Date: 15/10/12 PC Market Struggles Ahead Of Windows 8 Launch As Lenovo Nearly Catches HP for the Worldwide Market Leadership Position, According to IDC
The worldwide PC market contracted sharply in the third quarter of 2012 (3Q12), with shipments declining 8.6% from the third quarter of 2011, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. The results are below IDC's August forecast of a
Date: 21/09/12 HTC unveils two Windows Phone 8 handsets
HTC has unveiled two Windows Phone 8 handsets at an event in New York. The firm has said that it intends to promote the 8X, which features a 4.3" (10.9cm) display, as its flagship device alongside the Android-powered One X, the BBC reported.
Date: 04/09/12 Windows 7 overtakes XP as Mac OS X passes Vista
More than three years since its release, Windows 7 is finally the world's most popular desktop operating system, according to new figures. Windows 7 has overtaken Windows XP as the world's most popular desktop operating system, marking the end of the venerable OS' reign over the PC world.
Date: 10/08/12 Android and iOS Surge to New Smartphone OS Record in Second Quarter
Android and iOS powered 85% of all smartphones shipped in the second quarter of 2012 (2Q12), establishing a new combined high for the mobile operating systems from Google and Apple. Meanwhile, BlackBerry and Symbian, two pioneers and former leaders of the smartphone market,
Date: 06/08/12 Bloomberg: Nokia will announce Windows Phone 8 handsets at Nokia World
Bloomberg is reporting that, perhaps unsurprisingly, Nokia will bust out its Windows Phone 8 handsets at Nokia World 2012. The shows, which kick off September 5th, will tour various locations to drum up trade for the new kit. The news agency is also reporting that any revamped Lumia
Date: 31/07/12 Microsoft details the Touch Mouse's upcoming support for Windows 8 gestures
We already knew that Microsoft would be upgrading its Touch Mouse to support Windows 8 gestures, but the outfit never confirmed which finger movements, exactly, would be built in. Now, Redmond is explaining it all, even though the mouse won't actually get updated until Win8 goes on sale in late October.
Date: 23/07/12 Microsoft Office 2013: The Verdict
First, is was necessary to run a bolt-on setup program to make new Office 365 interface happily with Outlook 2010 on Computing's office network. A small, 3.12MB download, plus an additional .NET Framework 3.5 install, was also required on top. This took about 10 minutes,
Date: 19/07/12 Launch date for Windows 8 revealed
Steve Sinofsky, President of the Windows and Windows Live Division, has revealed 26 October as the launch day for Windows 8 at the company's annual sales meeting, the Computing reported. With Apple and Google making major in-roads in the operating system market via popular mobile
Date: 18/07/12 Android's Jelly Bean aims to be hard to hack
Google's latest Android mobile OS comes with features to divert hackers from installing malware that leads to information leakage, buffer overflows, and memory vulnerabilities. New features on Google's latest Android mobile OS -- Jelly Bean 4.1 -- beef up the system's security over
Date: 06/07/12 Android smartphones 'used for botnet', researchers say
Smartphones running Google's Android software have been hijacked by an illegal botnet, according to a Microsoft researcher, reported BBC. Botnets are large illegal networks of infected machines - usually desktop or laptop computers - typically used to send out masses of spam email.
Date: 25/06/12 DARPA fortifies soldiers' smartphones against malware
The U.S. government awards a $21 million grant to a company tasked with shielding soldiers' Android-based smartphones and tablets from data leaks. For most ordinary citizens, leaked information from a smartphone or
Date: 25/06/12 Switched On: Surface tension
If you hadn't been paying too much attention to the wide swath of tablets and clamshells (and mashups of the two) that Microsoft is targeting with Windows 8 and Windows RT, then the announcement of Surface contained many surprises. If you have, then there were probably far fewer surprises.
Date: 25/06/12 Sony Xperia Ion review: an Android handset with a split personality
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. But that adage, such a truism when applied to interpersonal relationships, doesn't quite carry the same weight when extended to the intimacy between expectant geek and promised hardware. So here we are, six months later: CES has long passed,
Date: 19/06/12 Anti-virus software sucks up too much security cash claims study
Governments should focus more funds on policing the internet and less on anti-virus software, according to new research. Computer scientists at the University of Cambridge carried out the cybercrime study after being approached by the UK's Ministry of Defence.
Date: 06/06/12 Microsoft to start promoting cloud version of software for Azerbaijan
Microsoft Corp. will soon announce the launch of cloud Microsoft software - Office 365 for Azerbaijan, Microsoft Azerbaijan reported. Microsoft Azerbaijan will start promoting the product, which is available from a financial point of view. Office 365 is a version of the application package
