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Microsoft builds multi-author, live editing into Office Web apps
Microsoft’s Excel Web App now lets multiple people work on the same document simultaneously. (Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft has caught up to a key collaboration feature of Google Docs with its rival...
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Adobe Lightroom 5.3 candidate supports hot new cameras
Fujifilm’s X-E2, a high-end camera with interchangeable lenses, is among those supported by Adobe’s new image editing and cataloging software. (Credit: Fujifilm) Adobe released a test version of...
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DRAM inventor Robert Dennard gets prestigious Kyoto Prize
Robert Dennard, an IBM fellow, receives the 2013 Kyoto Prize for advanced technology. (Credit: Inamori Foundation ) Robert Dennard, who invented fast memory technology still at the heart of computing...
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Textbook seller Chegg prices IPO shares at $12.50
(Credit: Chegg) It appears to be IPO season. Chegg, the online startup that provides both study guides and a service to rent textbooks, announced Tuesday that it priced its initial public offering at...
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Devs can now add Facebook log-in to Windows apps
Microsoft and Facebook are making it possible for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 developers to add Facebook Login access to their applications. Microsoft and Facebook announced on Thursday that...
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Dell refresh of XPS 13 arrives with Apple in its sights
Dell XPS 13 is a worthy MacBook Air competitor — now with a 1,920×1,080 touch screen option. (Credit: Dell) Dell has begun selling the refresh of a strong rival to Apple’s MacBook Air, the XPS 13. It...
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Hubris, thy name is ‘Scroogled’
Microsoft’s Scroogled mug pokes fun at Google’s customer data mining. Nevermind that Microsoft behaves very similarly, of course. (Credit: Microsoft) “Keep calm,” warns Microsoft’s Scroogled T-shirt...
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Nokia workers vow to continue strike over Microsoft deal
Nokia headquarters in Finland. (Credit: Roger Cheng/CNET) Nokia workers in China aren’t happy about Nokia’s deal with Microsoft or the new contracts they say they had to sign. Hundreds of Nokia...
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What console war? Microsoft sells 1M Xbox Ones in first 24 hours
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Matching Sony’s blockbuster launch of its PlayStation 4 last week, Microsoft has announced that it too has sold 1 million units of its next-gen console in the first 24 hours....
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Ford boss edging out Nokia’s Elop in race to replace Ballmer at Microsoft,...
Stephen Elop showing off Nokia’s Windows tablet (Credit: Getty Images) Ford boss Alan Mulally has edged ahead of Nokia boss Stephen Elop in the race for the top job at Microsoft, according to new...
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Wave fingers, make faces: The future of computing at Intel
Anil Nanduri, an Intel executive working on perceptual computing, demos technology that senses users’ individual fingers. (Credit: Shara Tibken/CNET) SANTA CLARA, Calif. — If the next big wave in...
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Dell 24-inch 4K monitor leaks
Dell’s UP2414Q 4K monitor. (Credit: Dell) A Dell 24-inch 4K monitor is on the way, according to data posted on the company’s Web site. Though there are 32-inch 4K displays on the market already, a...
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Heads up Apple, Android to make big gains in 2014, IDC predicts
(Credit: Google) Google’s Android ecosystem will be breathing down Apple’s neck in 2014, according to IDC, which offered predictions for 2014. Google Play/Android downloads and revenues “are making...
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Mozilla takes another stab at elusive multiprocess Firefox
Hardly ready for wide implementation, Mozilla is nevertheless making progress on giving Firefox the kind of multiprocess architecture Chrome and Internet Explorer have had for years. (Credit: Mozilla)...
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iPad Air adoption continues to maintain wide gap over iPad 4
iPad Air (Credit: Apple) More than a month after launch, consumers’ adoption of iPad Air continues to outpace the iPad 4 by a wide margin, according to data provided by Fiksu. The latest data —...
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Google Doodle honors pioneer programmer Grace Hopper
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) The latest Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of a woman who helped make computer programming more user friendly. The late Grace Hopper is credited with...
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Chrome Apps mosey on over to Macs
Chrome Apps now work on Macs. This illustration shows the Chrome App launcher on the Mac doc. (Credit: Google) Google filled in a missing piece of its Chrome Apps puzzle on Wednesday when it announced...
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Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in stock at GameStop this weekend
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Xbox One and PlayStation 4 demand is currently sky high, each console racking up sales of 2 million units within weeks of their respective launches last month. So far getting...
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IBM faces shareholder lawsuit over cooperation with NSA
(Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET) IBM’s cooperation with a National Security Agency surveillance program caused sales in China to “abruptly halt” and the company’s stock price to decline, a shareholder...
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Verizon FiOS app replaces Xbox One’s clunky cable TV interface
(Credit: Microsoft) One of the Xbox One’s most celebrated features is its cable box connectivity, allowing users to switch between television and gaming with a simple Kinect voice command. However,...
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