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Samsung researching brain-controlled devices
Samsung is reportedly spendingR&D money on developings ways to control a phone by the human brain. -
AMD unleashes Jaguar embedded SoCs
AMD has introduced a series of embedded chips based on the new Jaguar core and Radeon 8000 graphics. -
Microsoft CFO exits the Redmond hill
Microsoft's CFO Peter Klein is the latest top executive to flee Redmond's Vole Hill in what some analysts think is a by-product of Steve Ballmer sticking to power. -
AMD beats expectations, stays in the red
AMD reported its Q1 numbers on Thursday and they were slightly better than Wall Street’s expectations. -
Intel loses its reason to live
Intel’s economic model looks a little broken – particularly so because it has relied on chip prices staying high, and because it costs billions to make fabrication plants. Now, Microsoft has signalled it will try give its touch technology a boost by cutting prices on Windows 8. -
Hon Hai signs up for Microsoft Android patent deal
Hon Hai, parent company of electronics maker Foxconn, has signed a deal with Microsoft that will allow it to legally produce devices with Android and Chrome OS patents - the cash going to Redmond for each device. -
A million smart watches could be shipped this year
Some standalone smart watches with their own operating system are already moving beyond smartphone accessories, as they offer a lot of functionality sans smartphones. -
Android was originally developed for cameras
In the end though, Google stepped in and made Android what it is today. Rubin said his team eventually decided digital cameras simply weren’t a big enough market. He also said he was worried about Microsoft and Symbian, not Apple, which turned out to be quite wrong. -
Netflix gives up on Silverlight
Microsoft's best Silverlight customer has given up on the technology and moved to HTML5 video. -
Microsoft realises its Touch obsession was silly
It is starting to look like Microsoft might have realised that the reason people are not moving to Windows 8 is because of its idiotic interface. -
Ogle over optimistic over Google Glass
This is a different stance to that taken by Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, and even Android which have been encouraging native code that tends to be faster and more flexible. It seems that Google believes that it needs a lot of control over the early stages of the project's evolution. -
Bing way worse than Google at detecting malicious sites
Microsoft’s Bing search engine is five times more likely to serve up malicious sites in search results than Google, according to German research outfit AV Test. -
Unholy Trinity face a rude awakening
CommentIt was Jerry Sanders III who first coined the phrase that, together with Intel and Microsoft, AMDand the other two were the “Holy Trinity -
Microsoft rumoured to be sourcing smart watch components
As wearable electronics are set to emerge as a new trend - with recent reports Apple and Samsung are working on their own watches - it seems Microsoft may be about to have another pop at an interactive wristwatch. -
PC slump might well have a silver lining
Touchscreens are already here, but software support is lacking. Microsoft botched the Windows 8 launch so horribly that it still has just a handful of touch friendly apps. Consumers simply see no point in investing in a touchscreen Ultrabook, at least not yet. -
Microsoft declares war on Google
Software giant Microsoft has kicked off a nasty marketing war directly against Google and ended any pretence of niceness between the pair. The Vole has released a series of attack ads in the US which have upped the ante considerably in its trade war against Google which began five months ago. -
MS Office for iOS, Android delayed
Microsoft has apparently been forced to delay the rollout of Microsoft Office for iOS and Android by almost a year. -
Windows 8 destroyed PC sales
Beancounters at IDC have blamed the fact that users are avoiding Microsoft's Windows 8.
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