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The sad truth is that Google and Microsoft care less about making cool products than they do about hurting each other. Their fighting has little to do with helping customers and a lot to do with helping themselves to a bigger slice of the money.
In time for Black Friday, Microsoft and eBay are partnering to offer eBay Daily Deals to Internet Explorer 8 users directly from the browser. Via a Internet Explorer Web Slice, Microsoft will offer users the best "Daily Deals" from eBay from within the browser. The deals will be found within Favorites Bar on IE8, and will be updated daily within the browser. In conjunction with the new feature ...
A panel of top Microsoft developers professed their preference for old-school development methods and offered opinions on what's next for programmers.
If there’s one thing that both Google and Microsoft agree on, it’s that search isn’t solved yet. Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Mayer has said :
Taiwan's Acer Inc, the world's No.2 PC maker, said Microsoft Corp's Windows 7 operating system launch last month has been positive for year-end PC sales, though the gains were within expectations.
MicroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that its free reporting software package, MicroStrategy Reporting ...
LAKE PLACID — A Lake Placid figure and speed skater and blogger is in a contest to blog at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Christie Sausa, 19, founder and author of the blog Lake Placid Skater, is one of the five semifinalists in the student category of the Microsoft Office Winter Games Blogging Contest, according to U..
Anyone who has known someone addicted to WoW or another MMORPG can see where this gamer is coming from. However, based on his lawsuits against Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo it appears as if he is just trying to take advantage of the litigious nature of the United States. Erik Estavillo claims that the game has caused him unnecessary stress and he takes issue with several aspects of the game ...
Corel, the Canadian company that acquired the once great WordPerfect and Quattro Pro from Novell intending to take on Microsoft, is going private again. Vector Capital, the private equity house that owns over 68% of the company is offering $4 a share cash, nearly a 28% premium, for the rest of it, having upped the offer from $3.50 to get management’s backing. read more
Microsoft's interim Windows Mobile update could have significant updates designed explicitly for touch, a pair of leaks show. A Microsoft representative seeking anonymity has claimed that previous shots of "6.5.1" are accurate but that it's not necessarily a straight patch. Instead, the larger, bottom-only buttons are meant to provide an alternative interface for capacitive touchscreens; the ...
Silicon: "Why Microsoft could become one of the "biggest friends of open source" and why Oracle getting its hands on MySQL could be "one of the biggest open source coups ever"
Microsoft is trying to lure news providers to its Bing search engine.
Hugh Pickens writes "Nicholas Carr has an interesting analysis of Rupert Murdoch's threat to de-list News Corp's stories from Google and Microsoft's eager offer to make Bing Murdoch's exclusive search engine for its content. Carr writes that newspapers are caught in a classic Prisoner's Dilemma with Google because Google's search engine 'prevents them from making decent money online — by ...
Available in 4 screen sizes from 7-15 in., Micro Client IIA Panel PCs can serve as universal HMI for various visualization tasks. IP65-protected units feature resistive touch screen and support thin client concepts from RDP for Microsoft Windows-based servers to Linux-based open platforms with browser based Java clients. Fanless PCs offer 2 x 10/1000 Ethernet, 2 external USB 2.0 ports, and 1 x ...
Remember the day when those 7-inch Origami UMPCs blundered onto the scene with weak Intel processors overpowered by Microsoft's heavyweight OS? This ViewSonic N01 apparently isn't one of them, though we couldn't fault you for being deceived. Sure it's running XP but it's Intel's 1.1GHz Atom Z510 doing the processing chores beneath a display approximating 6 to 7 inches. Ok, ok, it is a UMPC ...
The Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000’s thinness and light weight make it ideal for travel, but it’s a basic keyboard that will require you adjust to its design and layout.
Basic mouse and keyboarding skills are needed and space is limited. To register, stop by or call 603-886-6030.
If you'd rather spend $450 than $25, this column probably isn't for you. For the rest of us who are on tight budgets these days, take a look at Office Suite 2009, an incredibly competent replacement for the much more expensive Microsoft Office 2007.
MyCRM launches a fully integrated Microsoft Dynamics CRM email marketing add-on facility called eCampiagn for Microsoft CRM 4.0 [PR.com - November 27, 2009]
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Ex-Microsoft big wheel Patrick De Smedt has joined construction and regeneration group Morgan Sindall as a non-executive director.
To spam or not to spam, it's all in the presentation. See if you can spot if this is a genuine email from Microsoft, or a semi-elaborate spam mesage. by Zack Whittaker
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