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  • Nokia Fires 10K, Looks to Undercut Cheap Android Phones
    Nokia says it's cutting 10,000 jobs and expects its second quarter to be worse than the first. This is bad news for Microsoft, which has teamed with the company formerly known as the world's largest cell phone maker in hopes of finally capturing a piece of the mobile market.
    17 hours ago
  • Is Chrome OS Ready for Prime Time?
    JR Raphael has posted his take over at Computerworld on the new Chrome OS and Chromebooks after spending the last two weeks with his head in Google's cloud. His personal perspective on the Chromebook's evolution: After two weeks of using Google's evolved Chrome OS on the new Chromebook and Chromebox, personally, I'm sold.  I have no doubt that I'll replace ...
    18 hours ago
  • Battle of the Cloud Awards
    Last month the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) picked winners of its annual CODiE awards from the main categories of business software, digital content and education. Nearing their 50th anniversary the CODiE¿s are the industry¿s only peer-reviewed awards program where live demos and trail access are mandatory. This year, 119 finalists were selected from ...
    06.13.12
  • Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox
    Inside a data center in San Jose, California, Dropbox is running servers equipped with solid-state drives, also known as SSDs -- super-fast storage devices that could one day replace traditional hard drives. The company doesn't use SSDs in all its servers, but it's moving in that direction. In other words, Dropbox is indicative of the web's leading services.
    06.13.12
  • Google Is Evil
    It's bad enough when you run a search company in an increasingly social world. It's worse when anti-trust regulators say you have unfairly and illegally used your dominance in search to promote your own products over those of competitors. Now Google executives, who like to boast of their company's informal motto, "Don't Be Evil," also stand accused of being just that -- and rightly so. What other interpretation is possible in light of persistent allegations that the internet titan deliberately engaged in ¿the single greatest breach in the history of privacy¿ and "one of the biggest violations of data protection laws that we had ever seen?¿
    06.12.12
  • Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
    Who says Microsoft doesn¿t listen? After developers complained that the free version of Microsoft¿s new Visual Studio programming kit would only let them build Windows applications if they use Microsoft¿s new touch-happy Metro interface, the software giant has changed its tune. The company will now offer a free version of Visual Studio that lets them build ordinary Windows desktop applications as well.
    06.11.12
  • Linus Torvalds: Windows 8 Secure Boot Doesn't Destroy Linux
    Many Linux lovers are worried that Microsoft's new Secure Boot technology will make it more difficult to get the open source operating system onto machines that originally ship with Windows 8. But Linux founder Linus Torvalds believes that the complaints are overblown. The bigger issue, he says, is that Secure Boot can be hacked.
    06.11.12
  • Get Paid for Your Data on Facebook
    As the dust settles around the Facebook IPO, the important question becomes not what went wrong, but rather, how will Facebook create value to justify its lofty valuation?
    06.11.12
  • Microsoft Sorry for Gaffe That Gives New Meaning to Norwegian Wood
    The precarious tightrope walk otherwise known as "turning a Microsoft developer event into something fun" has claimed a victim. This time, it's a Scandanavian Microsoft contractor who just couldn't find a good rhyme for the word genius in putting together a little dance number at the software giant's Norwegian Developer's Conference, held in Oslo this past week.
    06.10.12
  • 10 Must-Have Desktop Apps for Makers
    When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad he called it the next wave of personal computing. He was quick to add that Apple's original product line, the Mac, still had a role, but compared it to a truck. Desktops and laptops were cast as workhorses to be used to haul heavy-duty software and apps. The utilities on this list fit that description.
    06.07.12
  • E3, Irrelevant? Tell That to the Fans
    E3 will always be relevant, because gamers will always care. Especially the millions of hardcore gamers, who spend serious bank on their hobby and await gaming news with bated breath.
    06.07.12
  • Google Apps Contracts Steeled for Europeans
    Google says it will update the user contracts for Google Apps -- its suit of online business applications -- to better comply with the European Union's rules on sharing personal data abroad.
    06.07.12


 

 

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