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Lower Average Selling Prices Will Help Keep The Global Market for Technology in 2014
Jan 9, 2014Lower average selling prices for millions of new smartphones and tablets will help keep the global market for technology in 2014 at 1% below last year’s level, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. The global technology ...
Tags: Consumer Tech, Computer Products
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Samsung Launched Its Own Smartphones with a Similar Design
Nov 19, 2013Apple’s global marketing chief has told a court how his firm’s job became much tougher after Samsung launched its own smartphones with a similar design. Schiller told an eight-person jury that Samsung’s infringement of ...
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Apple Will Launch a High-Resolution iPad Mini
Aug 5, 2013Apple will launch a high-resolution, Retina-equipped iPad Mini this fall or in early 2014. Or it won't. Citing "people familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) today claimed that Apple suppliers will ...
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Submissions to Microsoft's Windows Store, After Stalling, Are Again on The Increase
Jul 1, 2013Submissions to Microsoft's Windows Store, after stalling earlier this year, are again on the increase, perhaps because developers have been reinvigorated by talk of Windows 8.1 and this week's BUILD conference. According to the MetroStore ...
Tags: APP, Windows, software, Computer Products
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Microsoft Must Deliver on Expectations Since The Sluggish Start of Windows 8
Jun 26, 2013Microsoft today must deliver on expectations that have been mounting since the sluggish start of Windows 8 eight months ago, analysts said. "This is an important turning point; this is about keeping the energy in Windows 8 and keeping ...
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The Shift Toward Smaller Tablets Will Accelerate in The Second Half of The Year
Jun 18, 2013The shift toward smaller tablets will accelerate in the second half of the year when a slew of tablet makers, including Apple, introduce new models with screens 8-in. or smaller, said Richard Shim, an analyst with DisplaySearch. Although ...
Tags: Smaller Tablets, 2013
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Microsoft Has Cut Prices of Windows 8 and Windows RT Licenses to Hardware Partners
Jun 5, 2013Microsoft today confirmed what many analysts suspected, that it has cut prices of Windows 8 and Windows RT licenses to hardware partners building smaller-sized tablets as a way to drop device prices and juice sales. Analysts questioned ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows, Free Office
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When It Comes to Tablets,Microsoft and Its OEMs Don't Know Where They're Going
Jun 3, 2013When it comes to tablets, Microsoft and its OEMs don't know where they're going, an analyst said today. "There's still the idea that they don't quite get it," said Carolina Milanesi of Gartner in an interview. "And I don't think the ...
Tags: Microsoft, Tablet Strategy
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HTC Has Canceled Plans to Develop a Larger Windows RT Tablet
May 31, 2013HTC has canceled plans to develop a larger Windows RT tablet because demand for tablets based on the Microsoft operating system has been weak, unnamed sources told Bloomberg. HTC will still release an ARM-based 7-in. Windows RT tablet in ...
Tags: HTC, Large Windows RT Tablets
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Microsoft's Investment May Reap Some Rewards as It Prepares to Ship Smaller Tablets
May 22, 2013Microsoft has gotten next to nothing from its $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble, analysts said, but it may reap some rewards as it prepares to ship smaller tablets. In April 2012, Microsoft and the bookseller announced a new, ...
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Microsoft Has Gotten Little From a 2012 Investment of $300 Million with Barnes & Noble
May 9, 2013Microsoft has gotten little from a 2012 investment of $300 million with Barnes & Noble, analysts said, but it's poised to reap some rewards as it and its partners start to ship smaller tablets. On April 30, 2012, Microsoft and the ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8 certification
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Microsoft Announced It Had Sold 100 Million Copies of Windows 8
May 9, 2013Microsoft today announced it had sold 100 million copies of Windows 8, its first statement on sales milestones since January. In a blog post and interviews with several influential bloggers and media outlets such as the New York Times and ...
Tags: Microsoft, Computer Products
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Microsoft Is Retooling The Latest Version of Its Windows Operating System
May 9, 2013Microsoft is retooling the latest version of its Windows operating system to address complaints and confusion that have been blamed for deepening a slump in personal computer sales. The tune up won't be released to consumers and ...
Tags: Home Button, Microsoft, Computer Products
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Microsoft Will Launch a New Line of Surface Tablets Later This Year
Apr 15, 2013Microsoft will launch a new line of Surface tablets later this year, including one or more smaller 7-in. devices, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report was published just hours after research firms IDC and Gartner spelled out a ...
Tags: Microsoft, Surface tablets
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Microsoft Has Relaxed a Windows 8 Certification Requirement
Apr 3, 2013Microsoft has relaxed a Windows 8 certification requirement to allow devices with lower resolutions, a move analysts said signaled Microsoft would soon join the accelerating shift to smaller, less expensive tablets. "The sub-eight-inch ...
