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Microsoft's CES 2012 keynote has not only been narrowed down but may give the first publicly available copy of Windows 8, both official and unofficial sources said Wednesday. CEO Steve Ballmer was confirmed to be taking the stage on the evening of January 9, unusually at Las Vegas' The Venetian...

YORK, England – A British soldier killed by a Taliban bomb in Afghanistan left $161,500 in his will -- so his friends could go on vacation to Las Vegas, The Sun reported Monday Read Full Story: Link Removed

The debate about Windows 8 rages on in this episode of Fly or Die . CrunchGear editor John Biggs, who joins me from Las Vegas where he is attending a watch conference (don't ask) thinks nothing has really changed because users can always switch back from the touch interface to the old Windows. I...

Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack visited the "Open Source Fest" at Mix 11 in Las Vegas just a few months ago. One of the projects that really stood out - amongst the dozens of great projects shown - was Glimpse. Glimpse is a server-side NuGet package that plugs into ASP.NET (and other technologies...

Driver Andrew Linn survived after a 5cm-wide (2in) metal pole went through his mouth and out the back of his skull during a car crash. Mr Linn would have died if the pole went in either direction. The 34-year-old fell asleep at the wheel and hit a fence. One of the poles impaled him...

I finally had the chance to sit down with Morten at MIX11 in Las Vegas last week to discuss the work he is doing on WordPress with Windows Azure to solve some common challenges with multi-site WordPress installations using traditional hosting. In Morten's words: "I am building a garden just...

You might say this is one monumental case of mail fraud. Due to a United States Postal Service gaffe, a stamp intended to commemorate New York City's Statue of Liberty features a picture of a Las Vegas replica instead. Though the stamp was supposed to show the real Lady Liberty, the...

Signaling that Microsoft is ready to move beyond one of its more forgettable releases, the next version of Internet Explorer that debuted at the MIX11 conference in Las Vegas earlier this week will not run on the Windows Vista operating system. More...

When most people burn a pie they throw it in the bin. Not Tony Johnson. He has kept his meaty treat for almost 40 years and has taken it around the world on family holidays. The 73-year-old says the Holland’s pie, which overcooked back in 1972, has become an heirloom which takes pride...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – A 500-foot (152 meters) Ferris wheel, which would be the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, may be built on the famed Las Vegas strip, officials said. A developer won permission to construct the Ferris wheel as the centrepiece of an amusement park and retail centre...

Find out the deets on MIX this year by tuning in to the Countdown show with Link Removed and Link Removed each week. The inaugural show gives an overview of the conference this year, but let’s fast forward to the good stuff: how do you get your hands on that complimentary ticket? Well, MIX is...

Find out the deets on MIX this year by tuning in to the Countdown show with Link Removed and Link Removed each week. The inaugural show gives an overview of the conference this year, but let’s fast forward to the good stuff: how do you get your hands on that complimentary ticket? Well, MIX is...

Backstage at CES 2011 I bumped into some friends from The Office Blog. Jessica Reading gives us some insight into what we have to look forward to in 2011 and we meet a One Note wiz. Please excuse my audio on this one. I had a lav microphone clipped to my shirt and for some reason it wasn't...

Flickr showed off its upcoming app for the Windows 7 mobile OS on the show floor in Vegas. Link Removed due to 404 Error

Tribune Company will debut its beta version of a new mobile news aggregation application at this week’s 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Called “Mosaic,” the app offers a visually stunning, multi-touch screen designed to enable consumers to personalize and read all of their news via...

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Link Removed - Invalid URL As General Manager of the team, Dean Hachamovitch is responsible for the design, development, and release of Internet Explorer. We welcome Dean back to the stage as one of our MIX10 keynoters in Las Vegas next month. After all, what would our premier web conference...