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  • Social media sends Ballmer off with a bang

    Reaction to news of Microsoft CEO’s forthcoming retirement unsurprisingly noisy, contentious. The Internet reacted to the news that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer plans to retire within 12 months as might have been expected – with a flurry of jeers, opprobrium and the occasional heartfelt farewell. “Retirement! Retirement, retirement, retirement!” japed […]

  • Is Twitter broken?

    Hacks, false information have some questioning Twitter’s resolve Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which describes itself as an “information-sharing network” are struggling with what to do about false information being spread around. […]

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    Microsoft kissing Hotmail goodbye

    The company aims to draw users away from Gmail and Yahoo Mail Microsoft on Tuesday began publicly previewing a new webmail service for consumers called Outlook.com that will eventually replace Hotmail. Microsoft also expects that Outlook.com will draw people away from competing consumer webmail services like Google’s Gmail and Yahoo […]

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    ViewSonic ViewPad 10 tablet: Windows plus Android doesn’t add up

    You know the Reese’s ad about how chocolate and peanut better go better together? I bet whoever came up with the ViewSonic ViewPad 10 had the same aspiration. The problem is this dual-OS tablet is not a delectable combination. Think creamed spinach and red licorice, not peanut butter and chocolate. […]

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    Microsoft Office 2010 takes on all comers

    Microsoft Office 2010 takes on all comers: SoftMaker Office 2010 For several years now, SoftMaker Office has been accruing a reputation as a low-cost replacement for the Microsoft Office product line. It’s indeed much cheaper than Office 2010: $79 to Office’s $149, $279, or $499 (the MSRPs for the Home […]

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    Death by Facebook: MySpace bids expected, Friendster transitions

    Bids are expected to be received for social networking site MySpace by the end of the week, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. News Corp, which acquired the site in 2005 for $580 billion, is said to be seeking bids of at least $100 billion for the site. At […]

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    Servers made huge rebound in 2010, but sales will be slower this year

    Perhaps Apple chose the wrong time to get out of the server market. The company stopped selling Xserve at the end of January. Now the 2010 server numbers are in, and they’re looking pretty good. Server shipments grew 16.8 percent during 2010 and revenue by 13.2 percent, year over year, […]

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    New Wi-Fi gear aims to wipe out Ethernet edge switches

    A third new service is a patent-pending technology called Orthogonal Array Beam Forming (OABF). WLAN vendors over the past two years have been adding support for various optional parts of the 11n standard, (see from May 2010, “Major Wi-Fi changes ahead”) including transmit beam forming (sometimes “beamforming”). The same waveform […]

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    FSF: Microsoft is Bound by GPLv3 Terms If It Distributes GPLv3 Code

    Last month, Microsoft’s legal department proclaimed it doesn’t consider itself bound to the terms of version 3 of the General Public License, with respect to certificates it distributed for software, services, and support from Novell. Today, the Free Software Foundation responded by saying if Microsoft distributes software covered by GPLv3, […]

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    First ‘Bluetooth Killer’ Wi-Fi Direct hardware gets certified

    Wi-Fi Direct certification has begun. The Wi-Fi Alliance announced today that products from Atheros, Broadcom, Intel, Ralink, Realtek, and Cisco will be the first Certified Wi-Fi Direct hardware in the test bed for the new wireless networking standard. The key feature of the new Wi-Fi Direct standard is that it […]