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Microsoft unifies pricing tiers for universal Windows and Windows Phone apps

[quote][b] Derek Kessl[/b][b]er[/b] wrote:   Back at [url=http://www.wpcentral.com/build2014]Build 2014[/url] (remember that, two weeks ago?), Microsoft announced their initiative to [url=http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-announces-windows-81-update-1-mouse-and-keyboard-friendly-tweaks]unify apps across their entire ecosystem[/url]. That way a developer could build an app once and deploy it to [url=http://www.wpcentral.com/windows-phone-81]Windows Phone[/url], Windows, and even Xbox. But to make that a reality there was some back-end housekeeping to be done in order to make that a possibility. One of those steps: making it so you can price apps the same across all the stores.   To that end, Microsoft announced today that they're simplifying and consolidating the pricing tiers between Windows and Windows Phone. The end result of that is the addition of tiers for $0.99 apps and $1.29 apps for Windows. Microsoft noted that apps in that price range currently account for 55% of W

9 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Don't buy a new PC or Mac before you read this

[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4608i301DC0CB9EA971B3.jpg[/img]   While summer break has just started for students across the country, that means that the all-important back-to-school shopping season is not far behind. And with it comes a flood of new or updated systems -- everything from traditional laptops and desktops to tablets and hybrids. But before swiping your credit card on a new ultrabook, all-in-one, or convertible, you're going to want to dive a little deeper into the spec sheets. That's because the latest Intel CPU upgrade -- code named [url=http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-3121_7-57587411-220/intels-new-fourth-gen-haswell-processors-what-you-need-to-know-faq/]Haswell[/url], but officially known as "fourth-generation Core i series" -- is offering significant battery life improvements in the first wave of laptops we've tested so far. So, unlike the more ho-hum Intel updates we've seen in years past, there's a real-world payoff in seeking ou

9 years ago

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iOS 7.1 is out

[url=http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/10/5354266/ios-7-1-features-download]http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/10/5354266/ios-7-1-features-download[/url]    

9 years ago

MiquellCommunity Leader

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The end of Nokia? Firm to be renamed Microsoft Mobile Oy when deal closes

[b]The end of Nokia? Firm to be renamed Microsoft Mobile Oy when deal closes. [/b] [b]Nokia name could be consigned to tech's past.[/b] by Chris Smith   The grand old name of Nokia will be dropped from the company's title as soon as the Microsoft takeover is rubber stamped this month, according to a letter sent by the new owners to suppliers. According to the letter, unearthed by Nokiapoweruser, the Nokia Corporation/Nokia Oyj (Ltd) name will be replaced by the new Redmond-owned subsidiary Microsoft Mobile Oy. The note also attempts to reassure suppliers that their existing relationships and terms will remain in tact as the new Microsoft era begins. It reads: "Please note that upon the close of the transaction between Microsoft and Nokia, the name of Nokia Corporation/Nokia Oyj will change to Microsoft Mobile Oy. Microsoft Mobile Oy is the legal entity name that should be used for VAT IDs and for the issuance of invoices". RIP Nokia? What this means for th

9 years ago

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CeBIT: UK Prime Minister backs development of insane-speed 5G networks

Mobile users are just getting around to upgrading their handsets to take advantage of 4G networks, but this simply is not fast enough. UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, spoke at CeBIT announcing that the country will join forces with Germany to develop the successor to 4G -- the uninspiringly-named 5G. The PM announced a deal with Germany which will help to push forward with the development of a mobile broadband network that will offer download speeds up to 1,000 times those currently available on 4G. To put this kind of speed in perspective, as the Prime Minister explained, an 800MB movie (or any other type of file for that matter) could be download in a single second. One second. For the best part of a gig of data. On a mobile device. Who is going to say no to that? Ultimately, the adoption rate will be determined by the costs involved -- mobile tariffs, suitable handsets, data charges, and coverage -- but before any of this becomes an issue, 5G needs to be, well, invented really. &n

9 years ago

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Team rebuilding world's first website

This is a very interesting read on web sites which started 20  years ago. You can view pages from 20 years at the source of this articles.   Source Here: [url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/30/tech/web/first-website-cern/index.html]http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/30/tech/web/first-website-cern/index.html[/url]           CNN) -- Twenty years ago, a team of researchers shared the Webwith the world. Now they want to show a generation that grew up onlinewhat it was like in its earliest days.  Cern  is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the date it released, for free, the technology and software needed to run a Web server. In honor of the anniversary, a team has been assembled to recreate a working version of the first website, a how-to guide hosted by the project's creators. The organization issued a statement on April 30, 1993, that announced the release ofthat Web to the public. British physicist Tim Berners-Lee created and named the Web (also commonl

