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Microsoft
Office 2010 beta ready to download 11-19-09
LOS ANGELES
If you want to try out
Microsoft Office
2010, the beta is available for anyone to download, the company announced at
the
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference
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Future
bright for Microsoft cloud computing,
server president says 11-19-09
LOS ANGELES
All this week at the
Professional Developers Conference
,
Microsoft
has talked about cloud computing, what many consider the next frontier.
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Look
into font options to fix 'invisible buttons' 11-11-09
Question: I have the persistent problem
of invisible buttons on several Web sites. For example, on Amazon there should
be a button for "single-click ordering." One has to open the feature
by signing in, but it never appears. By trial and error I found the blank space
on the site where it should be. When I click on this blank spot, it works. This
crazy behavior is present on several different sites.
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Button,
button, who stole the button? 11-11-09
Question: I have been having trouble
bringing up the standard
Google
search screen for the past couple of weeks. There is no search button. What can
I do?
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Many
computer users hesitate to ride the Wave 11-11-09
MINNEAPOLIS
Google's
latest brainchild, Google Wave, is all the rage among bleeding-edge technology
enthusiasts. But corporate information technology executives say that while
they're intrigued by Wave a replacement for e-mail, the most widely used of
all Internet services they're not ready to adopt it.
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Apple's
magic mouse is simple, beautiful, functional 11-07-09
Apple is no stranger to beautiful
simplicity. In fact, when it comes to computers, Apple seems to have invented
it.
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Four
essential laptop utilities 11-07-09
Imagine the worst things that could
happen to your laptop. It gets stolen at LAX, and you haven't encrypted the
details of a merger deal you're about to present.
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Reordering
photos a snap in Windows XP 11-07-09
Question: I'm having a problem viewing a
slide show of my digital photos on my Windows XP computer. I put vacation
pictures in "My Pictures" folder and selected "slide show"
to view them. But the pictures appear to be shown in random order. Is there any
way to get the pictures to appear in the order they were taken?
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New
computer, old files. Now what? 10-30-09
Question: I want to copy files directly
from an old PC to my newer PC. Is there a way to connect the two in such a way
that I can copy (or drag and drop) files from a Windows 98 OS to a Windows XP
Professional OS?
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Windows
7 upgrades: Look before you leap 10-30-09
Question: I own a laptop with Windows
Vista and a desktop PC with Windows XP, and I'm considering changing both to
Windows 7. Is there an online "how to" site for making these
operating-system changes? I understand the Vista change should be fairly easy
and the XP change will be quite complicated, so I'd like a site where I could
read about the procedures and print them out.
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Windows
7, and case of the mysterious Netgear glitch 10-24-09
While I was testing Windows 7, I came
across a bit of a unique problembut I have a hunch I won't be the only one
with this issue when it releases Thursday. I should preface that it might not
be the fault of Windows 7, but rather of a
Netgear
wireless router not working well with Windows 7.
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Tech
review: Windows 7 OS 10-24-09
Product: Windows 7 operating system
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How
Microsoft plans to hook users on Windows 7 10-19-09
While the Europeans haggle over the
Windows 7 browser scheme, everyone else may want to look at other creative ways
Microsoft's
new operating system will advance its business.
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Nomadesk
keeps your data safe, accessible, anywhere 10-19-09
The word "Cloud" with all its derivations can mean many things. These
days, it has become a popular technology concept.
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Google
rolls out preview of Wave
10-04-09
SAN JOSE, Calif.
Google
hits a key milestone Wednesday for a product that the search giant hopes will
transform how people communicate and collaborate online, and perhaps hook more
users on
Google's
menu of Web-based services.
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Finding
the right backup power can save your data 10-04-09
Question: I have a universal power
supply that occasionally shuts down because of noisy power. Is there an
economical pre-filter that can filter the power before the UPS or any other
electronics in the house?
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IBM
unveils a Web-based e-mail competitor 10-04-09
SAN FRANCISCO
IBM Corp.
has released its own version of Internet-based email for businesses, in a move
designed to compete with an increasingly popular service from
Google Inc.
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It's
possible to save on ink refills 10-04-09
Paying
for costly inkjet cartridges often ticks off consumers
because the expense can quickly exceed the price of the
printer. But the machine is useless without them.
