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  • June 2008
    • HP's Touch Still a Bit Clumsy

      HP's Touch Still a Bit Clumsy

      (Newser) - Hewlett-Packard’s revamped TouchSmart PC, a one-piece desktop computer with a touch-controlled user interface, improves on its previous, bulky iteration, with a sleek case, big 22-inch screen, and wireless keyboard and mouse, personal-tech guru Walter Mossberg writes in the Wall Street Journal. But the touch-screen software is still in its nascent form, simple and somewhat rough around the edges. More »

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      Microsoft Vista   Hewlett Packard   desktop computers   software development   touch-screen technology

  • March 2008
    • Yahoo Joins Google Social Network Alliance

      Yahoo Joins Google Social Network Alliance

      (Newser) - Yahoo will join Google in developing the latter's open social networking framework OpenSocial, the company announced yesterday. The two giants, along with other partners, also announced the creation of a foundation to oversee the effort. Neither Facebook nor Microsoft, which have an advertising agreement, are part of OpenSocial; Facebook on its own already has 19,000 independent applications developed for its platform. More »

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      Google   Microsoft   Yahoo   social networking   OpenSocial   software development

    • Apple Courts iPhone Developers

      Apple Courts iPhone Developers

      (Newser) - Apple is opening up the iPhone to outside programmers. The company said yesterday it would release a $99 software development kit, and the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has committed $100 million to invest in developers' work, reports the New York Times . iPhones so far have been limited—at least officially—to Apple’s included programs. But new applications will be tightly controlled by Apple. More »

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      Apple   iPhone   venture capital   software developers   iPhone applications   software development   programming

  • February 2008
    • PCs and Internet Are Merging

      PCs and Internet Are Merging

      (Newser) - The line between the Internet and PCs is blurring with the release today of Adobe AIR, a software development system for creating applications that can merge data between the two. AIR applications will have Web browser functionality without launching a browser, and users’ files will be "in the cloud," accessible from anywhere, reports the New York Times . More »

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      Google   Microsoft   Adobe   Mozilla   software development   Internet applications

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