Windows 8's uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, an analytics company said today. According to Net Applications, Windows 8's February usage share -- including what the firm labeled as "touch" for Windows 8 and ...
Touch-based Windows 8 notebooks have been selling well for Taiwanese PC maker Asus, but overall Microsoft's new operating system has yet to find a major following, the company said. "I think the acceptance of Windows 8 in Q4 is not so ...
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Oracle has ported one of its most coveted Solaris tools to the Linux platform, a real-time debugging tool called DTrace, though the company has made it officially available only for its own Oracle Linux distribution. With the release of ...
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Windows 8′s uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, an analytics company said today. According to Net Applications, Windows 8′s February usage share — including what the firm labelled as ...
Tags: Windows 8, uptake pace, Net Applications
BlackBerry has started rolling out the first software update for its flagship Z10 smartphone. The Z10 running on the BlackBerry 10 operating system has got its first firmware upgrade based on user feedback. BlackBerry 10.0.10.85 brings a ...
Microsoft's new version of Windows written for ARM processors may not be an unqualified success, but ARM CEO Warren East said the software maker will learn from its mistakes with Windows RT and come back with a better product. "I'm well ...
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Visual 2000 International Inc. is launching a new Visual SFA.net Tablet app for the iPad, iPhone, Android, Surface and other Windows-based tablets and smartphones. The powerful yet simple-to-use mobile sales force automation (SFA) solution ...
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General Dynamics is looking to bring U.S. government-level security to consumer smartphones, allowing organizations to benefit from the type of strong data protection only available on expensive and clunky mobile terminals. The company is ...
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Groupon's founder and chief executive, Andrew Mason, has been fired following a string of poor financial results. In a candid memo to Groupon's staff Mason said: "After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've ...
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APC is organising another set of embedded workshops at the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley park on the 16th of April. The event is in a slightly different format to the ones held previously - it is a one day workshop held in ...
Jo Harlow, Nokia’s executive, revealed to the media a few days ago that Nokia may push a full keyboard smartphone Windows Phone operating system. Nokia released Lumia 520 and Lumia 720 smartphones on the Mobile World Congress, ...
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Facebook is rolling out a patch to fix a rare bug in its API that had apparently been leaking users' phone numbers to app developers. The glitch, which was first reported back in June 2012, was affecting the email field in some mobile ...
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Congatec has ported the Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating system to a Qseven embedded module based on the Freescale i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 processor. Windows Embedded Compact 7 (WEC7) is the latest generation of Windows CE operating ...
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A senior executive of Samsung said on Monday at MWC that Samsung is not interested in the Mozilla Firefox operating system. The industry have pointed out, this statement was not surprising, because Samsung has other mobile operating ...
Microsoft Surface RT is expected to be sold to consumers in Japan, this version can run the Microsoft Office RT and IE10 desktop applications, but only for application in the Windows app store. The price of 32GB version of the Surface RT ...