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Samsung has fired back at Apple with a motion that would require the company to turn over advance copies of the "final, commercial versions" of the company's unannounced next-generation iPhone and iPad by June 13, 2011. Apple and Samsung are locked in a heated dispute over whether Samsung's...

Microsoft's Windows accounted for 78.6 per cent of worldwide operating system revenue in 2010, up nearly a full percentage point, despite growth in Linux servers and Mac desktops, according to Gartner. Link Removed

Microsoft grew its formidable operating system revenue share despite a strong year from Linux and Mac. read more Link Removed

The 19-year-old is 2.12m (6ft 10in) tall and weighs 127kg (20st) but the world record has brought her a lifetime of loneliness. Her height is down to a brain tumour that was diagnosed when she was nine. It caused a hormone imbalance and impaired her vision. 'She looked different...

The trend was obvious Link Removed - Invalid URL, and now it finally happened: Android is the most popular smartphone platform among U.S. subscribers. According to comScore's data, Google's Android rose from 23.5% market share in October 2010 to 31.2% in January 2011, enough to securely grab...

Western Digital announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST), the disk drive arm of Hitachi Ltd., in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $4.3 billion. Western Digital is the leading supplier of hard disk drive...

The year 2010 ended quite well for two products from Microsoft and Google, at least when it comes to specific market share numbers. Windows 7 passed the 20 percent mark while Chrome almost reached double digits. Despite IE8's strong growth and the IE9 beta program, Internet Explorer has hit a...

Huge changes in software and microchips needed A new report from the US National Research Council has warned that technology growth will grind to a halt unless a new generation of hardware and software is developed. The catchy-titled “The Future of Computing Performance: Game over or next...

Google's Android is winning global platforms, slowly but surely, following similar growth patterns to its US takeover. Following its unprecedented triumph over Microsoft’s Window Phone 7 in Europe, Android is expected to win out for 2011, according to research firm, IDC. This is in part due to...

Net income grows 51 percent Healthy sales of Windows 7, Office 2010 and Xbox 360 consoles propelled Microsoft to $5.41 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2011, a 51 percent increase from the same period a year before. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Microsoft's Windows 7 has sold more than 240 million copies in its first year, the company said on Thursday, making it the fastest-selling operating system, and helping the software giant to record profits despite a recent dip in computer sales growth. Link Removed

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Microsoft Corp's Windows 7 has sold more than 240 million copies in its first year, the company said on Thursday, making it the fastest-selling operating system, and helping the software giant to record profits despite a recent dip in computer sales growth. Link Removed due to 404 Error

Any room to move in here? The World Wide Wibble now has a population of nearly two billion people according to the report, from the International Telecommunication Union. The report says that we will see 2 billion Web dwellers by the end of this year a figure which means that the number of...

A couple months short of my first anniversary here at Windows 7 Forums and without a doubt, it has been an incredibly rewarding experience. I have had the opportunity to learn so much and I hope, to have helped a few members as well as visitors along the way. I know to some, I'm still relatively...

Channel 9 has come a long way since it's debut in 2004. We have grown and matured, had great successes and a few stumbles, but our core principles have remained the same: to to move beyond the newsgroup, the blog, and the press release to talk with each other, human to human. In this video you...

Intel announced a definitive agreement to buy all of McAfee's common stock fo $7.68 billion, in a move unanimously supported by the board of directors of both companies. The deal, which is part of Intel's new strategy to focus on security as much as it does on energy efficiency, has still to...

Apple has pushed past arch-rival Microsoft to become the world's biggest technology company. Changes in the share price values of the two in Wednesday's choppy trading left the total value of Apple at $222bn (£154bn). Microsoft is now valued by investors at $219bn. However, Microsoft still...

Windows 7 Becomes Fastest Selling OS in History | Redmond Pie By Uzair | April 29th, 2010 Microsoft has just made it official. They have sold a remarkable 100 million licenses of Windows 7 since it’s launch, making it the fastest selling operating system of Microsoft to date. Just six...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) fiscal third-quarter profit grew 35% as the software giant benefited from a strong response from the release of the company's Windows 7 operating system. "Business customers are beginning to refresh their desktops and the momentum of...