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Blue state: Microsoft’s tricky strategy to strike back against Apple and Google

As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Can Redmond rethink 30 years of corporate culture to pull this off? As it has countless times in the last decade, Microsoft once again finds itself at a crossroads. Over the course of thirty-plus years, Microsoft rose to global dominance on the back of the desktop computer. But in the last decade, PC sales have been slowing as mobile devices become the next paradigm in personal computing. This…

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Business Mobile

HTC March 2013 Sales Halved To $530M As It Preps For Its Facebook Home Debut

As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU HTC today posted their monthly revenue figures, covering March 2013, and it’s another sign of just how crucial it is for the company to hit a home run with either its new flagship HTC One handset, or the HTC First Facebook Home phone — and ideally both. The Taiwanese company reported sales in March 2013 of NT$15.88 billion (about $530 million USD). The figures are definitely an improvement on last month when…

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Android Application Business

Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting

As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Google has stepped up its efforts to remove spammy or otherwise non-compliant applications from its mobile application marketplace, Google Play, in recent weeks. App deletions hit a record high in February, with 60,000 apps removed during the course of the month – the largest round of app deletions to date. The news of this massive app removal comes just ahead of therumored launch of a revamped version of Google Play…

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Tumblr for Android gets overhauled with new interface Mobile

As reported on Engadget. By Donald Melanson It looks like April is the month for major Android apps to get a visual overhaul. Following Twitter’s refresh last week (and Facebook’s decidedly more ambitiouseffort), Tumblr has today released its own app update that offers a whole new user interface. As you can see above, that includes some Path-esque expandable controls for creating various types of posts, as well as new post animations and a general appearance that’s more consistent with…

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Military

US Navy to deploy ship-mounted laser in 2014, blasts drones in the meantime (video)

As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos Lasers have been flaunted by the US Navy before, but now it’s announced that 2014 will see the very first solid-state laser deployed aboard a ship, two years ahead of schedule. The USS Ponce, a vessel used as an amphibious transport dock stationed in the Persian Gulf, will get the honor of hosting the prototype Laser Weapon System (LaWS). Not only can the hardware set boats and airborne drones ablaze, but it…

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Business Hardware Dev Tech

HP Moonshot server class leaves concept, to power commercial-grade internet of the future

As reported on Engadget. By Ben Gilbert We’re all about the future of the internet here at Engadget, so you can imagine our excitement when HP today announced that it’s shooting for the moon with its latest server system, the HP Moonshot. Promising significantly reduced energy consumption and space requirements, the Moonshot is HP’s “second generation” server tech, and it’s intended for use with “social, cloud, mobile, and big data,” according to the company. In so many words,…

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Refurbished 27-inch iMacs hit the Apple store, thin profiles start at $1,529

As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Lusting after Apple’s giant, yet shockingly thin 27-inch iMac? The object of your desire just got a little cheaper — well, as long as you don’t mind refurbished goods. The extra large all-in-one is the latest Apple product to hit the company’s certified refurbished store, offering as much as $270 the product’s regular price. The iMac’s 2.9GHz Core i5 base model can be had for $1,529, replete with 8GB of RAM, a 1TB HDD…

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