Wall Street Journal:
Tech Today gathers all the biggest technology news of the morning’s Wall Street Journal into one place for your reading pleasure.AOL Grapples With Harsh Reality: AOL is planning to cut about a third of its staff as the struggling Internet company attempts to rein in costs and resurrect its business in preparation for its sp (Read More)
Engadget:
Even if you don't have a favored fighter in the browser wars, you have to admit Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been looking mighty unfit over the last few years. Younger and fitter contenders like Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome have arguably overtaken the old stalwart, and now Microsoft is making some much-needed (Read More)
Engadget:
Seriously, how awesome have the past few hours been? Engadget turns the design stakes up to 11, Google finally dishes the dirt on Chrome OS, and now you can even download the forthcoming software to have a fiddle with yourself. It's completely free, though you'll need VMWare running atop a Windows, Linux or OS X installatio (Read More)
Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing:
Dell's quarterly profit plunges ... Intuit's forecast disappoints ... Microsoft says Windows 7 is selling well ... and we'll tell you about the 12 (online) scams of Christmas. Jim Chesko has those stories and more.
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Engadget:
Having made the dev kit for the Surface available to select partners in June (a tiny bit late), Microsoft has now officially let the software loose for all and sundry to explore, experiment, and hopefully innovate with. Whereas Surface Developer units have been required till now to successfully design and test an app, the S (Read More)
New York Times:
Computers using Chrome, which uses “cloud computing,” will not arrive for a year, but it is already seen as a potential challenger to Microsoft.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Filed under: Analysis / OpinionWhile Bill Gates looked on, Microsoft shareholders asked CEO Steve Ballmer about Apple at their annual meeting this morning. Steve's CEO-speak responses illustrate the larger problem. Portfolio reports that one investor asked about the company's reputation with young customers: "I'm just won (Read More)
Engadget:
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer was on hand for the company's annual shareholder's meeting in Washington, and news of Windows 7 sales came up right away. While delivering the opening remarks, Ballmer said that Microsoft has sold twice as many copies of Win 7 as any previous OS in a comparable time frame. Though no actual numb (Read More)
The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Filed under: OS, SoftwareEarlier today, Apple released version 2.2 of Boot Camp drivers for Windows. Installation requires Boot Camp 2.1 to have been previously installed as well as Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista. Boot Camp is included with Leopard and Snow Leopard and lets you install Windows on an Intel-based Mac. Shops (Read More)
OSNews:
"Camino - the Gecko-based browser with native Cocoa interface and more seamless Mac OS X integration - has finally landed an official 2.0 release. The browser uses a much newer version of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine (the same one used in Firefox) along with updated tabs and improved security features. However, Camino s (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Google offered up everything but a finished Chrome OS today, releasing its source code and explaining how it's different than other operating systems. Here are the features, functions, and screenshots you'll want to know about. Want the short version, sketched out on a notepad, uploaded as a video, and narrated with a caref (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalDell’s (DELL) fiscal third-quarter earnings fell 54 percent to $337 million, while revenue declined 15 percent to $12.9 billion.The personal-computer maker saw revenue in its small and medium business unit slip 19 percent from the year-earlier period, while its consumer b (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. kicked their battle for personal computing supremacy into a higher gear Thursday, with Microsoft touting sales of the latest version of its Windows operating system software as its Silicon Valley-based rival promoted a technology that in many ways stands in sharp contrast.
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Ars Technica:
At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 (PDC09), the Microsoft Surface team announced the broad availability of the Microsoft Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) Workstation Edition. It has actually been available on the Microsoft Download Center (144.2MB) since earlier this month, but only now has it (Read More)
Engadget:
The name may not exactly suggest any groundbreaking changes, but we're guessing that most Windows Home Server users with Windows 7 computers will want to upgrade to Power Pack 3 as soon as they can, which we now finally know will be on November 24th. As we'd heard previously, the big news with this update is that it brings (Read More)