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Top 10 Underhyped Windows Apps
Some apps are essential, and everyone who's anyone knows to have them on their computer. Some apps, however, are fantastic, yet fly under the radar. Today, we look at our top 10 underhyped apps on Windows.
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Microsoft preparing Windows Blue public preview with significant search improvements
Microsoft is working towards a public preview version of Windows Blue. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed that the software giant is aggressively targeting a summer launch date.
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Malware on oil rig computers raises security fears
Malicious software unintentionally downloaded by offshore oil workers has incapacitated computer networks on some rigs and platforms, exposing gaps in security that could pose serious risks to people and the environment.
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Adobe outs Photoshop Touch for phones, ready to outfit pockets for $4.99
Jealous about your mates' ability to edit photos and whatnot via their mid-sized slates? Well, Adobe has just announced a solution.
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'Game of Thrones' director David Petrarca shrugs off piracy, says it doesn't hurt the show
At the Perth Writer's Festival this past weekend, Game of Thrones director David Petrarca downplayed the threat of piracy to the show's success, saying that illegal downloads don't matter since shows thrive on "cultural buzz."
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EU fines Microsoft over web browser
Microsoft has been fined 561m euros for failing to promote a range of web browsers, rather than just Internet Explorer, to users in the European Union.
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Google Glass learns how your friends dress, picks 'em out in a crowd
Facial recognition? Pah. Dahling, the only way to find someone in a crowd is to pick out what they're wearing. InSight is an app being developed for...
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Mozilla says no plans to return to iOS
During a SXSW talk, the not-for-profit's vice president of product says the organization won't build a version of its Firefox browser for iOS devices until Apple changes its ways.
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Bieber blocker: Developer invents Firefox tool that eliminates Justin Bieber from the web
Pop prince Justin Bieber may have over 35million followers on Twitter but there seems to be many more people who just can't stand him.
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BitTorrent Premieres New Live Streaming Platform
After years of development BitTorrent has now released its live streaming service to the public. BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen is one of the main developers of the new protocol which he expects to revolutionize online streaming.
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How Apple Gets All the Good Apps
While Apple never creates apps for other mobile systems or devices, each of its major mobile-platform foes—Google, Amazon and Microsoft—make many of their apps available for Apple devices, says Walt Mossberg.
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Internet Explorer 11 will pretend it's Firefox
Microsoft has figured out how to get websites to stop treating Internet Explorer like a second-class web browser: it's going to disguise itself as Firefox.
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A Killer App for Google’s Glasses
What would a "killer app" for Google Glass look like? Tech industry analyst Tim Bajarin offers his input, then asks for yours.
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Just how much do people hate Windows 8?
Some of you don’t like Windows 8. And thanks to Internet comments and social media, you have lots of ways to express your loathing. But a closer look at one well-known real-world rating says Windows 8 might be more popular than you think.
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Google Adds 'Treasure Maps' for April Fools' Day
Google joined in on the April Fools' Day fun a day early with their latest feature: Treasure Maps. Following last year's prank, 8-bit Google Maps, the company debuted a pirate-style design on Sunday.
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5 reasons why the Windows 8 Store is a complete mess
Want to buy an app for your Windows 8 PC? You may change your mind after you see the Windows Store, an epic blunder that Microsoft seems unwilling or unable to fix, even months after its operating system launched to the public.
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The future of search only cost $30 million
Nick D'Aloisio's story isn't a boilerplate tale about a youngster hitting the jackpot, a former Internet giant trying to buy a relevance makeover, or even about an intriguing programmatic way to summarize news. It is about the future of search.
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Microsoft Obsolete by 2017, Report Says
Microsoft obsolete: A report released said that Microsoft, which controlled as much as 90 percent of the OS market in its heyday, could go obsolete in 2017.
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Google Blink restarts the browser wars – on mobile as well as desktop
'Fork' from main WebKit branch follows tensions with engineers at Apple over direction for core code used to render web pages in Chrome, Safari and others.
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Microsoft's Windows 8 Has Failed, Now What?
The rise of tablets and smartphones has shaken up the once dominant “Wintel” PC paradigm. In an attempt to re-establish its supremacy, Microsoft designed Windows 8 to be a hybrid operating system, useful on a variety of platforms.
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