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Digital Storm launches Marauder series of desktop PCs for gamers on a budget
www.engadget.com
Digital Storm gets plenty of coverage for its boutique gaming PCs and coma-inducing prices, but its latest Marauder lineup serves as proof that it's willing to also build quality, affordable rigs for the masses. Consumers may choose between four configurations, which feature AMD processors on the low-end and Intel...
Microsoft reportedly working to block apps that re-enable the Windows 8 Start button
www.theverge.com
Microsoft appears to be taking steps to remove legacy code from its Windows 8 operating system that will prevent modifications and hacks to re-enable the Start button and Start Menu. Windows watcher Paul Thurrott reports that the company has been "furiously ripping out" legacy code in Windows 8 recently...
After Alpha Attracts 1M, BlueStacks Goes Beta To Bring 450K Android Apps To Your PC
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Ever since a pre-launch BlueStacks raised $7.6 million in series A financing, the startup has been attracting attention. Why? Because it’s developed software that is designed to let Android users run their apps on all Windows PCs, tablets, and laptops — without any modifications. Not to mention the startup then...
Apple is the only PC brand making progress in Europe (and that’s without iPad)
9to5mac.com
Research firm Gartner just released their estimates for PC shipments in the Western Europe region during the holiday quarter. Only Apple and Asus made any meaningful progress, with Apple recording the strongest gains in France and the United Kingdom. While the Mac maker remained absent from the top 5 rankings in...
Here's Everything You Wanted To Know About Microsoft's Upcoming iPad Killers (MSFT)
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Microsoft's Windows chief Steven Sinofsky just put up 8,000+ word blog post on Microsoft's plans for Windows 8 on the low-powered ARM processors that today run the iPad and most other tablets. This is the most critical part of Windows 8. Like every version of Windows, Windows 8 will...
Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobiles, Double Last Year's Figure
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When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in terms of internet access, you would think that mobile internet usage would directly follow from these facts. In reality, it seems that it still lagging...
BlueStacks Now Lets You Run Android Apps On Your Mac
techcrunch.com
There’s no love lost between Android and Apple users, or at least among the fanboys and fangirls. The flamewar between the passionate adopters of the top two mobile operating systems has persisted for awhile now, even in spite of our pleas for a detente. Luckily, one startup is on a...
Windows 8 on ARM: building a common Windows platform
arstechnica.com
Microsoft has started to talk in detail about Windows on ARM: what it will do, what it won't do, and how it has been put together in its latest post on its Building Windows 8 blog. The focus of the lengthy post is the work Microsoft has done to...
Nice Try: Motorola Wanted to License Every One of Apple's Patents
allthingsd.com
Motorola Mobility’s request that Apple pay it patent royalties of 2.25 percent on sales of some iPhones and iPads in return for a license to its standard-essential patents, while aggressive, was not the most onerous demand in the two companies’ negotiations. According to the European Commission’s decision on Google’s...
It's time to move on from power testing most desktop PCs
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Wonder what happened to our desktop power consumption test? All will come clear....
Soluto says hello to Metro, helping users to manage their Windows 8 devices
thenextweb.com
With Microsoft’s Windows 8 Consumer Preview just minutes old, Soluto has announced that it is bringing its PC management software to the Windows 8, saying ‘hello’ to Metro and helping users assist their friends and family, download the best apps and stay on top of their tablet and desktop PCs. Soluto...
Wanted: a cheap desktop PC for 3D graphics
www.guardian.co.uk
Thompson Edolo wants a cheap desktop PC that can run Blender, Adobe After Effects and other high-end graphics software at a reasonable speedI want to buy a desktop PC to do 3D modelling and rendering. I am learning how to use Blender, and I hope to add Unity 3D for...
How Much - and How Little - the Web Has Changed in 9 Years
www.readwriteweb.com
For ReadWriteWeb's ninth anniversary last week, our founder and Editor-in-Chief Richard MacManus took a loving look back at how the site has evolved over the years. But RWW isn't the only thing that's stuck around even as it's changed over the past almost-decade. The Web has changed dramatically over...
Windows Phone 8 Will Be Deeply Integrated with Windows 8 OS
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In the company's second big announcement this week, Microsoft says its new mobile operating system Windows Phone 8 will be deeply integrated with the Windows 8 OS in tablet and desktop PCs....
Ubuntu Linux Dresses Up For Biz Desktops
www.wired.com
Canonical — the commercial outfit behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution — is offering a version of the open source operating system meant specifically for desktop PCs inside the world’s businesses. “Ubuntu has been hot-rodded for business,” says Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon. It’s called Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix, and...
