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Microsoft Is Selling Office 365 Within iPad Apps, and Apple Is Getting Its 30 Percent Cut — While one of the big holdups for Office for iPad was getting the software just right, another was Apple's policy that apps that sell things — including subscriptions — use Apple's in-app purchase mechanism …
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| Lance Ulanoff / Mashable: |
Microsoft Office for iPad review: rich apps, strong cloud ties, but no way to print documents — Microsoft Office for iPad Isn't Perfect, But It's What We Needed All Along — It took Microsoft a while — by some measures too long — but it's finally here: Office for iPad … | Satya Nadella / TechNet Blogs: |
A cloud for everyone, on every device — The following post is from Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. — In my initial remarks as CEO, I spoke about how Microsoft is embracing the new “mobile-first cloud-first” world. I've gotten great feedback around this declaration from customers …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Office for iPhone and Android phones is now completely free, Android tablet version coming ‘in the future’ — In addition to releasing Office for iPad, Microsoft today also updated Office Mobile for iPhone and Office Mobile for Android with a major change: both are now completely free for home use.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Office for iPad: It's all about the business users — Summary: Who is the primary target for Microsoft's new Office for iPad suite? It's unfashionable to say this, but it's not consumers. It's business users. — I've seen quite a few stories in the run-up to the March 27 announcement …
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Amazon planning free ad-supported TV and music streaming service, no Prime subscription required — Amazon Plans Free Streaming Media Service — Website Said to Drop Strategy of Only Offering Video to Users of Its Prime Service — Amazon.com Inc. plans a free, advertising-supported streaming television … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon Says It Has No Plans to Offer a Free TV and Music-Video Streaming Service — Here we go again: Amazon.com denied a Wall Street Journal report Thursday that the Internet retailing giant is working up a free, ad-supported TV and music-video service. — “We're often experimenting … | Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Facebook's Connectivity Lab is building drones, satellites and lasers to deliver Internet access — While Google is experimenting with helium balloons for Internet access, Facebook is working on drones, satellites and lasers. The company today unveiled the Connectivity Lab, which has evolved as part of its Internet.org initiative.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla employees ask new CEO Brendan Eich to step down for his support of anti-gay initiative — Mozilla employees tell Brendan Eich he needs to “step down” — This morning, a number of Mozilla employees took to Twitter with a united, nearly simultaneous message to new Mozilla Foundation CEO Brendan Eich: “Step down.”
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Twitter Said Close to Releasing New Ad Product for Apps — Twitter Inc. (TWTR) is planning to release a mobile-advertising product in the next few weeks that application makers can use to encourage downloads of their programs, according to people with knowledge of the matter.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft shows off Kinect for Windows version 2 hardware — Summary: Microsoft is inching closer to delivering the second version of its Kinect for Windows sensor, and is showing off what the final hardware will look like. — Microsoft is inching closer toward releasing the second version of its Kinect for Windows sensor.
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Mobile app monetization: Freemium is king, but in-app ads are growing fast — Freemium revenue for mobile apps was up 211 percent last year, according to a new report from mobile analytics company App Annie and IDC. — Clearly, free is working. — While a fairly strong majority … | Jon Minnick / Manufacturing Business Technology: |
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM And Intel Unveil The Industrial Internet Consortium — In a major announcement today, AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel unveiled the formation of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an open membership group focused on breaking down the barriers of technology silos … | Agam Shah / Computerworld: |
Fire hazard forces Lenovo recall of ThinkPad batteries — The company has set up a Web page about the recall — Lenovo is recalling certain ThinkPad battery packs that could be a fire hazard due to overheating, which could ultimately also lead to computer damage.| Electronista: |
WD ships My Passport Pro, dual-drive bus-powered Thunderbolt RAID — Drive features integrated Thunderbolt cable — Drive manufacturer WD today introduced My Passport Pro, the first portable, Thunderbolt-powered dual-drive solution. My Passport Pro is available in dual-drive 2TB … | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Dropbox Acqui-Hiring Social Reading App Readmill For $8 Million — With fresh capital in its coffers, Dropbox appears to be on somewhat of an acquisition spree, albeit a quiet one. Following the cloud storage company's recent purchase of workplace chat solution Zulip … | Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
AT&T reveals PadFone X hardware specs, still no release date — High-end specs across the board, with a sizable battery in the PadFone Station for extra charge — Following up over two months after it announced the phone/tablet hybrid device at CES 2014, AT&T is revealing the hardware specs …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung's first Smart Bulb is Bluetooth-only and lasts 10 years — Though it got beat to the punch by arch-competitor LG, Samsung has just released its debut smart LED bulb, literally called the “Smart Bulb.” It looks nothing like the multi-tiered model we saw at the FCC …
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The Power of Free: OS X Mavericks Users Generate 40% of Mac Web Traffic Five Months Post-Release — Aside from a number of aesthetic and functional changes Apple included as part of OS X Mavericks, the company also turned heads by releasing the latest OS as a free upgrade for Mac desktop and laptop users.| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
SK Telecom overrides Samsung, releases Galaxy S5 in Korea to comply with regulator imposed ban — Samsung Objections Fail to Stop Early Release of Galaxy S5 — Samsung Electronics Co. failed to keep its new Galaxy S5 smartphone from going on sale early in South Korea today as SK Telecom Co …
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| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
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