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Internet Explorer 10 Now Available for Windows 7

Posted 02/26/2013 at 8:47am | by Paul Lilly

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Internet Explorer 10 delivers a 20 percent increase in real-world site performance versus IE9, Microsoft says.

Microsoft may have taken its sweet time porting Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) over to Windows 7, but it's finally finished and ready for mass consumption. IE10 is available to download worldwide in 95 languages, with Microsoft planning to auto-update Windows 7 customers to its latest browser in the coming weeks, starting today with customers running the IE10 Release Preview.

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Buy an OCZ Vector Solid State Drive and Receive a Far Cry 3 Download Code

Posted 02/22/2013 at 9:07am | by Paul Lilly

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New and existing OCZ Vector SSD (256GB and 512GB) owners are eligible receive Far Cry 3 for free.

Boy oh boy, with the free promotions out there adding up, it's starting to look like if you paid for Far Cry 3, you're doing it wrong. Far Cry 3 was featured in AMD's "Never Settle" game bundles, Samsung was giving it away with the purchase of its 840 Series solid state drives (SSDs) during Cyber Monday, and now OCZ is working the free Far Cry 3 promotion with the purchase of select Vector SSDs.

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Dell Upgrades XPS Developer Edition Ubuntu Laptop with 1080p Display

Posted 02/21/2013 at 12:47pm | by Paul Lilly

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A Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop with a Full HD 1080p display starts at $1,550.

Dell this week announced that its XPS Developer Edition laptop is now equipped with a Full HD 1080p (1920x1080) resolution display, upgraded from 1366x768. The upgraded panel is shipping to customers in the United States and now runs $1,550. Starting next week, Dell will begin offering the upgrade model to select countries in Europe, like the U.K., France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

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Steve Ballmer is "Super-Glad" Microsoft Built Surface, Thinks Windows 8 Adoption is "Perfect"

Posted 02/21/2013 at 11:14am | by Paul Lilly

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Steve Ballmer sat for a spell with MIT Technology Review to discuss the Windows 8 ecosystem.

It's no easy task to gauge the impact Windows 8 is having on the industry, in part because the industry is changing. The traditional desktop is taking a backseat in popularity to mobile form factors, like notebooks, tablets, and hybrids. Windows 8, as you know, is an attempt to bring all these devices together, along with smartphones, under a unified user interface. Is Microsoft happy with its strategy up to this point?

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Nvidia Releases GeForce 314.07 WHQL Drivers Tuned for Crysis 3

Posted 02/19/2013 at 8:26am | by Paul Lilly

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Nvidia's latest drivers boost performance by up to 65 percent, the GPU maker claims.

Today's a monumental day for gamers, You have the release of Nvidia's GeForce Titan graphics card, Crysis 3 is finally here, and related to them both, Nvidia has made available new WHQL drivers optimized for the aforementioned game, along with Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed 3, and other popular titles. If you're planning to pick up Crysis 3, Nvidia says its new GeForce 314.07 drivers will improve single-GPU and multi-GPU performance by up to 4.7 percent and 65 percent, respectively.

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Patches for Zero-Day Adobe Reader, Acrobat Flaws to Arrive this Week

Posted 02/19/2013 at 4:43am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Security firm discovered exploit capable of bypassing Adobe Reader sandbox last week

Last year was a pretty decent one for Adobe Reader as it relinquished the dubious honor of being the most exploited software (as ranked by Kaspersky Lab) to Oracle’s Java. But the fact is it is still very popular among malware authors. For instance, last week security firm FireEye discovered an exploit capable of bypassing the software’s sandbox. Thankfully, Adobe, which wasted little time in confirming the zero-day exploit, expects to have a patch ready this week.

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Twitter Owned Blogging Site Posterous Goes Dark April 30, 2013

Posted 02/18/2013 at 6:33am | by Paul Lilly

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Posterous founder Sachin Agarwal thanks its members for the pie and waves goodbye.

You could almost see this one coming from an Internet mile away, which won't come as much consolation to those invested in the service, but Twitter is pulling the plug on Posterous on April 30, 2013. First launched in 2008, the Posterous blogging service was acquired by Twitter in March of last year, and at the time, users were told it would stay up and running. And it did, for a little while, anyway.

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Windows Blue Confirmed by Microsoft Job Postings

Posted 02/17/2013 at 4:26pm | by Justin Kerr

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Windows 8 customers can look forward to additional features as part of a new rapid iteration initiative at Microsoft.

A February 15th job posting by Microsoft has all but confirmed the existence of “Windows Blue”, and the role it will play in improving the Core Windows 8 experience. According to the listing, Microsoft is looking for individuals willing to work on the centerpiece of its new Windows UI, and the additional verbiage surrounding the qualifications suggest they are referring to the new start screen interface.

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Microsoft Pushes Hard To Convert Users to Subscriptions With Office 2013

Posted 02/17/2013 at 3:58pm | by Justin Kerr

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Microsoft hopes you’ll choose its subscription based version of Office over the severely gimped retail edition.

Windows and Office make up the lion’s share of Microsoft’s revenues, so when everybody’s favorite “devices and services” company makes decisions that fundamentally alter its business model, people stop and take notice. Changes to Office 2013’s licensing terms might not sound all that interesting at first glance, however, they almost certainly hint at the future Microsoft is preparing for.

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Opera Software Scoops Up Mobile Browser Rival Skyfire Labs

Posted 02/15/2013 at 8:54am | by Paul Lilly

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Performance based earn-out payments over the next three years could make this deal worth $155 million.

Opera Software today announced that it has acquired Skyfire Labs, a rival in the mobile browser space, in a deal that could be worth as much $155 million when all the checks are written. The Norwegian browser maker agreed to pay $50 million in cash and stocks upfront (including $8 million in cash on the Skyfire balance sheet), and will also make performance based earn-out payments over the next three years that could ultimately value the deal at $155 million.

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Internet Explorer 10 delivers a 20 percent increase in real-world site performance versus IE9, Microsoft says.

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