All posts tagged "Microsoft"

• Apple Defies Industry Trend as PC Sales Fall Again

  SAN FRANCISCO – Apple keeps defying a PC industry trend: While other major computer-makers saw shipments fall in 2015, Apple increased the number of Macs it shipped worldwide last year, according to estimates from two research firms...

  • Posted January 12, 2016
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• US Recruits Tech Leaders to Help Disrupt Islamic State Group

  PALO ALTO, Calif. – With extremists finding fertile ground for recruitment online, the White House is dispatching top national security officials to Silicon Valley to seek the tech industry’s help in disrupting the Islamic State group and...

  • Posted January 8, 2016
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• Internet Firms Warn UK Against ‘Dangerous’ Changes to Law

  LONDON – Major U.S. Internet companies have urged the British government to reconsider a plan to make telecommunications firms help spies hack into computers and phones. The draft Investigatory Powers Bill would require telecoms companies to keep...

  • Posted January 7, 2016
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  The Smart-Tech Future Beckons to us from the CES Gadget Show

  LAS VEGAS – Look around. How many computing devices do you see? Your phone, probably; maybe a tablet or a laptop. Your car, the TV set, the microwave, bedside alarm clock, possibly the thermostat, and others you’ve...

  • Posted January 4, 2016