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Microsoft offers students up to six months of Office 365 for free
- Microsoft has launched a new promotional campaign to get students using its Office 365 University and SkyDrive products. Under the new offering announced today, students with a qualifying .edu e-mail address can register to access the productivity suite at no…
All browsers fall at Pwn2Own but Chrome OS survives Pwnium
- No browser was left standing at this year's Pwn2Own hacking contest. The latest versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Google's Chrome, and Mozilla's Firefox all succumbed to exploits on day one, with hackers targeting a variety of zero-day vulnerabilities on each…
ModernMix lets you run Windows 8 apps as desktop apps
- Stardock already offers a way to bring back the familiar Start menu in Windows 8 instead of the much criticized tile-based home screen. But if you’d still like to use “Metro” apps from Microsoft’s Windows Store and can’t wrap your…
Android 4.x installations overtake 2.3 Gingerbread after 17 months
- It may have taken nearly a year and a half but Android 4.x (all versions of Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean) has finally overtaken Gingerbread as the most widely used version of Google's mobile operating system according to the…
Microsoft fined €561m for not showing browser ballot on Win7 SP1
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The European Commission has fined Microsoft €561 ($730 million) for not complying with a three-year old agreement to give Windows users a selection of alternative browsers. In 2009, Microsoft faced an antitrust case with the EU that suggested the company abused its position...
Microsoft reverses one-PC Office 2013 licensing restriction
- Following a wave of criticism over the licensing terms for the retail version of Office 2013, which essentially tied your version of the software to a single computer for ever, Microsoft has amended the agreement with a transferability provision to…
Opera releases first beta of new WebKit-powered Android browser
- Moving ahead with its plan to drop its own Presto rendering engine in favor of WebKit -- the same used by Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome -- Opera Software has released the first public version of its revamped mobile browser…
Latest Steam numbers show Linux, Mac gamers almost equal
- The numbers from Steam's February hardware and software survey have been published and the results show an interesting development -- Linux platforms now accounts for about 2.8 percent of Steam's users. That may not sound like much, but to put…
GeForce 314.14 beta optimized for Tomb Raider, SimCity, more
- Gearing up for this month's hottest games, Nvidia has unleashed a new beta driver to help ensure that you have a smooth experience. The GeForce 314.14 beta brings better performance and compatibility across no less than four upcoming releases including…
First BB10 update addresses battery life, low-light photos and more
- It’s been almost a month since BlackBerry 10 launched alongside the Z10 smartphone and users are already being treated to their first update for the operating system. Announced this morning in a blog post by BlackBerry product manager Michael Clewley,…
Windows 8 adoption at 2.79%, not growing as fast as Windows 7
- Windows 8 continued its slow but steady growth in February grabbing 2.26 percent of the operating system market share, up from 1.72 percent in December and 1.09 percent in November according to Net Applications. During the month Windows 7 also…
Adobe Photoshop Touch arrives on iPhone, Android phones for $4.99
- Adobe has released a version of Photoshop Touch for the iPhone and Android smartphones. The robust photo editing application shares an almost identical set of features with the tablet app although the overall experience has been designed specifically for smaller…
Samsung unveils Passbook rival for tickets and coupons called Wallet
- Samsung showed off a new Wallet application during a developer conference at Mobile World Congress that will allow users to store things such as event tickets, boarding passes, membership cards, and coupons in one central location. Currently available as a…
Leap Motion gesture controller arrives May 13, initial app lineup detailed
- We’ve kept our eye on Leap Motion’s gesture control system ever since the company first unveiled the tiny device less than a year ago -- and apparently so have “hundreds of thousands” other people among developers and early adopter who’ve…
Chrome 26 beta released with improved spell checking, dev tweaks
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The stable version of Chrome 25 hasn't even been out for a week and Google has already promoted the next build to its beta channel and plans to roll out a completed version for Windows, Linux and Chrome OS "in the coming weeks" with Mac to follow soon after. Along with...
Internet Explorer 10 finally arrives on Windows 7
- Windows 7 users have had access to a release preview of Internet Explorer 10 for a few months now, but now Microsoft is making the final release available on the platform for the first time since the browser’s debut on…
Firefox 22 will block third-party cookies by default
- Mozilla will soon be taking a page from Apple’s book and implementing a feature in Firefox 22 that will allow the browser to block advertising cookies from third-parties by default. If you aren’t already aware, Cupertino’s Safari browser has shipped…
Firefox OS unveiled with 18 partners, heading to emerging markets
- Mozilla will soon be joining the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft with Firefox OS, the foundation’s first mobile operating system. The announcement came just ahead of Mobile World Congress where 18 operators from around the world have pledged support…
Windows Blue to feature IE11, Bing search, public summer preview
- Windows Blue, according to anonymous sources in touch with The Verge, is being targeted for an "aggressive" summer launch. The news outlet notes that Windows Blue just passed its "Milestone 1" build and says Win8China reported the first public preview…
LG buys webOS code and patents from HP to power smart TVs
- Despite its troubled history and ultimately being put on life support as an open source project under a wholly-owned HP subsidiary called Gram, it seems WebOS will be getting yet another lease of life -- just not as a smartphone…
Chrome 25 released with voice recognition support
- Google has delivered the latest stable release of Chrome -- version 25 for those still counting -- which includes a number of bug fixes, improved security agains rogue extensions, and voice recognition support via the Web Speech API. The latter…
Canonical releases Ubuntu Touch developer preview for Nexus devices
- Canonical has launched a new version of its Ubuntu operating system designed with smartphones and tablets in mind. Available as a developer preview ahead of a full release sometime early next year, the software is available to download right now…
Mozilla releases Firefox 19 stable with built-in PDF viewer
- Mozilla has published the latest stable release of Firefox 19 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The update is rather short on new features, but it does include a built-in PDF viewer that will eliminate the need for third-party plugins…
Microsoft says Office 2013 licensing is nothing new, but it's a price hike in disguise
- Last week a number of sites including TechSpot reported on an apparently new licensing restriction for the retail version of Office 2013 that essentially ties your version of the software to a single computer -- not one at a time,…
Microsoft raises Mac Office prices, ends multi-license packs
- Purchasing a copy of Mac Office 2011 Home & Student (single license) will now set you back about $140, or about $20 more than last year's retail prices. It's well-known that some wines improve with age. Unlike a finely crafted…
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