Thursday 10 November 2011

Microsoft's Biggest Wins and Failures

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November 10, 2011
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Microsoft's Biggest Wins and Failures Give Microsoft credit: It never does anything small. Its successes rock the world. And when it screws up, it screws up big time.
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7 Charged with Using Malware to Rack Up $14M in Fake Ad Revenue The Justice Department says the defendants hijacked millions of computers and manipulated traffic on popular websites.
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Five Services That Can Move Your Music to the Cloud Storing and managing your music is frustrating when you forget to sync tunes with your smartphone or tablet. Here's a look at five services that will let you access your music from almost anywhere.
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Kindle Fire Staking Claim as Tablet to Beat this Christmas Amazon's 7-inch tablet is drawing a lot of interest from holiday shoppers, according to three surveys.
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Do You Need a Quad-Core Mobile Device for Work? Nvidia just released the Tegra 3 quad-core mobile processor, which may provide more horsepower than businesses currently need--but there's a useful hidden surprise.
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Windows Phone 7 Jailbreak: Microsoft Tops Apple on Openness If someone uses a tool to jailbreak their Windows Phone 7 Phone, the warranties on their device will remain, and they'll still be able to get Microsoft support for their phone.
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Mobile Flash: Our Long National Nightmare is Over Adobe and hardware makers kept telling the world that mobile Flash was fabulous, but my own eyeballs told me otherwise.
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Amazon Acquires Voice Recognition Firm, Fueling Siri Speculation Everyone is wondering whether the online retailer is getting ready to produce a voice command service such as Apple's Siri or Google's Voice Actions for Android.
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Android, iOS Games Rake in More Cash Than Sony and Nintendo Mobile games are making more money than traditional games.
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Need to Redesign Your Flash-Based Website? Adobe Still Has the Edge With Adobe announcing the beginning of the end of Flash, what should businesses do with their Flash-based websites?
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Firms Will Flee Cloud If Lessons From Siri and RIM Outages Not Learned In light of the recent Apple Siri and RIM BlackBerry outages firms will avoid moving to cloud services unless suppliers stop "designing them to fail."
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Uncle Sam Wants You, Hackers: Cyberwarriors Needed to Stop Cyberspies Cyberwarrirors are needed for 'hunter teams.' If cyberspace is like the wild, wild west, could you be a modern-day cyber cowboy?
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Toshiba Ultrabook Laptop Heading to Best Buy for $899 Toshibas Ultrabook joins the Acer Aspire S3 in being the most affordable of Intels new category of thin-and-light laptops.
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The Beginning of the End of Adobe Flash Player Adobe is digging its own grave by ceasing development on Adobe Flash for mobile browsers.
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iPhone Apps: A DIY Skill That's in Big Demand iPhone developers are in demand across the United States and Canada, causing salaries to skyrocket for those with experience creating complex, mobile...
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How to Find Out What Employees Really Think In the past few years, savvy companies have been using text analytics software to analyze positive and negative phrases appearing in social media.
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Amazon Reportedly Ups Kindle Fire Production Amazon has reportedly increased its Kindle Fire orders to more than five million units before the end of the year because of strong demand.
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Report: $79 Amazon Kindle Costs $84 to Make Amazon loses money on its hardware, but makes it up through book, game, music, video, and app sales.
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A Startup Tech Job Fair With Beer, Music, 80 Employers When Frank Sinatra sang 'If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere' about New York, he wasn't singing about startup tech businesses.
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Seven Changes to Watch for in Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin' Both Mono and the Banshee music player could be dropped in the next version of Canonical's operating system.
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