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Nvidia to license graphics technology: CEO
— (Reuters) - Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said he will license graphics technology to other companies, a new model for the chipmaker that could lead to new business with Apple, Samsung and other mobile device makers.
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Microsoft Builds Its Own iAd for Windows 8 Apps
— New Technology Means a Banner Can Watch You — Microsoft is creating its own new native ad formats for Windows 8, not unlike Apple's iAd, which is designed to increase ad revenue in the iOS ecosystem. — The new ads — which will be …
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A Tablet That Doubles as a Desktop, or Vice Versa
— The big breakthrough was the iPad: a flat, thin, beautiful, nearly buttonless computer, all touch screen. But that was three years ago. — Ever since then, Apple's rivals have churned out iPad clones in different sizes. Ten inches diagonal?
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A Windows Laptop With an Apple Price, but Less Juice
— Laptop sales have been tanking as tablets surge. The new Windows 8 is off to a slow start with users. And the hybrid machines that claim to work as both tablets and laptops are still niche products. So what's a laptop maker to do?
| Mary Ellen Gordon, PhD / The Flurry Blog: |
The iOS and Android Two-Horse Race: A Deeper Look into Market Share
— Over the past four years, Apple's iOS and Google's Android have been locked into a two horse race for mobile OS ownership. In the past year, there has been a lot of focus on the rise of Android and its lead in device market share.
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Hulu Plus for iPad redesigned with new discovery panel, minimizing during playback, curated collections, and more
— Hulu today revamped its Hulu Plus app for iOS, although the redesign is only for the iPad. You can download the new version now directly from Apple's App Store.
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Microsoft Said to Cut Windows for Tablet Prices
— Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is cutting the price of its Windows software for small tablets, seeking to shore up foundering efforts to combat Apple Inc. (AAPL) in the mobile-computing market, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Microsoft launches iPad comparison site for Windows 8 tablets
— Microsoft is launching the second phase of its advertising against Apple's iPad this week. Following an iPad mini commercial parody, a new site aims to convince consumers that Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets are worth buying over the iPad.
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Global Tablet Shipments to Outpace PCs by 2015, IDC Says
— Global tablet shipments will outpace the entire personal-computer market by 2015, fueled by rising demand for lower-priced and smaller alternatives to Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad, market researcher IDC said.
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Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad
— Whatever era you call it, post-PC or simply PC plus, the Mac vs. PC war has ignited once again today. In a fresh Windows 8 ad, Microsoft is directly attacking Apple's iPad on price, an approach it took during the early Vista days with low-priced laptops.
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.