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New MacBook Air The Death Of The Hard Drive ?

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On Wednesday, Apple unveiled a range of new products: a new operating system called Lion, an App Store for Mac OS X widgets, and FaceTime on the Mac. But perhaps the most hotly-followed announcement concerns an update to the MacBook Air laptop, which had remained relatively unchanged since its launch in 2008. So what are [...]

October 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Business,Technology | Read More »

Microsoft Test Cloud Based Office

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Two biggest and most profitable products that Microsoft offers are Office and the Windows operating system. The company has announced this week that it is set to start testing a new cloud-based online version of Office that will battle directly against Google Docs in the business market for productivity software. The new service is called Office [...]

October 20th, 2010 | Posted in Business,Technology | Read More »

Microsoft Announce first Hand Sets For Phone 7

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Microsoft on Monday announced its initial arsenal of handsets built around the new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, in what many believe is the company’s last-ditch attempt to regain traction in the mobile handset arena that’s fallen into the hands of rivals like Apple and Google. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant is pitching the [...]

October 11th, 2010 | Posted in Business,Technology | Read More »

Motorola Sues Apple Over Mobile Patents

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Motorola hit Apple with two patent lawsuits on Wednesday alleging the wireless used in the Mac, iPhone, and iPod touch violate 18 different patents it owns. The company also filed a complaint against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission in hopes of blocking the import of any Apple products that infringe on Motorola patents. [...]

October 7th, 2010 | Posted in Business,Technology | Read More »

Two Win Nobel for Work on Ultra-Thin Material

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A pair of Russian-born physicists working at the University of Manchester in England have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for investigating the remarkable properties of ultra-thin carbon flakes known as graphene, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Tuesday. hey are Andre Geim, 51, and Konstantin Novoselov, 36. They will split the prize of [...]

October 5th, 2010 | Posted in Education,Technology | Read More »

Business Apps for BlackBerry are About to Get Easier

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Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) September 28, 2010 Formotus, Inc. announced during BlackBerry Devcon today its support for the new BlackBerry 6.0 operating system. Formotus offers a rapid way to develop, deploy and manage cross-platform mobile applications that run on many different operating systems. Formotus solutions are built without any coding with Microsoft Office InfoPath, and work [...]

September 28th, 2010 | Posted in Technology | Read More »

What To Slow Down Time ? Then Move From That Penthouse Apartment

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New research shows that you’ll age slightly faster at the top of your penthouse apartment than you would on the ground floor. The research has shown that the strange, time-bending effects of Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity, affect earthbound distances and time frames. Einstein’s special theory of relativity predicts that time does not flow at [...]

September 24th, 2010 | Posted in Technology | Read More »

Technology Generation Gap Is Widening

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The generation gap of technology adoption is widening, spurred on by Gen Y’s rapid integration of mobile and social behaviors, according to the largest annual survey of Americans’ technology adoption and attitudes by Forrester Research, Inc. The report provides a generational overview of US consumers’ demographics, behaviors, and technology attitudes. Survey results were segmented by [...]

September 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Lifestyle,Technology | Read More »

Twitter Redesigns Site To Present At ad:tech London

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Twitter, the micro blogging site will present its redesigned site at ad-tech London while other companies like Google, Louis Vuitton, and the Daily Mail and General Trust DMGT) will also reveal their digital business and marketing innovations. Shiva Rajaraman Twitter’s product manager will give significant insights about the company’s planned advertising propositions and to present [...]

September 17th, 2010 | Posted in Technology | Read More »

More than 50 Cloud Developers Commit to Jive Apps Market™

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Fifty of the most innovative cloud based developers who committed to develop applications for Jive Apps Market to create a breakthrough in enterprise application during the Jive World 10, Jive Software. According to Christopher Morace, Senior Vice President of Products, Jive. “Jive Apps Market is poised to create a breakthrough in enterprise innovation. The time, [...]

September 16th, 2010 | Posted in Technology | Read More »

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