Showing posts with label Microsoft Windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft Windows. Show all posts

14 November 2014

Robots, Artificial Intelligence, To Take Your Job? (video)

Could a Robot or AI Take Your Job?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Draper Fisher Jurvetson Partner Steve Jurvetson discusses the future of robots and artificial intelligence on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 11/12)

The Difficulties With A BlackBerry Partnership In China - BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ:BBRY) | Seeking Alpha"....I see little if any value in a Chinese BlackBerry partnership since the company's whole value proposition is security. It would be different if BlackBerry had one million native apps and an army of developers working for the platform. If this were the case, I could see Lenovo and others licensing BB10 for that value alone. But this is not the reality...."


New York Times

Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute
New York Times
Books and other items at an Amazon warehouse in Phoenix. ... Amazon and Hachette announced Thursday that they had resolved their differences ...
Amazon, Hachette End Publishing Dispute - Wall Street Journal
Amazon And Hachette End Battle, Settle On E-book Pricing - Forbes
Amazon, Hachette End Monthslong Dispute - ABC News


CNN

Separated at birth, reunited on Facebook
CNN
(CNN) -- Anais Bordier and Samantha Futerman have the same laugh and the same freckled cheeks. They wear their hair the same way and have ...


CNET

Microsoft patches 19-year-old Windows bug
CNET
This reveals basic vulnerabilities in PC technology. For one, it's up to users to apply patches to keep their machines secure. Yet security-conscious ...

How to Switch to Google's New Messenger App for SMS
How to Open Links in Your Mobile Browser Instead of the Facebook App ... How to Switch to Google's New Messenger App for SMS ... The app itself is fully fitted out with Google's new Material Design look and the colors of your ...


VentureBeat

Strap a phablet to your face: Oculus VR releases mobile dev kit
VentureBeat
Facebook's virtual-reality company just unleashed its mobile software-development kit on its website, and you can pick it up now to start building software for mobile VR. While Oculus has made headlines for nearly two years thanks to its powerful Rift headset, ...


Livemint

Samsung chases curved smartphone wave to beat flat-screen crowd
Livemint
Samsung declined to give early sales figures or expected profit margins for the Note Edge, but the specialist screen technology required means the curved display is difficult to make and likely more expensive. Photo: Reuters. Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co.

Pew Study: Americans Fear They've Lost Control of Personal Data
eWeek
A Pew Research study examined how Americans view the privacy of their personal information in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations about online government snooping. The Pew Research Internet Project published a study on Nov. 12 that reveals ...


USA TODAY

Sony previews upcoming PlayStation Vue cloud TV service
USA TODAY
Sony plans to begin testing its new subscription cloud TV service PlayStation Vue in New York City later this month. After that initial test of the service, which is delivered via the Net to PlayStation 4 and PS3 game systems, Sony expects to launch the service in ...


CNNMoney

People Still Aren't Downloading iOS 8
Huffington Post
... Apple has stopped providing an update to its new iOS 8 mobile operating software, following complaints by some ...

Android Lollipop
Ars Technica

Android's biggest update ever revamps nearly every part of the OS.
Ars Technica
Android updates don't matter anymore—or at least that's what many people think. Back-to-back-to-back Jelly Bean releases and a KitKat release seemed to only polish what already existed. When Google took the wraps off of "Android L" at Google I/O, though, ...


SlashGear

iPad Pro now rumored for late 2015 launch
SlashGear
The iPad Pro has many tablet hounds excited, and those who may want to ditch their laptop for a large-screen tablet even more anticipatory, but we're still not getting our hands on it. After being rumored for release at just about every interval you could think of, ...


Xiaomi Escalating The Great Ecosystem Battle | Seeking Alpha"In the smartphone space, MIUI's closed ecosystem mimics that of iOS and differentiates from other mobile operating systems with features that are most relevant to Chinese users whereas Apple and Google have avoided localization of their mobile OS, a strategy I believe could be detrimental to their growth in a highly-localized Chinese market."

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14 January 2014

Windows PC Shipments Decline Worst in History

Microsoft Windows PCs -- going, going, gone?

2013 saw worst global decline of PC shipments in history: "PC shipments have seen their steepest decline in history, according to analysts at Gartner. Total PC shipments for 2013 reached 315.9 million units – a 10% decline in shipments from 2012. According to Gartner, this is equal to the number of shipments achieved in 2009."

Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 6.9 Percent in Fourth Quarter of 2013: Newsroom\Announcements\Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 6.9 Percent in Fourth...Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 6.9 Percent in Fourth Quarter of 2013 In 2013, Global PC Shipments Suffered the Worst Decline in PC Market History, But Analysts Say [hope?]* Industry Has Bottomed Out *expri.com editor's note

How the 'value trap' squeezes Windows PC makers' revenues and profits | Technology | theguardian.com: "As one unnamed LG employee told the Korean Times, exiting the PC business makes sense: "it doesn't make sense to put more resources into the money-losing business.""


Microsoft to reveal Windows 'Threshold' plans in April, ...
CNET
Microsoft to reveal Windows 'Threshold' plans in April, says report. Microsoft's Windows team may share its high-level plans for its next-generation Windows "Threshold" release at its upcoming Build developers show, according to a new sourced report...

Google to Buy Nest Labs for $3.2 Billion
New York Times
Tony Fadell, the founder and chief executive of Nest, holding up his company's Protect smoke alarm. Peter DaSilva for The New York Times. Google agreed to buy Nest Labs on Monday, in a $3.2 billion deal that will expand the technology giant's portfolio of ...


