Acer CEO J.T. Wang is resigning from his post at the Taiwanese PC maker and will be replaced by president Jim Wong as part of a corporate restructuring that will try to revitalize the company's lagging fortunes. Citing the company's ...
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Microsoft yesterday added Android to the list of mobile operating systems now supported by Office Mobile. But Office Mobile for Android only covers phones, not tablets, limiting its utility. The Android version,?Office Mobile for ...
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Microsoft yesterday added Android to the list of mobile operating systems now supported by Office Mobile. But Office Mobile for Android only covers phones, not tablets, limiting its utility. The Android version,?Office Mobile for ...
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Intel is now looking to the Android operating system as it breaks away from years of optimizing its top line of Core PC processors, including the recently launched Haswell processors, chiefly for Windows. Intel is looking to hire a ...
A majority of consumer and small business Windows 8 PC users launch fewer than one "Modern" app a day, signaling that they're spending most of their time on the classic Windows 7-style desktop, according to data released Wednesday. ...
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Microsoft has released the latest version of its Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite of IT management tools, an upgrade that deepens its ability to manage Windows 8 PC deployments. MDOP 2013, available now via download for the ...
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THE ailing personal computer market is getting weaker, and it's starting to look like it will never fully recover as a new generation of mobile devices reshapes the way people use technology. The latest evidence of the PC's infirmity ...
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InFocus has announced a 55-inch touchscreen PC with Windows 8, which has an upgradeable design that is uncommon in all-in-one PCs. The Big Touch PC comes with a detachable hardware unit that contains a processor, storage and memory and ...
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has spoken out about his dissatisfaction with the pace of innovation at the company he founded in the 1970s. Gates handed over the role of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000 and has been blamed for a number ...
Today is the last day customers can purchase an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for the discounted price of $39.99. Starting tomorrow, Feb. 1, Microsoft will quintuple the price of the upgrade to $199.99. An upgrade to Windows 8, a less-capable ...
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Lenovo's CEO said sales of its Windows 8 PCs have been "normal", neither surpassing nor falling behind expectations, but added that PC-tablet convertible devices using the OS are helping the company break into the high-end segment for the ...
Shortages of touch-enabled Windows notebooks led to a steeper-than-expected decline in PC sales last quarter, an analyst said. According to IDC, global PC shipments in 2012's fourth quarter fell 6.4% compared to the same period in 2011, a ...
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Analyst firm says vendors missed the potential excitement of touch Analyst firm Gartner says that the launch of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system had little effect on PC shipments in the fourth quarter. The firm's analysts said that, ...
NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc., a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the highly anticipated NOOK for Windows 8 app, available to Windows 8 PC and tablet customers ...
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Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year,an analyst said today. Brian White,of Topeka Capital Markets,said that his checks of Asian computer manufacturers--the relatively ...
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