Loading ...Acer is capitalizing on its recent purchase of device maker E-Ten, and will likely launch a Microsoft-based smartphone near the end of this year
Acer will likely launch its first smartphone near the end of this year or early next year and it will be a Microsoft-based device, the president of the company said Wednesday.
Smartphones will [...]
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EBay-owned Skype has released into open beta testing a client for mobile phones that supports phone calls, chat and other features of the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) application.
“This product is a part of our goal to be on as many platforms as possible,” said Wilhelm Lundborg, product manager, Skype for Business.
About 50 handsets [...]
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Launch follows move from T-Mobile to AT&T service
AT&T Inc. and Starbucks Corp. today announced the start of a nationwide rollout of Wi-Fi service at some Starbucks coffee shops, starting with locations in San Antonio.
The nationwide rollout will continue throughout 2008, the companies said in a statement. The deal was first announced Feb. 11, when Starbucks [...]
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Yahoo Inc. plans to make its Web site a social hub by hosting applications from other online services, part of the Internet pioneer’s effort to spawn more advertising opportunities.
“We are going to rewire the entire experience at Yahoo to make it social in every dimension,” Ari Balogh, Yahoo’s chief technology officer, said Thursday at a [...]
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The death of Windows XP may have been greatly exaggerated.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company could re-evaluate its plans to phase out Windows XP by June 30, if customers demand that it stick around. So far, they have not.
“XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies, we can always [...]
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LED Lightbulb - Lasts 30 Years uses 80 Percent Less Power
You read correctly. It’s a beautiful story just in time for Earth Day. The Lighting Science Group company has developed an LED light bulb in a variety of sizes that will replace your current energy wasting light bulbs in both residential and commercial [...]
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Class-action case over Vista marketing program to resume
Microsoft Corp.’s attempt to reverse a lower court’s ruling in the ongoing “Vista Capable” lawsuit was denied by an appeals court on Monday. The decision means the case can resume.
It also means that new insider e-mails subpoenaed from Microsoft and nearly 30 other companies could be made public.
In [...]
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Apple was recently granted a patent that shows an interesting new application that looks eerily similar to the iPhone’s SMS feature. There are some big differences that set it apart, though. It includes new methods for interacting with ongoing conversations, including a word predictor. This could be the eagerly-hoped-for native instant messenger app.
Apple first applied [...]
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Western Digital’s 10,000 rpm, 300GB high-performance hard drive chomps through the competition.
Western Digital picked an extremely appropriate name for its new 10,000 rpm (rotations per minute) hard drive. Dubbed the VelociRaptor, this new drive screamed through the PC World Test Center’s performance tests. Velocity is clearly the raison d’etre for this drive: The VelociRaptor handily [...]
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