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Microsoft might make your smartphone into a pollster
The News & Observer
People are slowly getting used to asking digital assistants like Apple’s Siri simple questions, like “Will it rain tomorrow?” and “Where was Justin Bieber arrested?” Soon, cellphones may be the ones doing the asking - surveying people on more serious matters like t...
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Microsoft offers first look at new Windows - and gives it a name
Sydney Morning Herald
Microsoft will unveil a new name for its best-known product early next week when it offers the first official glimpse of its latest Windows operating system. | The project, known for the past few years as "Threshold" inside the software company and "Windows 9" outside it, will li...
Microsoft's Sway: A Digital Assistant That Designs Presentations For You
Atlanta Journal
At some point in your life, you've used PowerPoint. Whether for a class project or a meeting of some sort, you've click and dragged text boxes, dropped in photos, and awkwardly presented a slideshow. Now imagine doing that on a phone or tablet. Micro...
Microsoft Adds to Office Line With Sway Storytelling App
Mashable
Before Windows Phone and the Windows Store, some of the software most associated with Microsoft was Office. But though the Office portfolio has undergone several updates and refreshes over the years, the lineup itself has remained relatively unchange...
Microsoft skips 9 to introduce Windows 10
South China Morning Post
The next version of Microsoft's flagship operating system will be called Windows 10, as the company skips version 9 to emphasise advances it is making towards a world centred on mobile devices and internet services. | The current version, Windows 8, ...
Hackers targeted Microsoft, game makers, US Army
Stars and Stripes
WILMINGTON, Del. — Two members of an international hacking ring that gained access to a U.S. Army computer network while targeting computer giant Microsoft and several video game developers pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges Tuesday in federal co...
Microsoft launches new range of Lumia devices
The Hindu
Microsoft Devices Wednesday launched three new Windows smartphones- Lumia 830, Lumia 730 and Lumia 930, a top company official said. | Lumia 830 will be available in India from October 8 at Rs.28, 799, Lumia 730 will be available starting October 6 a...
Now you can watch Microsoft's Windows 10 presentation
Atlanta Journal
There's a good reason why Microsoft didn't livestream the official outing of Windows 10 in San Francisco yesterday: there was nothing to announce, per se. Windows 10: Hands on review More a demo of an early preview, the event allowed Microsoft to sha...
Hackers targeted Microsoft, game makers, U.S. Army
Stars and Stripes
WILMINGTON, Del. — Two members of an international hacking ring that gained access to a U.S. Army computer network while targeting computer giant Microsoft and several video game developers pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges Tuesday in federal co...
Science
Mideast Israel Yom Kippur
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Israel’s Fascistization of Judaism
CounterPunch
Yom Kippur, only days away, a time of repentance, lately, the utter savagery in attacking Gaza and its people, the burning alive of a Palestinian youngster, the rubble, destitution, bombing of UN schools serving as civilian shelters, the water treatment plants, electricity grids (cutting off power to hospitals), all in all, a full-scale display of ...
Technology
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Google Is Planning Ads That Will Take Over The Entire Screen Of Your Phone
Business Insider
GoogleGoogle mobile "engagement" ad | Google is developing new ad formats that are designed to take over the entire screen of a smartphone or — ads that will no doubt irk many users, especially those with fat fingers. | Some brand advertisers aren’t as keen on mobile ads as the majority of ads on offer tend to be small banners — which are oft...



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