Something about Microsoft’s Windows 8 seems to bring out the eccentric in PC makers. In the few months since Win 8 launched, we’ve seen PCs that fold, PCs that slide, PCs with keyboards that pop on and off. But we...
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The Asus Taichi 21 Ultrabook functions both as a laptop and touchscreen tablet.
Asus Taichi 21 Laptop Will Have You Seeing Double: Rich Jaroslovsky
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff carefully curates his company's image.
Salesforce CEO Benioff Tries Out Some New Material
Salesforce.com, which makes software to help businesses hone their sales and marketing campaigns, is taking a red pen to its own corporate messaging. For the past couple of years, Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff has been pitching prospective customers on...
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China has been the top source of cyber-attack traffic since the last quarter of 2011, according to a study by Akamai.
One-Third of Cyber Attack Traffic Originates in China, Akamai Says
About one-third of the world’s cyber attack traffic was traced back to China, according to a report by Akamai Technologies to be published today. Between July and September of last year, about 33 percent of the attacks originated in China, double...
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Are Consumer Electronics Killing the Consumer Electronics Show?
You won’t find booths by Apple, Microsoft, Google or Amazon at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Nor will you see the CEOs at the largest U.S. cable operators, Comcast and Time Warner Cable, or media companies such as Disney and CBS. Nokia and...
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A Toshiba Excite Android tablet is shown at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Android Is Red Hot, Except With the Business Crowd
Google’s Android software for mobile devices has opened up a wide lead in market share, but it hasn’t made the same inroads with a lucrative niche: businesspeople. While Android is expected to grab 68 percent of the smartphone market this...
Read more »What Newegg Hopes Its Shoppers Will Buy This Holiday Season
At least one other company is betting on the success of Windows 8. Online electronics retailer Newegg is gearing up for the holidays by promoting tablets and laptops running on Microsoft’s new operating system. It doesn’t have much of a...
Read more »Lost in Translation: Ballmer and the Modesty of Microsoft’s Surface
Somewhat lost in the frenzy surrounding the announcement late yesterday of Windows head Steven Sinofsky’s departure from Microsoft, the company was also dealing with what it described as a widely distributed mistranslation of its chief executive officer’s comments. According to...
Read more »What Made Microsoft’s New Windows Boss Really Nervous
It was in June 2011 when an audience filled with technology’s elite was gathered to see whether Microsoft’s next version of Windows had the chops to take on Apple. But Julie Larson-Green, who just yesterday was put in charge of...
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Windows Phone 8 start screens.
Live Blog: Windows Phone 8 Event
Please refresh your browser every few minutes to see my updates. 11:09 a.m. Ballmer ends by bringing Belfiore and Alba back out. There’s no information on pricing, or precise availability of phone models. But he ended with a bang, offering a...
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Up to this point, the cloud vendor of choice has been Amazon.com, whose web services unit has built a beachhead since it was launched in 2006.
For Google’s Cloud to Beat Amazon’s, It First Must Survive
Buzz, Gears, Wave, Knol, Web Accelerator — that’s just a partial list of Google’s failed products in recent years. Then there’s Google TV, Google Reader and Google Wallet, which may or may not be busts — the jury is still...
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