9 years ago

Jasper_The_RasperModerator

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Bletchley Park computing museum gets £1m in funding

  [b]THE CODE BREAKING INSTITUTION[/b] Bletchley Park has received a donation of £1m from technology personage Matt Crotty. The money goes to the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park, a place where old computers are curated and looked after. The donation must be matched and will drip into TNMOC as the organisation raises matching funds. "To help the development of a museum such as this is an exceptional opportunity that comes once in a lifetime. I have watched this organisation grow and make astonishing achievements with very limited funding," said TNMOC trustee Crotty. "My decision to donate has also been motivated by the increasing public awareness of the significance of digital heritage and the role and understanding it can play in inspiring current and future generations to become engineers and computer scientists."   [url=http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2292376/bletchley-park-computing-museum-gets-gbp1m-in-funding]Full Article[/url]

9 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Asus reportedly not pairing Android with Windows due to pressure from Google

[quote][b]Rich Edmonds[/b] wrote:[/quote][quote]Asus and Intel have been working together to combine two experiences - Windows and Android. This enables tablets and other form factors to run Windows and then Android, depending on which mode has been enabled by the user. Asus presented the TD300 at CES 2014, but now Digitimes reports that the company is postponing launch plans due to pressure from Google. [/quote] Read [url=http://www.wpcentral.com/asus-no-dual-boot-os-pressure-google]here[/url].

9 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Scientists make 'bug-eye' camera

A digital camera that functions like an insect's compound eye is reported in the journal Nature this week. It comprises an array of 180 small lenses, which, along with their associated electronics, are stretched across a curved mounting. The prototype currently has few pixels, so its images are low-resolution. But the device displays an immense depth of field, and a very wide-angle view that avoids the distortion seen in standard camera lenses. The development team, led from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, believes its new imaging system could eventually find uses in surveillance and for endoscopic investigations of the human body. [url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7447/full/nature12083.html]In their report[/url], the researchers also suggest such cameras could be fitted to tiny aerial vehicles one day that behaved like robotic insects. At the moment, the "bug-eye" system's vision is comparable to that enjoyed by some ants and beetles. The ex

10 years ago

Jasper_The_RasperModerator

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'Catastrophic' server disk-destroying glitch menaced Google cloud

[b]'Shame on you!' screams one developer as race-condition bug discovered[/b] Google has squashed a bug in its public cloud that threatened to accidentally delete users' virtual disks – an error so serious that one security researcher termed it potentially "catastrophic". The web king today admitted that one of its server migration commands could have "erroneously and permanently" deleted [url=https://cloud.google.com/developers/articles/overview-of-google-compute-engine-for-cloud-developers]persistent disks[/url] attached to virtual instances; the admission was sent out in an email from the Google Compute Engine Team to users of the service on Friday. Coincidentally, Google only just [url=http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/improvements-for-managing-persistent-disks.html]updated its persistent disk feature[/url] on Tuesday. [u]Today's [url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gce-discussion/baeK1Oe2_zU]email[/url] read:[/u]     [b]We discovered a se

9 years ago

Jasper_The_RasperModerator

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A letter to my daughter: your privacy in the age of the internet

[b]Millennials are growing up with very different ideas about privacy and information security than those of us who actually built the digital world we now live in.[/b] It's a different world for our kids these days. Most of us grew up in a time when internet security wasn't even a topic for discussion. But for our kids, privacy and information security are important considerations. With that in mind, I wrote a letter to my daughter. [b]To my daughter[/b] Hi, it's Dad! Writing you this note reminds me of similar notes I wrote to your big sister, more than a decade ago. Back then, I scribbled with a pen on a pad next to the coffeemaker, where I knew she'd see it. But today I'm writing to you on an iPad. I'm at your big brother's house, and this note will travel through his in-house Wi-Fi, over his cable service to his ISP - and finally to your iPhone, there at school. Ten years ago, the note I wrote your sister was just between me and her, or possibly another member of our family,

9 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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HP launches Android-based SlateBook 'PC'

