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Public donates $76,000 to take on patent troll Having amassed a war chest of $76,000 in public donations and identified crucial “prior art,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation yesterday filed a formal challenge aimed at killing a patent being wielded by Personal Audio LLC against podcasters such as “The Adam Carolla […]
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At the same time, though, permanent IT hiring may be rising as well, researcher says The percentage of contract workers on IT staffs reach 17% last year and 15% this year in large organizations — the highest level of contractors to staff since the late 1990s, according to Computer Economics. […]
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Ballmer hammers home Microsoft’s ‘high-value’ strategy in final letter to shareholders Unlike last year, no surprises in CEO’s last letter to investors In his last letter to shareholders before retiring, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hammered on the same themes he and other executives struck three weeks ago in front of […]
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Windows 8 Update: New Kindle takes on Microsoft Surface 2 in workplace Also, nobody but Microsoft will touch Windows RT, Bill Gates gets his purple wish The new Kindle Fire HDX tablet is giving Microsoft’s Surface 2 a run for its money as a business device even though the Surface […]
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Microsoft may be well-served to bring in an outsider to replace departing CEO Steve Ballmer. Here are two strong candidates. As I said in a prior blog post, I feel Microsoft’s problems are too big for an insider to handle. This person will have allegiances, friendships and biases that may […]
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‘Misalignment of expectations’ caused by Windows 8 disconnect with traditional computing devices, says pollster The jarring combination of Microsoft’s radical reinvention of Windows with old-style hardware caused the average satisfaction score of PC makers to slip in the last year, a pollster said today. Meanwhile, Apple again took top honors […]
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New Chromebooks highlight a tight partnership between Google and Intel, and a shift away from only Wintel New Chromebooks announced this week signal Intel’s willingness to broaden its horizons and work with companies like Google, at the expense of its long-standing Windows partnership with Microsoft. Three new Chromebooks from Hewlett-Packard, […]
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New OS gains 2.5 points in August, second-largest one-month jump by a Microsoft operating system Microsoft got some good news Sunday as metrics company Net Applications said Windows 8’s user share in August is now larger than Vista’s at the same point in the latter’s post-launch timeline. Windows 8’s user […]
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VP of Android mgmt. Hugo Barra headed from Google to Xiaomi – but why? And just like that, Google I/O 2014 will be a different show – vice president of Android product management Hugo Barra abruptly announced that he’ll be leaving Google in “a few weeks” to join Chinese phone […]