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Microsoft exec promotes value of Windows 8 PCs, calls iPad mini a $329 'recreational tablet'After Windows 8 debuted on Thursday, Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky offered his view of the computing landscape, and said PCs represent a great value wh…
... people, as evidenced by the Surface RT which runs a stripped ... launch the more full-featured Surface Pro, which runs a complete ... a short getaway, Microsoft's Surface can "suffice" on longer business ... failed to explain how the Surface RT's price tag of ... -
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer dismisses Apple as a 'low-volume player'As Microsoft revealed that the company sold 4 million upgrades to its new Windows 8 operating system in its first four days, CEO Steve Ballmer dismis…
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iPad mini is Windows 8 hardware makers' worst nightmare, analyst saysApple's iPad mini is predicted to be the source of much strife for competing tablet makers during the upcoming holiday shopping season, and one analy…
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Microsoft said to be testing its own smartphone designIn addition to building its own tablet to compete with the iPad, Microsoft may design and sell its own smartphone to take on Apple's iPhone, accordin…
... new direction when it released Surface, a Microsoft-designed touchscreen tablet ... -
Apple tech can illuminate 'invisible' touch controls, displaysApple on Tuesday was granted a patent for an invention that creates microperforations in a device so small as be imperceptible to the naked eye, but …
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Apple's 'ionic wind generator' may one day replace mechanical computer fansThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday issued Apple a patent for a cooling system that blows ionized air through an electronic device, contr…
... "no slip" condition at the "surface and the mean free stream ... the outer reaches from the surface" of a component. When such ... -
Apple's 'ionic wind generator' may one day replace mechanical computer fansThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday issued Apple a patent for a cooling system that blows ionized air through an electronic device, contr…
... "no slip" condition at the "surface and the mean free stream ... the outer reaches from the surface" of a component. When such ... -
Apple tech can illuminate 'invisible' touch controls, displaysApple on Tuesday was granted a patent for an invention that creates microperforations in a device so small as be imperceptible to the naked eye, but …
Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent for an invention that creates microperforations in a device so small as be imperceptible to the naked eye, but large enough to allow the passage of light, that can be used in concert with multitouch technology to ... -
Windows chief Steven Sinofsky leaves MicrosoftThe head of Microsoft's Windows division Steven Sinofsky is leaving the company effective immediately, with rumors suggesting the circumstances are s…
... the launch of Windows 8, Surface and Halo 4, among other ... operating system, as well as Surface, the company's first in ... -
Apple looks to suppress noise created by iPhone 'vibrate' functionApple is investigating ways to make the iPhone's "silent mode" truly silent by monitoring audible sound levels generated by a phone's vibrator and ad…
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Steve Ballmer hints Microsoft plans to build more hardwareMicrosoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has signaled that his company will likely build more devices following the release of the Surface tablet, in …
... following the release of the Surface tablet, in an Apple-like ... build more devices like the Surface. "It is absolutely clear there ... Zune media player, but the Surface tablet released last month represents ... -
Windows 8 sales fall short of Microsoft's internal projectionsInitial sales of the Windows 8 operating system are said to be "well below" Microsoft's internal projections. Citing a "trusted" source, Paul Thurot…
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Apple trounces Microsoft in Black Friday retail traffic, purchasesA comparison of Apple and Microsoft retail stores on Black Friday found that nearly 5 times as many items were purchased per hour at the Apple Store.…
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Microsoft to raise user licensing fees in response to 'BYOD' movementStarting Dec. 1, Microsoft will raise the price of user client-access licenses (CALs) for enterprise customers that allow employees to access work so…
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Black Friday sales of Windows notebooks down 10%, Apple's MacBooks stay flatRetail sales of Apple notebooks on Black Friday were flat year over year as overall consumer electronics sales declined nearly 6 percent, while sales…
