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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system will have gained only seven percent market share by 2016, according to ABI Research. This paints a very different picture from rival research firm IDC, which recently claimed Microsoft would have 21 percent market share by 2015. Google’s Android operating system will rise to […]
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Microsoft will release 17 bulletins next week to fix 64 security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, and .NET Framework. Microsoft’s massive “April Patch Tuesday,” which includes patches to a “critical” bug in Windows XP, will tie the record for the most security bulletins released at one time, […]
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GuestLogix announced a Windows-powered handheld computer that lets airline flight attendants sell goods and accept payments via credit or debit cards. The Avata-m includes a 3.5-inch touchscreen for PIN entry and other functionality, an MSR (magnetic stripe reader), a 1D/2D barcode scanner, plus local and wide area networking, the company […]
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No less than Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has argued that the app store model is fracturing the Internet and that developers should write programs for browsers instead. But USENIX panelists said it’s all about cash. For better or worse, the app store model is favored by developers because it lets […]
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Asked if they had to choose a public-cloud UC provider, one-third said they would choose Microsoft Office 365. Azaleos Corporation, a managed messaging, collaboration and unified communications services company, released the findings of an independent survey on the cloud adoption plans of mid-to-large enterprises for unified communications (UC) services. The […]
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Astronomy fans in the U.S. won’t be able to catch a glimpse of Wednesday’s total lunar eclipse, but Google just put up a homepage doodle that will allow people to follow along. “Starting now, see the latest state of the lunar eclipse on our homepage – thanks @slooh for the […]
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Document Scanning is the process of transferring a text document onto one’s computer screen. More specifically and from a technical standpoint, document scanning takes a document and converts it into a more permanent and secured record of digital information. The old yellow, wrinkled, coffee-stained piece of paper becomes permanently restored, […]
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Think you know Twitter? These little tidbits may redefine the way you regard the micro-blogging service. Twitter Doesn’t Want to Kill All Third-Party Services This is one bit of news I’ll take with a grain of salt, but according to Twitter’s CEO, Twitter would prefer that all those services accessing […]
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Google leaves IPv6 on for YouTube; Facebook adds IPv6 to developers’ site; Yahoo sees ‘minimal risk’ to IPv6 One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permanently supporting this upgrade to the Internet’s main […]
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Microsoft is trying to woo Android application developers, offering them help in porting applications to Windows Phone. The company has released a Windows Phone API mapping tool for Android developers to help them find their way around the Windows Phone platform. Developers should think of the tool as being like […]