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Just a few days ago, Google released its new Web browser, Chrome, designed to take a swing at the market’s top three. The company presented its service as the next level when it comes to Web surfing, promising a whole new experience. It promises to provide a faster, easier and less frustraiting Web access. Unfortunately, as expected, this first beta version is filled with errors and flaws and the company keeps receiving complaints from its users.Google keeps its focus on the big picture, presenting the innovative release only as the starting point and ensures its clients that it will not be...
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Thursday, Microsoft kicked off its $300 million campaign,
which is intended to bring improvements to Windows Vista’s image, the operating
system that the company launched in January last year.
Created by advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the marketing
campaign’s first ad features household comedian Jerry Seinfeld alongside
Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates.
The commercial is only a small part of a larger project that aims at changing
the current perception people have of the product. Corporate vice
president at Microsoft, Brad Brooks, stated that presently, what the...
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Google’s Chrome browser might not be as ‘bullet-proof’ as advertised, with numerous reports on technical issues comming in from its users. The official release of the Web browser’s beta version happenend three days ago and Google announced that it will prove to be significantly faster and more secure than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Apple’s Safari browser and Mozilla’s Firefox.Even though, as with any beta version, some problems were expected with the new release, all these software compatibility glitches seem to have caught the company by surprise. Google released a list of the known...
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Microsoft is making a new attempt to keep up with its
competitors, Sony and Nintendo, on the Japanese market. The US
company announced a new price for its Xbox 360, which starting next week will
be cheaper than Nintendo Wii.
The Xbox 360 Arcade edition, which comes with no hard drive,
will be priced at 19,800 yen ($180), nearly 30 percent down compared to its
previous price tag.
By comparison, Nintendo Wii, which made a name for itself as
“the cheapest gaming console”, is selling in Japan for 25,000 yen ($230).
The price cuts will affect the other version of Xbox 360...
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September
9, Yerba Buena Center for the Art,
San Francisco. That’s part of what a very secretive e-mail
sent by Apple to reporters read. The rest of the piece showed the fuchsia-colored silhouette of a man listening
to an iPod and also said “Let’s Rock” and “Playing Soon”.
Rumour has
it that the invitation is to the launch of a new iPod, since it is customary
for the company to stage a media event in September or October in order to
introduce the consumers to new such devices.
Another
reason could be, as American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu
believes, that Apple wants to...
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The aircraft leasing firm AWAS announced on Wednesday it reached an agreement to buy 75 Airbus A320...
The U.S.-based electronic manufacturer, Apple, will level its prices for iTunes downloads across...
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Microsoft Corp. unveiled its
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It seems that the format war
between Blu-ray and HD DVD is almost...
Jefferies Group Inc. released on Monday its forecasts which illustrate that the company will lose...
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., the Winston-Salem, North Carolina based doughnut chain, announced on...
The mobile phone maker Motorola announced today it will
acquire Soundbuzz, a Asian music provider....
Nokia Siemens Networks won a $935
million contract to build 2G and 3G mobile networks in Saudi...
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