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Cloud services have their failings, and I’m not talking about the usual crashes and cyberattacks. No, sometimes the service just goes away.
Using Microsoft’s Metro technology in Windows 8 is like going to a flashy restaurant where your plate is delivered with a tiny morsel of food in the middle, but the rest of the plate is unused, says one tester.
So, the OEMs make money from installing crapware onto PCs, and now Microsoft is making money removing it. Makes you realize why more and more people are buying Apple hardware.
This inexpensive app turns the iPad (iPhone too) into a full-featured scanner that connects to the cloud. It prints to make copies and can fax documents cheaply over the web.
Microsoft has discovered a new piece of Mac malware that exploits a three-year-old flaw in old versions of Office for Mac. The company recommends Mac users to keep installed software updated.
Ubuntu’s Unity GUI isn’t my speed. But that doesn’t matter for the majority of end-users.
The wait is over. The final version of Canonical’s Ubuntu 12.04, Precise Pangolin is out
Google+’s best feature is that it gives you the power to block people from you, your information, and your messages. Once you do that, they can never darken your social network doorstep again.
Summary: India has hired Microsoft to roll-out student cloud email services to 7 million students in the country; thought to be the world’s largest cloud deployment to date.
A new study conducted by the Birmingham Science City organisation, UK, has questioned just how often children are now using search engines for information — instead of asking living, breathing counterparts such as their parents or teachers.
In an apparent attempt to attract iPad developers, Microsoft has posted a case study comparing iPad app development to Windows 8 Metro-style tablet development.
Over the last two weeks, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been dissected by the technology press at large, and the general consensus about the new Metro start screen UI has been one of befuddlement.
After reading last month’s SEC filings, I was inspired to make some pie charts. Microsoft’s a software company. Apple’s a hardware company. What business is Google in? If you said search, guess again.
FBI to monitor Facebook, Twitter, Myspace
Microsoft is finally delivering on its promise to bring Kinect to the PC with official support, but most people would probably assume it would be most useful with a desktop. Nonetheless, it appears that the motion-control technology could also show up on portable systems,
App inventor for Android becomes open source. Google and MIT have announced an initial free and open-source release of the ‘App Inventor’ source code for Android.
Today’s iBooks 2.0 and iBooks Author announcements were another evolutionary step toward Apple’s total domination of digital content creation and delivery. The problem is that Apple is artificially limiting its new publishing poster child — iBooks — to iOS in order to squeeze every last cent out of consumers that it can.
No, the Linux desktop will never knock off Windows, but it may actually be a bigger player on traditional desktops than usually believed.
Pay special attention to MS12-004, a “critical” bulletin that provides fixes for two serious flaws in the way Windows Media handles certain media files.
In a move that’s sure to raise hackles in Silicon Valley, Microsoft today debuted a new web site designed to raise awareness of security issues in web browsers.
When you visit the site, called Your Browser Matters, it allows you to see a score for the browser you’re using. Well, if you’re using IE, Chrome, or Firefox—other browsers are excluded. Not surprisingly, Microsoft’s latest release, Internet Explorer 9, gets a perfect 4 out of 4:
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