While Microsoft has enjoyed many successes over the past year, Windows Phone 7 hasn’t been among them, admitted Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during the opening keynote Monday at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, being held this week in Los Angeles.
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App store vendors need to collaborate more closely to keep smartphone users safe, including putting together a system for grading application security, according to E.U. cybersecurity agency ENISA.
On Tuesday, the agency p...
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Apple's ad welcoming IBM to the market upon introduction of the IBM PC. On August 12, 1981, IBM announced its first PC. That makes today the thirtieth anniversary of the platform that’s sometimes been called the PC clone, IBM PC compatible, or Wintel…but is most often simply called the PC. We start...
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Apple on Thursday announced that more than 15 billion apps have been downloaded from the iOS App Store. According to Apple, more than 200 million iOS device users have installed those billions of apps from the store’s selection of 425,000 apps—including 100,000 native iPad apps.
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The TouchPad may not have yet captured the hearts and minds of users everywhere, but Apple may be expecting big demand for the next iPhone. Elsewhere, Google bids adieu to a couple of venerable brands. But don’t worry, the remainders for Tuesday, July 5, 2011 aren’t bound for the dust heap quite...
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Take it from someone who lives in one: sometimes things seem to make sense if you don’t see the forest for the trees. This week one silly pundit wonders why people even buy Apple products when they’re so fraught with problems! (Seriously, he wrote that.) The Wall Street Journal thinks an Amazon ta...
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I have a four-year-old 17-inch Sony VAIO laptop. Everything worked great until I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. The laptop crashed, and even after I formatted the drive and did a clean reinstall of Windows 7, it continued to crash. Whenever I got it to boot, it produced lines in any video th...
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One of the best parts of writing Macworld's weekly case roundups is that I get to see the wide range of products that manufacturers dream up. This week is a perfect example: We've got the whimsical, the practical, and the sheer elegant. Let's dive in!
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It’s more than a week later and we’re still cleaning up the mess of the storm that raged through our community. No, not hurricane Irene, hurricane Steve Jobs Steps Down (which, like Irene, would make a really pretty name for a girl). One pundit has been swept from the ranks of Mac users while anothe...
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Tim Cook launches the Verizon iPhone earlier this year.With the resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO on Wednesday, Tim Cook, long seen as “the operations guy” at Apple, must prove he is capable of taking full charge of the company.
Cook was viewed by some as a natural successor to Jobs. In his role a...
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