[quote][b]Brooke Crothers[/b] wrote:   [img]http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/07/29/hp-slatebook-x2-detached.jpg[/img]   [i]The SlateBook x2, Hewlett-Packard's foray into the Android convertible market, is now available on the company's sales site.[/i] [i]The [url=http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/]tablet[/url]-laptop hybrid was slated to be available in August but has arrived early on HP's U.S. sales site. HP also launched the SlateBook [url=http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20130729_609524.html]in Japan on Monday[/url].[/i] [i]Listed as the [url=http://shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/TOMI/callcenter_only/E4A99UA?HP-SlateBook-10-h010nr-x2-PC&aoid=44661&003=6663635&010=E4A99UA#ABA&ci_sku=E4A99UA#ABA&ci_gpa=pla&ci_kw=]HP SlateBook 10-h010nr x2[/url], it is branded as a "PC," even though it runs [url=http://www.cnet.com/android-atlas/]Android[/url] Jelly Bean -- not [url=http://reviews.cnet.com/windows-8-review/]Windows 8[

9 years ago

Jasper_The_RasperModerator

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Lured by a PUP: Zona is a Netflix-like piracy app with more choices than Popcorn Time

If [url=https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app]Popcorn Time[/url] was “[url=http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/17/popcorn-time-is-hollywoods-worst-nightmare-and-it-cant-be-stopped/]Hollywood’s worst nightmare[/url]” then the newest piracy app Zona could give Hollywood night terrors while being a pirate’s dream come true. If you are inclined to think peer-to-peer sharing is the devil, yet you currently stream Netflix, then maybe you should reconsider. TorrentFreak [url=http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-considers-p2p-powered-streaming-technology-140426/]spotted[/url] a job posting which seems to indicate Netflix would like to integrate P2P technology into its streaming services. Unfortunately even if Netflix does head in that direction, that won’t stop the coming [url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2014/04/21/netflix-price-increase-is-there-a-billion-hidden-in-those-couch-cushions/]price increase[/url].   [url=http://blogs.computerworld.com/security/23838/lured-pup-zona-netf

9 years ago

remixedcatCommunity Leader

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Logitech is keeping thier Harmony remote division!!!

Just heard it being mentioned on Logitech's facebook page!

9 years ago

tsrPopular Voice

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Wearable computers: The next generation

Computing devices you can wear are still in their infancy, but a host of clever new designs are in the works. Get a peek at the brave new world of wearable computers, from sensor-laden surgical gloves to workout clothes that monitor your moves.   Full Read Here:[url=http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/detail/74332]http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/detail/74332[/url]   [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/4630iA3DD6021282FE365.png[/img]

9 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Microsoft frames Skype in Outlook.com inboxes

Microsoft is delivering Skype to Outlook.com users' inboxes. A preview, which combines the video chat and messaging service with the tech giant's free e-mail service, is being introduced now to users in the U.K. and will be rolled out to users in the U.S. and Germany "in the coming weeks." Further international expansion is expected this summer, the company announced Monday evening. Microsoft promotes the integration as "less typing, more talking": "Even with the best email service, sometimes text isn't enough," Simon Longbottom, Skype's director of global marketing, wrote in a [url=http://blogs.skype.com/2013/04/29/type-less-talk-more-make-skype-calls-directly-from-your-outlook-com-inbox/#fbid=rovfhtRoSG2]company blog post[/url]. "We all face those situations where it's just easier to jump on a call to talk something through. Sometimes that quick call can accomplish more than a long email reply. That's why we are bringing Skype audio and video callin

10 years ago

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Amazon to buy digital comic book publisher comiXology

[quote][b]Deepa Seetharaman[/b] wrote:   Amazon.com Inc will buy New York-based digital comic book publisher comiXology for an undisclosed sum to beef up its entertainment content. [/quote][b]Read[/b] [url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/10/us-amazoncom-comics-idUSBREA391YR20140410]here[/url].

9 years ago

ams963Bronze VIP

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Latest Windows 8.1 build beefs up IE developer tools

Developers who need to peek at the code behind Web pages in Internet Explorer will find more robust tools in Windows 8.1. A leak of Windows 8.1 Build 9385 reveals an overhaul to the developer panel in IE. Pressing F12 in any current version of Internet Explorer displays a panel that allows you to examine the HTML and CSS code, scripts, and many other elements. Developers can use this feature to analyze the code behind third-party Web sites or to troubleshoot problems with their own Web pages. Windows 8.1 has upped Microsoft's browser to Internet Explorer 11, which appears to show a slicker and friendlier flavor of the developer panel, which has remained unchanged for the past several years. A video of Build 9385 posted by Bavogames, a tech-focused channel on YouTube, shows the [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC1Q5QqSEU8]panel as easier to navigate[/url] and the code and other elements as easier to modify. Read [url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57582508-75/latest-windows-8.1-

10 years ago

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