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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 chip coming soon to Windows RT 8.1 devices
— Qualcomm has announced today that their high-end Snapdragon 800 chipset will be shipping in Windows RT 8.1 devices “later this year”, becoming the third chipset - alongside NVIDIA's Tegra 3 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 - that supports the platform.
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Microsoft reveals more Windows 8.1 features like NFC printing and WiFi hotspot
— While Microsoft revealed some of what the consumer can expect from the upcoming Windows 8.1 upgrade last week, the company is using its TechEd conference in New Oreleans as a way to reveal what business …
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Microsoft to release ‘Switch to Windows Phone’ Android app [Update]
— Microsoft's Joe Belfiore, manager of the Windows Phone team, touts the platform's apps at an October event. — Microsoft is hoping to take a bite out of Google's Android platform by releasing a “Switch to Windows Phone” …
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Next Xbox expected to launch in November, cost $499 or $299 with subscription
— Without a doubt, the next generation Xbox is the most highly anticipated launch from the company in some time. While the Surface announcement generated quite a bit of noise, the next generation Xbox …
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Strategy Analytics: 3 million Windows tablets shipped in Q1 2013
— Microsoft may not be talking about how many of its Surface tablets it has shipped or sold since the Surface RT launched in late October. However, a report claims that three million Windows-based tablets shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2013.
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Microsoft puts in new tile-based ad format in Outlook.com
— While we are still waiting for the promised Skype integration for Outlook.com, Microsoft's advertising division has just launched a new ad format for the web email service that has a tile-like interface. In fact, Microsoft calls the new format versaTiles.
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Meet Gabriel Weinberg, the man taking on Google and Bing
— In 1998, two college friends decided to build a method of analysing every website on the Internet to find the most relevant information when a user put in a small amount of text. Their names were Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and they had just founded Google.
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IE11 to appear as Firefox to avoid legacy IE CSS
— We already know that Internet Explorer 11, the next iteration of the world's most popular browser, will include tab syncing as part of the Windows Blue update, which has leaked onto the Internet. Neowin has also discovered that IE11 …
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Xi3 taking pre-orders for PISTON small console-like PC for late 2013 ship date
— In January, PC maker Xi3 announced a partnership with Valve to launch what it called a tiny “development stage system” gaming PC that would be designed specifically to work with Valve's Steam client and its Big Picture mode.
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Microsoft acquires Microsoft Accelerator startup MetricsHub
— In October 2012, Microsoft announced that it had picked 10 startup companies to help fund and mentor with its Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure program. One of those 10 companies was MetricsHub, a Bellevue …
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.