Microsoft Rant, Apple Envy in Redmond

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Microsoft Bashes Apple's iWork Software, New iPads - Mac Rumors: "Microsoft's corporate vice president of communications, Frank Shaw, today took to the Official Microsoft Blog to denounce both Apple's revamped iWork software and the company's well-received decision to distribute it as a free upgrade for existing users. . . ."

Apple's Newest Strategy: Free

San Francisco Chronicle
Microsoft couldn't give Windows away. Not even Google gives away software like this. Apple's position as an integrated hardware/software company makes ...

Computerworld

Apple Targets Microsoft Office With Free Apps - NYTimes.com: "At an event meant to feature its latest iPad tablet computing devices, Apple on Tuesday took aim at one of the biggest and seemingly unassailable businesses of its rival Microsoft, its Office software for tasks like word processing and spreadsheets.Apple said iWork, a set of applications for Macs, iPads and iPhones that essentially duplicates what Microsoft’s Office offers customers, would be free to anyone who bought a new Macintosh computer or mobile device from Apple. Each Apple app used to cost $10 apiece. The latest version of the Macintosh operating system, Mavericks, will also be free. . . ."

Microsoft exec scoffs at talk that Apple's free iWork threatens Office

Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft's head of communications took shots today atApple's decision to give away its iWork productivity software, calling the move "an ...

Economic Times

Startup Cover bets on Android's market clout, ...
CNET
A trio of veterans from Google, Facebook, and Yahoo tries to make Android phones more useful by anticipating the apps you want the moment you wake up a device. Something they couldn't do on iOS. Stephen Shankland. by Stephen Shankland. October 24 ...

Apple Fixes The Two Worst Errors In iOS 7

Forbes
There were two significant errors in Apple's Apple's first release of iOS 7. The first was that there's a minority of the population subject to motion sickness.

RedOrbit

Amazon Exec Rebuts Book About Amazon In Amazon Book Review

Forbes
Eating your own dog food is a bedrock tenet of tech industry religion. So if you're a longtime Amazon executive — and former high school classmate of Jeff ...

New York Times

Apple Wins Patent-Infringement Trial Against Wi-Lan

Bloomberg
Apple Inc. (AAPL) won a patent-infringement trial in which Wi-Lan Inc. was seeking $248 million from the iPhone maker over an invention for wireless technology ...

SlashGear

Apple's Free Software Is the Ultimate Fragmentation Fighter

TIME (blog)
Microsoft bundles it with the Surface 2 tablet, an offer which is reminiscent of what Apple is doing with iWork. But Microsoft is even less likely to start giving away ...

New York Times

Google Chromebook concept gaining momentum

Boston Globe
Chromebooks are designed by Google and a number of traditional PC makers, ... created by Google as an alternative to bulkier software like Microsoft Corp. ... An app for Amazon.com's Kindle e-book service lets you store your favorite titles on ... Full-fledged personal computers running Windows and Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X ...

Microsoft cuts Surface Pro prices by a further $100, now starting at ...

Matt Brian
With the next-generation Surface now on sale in 21 countries, Microsoft probably needs to clear out whatever Surface Pros are still lingering in.
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Eucalyptus tightens ties between its own and Amazon's clouds ...

Barb Darrow
The new 3.4 release enables management of private and Amazon public cloud ... Microsoft keeps building its hybrid cloud with Windows Azure updates. Oct. 22 ...
Gigaom

How Apple makes their high-precision computing machines

Jason Kottke
Even by Apple standards, the video showing how the new Mac Pro is made is a great little piece of cinema. ... What makes Apple fascinating is not that they are using some wiz-bang alien technologies to ...

Microsoft's Office oxygen supply problem - BetaNews

Sridhar Vembu
Google, OpenOffice, LibreOffice and my company Zoho have all offered free office ... Why do Apple or Google or Zoho all want to commoditize Microsoft Office?...
BetaNews

Thoughts on the Apple Event - The Loop

Jim Dalrymple
I've been asked quite a few times today which Apple announcement I thought was the biggest—the blockbuster release that people would be talking about for...
The Loop

Apple may have sold 15M (now old) iPads during the September ...

Ed Sutherland
Normally, selling 170 million of anything is cause for headlines, but everyone isn't Apple. When CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday the tech giant has sold 170 million.
iDownloadBlog.com

Apple - Up-to-Date Program for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
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www.apple.com/creativity-apps/mac/up-to-date/

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Microsoft, Device Strategy Failure, Apple Envy

With Windows revenue falling and Windows Phone a distant third behind Android and iOS, with roughly 3% of smartphone sales, can this hardware quest possibly end well? (source infra)

Microsoft Should Get Out Of The Device Business
InformationWeek
Microsoft must get over Apple envy and play in the real world of mobile. First step: Unchain Microsoft software from Windows.... The Surface Pro's 10.6-inch screen is too big, the price too high, the battery life too ... (read more at link above)

Alibaba Invests in a Search Engine for Apps
New York Times
The Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group wears a number of hats, with commerce sites, a payment system and a search engine. It is also a tech investor. Quixey, a search engine for apps, announced on Thursday that it had raised a $50 million financing ...