Apple CEO Tim Cook on PCs, tablets and avoiding the ‘baggage from the past’
www.geekwire.com
Microsoft is pitching its upcoming Windows 8 as a “no compromise” experience — working across desktop PCs, notebooks, tablets and hybrid devices — but Apple CEO Tim Cook remains unconvinced that such an approach will be effective. Speaking at AllThingsD’s D10 conference in California last night, Cook expanded on the recent...
Vizio CTO: Tablets will kill small-screen TVs
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iPads and other tablets won’t kill off the laptop, but rather small-screen TVs, Vizio CTO Matt McRae told me during an interview at this week’s Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. “Instead of buying a 19 inch TV or a 24 inch TV, (people) may be more likely to...
Getting a Refund on a Cache Drive
www.pcworld.com
A reader asks On Your Side for help in getting a promised refund on his Corsair cache drive. Plus: Lenovo's recall of some of its all-in-one desktop PCs....
The Rebirth of the Desktop PC as the Thin Client: HP
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The original concept of the thin client device, which Hewlett-Packard helped pioneer, was to strip the PC down to just the minimum hardware needed to serve as a decent enough remote access terminal, while moving the compute power to the data center. But with new private cloud architectures enabling businesses...
Apple CEO Takes Shot at Microsoft, Windows 8 Tablets
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Tim Cook said forcing tablets to use an operating system written for desktop PCs means Windows 8 tablets will be 'very similar to what tablets were 10 years ago.'...
Windows 8 may cost just $15 to upgrade — but should you?
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Those looking to buy a Windows 7 PC this year will soon have an offer to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro OS for just $15, according to Windows blogger Paul Thurrott/a>. On its face, this is a great offer in line with what Microsoft has done in the past....
The Worst Case Scenario For Windows 8
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Last week, Microsoft released the first public test version of Windows 8, its next operating system. It's got a very tough job. It has to beat back three threats at once: the iPad, the Mac, and potential indifference among businesses. But even in the worst case scenario, Windows 8...
‘Hunger Games’ in HTML5: Microsoft and Lionsgate put odds in IE9′s favor
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Arriving in the Capitol city in the new Hunger Games online experience, powered by HTML5. Promotional sites for movies are traditionally created in Adobe Flash, but Microsoft and Lionsgate are looking to lead the industry down a new path. They’re partnering on a site that uses HTML5 and other web...
Mobilize.net aim to renew .NET apps for mobile, cloud use
gigaom.com
Mobilize.net, led by two long-time Microsoft execs, aims to bring thousands of legacy .NET applications to the mobile devices or cloud platform of the customer’s choice. While many in the Web 2.0 and mobile device world dominated by iOS and Android don’t see Windows and .NET as the platforms of the...
Samsung Galaxy S III accessories include 'C Pen' stylus, AllShare streaming hub
www.theverge.com
Samsung has listed a number of accessories that will be available for its newly announced Galaxy S III, including a capacitive "C Pen" stylus, a wireless charging kit, and an "AllShare Cast Hub" that will work with its updated AllShare feature. The hub can send content from the handset...
NPD: Apple grabs almost a fifth of all holiday consumer electronics, Apple Stores second only to Best Buy and Walmart in revenue
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Apple’s $46.33 billion dollar holiday quarter and the 73+ million shipped Macs and iOS devices are clear stand outs in the newest NPD research note exposing Apple as the only brand to have grown sales in the all-important holiday quarter. Same cannot be said for rivals Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Sony and Dell...
NPD: Apple grabs almost a fifth of all holiday consumer electronics, Apple Stores second only to Best Buy and Walmart in revenue
7 Great All-in-One Desktop PCs
www.computerworld.com
Traditional tower desktops have had a good run. All-in-one PCs--expensive upstarts just two or three years ago--have all but usurped the throne....
Windows 8 Consumer Preview: Multi-monitor desktop video review
www.extremetech.com
We know that Windows 8 is primarily a tablet and touch-first operating system, but — assuming everything goes to plan — it will also be used on hundreds of millions of desktop PCs around the world. Microsoft has spent a lot of time and tens of thousands of words convincing...
HP reports 'higher than expected' failures of some desktop PC motherboards
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Hewlett-Packard has identified a high rate of logic board failures in its popular Pavilion line of desktop PCs, and has offered customers a one-year warranty extension to cover possible repairs, Computerworld has learned....
Dr. Sinofsky or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Windows 8
www.extremetech.com
Over the last few months, a compelling case has been made for Microsoft’s doe-eyed championing of touchscreen tablets and apparent abandonment of the desktop. Windows 8′s primary interface, with liberal use of horizontal scrolling and the same big, chunky live tiles that adorn Windows Phone 7, is undeniably touch-centric. Couple...
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