There’s nothing like a good corporate battle. While potentially costly to the participants, the benefits to consumers include lower prices, better, and more diverse products. This competition is the foundation upon which the capitalist world is built, and spurs the innovation that drives society forward.
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Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Google vs. Microsoft vs. Apple
January 27th, 2010
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Internet, PCs and Laptops, Technology 
Tags: Apple, Bing, Chrome, Chrome OS, DROID, Google, Google Docs, Google Maps, iPhone, iPod, Microsoft, Nexus One, OS X, Windows, ZuneHD 
3 Comments »CES2010 Keynote: Steve Ballmer
January 7th, 2010
The scheduled start time of the keynote was 6:30pm. Got to the Hilton Center at 3:30pm thinking I would be the first one there an have to stand around a while. I was wrong. Fortunately, as a member of the press, I didn’t have to wait in the general admission line, but there were still [...]
Posted in Misc Tags: CES2010, HP Slate, keynote, Microsoft, Natal, Steve Ballmer, Windows 7, XBox No Comments »TechClicker at CES2010
January 7th, 2010
TechClicker’s in Las Vegas for the 2010 Consumer Electronic Show. Pictures galleries can be viewed within each topical post and within the CES2010 tab. We checked out Steve Ballmer’s keynote tonight and pictures from that should be up shortly.
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The days of the keyboard and mouse are numbered…
October 1st, 2009
Multi-touch displays are nothing new, having been incorporated into such common products as the iPhone, Zune HD, and Palm Pre. But unlike traditional touchscreens, which are usually of the resistive or IR variety and can only detect one touch at a time, multi-touch technology allows the user to register several simultaneous touches and gestures, thus creating an [...]
Posted in Displays, PCs and Laptops, Touchscreens Tags: BumpTop, haptics, Microsoft, Microsoft Surface, multi-touch, touchscreen 1 Comment »What do you see in the cloud?
September 20th, 2009
An exciting technological trend is emerging that will undoubtedly change the way we interact with computers, software, and each other. Termed “cloud computing“, which implies basing software and hardware computing requirements remotely on the Internet, and showing increased acceptance and utilization within both consumer and business environments, it stands to completely alter how we create, [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Emerging Technology, Google, Internet, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Storage, Technology Tags: Cloud Computing, Google, Google Apps, Internet, Microsoft, Office Live, online 2 Comments »Sony Ditches Internet Explorer
September 1st, 2009
In what can only be described as a harsh reality check for Microsoft, Sony today made public its plans to ship all of its Vaio laptops with the Google Chrome web browser pre-installed instead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer has enjoyed unrivaled ubiquity since the demise of Netscape Navigator years ago and it being the [...]
