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Google Maps ready to save iPhone mapping woes

Posted December 13, 2012 - 10:41 am

App now available for iPhone owners who keep getting lost with Apple Maps
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Watch a drunk woman try to use Windows 8

Posted November 8, 2012 - 2:29 pm

Most people want to start drinking after using Windows 8. This woman started before.
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A Windows 8 interface we can all get behind

Posted October 31, 2012 - 3:15 pm

What if Windows 8 was actually Windows 80s?
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How to get Google back on Windows 8

Posted October 26, 2012 - 12:39 pm

Google gets pro-active for users who might be missing Google on new OS with a new site and video.
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Watch the entire 47-minute Microsoft Surface keynote here

Posted June 19, 2012 - 2:50 pm

Couldn't get an invite to yesterday's Surface keynote? Watch the entire event here.
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Apple posts another MacBook video and Mac OS X commercial

Posted June 13, 2012 - 10:18 am

Apple shows us more of the MacBook Pro retina display and new features of OS X Mountain Lion.
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Guy creates Android-based beer dispenser

Posted April 30, 2012 - 1:47 pm

When you love the Android operating system and beer, why not combine those loves into a single device? This guy did.
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The most entertaining video about Linux you'll watch today

Posted April 9, 2012 - 11:44 am

This video describing how Linux works is like Schoolhouse Rock, but with penguins, and no singing.
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Microsoft shows off Windows 8 preview: Are you excited yet?

Posted February 29, 2012 - 6:14 pm

Microsoft releases three videos to try and build excitement for Windows 8.
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Stuck-in-the-'80s Microsoft mocks Google with a Moonlighting parody

Posted February 21, 2012 - 6:16 pm

Microsoft parodies a 1980s TV show to attack Google. Yeah, that'll work.
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Microsoft builds giant smartphone to promote Windows Phone 7.5

Posted November 8, 2011 - 12:14 pm

Microsoft installed a gigantic Windows Phone in New York’s Herald Square Monday to mark the debut of Windows Phone 7.5 devices on store shelves.
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Nokia unveils first Windows phones

Posted October 26, 2011 - 2:02 pm

The Lumia devices are Nokia's first big push for phones running the Windows Phone operating system after the company announced a partnership with Microsoft in February.
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Intel drops MeeGo mobile OS, backs Tizen against Android

Posted September 29, 2011 - 3:39 pm

Linux Foundation and Limo Foundation are rebooting their efforts to compete with Apple and the Android camp by merging MeeGo and Limo into a new operating system called Tizen, with the backing of Intel and Samsung.
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Microsoft shows off Windows 8 running on Samsung tablet

Posted September 14, 2011 - 2:00 pm

At the company's BUILD conference in California, Microsoft teased Windows 8 and offered developers the option to download an early realsed of the OS.
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Microsoft: Windows 8 developer preview available now

Posted September 14, 2011 - 1:57 pm

Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows division, announced the release at Microsoft's "Build" Professional Developers Conference, being held this week in Anaheim, California.
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Microsoft teases Windows 8 at BUILD conference

Posted September 14, 2011 - 1:55 pm

Microsoft posted the first developer preview beta of Windows 8 late on Tuesday.
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Short Take: Apple iCloud, iOS5 and Mac OS X Lion

Posted June 6, 2011 - 7:37 pm

Keith Shaw talks with Computerworld News Editor Ken Mingis about today's Apple developer conference announcements, including the new iCloud service, iOS 5 updates and Mac OS X Lion.
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ViewSonic tablet runs Windows, Android

Posted June 1, 2011 - 1:16 pm

The ViewPad 10 Pro tablet PC from ViewSonic runs Android and Windows and can switch between the two at the tap of an icon.
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Google Chrome notebooks due in June from Acer, Samsung

Posted May 11, 2011 - 2:05 pm

Samsung and Acer will begin selling notebook PCs running Google's Chrome OS in June, as Google presses ahead with its project to position this new operating system designed specifically for Web applications as a viable option for consumers and businesses.
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Ubuntu gets ported over to the Motorola Xoom [video]

Posted March 7, 2011 - 8:46 pm

It was only a matter of time until someone decided to put an OS on the Motorola Xoom that wasn't Android. Crafty geek Thomas Sohmers has ported Ubuntu over to the Motorola tablet and has even been kind enough to provide instructions on how to do it. While the actual Ubuntu OS is running in a sort of virtual machine, I don't expect it to be very long until someone completely replaces the Android OS with a full desktop one (like Windows, OSX, or Ubuntu).
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Google offers Android web store, in-app purchasing [video]

Posted February 4, 2011 - 11:21 pm

At Google on Wednesday, the company demonstrated its upcoming Honeycomb Android OS again and launched a Web-based store for Android applications.
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It's Not Your &#%*@$ Computer!

Posted February 11, 2009 - 1:21 pm

If the company provides the computer, the company owns the computer and has the sole right to decide how the employee uses that computer and what software can be loaded. Locking down Windows-based systems stop a wide variety of security problems.
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Remove PC User Rights, Reduce Windows Bugs

Posted February 5, 2009 - 1:13 pm

When Windows users sign on as a user, not Administrator, your security improves greatly. Remember the company, not the user, owns the computer and decides how it's used.
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Microsoft Details More Windows 7 Vaporware

Posted October 29, 2008 - 11:02 am

Computerworld plays Microsoft fanboy in â€œOpinion: 10 Best Features in Windows 7 for IT Professionals.â€ The Windows developer conference underway now will generate a tidal wave of â€œinside informationâ€ which is Microsoft PR speak for â€œvague promisesâ€ with little connection to reality.
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Windows 7 Nonsense Heating Up

Posted September 26, 2008 - 3:52 pm

I expect Microsoft to spread FUDge everywhere about Windows 7, for all their typical reasons.
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