will be difficult to adjust to," said Joe Puckett, director of training at PC Helps. ...
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