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CES Video: Is Microsoft Chet a Live Version of Microsoft Bob?
Maybe it’s just me, but is this video from Microsoft, featuring “Chet”–the software giant’s “creative presentation consultant” for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week–freaky or not?...
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Verizon Wireless Touts 4G Network, Shows Off Devices
Well, we didn’t learn much new about Verizon Wireless’s new network or devices at the Ivan Seidenberg keynote on Thursday, but he did say that the company would have a preview of its LTE device lineup...
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You've Heard About Windows for ARM Chips; Now Meet ARM
For all the attention being paid to the fact that Windows now runs on ARM chips from the likes of Texas Instruments, Qualcomm and Nvidia, few people know much about ARM, the British company whose...
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D@CES Today: Twitter, Nvidia, Microsoft in the Vegas Spotlight!
First things first, for those emailing me frantically about getting into our D@CES onstage interview event later today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: We’re sold out and have a very...
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Interviewing Jane McGonigal on Gamification for Good
Jane McGonigal thinks the way we can improve the world is to play more games. Coinciding with the release of her book “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World” is...
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Microsoft to Add Multitasking, Internet Explorer 9 to Windows Phone Later...
Microsoft announced on Monday plans to fill in some of the key gaps from the initial Windows Phone 7 release with two updates due out this year. The more interesting of the updates is the second one–a...
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Says Company Needs to Unify Its Experience Across...
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said on Monday that although the service is available on nearly every phone, the company has a long way to go to make the product consistent across devices. “The experience has...
View ArticleThe GDC Hangover: From Nintendo's Rants to Taco Trucks & More (Plus Photos)
A week in San Francisco can give anyone a hangover, especially when you’ve been at the game developers conference. Surely for many GDC attendees, the parties were the highlight, but here’s a recap of...
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France Brings in Tout Le Web Before the G8 Summit
In an event ahead of the G8 summit this week, France’s power brokers are hosting a new event–called e-G8 and with the motto, “Internet: Accelerating Growth”–that starts tomorrow in Paris. Set to be...
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Apple Brings iWork Apps to iPhone and iPod Touch
Making more news ahead of its developers conference next week, Apple said on Tuesday that it is bringing its iWork collection of productivity apps to the small screen. Already available for the iPad,...
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Steve Ballmer's Dr. Hyde and Mr. Jekyll
Whenever I know Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is going to speak at a major public event, I get two feelings at once: Excited anticipation that the chances are high that he’ll say something controversial...
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Alibaba's Jack Ma at Stanford: "We Are Very Interested" in Buying the "Whole"...
In answer to a direct question about whether his company was going to buy Yahoo at a forum at Stanford University in Silicon Valley this afternoon, Alibaba Group Chairman and CEO Jack Ma said: “We are...
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Benioff: Larry Canceled Me Because I Was Mean to Him on Facebook
Could it really be that the whole Marc Benioff-Larry Ellison kerfuffle that erupted so publicly yesterday happened because Marc was mean to Larry on Facebook? How very high school! That’s the version...
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Meet Billy, the Bison Mark Zuckerberg Shot and Hung On Sheryl Sandberg's Wall
Remember when Fortune magazine wrote in September that Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had reportedly bagged a bison as part of a “personal challenge” to eat only what he had killed? Well,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office on iPad
Q: Which app do you recommend for using on the iPad 2 for opening Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint?) A: If you literally just want to open the documents to read them, you don’t need any...
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eBay Predicts Mobile Commerce Will Grow 60 Percent in 2012
EBay’s John Donahoe has drawn his 2012 mobile predictions line in the sand. He is forecasting that mobile commerce — purchases made from apps or the browser on a phone or tablet — will hit $8 billion...
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What HP's Meg Whitman Appears to Have Learned From Steve Jobs
Among the many comments that Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman made during yesterday’s conference call with analysts, one in particular stood out to me. Here it is, emphasis mine. First is fixing our...
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Apple's WWDC Keynote Will Be Held June 11
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have a date to attach to our months of iDevice speculation. Apple this morning published the schedule for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference and, along with it, the...
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Apple's Tim Cook Says Hello: The Full D10 Interview (Video)
As promised, we will begin the posting of all the videos from the 10th D: All Things Digital conference today, starting out with the opening night speaker: Apple CEO Tim Cook. Aside from a few short...
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Mark Pincus on Zynga's Strategy: Open Platform, Collect Non-Gamers, Score One...
In the run-up to its IPO, Zynga spent most of last year in a quiet period unable to talk about its plans. Now that’s over, and founder and CEO Mark Pincus has been on roll. In June, he appeared at the...
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