The third screen: Will all Windows 8 apps run on Microsoft’s Xbox One? – ZDNet

The third screen: Will all Windows 8 apps run on Microsoft’s Xbox One? – ZDNet

Is it really so crazy to think that users will be able to run Microsoft CRM on their Xboxes in the not-so-distant future? After Microsoft’s May 21 Xbox One reveal — which included information about the coming Xbox One operating system that is based on [...]

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An iPhone Veteran Evaluates a Samsung Galaxy Note II – The Mac Observer

An iPhone Veteran Evaluates a Samsung Galaxy Note II – The Mac Observer

Introduction If there’s one thing that I have learned from the evaluation of different Android devices, like the Kindle Fire HD and the Google Nexus, it’s that the Android 4.x OS is a technical, pleasantly geeky, often beautiful OS that will appeal to many different people. On the 5.5-inch display [...]

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HTC Can’t Staunch The Flow Of Departing Senior Talent As Internal Turmoil … – TechCrunch

HTC Can’t Staunch The Flow Of Departing Senior Talent As Internal Turmoil … – TechCrunch

A brain drain at a big tech company is never a good thing, and when a lot of that departing talent consists of high-level execs moving on in rapid succession it’s bound to look like curtains to outside observers. That appears to be the case at HTC, which is losing [...]

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GIF Creator Sets Record Straight: It’s Pronounced ‘JIF’ – PC Magazine

GIF Creator Sets Record Straight: It’s Pronounced ‘JIF’ – PC Magazine

It turns out choosy graphics creators also choose “JIF.” During Tuesday’s annual Webby Awards ceremony, GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) creator Steve Wilhite put to rest the question of the animated images’ correct pronunciation. The simple answer: Much like the peanut butter brand, it’s a soft [...]

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Google’s conversational search arrives with new Chrome – CNET

Google’s conversational search arrives with new Chrome – CNET

Google is enabling a more natural spoken question-and-answer interface to its search service for people with a new version of Chrome. Google demonstrated conversational search at Google I/O a week ago, a style of search designed to be more like natural human speech than the technically constructed search queries that [...]

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