Category Archives: PC

Rumor: Windows 8 upgrade discounts to start June 2

By doris | Published: May 12, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com The launch of a new Windows OS is always a big event, but one unfortunate side effect is that sales drop severely in the months previous to the release, in anticipation. In order to prevent this, Microsoft has in the past offered a reduced OS upgrade price for people who bought [...]

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Microsoft, Intel earnings jump despite PC softness

By doris | Published: January 21, 2012

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — PC sales didn’t have a happy holiday sales season, but you wouldn’t know it from the strong earnings posted by Microsoft and Intel. The PC is struggling — last quarter, shipments fell 6% from the year-ago period, according to research firm Gartner — as tablets and smartphones [...]

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HP decides to keep its PC business

By doris | Published: October 27, 2011

Full Story at cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hewlett-Packard announced Thursday that it will continue selling personal computers after all, reversing an earlier decision to exit one of its core business lines. The company shocked Wall Street and the tech industry alike when it announced Aug. 18 that its board was exploring “strategic alternatives” for [...]

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7 products Steve Jobs got wrong

By doris | Published: August 25, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Steve Jobs pushed the envelope many times when it came to product design, and the results weren’t always pretty. Here are seven products created under his direction that failed commercially or functionally: 1. Apple III (1981)The successor to the very popular Apple II was focused on business users [...]

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10 ridiculously over-the-top gifts for Dad

By doris | Published: June 18, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com What do you get for the man that has everything? Usually I get him a gift certificate to the local golf store. Seriously, my father is the hardest person on Earth to buy for. However, if cost was immaterial, I think I’d buy him a Mobile Beer Bar, the VirtualGT racing [...]

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Microsoft will help connect Toyota cars to Internet

By doris | Published: April 6, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp and Toyota Motor Corp unveiled a plan on Wednesday to work together on bringing internet-connected services to Toyota’s cars. The world’s biggest software company and the biggest automaker said they were investing 1 billion yen or about $12 million in Toyota Media Service Co, a Toyota unit [...]

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Apple, Personal Computing and Owning the Future

By doris | Published: March 10, 2011

Full Story at TechnNewsworld.com The biggest event last week was Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) launch of the iPad with Steve Jobs presenting it. While many seem to see the new iPad as an iterative release and not as exciting as the first one, I think it will quickly eclipse its predecessor. It is vastly more capable [...]

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Apple to unveil new iPad on March 2

By doris | Published: February 23, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — It’s pretty much official: After months of anticipation, Apple on Wednesday sent out invitations to a March 2 press event where the company is expected to unveil the new version of its iPad tablet computer. The invite, e-mailed to members of the news media at about 11 a.m. ET, [...]

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Computer spanks humans on Day 2 of ‘Jeopardy!’

By doris | Published: February 16, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Despite blowing a Final Jeopardy! question about airports, IBM’s computer dismantled its human rivals during Tuesday night’s special edition of the “Jeopardy!” game show. Watson finished the first game of a two-game match with $35,734 in winnings, far ahead of runner-up Brad Rutter, who earned $10,400. Ken Jennings trailed with $4,800.

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iPad reading could cut into TV’s time

By doris | Published: January 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Fast Company) — The iPad is changing how folks read stuff online — no surprise if you think how different a gizmo it is to a PC. But a new study shows it’s moving online reading into primetime TV hours, which is big news. Is evening reading coming back, just in [...]

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Baby-swinging video freaks out parents, the Internet

By doris | Published: January 9, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com It could be real or it could be an elaborate hoax. Either way, if you’re a standard-issue parent — one who’s been taught that babies should not be tossed about like rag dolls or circus freaks — then you’re probably going to feel nauseated, angry or perhaps both, if and when [...]

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Porn sites closer to getting ‘.xxx’ Web address

By doris | Published: December 12, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Porn sites are closer to getting their own address on the Internet. The online red-light district would be in the form of an “.xxx” domain name suffix alongside longstanding ones such as “.com” and “.org.” Following a decade-long battle, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, [...]

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