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Surface Pro 3 starts at $799 for Core i3 SKU, i5 SKUs start shipping first to US and Canada on June 20, other configurations in August — Microsoft introduces Surface Pro 3: the tablet that can replace your laptop — Pre-order beginning 12:01 a.m. EDT May 21. — Surface Pro 3| Panos Panay / Surface Blog: |
Surface Pro 3: “The tablet that can replace your laptop” — Announcing Surface Pro 3 — Today we announced Surface Pro 3. It's the tablet that can replace your laptop. It is the most powerful, thinnest, and lightest Surface Pro yet. It is a full PC and a brilliant tablet.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Microsoft announces its biggest tablet yet, the 12-inch Surface Pro 3 — When Microsoft invited us to a “small gathering” here in New York City, we thought that meant a smaller-screened Surface Mini was in order. Instead, the company just announced a larger Surface, the 12-inch Surface Pro 3.
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Microsoft Surface Pro 3: Hands On, Display & Performance Preview — Earlier today Microsoft announced its 3rd generation Surface Pro device, aptly named the Surface Pro 3. This is the first Surface model to deviate from the 10.6" 16:9 form factor of all four previous devices (Surface Pro …
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Microsoft unveils new Type Cover for Surface Pro 3: 68% larger trackpad and magnetic sealing mode — To go alongside its new Surface Pro 3 tablet-laptop hybrid, Microsoft has unveiled a new version of its Type Cover. Panos Panay, Corporate Vice President for Surface Computing at Microsoft …
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Microsoft backed off from debuting smaller Surface today, concerned it lacked differentiation — Microsoft Said to Back Off Plans to Debut Smaller Surface — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), struggling to break into the tablet market, backed off plans to introduce a smaller version …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
What Microsoft didn't announce today: An ARM-based Surface Mini — Summary: In spite of numerous leaks indicating an ARM-based Surface was going to be launched at Microsoft's “small gathering” in New York City, no such device materialized. What happened? — It's not fair to call …
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| Ladar Levison / Guardian: |
Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit — For the first time, the founder of an encrypted email startup that was supposed to insure privacy for all reveals how the FBI and the US legal system made sure we don't have the right to much privacy in the first place| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
Apple Negotiating Paid Interconnect Deals With ISPs For Their Own CDN — In February I blogged about a new group formed inside of Apple last year, tasked with building out their own CDN to deliver Apple software updates, apps and other Apple related content.
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Twitter backed out of talks to buy SoundCloud because “the numbers didn't add up” — Twitter Considered Buying German Music-Streaming Service — 'Numbers Didn't Add Up' on Deal That Would Have Been Messaging Company's Largest — Twitter Inc. considered buying German music …
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The Inside Story of Oculus Rift and How Virtual Reality Became Reality — As he flew from Orange County to Seattle in September 2013, Brendan Iribe, the CEO of Oculus, couldn't envision what the next six months would bring. The rhapsodic crowds at the Consumer Electronics Show.| Reuters: |
China bans use of Microsoft's Windows 8 on government computers — (Reuters) - China has banned government use of Windows 8, Microsoft Corp's latest operating system (OS), in a blow to the U.S. technology company which has long been plagued by sales woes in the country.
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| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Google to take over former Palm HQ in Sunnyvale — Google Inc. has leased the former headquarters of Palm Computing Inc. in Sunnyvale , demonstrating that the No. 1 search advertising company's appetite for real estate showing no signs of abating — and showing again how the technology industry recycles …
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New York Taxi commission official joining Uber as head of policy development — Taxi Commission Official Plans to Join Uber — At first, they were adversaries — the taxi agency leery of a smartphone app that could upend decades of street-hailing history and the business that responded …
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Salesforce Rises on Earnings Beat, Improved Outlook — Shares of Salesforce.com rose after the company reported quarterly earnings that were better than what analysts had expected. — The company just reported per-share earnings of 11 cents on $1.23 billion in revenue.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Democrats grill FCC chairman on Internet fast lanes and ISP mergers — Wheeler calls paid prioritization “unreasonable,” but hedges on an outright ban. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler defended his network neutrality plan at length in front of the House committee … | Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Box overhauls Android app; offering 50GB of free space with LG — Summary: Box developers also built in a new document preview function, supporting more than 100 file types at “lightning-fast” rates. — Box is retooling its mobile strategy with two new developments on the docket this week.
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Yahoo close to acquiring video streaming technology startup RayV — Yahoo Close to Acquiring Video-Streaming Startup — RayV Inc Near Deal with Internet Portal — Yahoo Inc. may soon bolster its Web-video technology with another acquisition. — The Internet portal is close to finalizing …
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Survey says: Comcast, Time Warner Cable customers are still the angriest — Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. — Comcast — Comcast and Time Warner Cable are the most hated companies in each of the three “triple play” markets where they operate, according to an American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) report being released Tuesday.
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Privacy-Focused Search Engine DuckDuckGo Gets A New Look, Smarter Search With “Instant Answers” — DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine whose popularity grew last year following the NSA and PRISM leaks, is today rolling our an updated interface for its website, which features …
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Verizon's voice-over-LTE service will include Facetime-like video calling at launch — AT&T may have beat Verizon off the starting line when it took its new voice-over-LTE service live this week, but Verizon said on Tuesday it plans to finish the VoLTE race strong.Sponsor Posts
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