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Google Chrome Loses Market Share To Internet Explorer

Posted 03/03/2013 at 7:23pm | by Justin Kerr

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Windows 8 may be struggling, but Internet Explorer is thriving.

For years Internet Explorer has been easy to pick on, but for once the Redmond based software giant is bucking the trend. Market share for Internet Explorer has reached an 18-month high, and it seems to have done so largely at the expense of Google Chrome. In February IE climbed 0.68 points to 55.82 percent. Chrome dropped 1.21 percent, and Firefox rocketed above 20 percent to settle at 16.27 and 20.12 percent respectively.

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iFixit Compiles Tablet Reparability List – Apple & Microsoft Duke it Out for Worst of the Worst

Posted 03/03/2013 at 12:57pm | by Justin Kerr

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The best tablets on the market are also the worst to drop.

Here at Maximum PC we love to strip machines down and rebuild them just to see what makes it tick, but with modern gadgets that isn’t always easy. Screws have been replaced by glue, and the simple pleasures of popping the cover off to perform upgrades seems to be a lost art. iFixit has emerged as the Internet’s ultimate authority on gadget reparability, and its newly updated list of tablets puts both Microsoft and Apple fighting for the distinction as worlds least fixable tablet.

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The High Cost of Customization

Posted 03/01/2013 at 3:50pm | by Tom Halfhill

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Every girl crazy about a sharp dressed...computer chip

Long ago, all men’s suits were handmade by tailors. Then mass production made off-the-rack garments more affordable, and now only the wealthy or fastidious buy fully tailored suits. A similar trend has transformed the semiconductor industry, making custom microprocessors a luxury only for well-heeled companies.

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Samsung Hires Former U.K. Judge Who Slammed Apple

Posted 02/28/2013 at 1:52pm | by Paul Lilly

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Something tells us Apple isn't real happy about this.

Last year, a U.K. judge did more than just side with Samsung in a case brought against it by Apple. Judge Robin Jacob also ordered Apple to post a statement on on the front page of its website, as well as in newspapers and magazines, saying that Samsung had not copied Apple's design patent. It basically boiled down to a public apology, and eventually Apple was ordered to pay Samsung's lawyer's fees on an indemnity basis. Apple would go on to win a huge damages award in the U.S., but what of the U.K. judge? He now works for Samsung.

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Gabe Newell: Apple Poses a Bigger Threat to Steam Box Than Microsoft

Posted 02/01/2013 at 2:01pm | by Paul Lilly

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Valve's Newell believes Apple could roll over the console guys, if it really wanted to.

In this week's edition of "Gabe Newell Said What?," the co-founder and managing director of Valve waxed insightful on the hurdles set before the much anticipated Steam Box, the biggest of which might be trying to overcome Apple's presence in the living room. As you're likely aware, Newell once famously called the release of Windows 8 a "catastrophe for everyone in the PC space," and that it would cause top-tier OEMs to exit the market. That's part of the reason why Valve is forging ahead with a so-called Steam Box in the first place, but it's not Microsoft (or Sony) that poses the biggest threat.

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Falling Stock: Apple No Longer Most Valuable Company

Posted 01/25/2013 at 11:10am | by Paul Lilly

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Apple's share price continues to fall after posting a record quarter.

An apple falling from a tree branch is a good demonstration of gravity, but what does freefalling Apple stock prove? That's currently up for debate. After surging to over $700 a share prior to the iPhone 5 launch, Apple's share price has steadily declined right up until Apple announced its best quarter ever on Wednesday, at which point it went into a nosedive. What can Apple do to turn things around?

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Are Cheap Handsets the Real Reason Why Android is Popular?

Posted 01/23/2013 at 11:26am | by Paul Lilly

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A journalist claims Android is popular because it's cheap, not because it's good.

Sam Biddie, a senior staff writer at Gizmodo, stoked the flames of debate with an article that proposes the reason why Android is so popular and able to outsell the iPhone is because there are a lot of "marginal" devices that "can be sold like bags of Doritos or bargain-bin sweaters." He's talking about the low-end Android handsets that are priced to move, rather than high-end phones like the Galaxy S III.

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Microsoft Loses Mobile Market Share to Google and Apple

Posted 01/04/2013 at 8:26am | by Paul Lilly

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Only Android and iOS saw market share growth last quarter.

The latest data from the comScore MobileLens service suggests that Microsoft is having a rough time carving smartphone market share in the U.S. away from Google and Apple. It happened just the opposite, actually. Android and iOS were the only two mobile operating systems to see market share growth for the three month period ending in November 2012, while Microsoft's Windows Phone platform declined by 0.6 percent.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Uphold Household Ban on Apple Products Despite the Death of Zune

Posted 12/30/2012 at 11:46am | by Justin Kerr

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Jennifer Gates With an iPhone

Zune is Dead, but Melinda Gates confirms the no Apple policy is still alive and well.

Back in June of 2011, Bill Gates conducted an interesting interview with the UK’s Daily Mail, and revealed a much more personal side of the ex-Microsoft CEO then we were used to. He opened up about his family life, an amusingly enough, he even admitted what he tells his kids when they ask Santa for an iPad. At the time Bill was adamant they were a Zune only family, but fast forward to New Year’s Eve 2012, and Zune is all but completely dead. So has this loosened up the no iDevice policy?

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Microsoft Published 75,000 Windows Phone Apps in 2012

Posted 12/27/2012 at 9:47am | by Paul Lilly

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Whether or not Windows Phone can compete with Android and iOS will depend on apps.

As 2012 comes to an end, Microsoft finds itself in a reflective mood, looking back at what it's accomplished in the past year and what its plans are for 2013. One of Microsoft's biggest areas of focus in 2012 has been mobile, and towards that end, the Redmond outfit published 75,000 new Windows Phone apps and games to effectively more than double the catalog size, and over 300,000 app updates.

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