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We’ve already laid out a long list of reasons why businesses will ignore Windows 8 for a long time. Seems like Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer realizes the problem. At a launch event for Windows 8 in New York, he spent one breath saying that business will love Windows 8. And in the next breath,...
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During today’s Q4 earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple would never make a 7″ tablet. This was in response to questions about the iPad mini’s similarity in size to 7″ tablets like the Google Nexus 7. Apple founder Steve Jobs famously made reference to 7″ tablets and said that they weren’t...
File this post in the ‘yeah, right’ category, please. Today The Hill reported that U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has called for action on cybersecurity legislation by Congress in its coming lame duck session. He warned that a “destructive cyber-terrorist attack could virtually paralyze the nation.” Here, I’ll say it: boo! It was not...
The Wired 2012 event kicked off today with a host of interesting and inspiring speakers talking about their work and the future of technology. One interesting theme that turned up from the talks was that many of the very successful speakers admitted they had no idea what they were doing when they started up....
Microsoft has quietly set out to convince consumers that they should buy a Surface tablet now, rather than wait for a Windows 8 version to arrive. In a way, it’s reminiscent of a line from Ghostbusters: “There is no Dana. Only Zuul.” Likewise, there is no Surface with Windows 8 or Windows RT. There...
Android might be winning the global battle, but in the United States the top of the market belongs to Apple. The big three U.S. cellular carriers – Verizon, ATT and Sprint – have all posted their most recent quarterly earnings and between them 58% of smartphones sold were iPhones. Sprint was the last of...
Apple reported September quarter financial results Thursday: An $8 billion profit on $36 billion of sales, representing 27% revenue growth. iPhone sales — 27 million — were better than expected, thanks to the iPhone 5 launch late in the quarter. But iPad sales — 14 million — came in well below expectations, ahead of...
After spending most of the day at Microsoft’s Windows 8 launch event, I spent about 30 minutes with a Microsoft Surface RT tablet and then received a review unit. I’ll be using it full time for the next week — in the place of my Chromebook and MacBook Air — and I’m already impressed by the...