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Windows 8 touchscreen devices to cost more, Dell says

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:05:30 GMT

Touchscreen laptops and tablets with the upcoming Windows 8 OS will be priced higher than their non-touchscreen counterparts, Dell's CEO said on Tuesday. Dell will offer a full complement of Windows 8 products when Microsoft launches its new OS, CEO Michael Dell said during the company's quarterly earnings call. The touchscreen Windows 8 products will occupy [...]

Chrome becomes top browser

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:46:14 GMT

In just a few short years, Google's Chrome browser has taken the world by storm. In the latest update to what appears to be an amazing trend for Google, the company has managed to break into an industry that had been historically stale and resistant to change, and turned it on its head. When it comes to [...]

Yahoo agrees to sell back partial stake to Alibaba

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:43:52 GMT

Yahoo has agreed to sell off about half of its stake in Alibaba Group back to the Chinese e-commerce giant as part of a US$7.1 billion deal, the two companies jointly announced on Monday. The sell off means Alibaba will buy back about 20 percent of its own company stake from Yahoo, giving the Chinese e-commerce [...]

China approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:17:43 GMT

Chinese regulatory authorities have approved Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, paving the way for the deal to close within the week, company officials confirmed Saturday. The companies announced last August that they had entered into an agreement for Google to acquire mobile phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion. "We are pleased that the [...]

Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma

Sat, 19 May 2012 10:54:25 GMT

The mobile gift-giving app Karma announced Friday it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's first day as a publicly traded company. Karma allows users to buy gifts from its catalogue from their mobile phones. Recipients receive a text message notifying them of the gift and directing them [...]

Apple bows to pressure over renewable energy

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:43:54 GMT

If you want to get Apple to do something, try dressing up as a giant iPhone. It's worked for Greenpeace, whose campaign against the company's reliance on 'dirty power' has succeeded. Apple's now announced that by the end of this year, its controversial data center in Maiden, North Carolina, will be fuelled entirely by renewable sources. The [...]

Microsoft will remove bloatware on your PC for $99

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:30:33 GMT

According to AllThingD, Microsoft is offering to install a clean copy of Windows given that customers will bring their PCs to any Microsoft store and pay the $99 fee. The program, unknown to most computer users, is an offshoot of Microsoft’s “Signature” PC initiative, which sells bloatware-free versions of PCs from Microsoft’s [...]

Google eyes Chrome browser for iOS  

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:45:01 GMT

Google is reportedly coding an iOS-specific version of its Chrome browser for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.   According to analysts at Macquarie Equities Research, Chrome on iOS would be mutually beneficial for both Mountain View and Cupertino. Indeed, the browser could significantly reduce the amount of money Mountain View pays to Apple for the use [...]

AMD unveils Trinity chipsets to challenge Ivy Bridge

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:25:13 GMT

Like Intel's rival Ivy Bridge release, the update includes up to four CPU (central processing unit) cores and a single GPU (graphics processing unit). AMD claims its product offers gamers a superior experience. The first computers using the chips go on sale in June, with the US launch of a Hewlett Packard "Sleekbook". AMD's focus on low power [...]

Adobe backpedals, will now patch software for free

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:32:30 GMT

After being pummeled by customers and security experts for telling users to spend hundreds of dollars on upgrades because it wasn't going to patch critical bugs in older versions of its software, Adobe has reversed course. The company will now fix the eight vulnerabilities in the one-year-old Illustrator and Flash Professional CS5.5, and the two-year-old Photoshop [...]

Microsoft Bing goes social in search war with Google

Sat, 12 May 2012 08:58:37 GMT

Microsoft's move to boost Bing's social networking feaures could finally give it an opportunity to truly take on Google's dominant search engine, analysts say. The updated Bing search engine, unveiled on Thursday, can now include the user comments, likes and activities posted in popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights [...]

Microsoft touts Windows 8's ability to detect, fix hard disk problems

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:00:20 GMT

Microsoft has revamped the way Windows 8 monitors hard disk operations and detects problems in an effort to make the diagnostic and repair process less intrusive and disruptive, even as disk capacity continues to balloon. The improvements in Windows 8 center on the ChkDsk utility, which inspects the hard disk and checks for a variety of [...]

Google Seeks New Trial In Oracle Fight

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:45:41 GMT

Google on Tuesday filed a motion asking the judge hearing Oracle's copyright and patent lawsuit against Google to declare a mistrial. Google's legal team on Monday indicated it would seek a new trial when the jury returned an incomplete verdict. The jury found that Google had infringed on some of Oracle's copyrighted Java APIs, though not [...]

Microsoft showcases new audio-based gesture control system

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:42:39 GMT

We can probably credit Nintendo for kicking off the most recent push to advance motion control gaming. Indeed, the Nintendo Wii was the first gaming console to bring motion control to the mainstream public. However, I think Microsoft helped significantly evolve the technology with its Kinect motion control system - as a player needs nothing but [...]

US judge lets Microsoft continue to sell products with disputed patents

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:07:28 GMT

A U.S. judge has declined to lift an unusual order that prevents Motorola Mobility from enforcing a ban in Germany on the sale of Microsoft's Windows 7 OS and XBox 360. The federal judge in Seattle said Monday he could revisit his order that the German ruling not be enforced if circumstances change, representatives from Microsoft [...]