Microsoft Surface, Tablet #FAIL

Microsoft Surface tablets are still getting crushed by the iPad, web use data shows -- and combined Surface RT and Surface 2 usage share equals only 6.4% of all North American non iPad tablet Web traffic.  (source: Information Week and chitika.com )

Microsoft Surface Barely Registers On Web Usage

InformationWeek
Apple CEO Tim Cook frequently cites use statistics when dismissing the... Amazon's Kindle devices lost 1.8 percentage points during the same period. ... Google was third (8.2%), followed by Barnes & Noble (7%), and Microsoft (6.4%).

IBTimes.co.uk

And while Microsoft has abandoned desktop and notebook computing by dumbing down its OS, forcing users to a tablet OS (Windows 8 and 8.1) on all PCs, Apple thinks differently --

Apple's new Mac Pro signals commitment to professional computing

Computerworld
IDG News Service - Apple is sending a signal that it hasn't abandoned the professional computing market with the latest Mac Pro, which will ship next month....

KpopStarz

Google brings automatic voice search to computers running Chrome

PCWorld
Laptop and desktop users can now do a Google search without typing just by speaking aloud, with a Chrome extension that Google made available on Tuesday.

Economic Times

Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its ...

Washington Post
Two previously unreleased slides that describe operations againstGoogle and Yahoo include references to Microsoft's Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger ...

The Verge

Google Street View Lands In Airports

InformationWeek
Google took its Street View cameras into a handful of the world's busiest... Travelers can now use Google Street Views to see a preview of the stops along their ...

Inquirer

Amazon at Record Shows Divergent Views on Holiday E-Commerce

Bloomberg
Investors are taking divergent views on Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and EBay Inc. ... Amazon, the world's largest Web retailer, reached a record today, climbing 1.3 ...

Microsoft's New CEO Will Have Gobs Of Money To Reinvigorate The ...

Forbes
MOT wound up in Google's embrace and has simply continued to slide into further ... It is almost like the antithesis of Apple's supposedly intuitive approach to ...

BGR India

Google's sub-$200 Moto G smartphone goes on sale early

San Jose Mercury News
NEW YORK -- Motorola will start selling a cheap smartphone in the U.S. more than a month ahead of schedule. The company says it was able to produce the ...

Latino Post

Why Amazon is goosing Prime memberships

Fortune
FORTUNE -- Last Friday, Amazon (AMZN) announced customers can now officially give others a $79 Amazon Prime membership -- a move that came just ...

Hollywood Reporter

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CNET
NASA releases a short movie showing comet ISON's approach near the fiery grasp of the sun over the course of five days. Comet ISON poses for a telescopic photo ...

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