CNET News, Ina Fried
Although still early in the process, newly leaked documents about Windows 8 offer some keen insight into where Microsoft wants to head with the next version of the operating system.
One thing that is made abundantly clear is that Microsoft has been paying attention to Apple. In the documents, which appear to come from an April meeting with computer makers, Microsoft discusses its Cupertino, Calif.-based rival and outlines plans to offer a Windows Store similar to the way Apple distributes software on its iPhone. The documents, which Microsoft has declined to comment on or authenticate, also talk about plans to give Windows a more iPad-like response time through new power management settings. Read more…
(CNN) — Goodbye computer mouse, keyboard and monitor. Say hello to a new, simpler era of human-computer interaction — this time, with no clunky hardware standing between you and digital information. In this new world, there are options aplenty.
Instead of sliding a mouse across your desk, you could just point at whatever you’d like to select. Instead of pecking away at a keyboard, you could just say what you’re thinking. And instead of glaring at a big screen all day, why not just project that information on the surface of your contact lenses? Read more…
The fact that you keep coming back to Facebook makes it easier for Facebook to sell more ads -- and make more money
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– Millions of Facebook addicts worldwide worry that someday soon they’ll have to pay to use the site.
If you go to Facebook.com and search for the terms “Facebook free” or “Facebook charge,” you’ll find hundreds of groups with names like, “If 1 Million People Join Before 9th July 2010 Facebook Will Stay Free!” or “If Facebook Charges A Fee We Will Discontinue Using It.” Some of these groups have dozens of users, others have thousands. Read more…
Bill Dally, Nvidia’s chief scientist and vice president, says that Moore’s Law is in danger of dying out if the computer industry continues to follow the path of serial CPUs as outlined by Intel and AMD. The savior of Moore’s Law lies in parallel processing, and in particular GPUs, Daly says in a published column. Read more…
BOSTON — Federal dollars being pumped into grant programs to spur students to enter IT careers in the health care industry should help to create between 45,000 and 50,000 jobs over the next five years, a top federal health official said on Thursday. Read more…
Watch this demo and see how Microsoft Outlook differs from Google Gmail. Learn more at www.WhyMicrosoft.com/google
Microsoft Outlook 2010 has new features to help you organize your emails more effectively. The new conversation feature enables you to organize email threads as conversations. Use the new ribbon for better search, and customized quicksteps.
Robert L. Mitchell
E-mail is the third rail of enterprise IT operations. You can mess up elsewhere, but bring down people’s e-mail and you’ll start getting irate calls literally in seconds.
Manesh Patel knows those risks well, but that didn’t stop the senior vice president and CIO at Sanmina-SCI Corp. from stepping off the Microsoft Outlook/Exchange platform and moving the company’s 16,000 users into Google’s cloud — thereby running the risk of interrupting users’ e-mail, even if just temporarily, in the process. The cost savings were simply too good to pass up. Read more…
written by: Jeffrey Wolf & Bazi Kanani
DENVER – It can list your address, a picture of your home, how much it cost, how long you have lived there, your approximate age and income, your relationship status and more. And it is online for anyone to see.
Spokeo.com takes information from social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and from phone books, marketing surveys and real estate listings to create a profile on you without asking. Read more…
Juan Carlos Perez
Google has stopped censoring results in China, acting on a decision it made in January.
On Monday, Google stopped censoring Google Search, Google News and Google Images on Google.cn, according to a blog post from Chief Legal Officer David Drummond.
“Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong,” he wrote. Read more…