... well as Kindle products, Microsoft Surface, mobile phones and video games ... -
Apple's iPad projected to control 50% of tablet shipments through 2016Apple's total share of the growing worldwide tablet market is forecast to shrink slightly but maintain iPad dominance through the year 2016 in the fa…
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Time Magazine names Apple's iPhone 5 its 'Gadget of the Year'In its annual list of the best gadgets available, <em>Time</em> has named Apple's new iPhone 5 the top device of 2012, while the 15-inch MacBook Pro …
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Dell exec warned Microsoft that Windows RT branding would confuse consumersAn executive at one of Microsoft's largest PC partners, Dell, warned that the "Windows RT" branding for its tablet operating system might confuse con…
... , such as the Microsoft Surface touchscreen tablet. Further confusing ... expanding availability of the Surface beyond its own retail ... . While the entry-level Surface running Windows RT cannot ... applications, Microsoft's forthcoming Surface Pro tablet will run ... -
Apple's iPhone takes 68.2% of new small & medium business smartphone activationsA new survey of small- and medium-size business smartphone activations found that Apple's iPhone controls the lion's share of growth, while the iPad …
... Microsoft Surface came in third with 2.1 percent. While the Surface ... was small, Intermedia noted that Surface activations grew 45 percent month ... -
Rumor: Fifth-gen iPad to debut in March with iPad mini design cuesApple is reportedly preparing a thinner, lighter fifth-generation iPad model ahead of a March unveiling, only five months after the most recent versi…
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App Store highlights to kick off 2013<strong>Cycloramic</strong> <a href="http://appleinsider.com/l/?link=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cycloramic/id587578368?mt=8">Cycloramic</a> is …
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Amazon's Kindle Fire gains marketshare at expense of iPad over holidays, research showsA study of web usage over the holidays in North America saw Apple's iPad marketshare fall 7.14 percent, while competing devices from Amazon, Samsung …
A study of web usage over the holidays in North America saw Apple's iPad marketshare fall 7.14 percent, while competing devices from Amazon, Samsung and Google gained a total of 5.5 percent over the same period. -
Lenovo's IdeaCentre Horizon 'table PC' is a 27" portable computerLenovo on Monday unveiled an interesting, if not completely useful, "slate" PC in the IdeaCentre Horizon, a 27" multitouch all-in-one that can conver…
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Crayola, Griffin target child artists with Crayola Tools for Apple's iPadGriffin Technology has partnered with Crayola to showcase three creative tools made for the iPad, each of which uses the tablet's unique features to …
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Samsung nixes plans for Windows RT tablets in US, citing 'modest' demandSamsung no longer plans to launch a tablet in the U.S. running Microsoft's Windows RT platform due to a number of factors, including consumer confusi…
... return policies for its own Surface tablet running Windows RT. The ... hardware once they discovered the Surface cannot run traditional Windows applications ... -
Apple wins patent for glass-on-metal trackpad designed by Jobs & IveApple on Tuesday was awarded a patent for the design of the glass trackpad atop the aluminum unibody enclosure of its MacBook lineup. <div align="ce…
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Microsoft quarterly results reflect troubled PC market, middling Windows 8 launchMicrosoft this week announced its second quarter of fiscal 2013 earnings, revealing more than 60 million Windows 8 licenses sold. Industry observers,…
... provide sales numbers for the Surface RT. The Redmond giant pulled ... major computer hardware initiative, the Surface RT. The Windows RT-based ... Klein said several times that Surface sales were among the top ... -
Rumor: Apple's low-cost iPhone to have 4" screen, mostly plastic bodyThe rumored low-cost iPhone from Apple will feature a largely plastic body that will be noticeably thicker than the iPod touch, according to a new re…
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Apple's 128GB iPad aims to drive profits up a path competitors can't easily followApple's surprise unveiling of a new "fat" iPad 4 model equipped with 128 gigabytes of storage expands the company's tablet platform offerings into pr…
... to ARM, it released its Surface RT as a desktop/mobile ... device. Microsoft's solution is Surface Pro, an even more expensive ...
