NanoTech Entertainment is announcing price and availability for its 4K media player, the Nuvola NP-1, and 4K streaming video service, NanoFlix UHD – both industry firsts. The new NP-1 player will cost $299, the lowest-price 4K player ...
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Microsoft has poked fun at Apple in a new 30-second advert, in which it mocks the iPad. The advert, dubbed "Windows 8: Less calling, more doing", pits the iPad against the Asus VivoTab Smart tablet, which runs on Windows 8, with Siri ...
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Many IT security vendors have a minimal understanding of industrial control systems (ICS) and try to sell technology that could easily damage the devices found in plants running the nation’s critical infrastructure, experts say. In ...
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A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" just days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash PCs or gain additional access rights. ...
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Opera Software today released the first beta version of its flagship browser that uses the open-source WebKit rendering engine, making good on a pledge from February. "Opera Next" -- analogous to a beta -- shipped Tuesday for Windows and ...
IDC today drastically lowered its forecast for PC shipments in 2013, a prediction that if accurate means more bad news for Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. "Lower PC sales are certainly not a positive for Microsoft," said Loren ...
Windows 8 has not found wide adoption among desktop users, so HP has announced a new portable all-in-one and lowered the price of touch PCs so users can take advantage of the operating system. The company introduced the Envy Rove, which ...
Advanced Micro Devices has opened the door to embrace Google's Android operating system, but said it would continue to focus on Windows with its upcoming tablet and laptop chips. AMD on multiple occasions has said it had no interest in ...
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Customer satisfaction with Microsoft's software, primarily Windows, dropped slightly in the last year, likely part of the fallout over Windows 8, a national survey released today said. Microsoft scored 74 points, down a point from the ...
Finnish startup Jolla has announced its first smartphone, which shows off its Sailfish OS on a 4.5-inch screen. The device integrates the company's unique back covers with the software, allowing the look to change and new features to be ...
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A boutique system builder has bucked the industry trend of slumping PC sales by continuing to focus on selling Windows 7 machines. Auburn, Wash.-based Puget Systems grew sales 20% in 2012, said Jon Bach, president of the independent PC ...
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Devices built around Apple's iOS operating system have been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense for use on its networks, as the department moves to support multivendor mobile devices and operating systems. The Defense Information ...
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Dell last week again blamed Windows 8 for contributing to a decline in PC sales revenue during the quarter that ended May 3. "Windows 8 has been, from our standpoint, not necessarily the catalyst to drive accelerated growth that we had ...
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Microsoft has today announced the Xbox One, its new entry in the home videogames console market. The device is supposedly intended to answer a question that Microsoft asked itself for the project: "Can we improve a living room that's ...
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Bucking the BYOD trend, Canadian Tire is issuing BlackBerry Q10 and Z10 smartphones to its corporate employees. An overwhelming majority of the Toronto-based company's 3,000 corporate users requested the Q10, which features a physical ...
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