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(Wall Street Journal) — Apple: Coming off a highly successful 2010, in which it introduced a new category of portable computer—the multitouch tablet—and sold millions of the product, Apple will have to withstand an onslaught of competitors by wowing consumers again with the second version of the iPad. At the same time, it will have […]
(Daily Finance) — The U.S. has made many strides over the past century toward treating people with equality regardless of the color of their skin, but it seems that technology, surprisingly, has moved at a slower pace. The launch of Microsoft’s (MSFT) long-anticipated motion-sensing video game, Kinect for Xbox 360, has fueled the debate over whether […]
(Washington Post) — Google has filed a lawsuit against the Interior Department claiming that the agency favored competitor Microsoft when considering bids for a new Web-based e-mail system. In an action filed with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Friday, Google asked the court to halt the Interior Department’s bidding process, which it says is […]
(New York Times) — We used to wrestle with managing overstuffed closets and bookcases teetering on collapse. Now our digital closets are overflowing, too: Facebook wall messages. Tweets. LinkedIn profiles and messages. Family photo albums. A music collection from Gustav Mahler to Manu Chao. Thanks to cloud computing, we now have seemingly limitless, Internet-based storage. But our […]
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(Black Web 2.0) — It seems that Microsoft has finally redeemed themselves in the Windows 7 operating system, selling 150 million licenses of the new operating system so far. After Windows XP, Vista was released, to the dismay of many customers and users. To this day, there are people still running XP because they are […]
(Washington Informer) — The Fenty Administration committed to strengthening the local workforce, today announced a major public-private partnership between Microsoft and the District of Columbia, to provide free technology training to individuals. Through its Elevate America initiative, Microsoft is partnering with the D.C. Department of Employment Services to donate 11,250 vouchers for no-cost, online technology […]
(BET News) — To appeal to families ready to graduate from the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Corp. wants to build on the success of the Wii’s motion-capture wand — by getting rid of the wand entirely. On Monday, Microsoft detailed its new Kinect gametechnology, coming this fall for the Xbox 360 game console. Once known as Project Natal, the […]
(TG Daily) — Microsoft, Intel and Google have teamed up with ISPs and others to create a broadbandtechnical group advising on net neutrality and other issues. The Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG or TAG) will be headed by Dale Hatfield, adjunct professor of the University of Colorado at Boulder and a former FederalCommunications Commission (FCC) […]
(Wall Street Journal) — I am writing this in Microsoft Word, hardly an unusual way to author a document. But I’m not using Word as you know it—part of the large, complex Microsoft Office suite installed on your computer’s hard drive. Instead, I am using a new, streamlined version of Word that for the first time […]
(TG Daily) — Google ditches Windows. Hell breaks loose! Pink newspaper roils the Internets. Windows users cry, “D’oh!” I feel redonkulous for writing this, but I am a headline Slore and it is my job. So, Google, a known Microsoft uber-user (not), decides to ditch Windows because of security concerns. Read More…