Google X staffers meet with FDA on devices
San Francisco Chronicle
Google Inc. sent employees with ties to its secretive X research group to meet with federal regulators who oversee medical devices, raising the possibility of a new product that may involve biosensors from the unit that developed computerized glasses...

Google Redraws Detroit's Map
Wall Street Journal
Think of the apology Apple had to issue in 2012 following criticism of a new version of its own Maps app, which was designed to replace Google's.

Apple's Mac ends up in tablet cannibal pot, too

Computerworld
30, 2013, the end of Apple's fiscal year, Mac sales contracted 10% ... able to accept cannibalization -- something PC makers and Microsoft have had a ...

Apple brilliantly waxes poetic in new iPad Air ad

CNET
While Google has made considerable progress in mimicking and sometimes subsuming Apple's emotional credentials, an ad like this reaches for ...

Apple Insider

Microsoft more trusted than Apple, study says

CNET
A Forrester analysis suggests what some might find surprising: Microsoft ... to the muscular manner in which Google is now trying to entice people to ...

Apple wakes up to India's potential

Times of India
BANGALORE: India - After deliberating for months, Abhilash Sathyendra, a 25-year-old equity adviser in Mysore, India, bought his first Apple phone....

Economic Times

Google Glass used in yet another surgery, this time in India

NDTV
Wearable computers and electronics were the biggest crowd pullers this year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). And just to showcase how ...

Ubergizmo

Google and Ryanair to launch airline ticket service

eTurboNews
Internet giant Google is working on top-secret plans with Michael O'Leary's Ryanair in a bid to completely transform how consumers search for, select ...

eTurboNews

Preston Gralla: Apple is still making it hard to think differently

Computerworld (blog)
Computerworld - Apple, which famously fashioned itself as a friend of rebels ... Apple would do well to follow the examples set by Yahoo and Google...

Amazon's bogus anti-Apple crusade

Salon
You may remember that Amazon helped persuade the U.S. Department of ... he's devised sound legal strategies to sue Blue Cross, Microsoft and Visa in ... In the Amazon case, Berman has alleged that Apple and the publishers ...

Apple Watch: The danger of proliferation

New Zealand Herald
Almost everyone knows the current Apple lineup: Mac mini, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro. iPhone 4s, 5c and 5s, iPad and iPad mini.


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13 January 2014

Windows 8.1 is a disaster, Windows 8 a debacle and "tanking"

When long-time Microsoft and Windows Champion Paul Thurrott writes those words (in the headline above), you know it's bad news for Microsoft and Windows 8 --

  "Threshold" to be Called Windows 9, Ship in April 2015 | Windows 8 content from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: " .... Windows 8 is tanking harder than Microsoft is comfortable discussing in public, and the latest release, Windows 8.1, which is a substantial and free upgrade with major improvements over the original release, is in use on less than 25 million PCs at the moment. That's a disaster, and Threshold needs to strike a better balance between meeting the needs of over a billion traditional PC users while enticing users to adopt this new Windows on new types of personal computing devices. In short, it needs to be everything that Windows 8 is not. . . . To distance itself from the Windows 8 debacle, Microsoft is currently planning to drop the Windows 8 name and brand this next release as Windows 9...."

Microsoft hacked by Syrian Electronic Army again

ZDNet
The first tweet was a retweet from @Official_SEA16 during the last attack: "Don't use Microsoft emails(hotmail,outlook),They are monitoring your ...

ZDNet

Microsoft Should Embrace Nokia's Android Project

Forbes
When Microsoft's purchase of Nokia's Devices and Services section is ... tightly to their online services as the Nexus handsets are tied to Google's. ... find in the Chinese markets, CyanogenMod and Amazon's Kindle Fire OS, .... (already WP outsells apple in many markets and the big EU 5 will included ...

Google violating norms: BJP MP

Zee News
Bangalore: Accusing search engine giant Google of violating Indian norms for showing strategic locations of the country, BJP Rajya Sabha member ...

Economic Times

This Famous Google Exec Quit His Job To Work In China — And ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
For years, Hugo Barra was one of the most visible executives at Google. He was a product manager for its Android team. Every year at Google's ...

Business Insider Australia

Google fined for privacy violation in France

Tech Times
Google is in a bit of trouble as the company has just been slapped with a ...According to the CNIL, Google

Tech Times

Amazon aims to take over the world by extending reach

The Age
And evolve is exactly what Amazon, which did not exist until 1995, has ...Apple and Google are punished or celebrated on a quarterly basis for any ...

The Province

Apple, Amazon punished for success

New York Post
Moas — who, to be sure, isn't a top-tier analyst with a big New York bank — has had enough of Apple's and Amazon's capitalistic, profitable ways....

Microsoft's Twitter account: Don't use our e-mail

CNET
In an apparent hacking of the Microsoft News Twitter account, a tweet emerges saying the company sells customer data to the government. The Syrian ...

Alliances between Google, automakers spur privacy questions

Torrington Register Citizen
Very soon, your car may become a blabbermouth. A series of deals announced this week between technology firms such as Google and automakers ...

DigitalJournal.com

Beats Music Launches to Take on Spotify, Google, and Apple

Alice Truong
The launch also marks Beats Music CEO Ian Rogers's year at the company.
Fast Company


Cisco's Focus for the Future: Automated, IP-Enabled, Connected
PC Magazine
Cisco CEO John Chambers made it very clear at CES: The company's direction is toward IP video and Internet-connected everything....

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