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Is Microsoft Starting to Adopt Google’s Strategies?
Wired‘s Ryan Tate makes a compelling argument that the former software empire may be adopting strategies first crafted by its rival Google in offering free cloud services and a free Windows Azure OS to compete with Chrome OS and act as a conduit for users to Microsoft’s varied cloud services. New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella […]
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Apple Mac Pro – Cinema Ad
Reminiscent of a Sony device, the new Mac Pro is certainly a departure from the previous iteration in Apple’s top-of-the-line desktop computers. It is radical like the G4 cube was radical but let’s hope it’s fortune fare better. The new Mac Pro is expected to arrive this fall.
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Chinese Tech Giant Lenovo May Purchase Blackberry Maker Research in Motion (RIM)
Chinese computing giant Lenovo is considering purchasing Canadian smartphone handset maker RIM in a bid to join the burgeoning smartphone market. The world’s second largest computer manufacturer by volume, Lenovo’s purchase of Research in Motion would give it an entrance into the lucrative smartphone segment in an effort to diversify its non-pc assets. […]
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Dell Considering Privatization
Dell Computer, once a titan of the PC industry in the 1990s, is rumored to be considering a private buyout that would take the corporation into the realm of private equity and allow it to reconfigure itself for future markets without the scrutiny of shareholders. Rather than face the fate of RIM or HP, both […]
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The Internet in the DPRK: How North Korea’s Intranet Reinforces National Isolation
Stories of repression in the DPRK are nothing new, with numerous accounts of prison work camps, political re-education, and the thorough repression of individualism at the altar of state indoctrination regularly pouring out of the Republic of Korea’s northern brother. That is why some may find it shocking to learn that North Korea has set […]
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Wal-Mart to Stop Selling Amazon’s Kindle Tablets and eReaders
In a sign of the growing overlap in product lines between the two retail giants, Wal-Mart has announced it will stop selling competitor Amazon’s Kindle in its stores once the current inventory runs through. Though Wal-Mart is massive in terms of brick-and-mortar stores, it is small in the online space where Amazon is king and […]
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