FBI Captures Alleged Silk Road Pirate Boss Using His Own Methods
Businessweek
For two years, cybercrime experts from the FBI pored over the secretive online drug bazaar known as Silk Road -- an underground operation that had become, by the time the FBI shut it down this week, the venue for $1 billion worth of illegal transactions, ...

Tesla Stock Falls on Crash Video
Wall Street Journal
Tesla Motors Inc. won a victory in its efforts to sell its electric cars directly in the U.S., where state dealers associates and lawmakers have fought its efforts to set up company-owned sales outlets. The Palo Alto, Calif., maker of $70,000 and up electric sedans ...

Apple acknowledges bug in iOS 7, promises fix
IBNLive
New Delhi: Following complaints from iOS 7 users who are unable to send messages through iMessage, Apple acknowledged that there was a glitch and promised to fix the issue. "We are aware of an issue that affects a fraction of a percent of our iMessage ...

Google to bring India's top heritage sites online

NDTV
New Delhi: Technology giant Google on Thursday tied up with the government and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to bring online the country's major ...

NDTV

Google buys Flutter, a gesture recognition startup

PCWorld
Google has acquired Flutter, a gesture recognition company whose technology lets people control music and movies on their desktop by waving their hands....

Times of India

How Google's Calico aims to fight aging and 'solve death'

CNN
(CNN) -- It is an age-old question: will humankind ever defeat old age? Plenty of skin care companies would like us to believe so. And now, the multinational ...

Microsoft to Trial 'White Space' Wireless Technology in UK

Wall Street Journal (blog)
Microsoft to Trial 'White Space' Wireless Technology in U.K. ... U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. is one of the headline companies taking part in Europe's first ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Microsoft's Gadgeteer aims to make creating gadgets as simple as ...

ZDNet
Summary: Microsoft is hoping the 'Put tab A into slot B' simplicity of its Gadgeteer .... and are available direct from the manufacturers, as well as through Amazon.

ZDNet

Google Nexus 5

CNET
Even though Google hasn't made anything official quite yet (not even the launch ... 5 outperforming all other Android devices and rivaling Apple'siPhone 5S....

Technology Bloom News

Google and the Transformation of Marketing

Wall Street Journal
I spoke this week at the Google Analytics Summit in Mountain View, and couldn't help being impressed with the pace of change at both Google Inc. and the ...

Apple one step closer to building new 'spaceship' headquarters

CNET
Apple one step closer to building new 'spaceship' headquarters. Cupertino's planning commission approved Apple's plans to construct its brand new corporate ...

SlashGear

It's Not You - How To Know When Apple Services Are Down | Cult of ...

Rob LeFebvre
It may be you, but now you know, right? Apple reported some system outages early Wednesday, with multiple services going down between 9:30 and 11:00 am.Cult of Mac 

Google Play gift cards now available in Canada - Phandroid.com

Quentyn Kennemer
Some good news has hit the wire for our friends in Canada -- Google Play gift cards are now available for your consumption! You can get them in denominations ...

Phandroid

Google Nexus 5
CNET
Rumors and conjecture have been floating around for much of the summer, and now details seem to be falling into place quickly for the updated flagship Android smartphone. Even though Google hasn't made anything official quite yet (not even the launch ...

NSA: Yes we 'experimented' with US mobile tracking. But we didn't inhale
Register
Analysis The US National Security Agency has recently admitted to experimenting with bulk collection of mobile phone locations, but denied it ever actually used the information. This is unlike its European contemporaries, which apparently devolved the task ...

Snapchat lets photos live for a day with 'Stories'
CNET
The new feature allows the photos and videos you share with friends to live for a full 24 hours before disappearing. Lance Whitney. by Lance Whitney. October 3, 2013 8:32 AM PDT. Follow @lancewhit. (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET). Snapchat ...

Flutter-BYE, we're all Google now: Ad giant slurps gesture-tastic app-maker
Register
The machine vision technology outfit was co-founded by San Francisco-based Navneet Dalal and Mehul Nariyawala three years ago. CEO Dalal announced that Google had scooped up their firm, which specialises in controlling apps such as Apple's iTunes ...

Intel outfits open-source Galileo DIY computer with new Quark chip
PCWorld
With its first computer based on the extremely low-power Quark processor, Intel is tapping into the 'maker' community to figure out ways the new chip could be best used. The chip maker announced the Galileo computer -- which is a board without a case ...

Samsung HomeSync launching on October 6 for $299.99
The Droid Guy
Samsung's own Google TV alternative, dubbed as the HomeSync finally has a release date in the U.S. This home set top box/media hub can be yours for $299.99 beginning from October 6. This multimedia hub will connect to any television with an HDMI port ...

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