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Microsoft’s Surface tabletop computer team has graduated from being a pet project of founder Bill Gates to a group that stands up on its own, and contributes back into other parts of Microsoft.
That is the impression that I left with after I met with Surface General Manager of Software ...
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Microsoft wants Silverlight to be optimized for every platform that it runs on, said Brian Goldfarb, director of developer and user experience platforms at Microsoft, during an interview at the company’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on Wednesday (Nov. 18).
Silverlight runs ...
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The latest in self-important mobile app developer drama comes from Gameloft, but it’s not the usual iPhone bashing we’ve come to expect.
Instead, Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort declared ( via Reuters ) that the company’s got beef with Android. “We ...
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So I took the plunge and installed Chrome OS on a virtual machine on my Windows 7 laptop. I used Sun’s free VirtualBox virtualization software and the downloadable version of Chrome OS hosted by Gdgt . Actually, when I used the Gdgt download in the form of a VirtualBox image, I ...
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I’ve been playing with Flook , a clever new program that’s now available on Apple’s iPhone App Store. Conceptually, it’s very, very simple: You use it to capture images with your phone and attach brief titles and captions to them. Flook then turns the image, title and ...
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I ‘m at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp, an interesting conference in San Francisco on the booming subject of Web sites and services that move just as fast as the rest of the world does–Twitter, some aspects of Facebook, and lots more. The first session this morning was a ...
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How to try Chrome OS.
Randall Kennedy derides Chrome OS.
Better Google News for smartphones.
Better Techmeme for smartphones, too.
Refinements for Google Search Options.
New version of cool PogoPlug.
Nook sold out for holidays.
Sony building its own iTunes.
Apple’s Magic ...
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Google Chrome OS
How to try Chrome OS.
Randall Kennedy derides Chrome OS.
Better Google News for smartphones.
Better Techmeme for smartphones, too.
Refinements for Google Search Options.
New version of cool PogoPlug.
Nook sold out for holidays.
Sony building its own iTunes.
Apple’s Magic ...
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Google Chrome OS
If you use Windows 7 and haven’t taken our satisfaction survey yet, I beseech you: Please take a few minutes and tell us about your experiences . We’re going to close the survey shortly and can use all the real-world data we can get. Thanks!
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I’m happy to report that I spent Thursday night in the company of a couple of hundred old friends, new friends, people I’ve admired from afar and wanted to meet, and assorted members of the Technologizer community. Our Tech the Halls party in San Francisco was a blast–mainly ...
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When you think about it, every netbook to date has been misnamed: They’ve run traditional operating systems, and worked just fine even when you didn’t have an Internet connection. But netbooks based on Google’s Chrome OS will be different: At best, they’re going to have ...
Software
Google Chrome OS
Though not as noticeable as Retweets or Lists, Twitter has stopped asking users the completely uninteresting question, “What are you doing?”
Instead, the social messaging service now asks, “What’s happening?” It’s a simple alteration that could help point ...
Online
Four months ago, Google announced it was working on an operating system for netbooks called Chrome OS . Today, at a press event at the Googleplex which I attended, the company demonstrated it in public for the first time and provided more details about its plans.
Nothing it had to say came ...
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Google Chrome OS
I’m at the Googleplex this morning, where Google is showing off Chrome OS for the first time. More details to come, but I’m tweeting the news fast and furious at the moment– follow me at Twitter to see the news as fast as I learn it.
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God, no: Apple tablet delayed.
Courts: Verizon’s AT&T ads OK.
AT&t’s snarky anti-Verizon ad.
How to improve Office 2010.
Flips to get Wi-Fi soon?
Pre for $80; Pixi, $25.
Trillian for iPhone now available.
ThinkPad Edge: hey, what’s that?
Blu-Ray for ...
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Apple
As expected , Microsoft began talking about Internet Explorer 9 in public yesterday at its PDC event in Los Angeles. So far, it’s only talking about its guts–but it’s working on two it the items from my personal IE9 wishlist, faster JavaScript and the beginnings of HTML5 ...
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“Unique” is one of the most overused words in tech, but it’s the only way to describe Livescribe’s Pulse smartpen . Depending on how you look at it, it’s an voice recorder that can also take notes, and then lets synchronize them and upload them to a computer for ...
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Earlier today I was squawking about the sales tactics of PeopleFinder’s Stud or Dud? iPhone app : Once it has your credit-card info, it attempts to use a discount to convince you to sign up for various services that cost $24.95 a month, a price that’s mentioned only in fine print. ...
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Many thanks to everyone who’s taken a few minutes and participated in our satisfaction survey for Windows 7 users. Hundreds of you have done so already–but we could use some more responses, especially from folks who have bought new PCs with the OS pre-installed. Click here to take ...
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technologizer.com - 3 days ago
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At its PDC developer shindig in Los Angeles,
Microsoft is announcing that it’s putting Office 2010, which
isn’t due to ship until the first half of next year, into a public beta. You can download the whole beta right here , and if ...
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Microsoft Opens Up the Office 2010 Beta
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