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Droid
good but not great 11-07-09
SAN JOSE, Calif.
Motorola's
new Droid smartphone has attracted a fair amount of attraction as quite
possibly the toughest challenger yet for the iPhone.
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Droid
squares off against iPhone for market share 10-31-09
SAN JOSE, Calif.
In one corner, we have
Silicon Valley
tech heavyweight Apple and its widely popular iPhone. In the opposing corner, a
new smart-phone challenger: the Droid, powered by
Mountain View, Calif.
, Internet juggernaut
Google's
Android software, built by
Motorola
and sold by
Verizon Wireless
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Amazon
fights to keep Kindle on top of e-book crowd 10-24-09
SAN FRANCISCO
The threat of growing competition in the e-reader market does not seem to
have cooled demand for
Amazon.com Inc.'s
Kindle, but the online retailer will likely face its toughest test in the
coming holiday season.
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Be
cautious with cell phone details 10-19-09
By now, most people are savvy about
scams that involve giving out personal information on the Internet. They know
that identity thieves may be lurking behind ostensibly free offers, fake
websites and phony e-mails.
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Touch
screen gamble: which technology to use 10-19-09
SAN JOSE, Calif.
Prompted partly by the iPhone's phenomenal popularity, consumers are
demanding and likely to get a wider range of touch screens on many more
electronic devices.
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Nintendo
cuts price of Wii console to $199 09-26-09
SAN FRANCISCO
Nintendo Ltd.
cut the price of its popular Wii console by
$50 to $199
, the latest price reduction by video game console makers who have watched
sales fall sharply over the last six months.
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Google,
Apple have different stories on iPhone application 09-20-09
SAN FRANCISCO
Google Inc.'s
report to the
Federal Communications Commission
that it was
Apple Inc.
that rejected its Google Voice application from the popular iPhone's app store
is at odds with Apple's version of events.
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Motorola
pins hopes on new Android smartphone Cliq 09-12-09
CHICAGO
Motorola Inc.
on Thursday unveiled a new mobile phone built around social networking tools,
introducing the first handset in a fresh portfolio of devices on which the
company has staked its turnaround efforts.
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Latest
Windows phone coming next month 09-07-09
SEATTLE
Microsoft
is rolling out a new version of its mobile-phone software, Windows Mobile 6.5,
on
Oct. 6
, in hopes of staying afloat in the competitive marketplace for cellphones that
e-mail, snap photos and surf the Web.
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Tech's
new love 08-21-09
There was a time in
Silicon Valley
when the political game was practically sneered upon.
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Tech
gadgets that make travel easier 08-06-09
When my wife and I went on our honeymoon
last year, some friends couldn't believe that we were posting pictures and
updates to our Facebook and Twitter profiles while we were supposed to be
relaxing.
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Tech
review: Verizon LG Versa cellphone 07-28-09
Product: Verizon LG Versa cellphone.
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iPhone
3G S has slew of new features 07-16-09
If you've been thinking of buying an
iPhone, the release of the iPhone 3G S makes it a lot easier to join Apple's
telecom family. But if you already own an iPhone, deciding whether to buy this
new model is a little more complicated.
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iPhones
aren't just for grown-ups 07-09-09
Another tool in the parental kit: those
small adult gadgets with touch-screen technology, so easy a child, even a
toddler, can use them.
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60-second
review: The Palm Pre 06-18-09
Product: The Palm Pre, sold by Sprint
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Palm
Pre: It's almost an iPhone 06-18-09
The new Palm Pre from Sprint is the best
attempt yet to create a phone that is as powerful, elegant and simple to use as
the Apple iPhone.
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iPod
Touch gets touchy about upgrade 06-14-09
Even apparently simple
tech improvements can go awry.
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HD stands
for high demand
If your home is your castle you
probably prefer a night in to a night out. Staying in to catch the
latest DVD release is probably the comfort food of entertainment. Now,
many homes feature a theater room that comes as close as possible to
seeing it on the big screen.
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Wired and waiting
You’re driving home after work on a
dark, freezing, snowy day. So you make a call to your house and tell
it to turn on the driveway defrosters and the outdoor lighting. You go
to bed that night and the house wakes you up in the morning with soft
music, a hot shower waiting and a carafe of steaming coffee in the
breakfast room.
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