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Chromebooks: Aimed directly at Microsoft's PC upgrade cycle
Google is putting the desktop cycle on a subscription plan -- $28 a month per user.
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Google boosts Chrome App store: Price war?
Google launches Angry Birds, a 95 percent revenue split with developers, and a global rollout in 41 countries to reach 160 million users.
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Skype: Ballmer's
$7.7 billion blunderMicrosoft is buying the video and VoIP giant for more than seven billion in cash and this will help them how?
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Project Blade Runner: Your PC in 2019
In 8 to 10 years, the personal computer's basic building block will be the hub. Here's how consumers will use the Blade Runner design.
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PlayBook: Perfect for two kinds of people
While RIM's tablet is outgunned by the iPad when it comes to competing for general consumers, there are two kinds of buyers who will love this 7-inch BlackBerry.
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Photos: Google I/O 2011 Opening Day
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Video: Google unveils Android@Home
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Gallery: Google Music Beta walkthrough
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Webcast: Windows Phone 7 Prospects
What's going to make or break Microsoft's Windows Phone platform? Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley hosts this live event Thursday May 12 at 2 pm ET/11 am PT.
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Facebook bans Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook has banned Mark S. Zuckerberg, the bankruptcy attorney, not the company's CEO.
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Five Reasons why Google's Linux Chromebook is a Windows killer
After years, decades, of talking about Linux taking on Windows on the desktop, we finally have a serious contender with a serious backer, Google, behind it. Can it do in Windows on the business...
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Can you live in the Chromebook cloud?
The Google Chromebooks are coming, and at a decent price point that will surely attract casual users. What most folks will have to determine is can the cloud computing model work for everything?
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The best thing about Chromebooks? Free data service from Verizon.
These upstart netbooks by Samsung and Acer hit the sweet spot between portability, affordability and productivity, and could even convert tablet and smartphone customers to the Chromebook.
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'Everyone has SOA; it's called the cloud'
Cloud pushed SOA from the 'egghead shadows' to become the global de facto enterprise architecture.
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SOA and cloud governance: the 11 stages of a service lifecycle
From adoption planning to retirement, here are the essential steps that should be part of a service lifecycle if it is to avoid a fate of becoming shelfware.
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Google engineers claim that Chrome PWN bug is a Flash bug
Yesterday I reported that security firm VUPEN claimed to have a Google Chrome browser exploit that bypassed the browser's sandbox and Windows ASLR and DEP security measures. Today Google engineers...
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Best Buy to offer HP'S Veer 4G for free
Best Buy is preparing to offer HP's smallest phone for free with a two-year contract. But will customers catch on?
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Facebook: no evidence of apps leaking user data
Facebook says it has found no evidence that the flaw affecting hundreds of thousands of its apps resulted in leaked user data.
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So, who wants a Chromebook? (I don't)
So, Google has finally unveiled the devices that will run its Chrome OS - they'll be collectively known as Chromebooks. So, who wants one? One thing's for sure, I don't.
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