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Microsoft Is Adding Office, OneDrive, Skype to Lenovo Phones
Microsoft continues to push its core productivity apps to the owners of the world's most dominant mobile devices — this time, in a deal with Lenovo, which acquired the Motorola smartphone business from Google in October 2014. Microsoft and Lenovo announced a deepening of their strategic relationship last Friday.
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Buying Customer Love: Swag and Diversions at Oracle OpenWorld
SAN FRANCISCO — By the time the afternoon at Oracle OpenWorld rolled around, I had learned to either look down or lapse into a dead stare when walking through the halls of the Moscone Center here.
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Why You Should Be Worried (and Angry) About Lenovo
By now, the entire tech world has heard all about the egg on Lenovo’s face. The incident — Superfish’s catastrophic security screw-up — was all over the news last week: "New Lenovo PCs shipped with factory-installed adware," said Engadget. "Lenovo poisoned its own PCs with Superfish adware
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Can Lenovo Regain Consumer Trust After Secretly Installing Adware?
Sometimes it's not enough to say you're sorry. Take Lenovo. The $40-billion-a-year Beijing, China-based tech company admitted it was wrong to pre-install third-party adware on some of its consumer notebooks last fall. But it's not off the hook yet.
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Think the PC is Dead? You May be Right
Wall Street must be pretty muted today. It has been a bad week with a lot of big companies calling out some pretty miserable results. IT companies are no exception, but we’re not going to talk about Twitter here. Instead, we’ll simply say Sony’s figures were so bad, that
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Social Media Addiction and Other Mobile Marketing Trends [Infographic]
With Lenovo buying Motorola and a new generation of devices on the way, there's rumblings of change in the mobile marketplace. But none of the hardware and network juggling will stem the tide of mobile marketing. Marketing campaigns are focusing on apps and social media. But as the dollars continue
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IBM Sells Small Server Business To Lenovo For $2.3B
Chinese PC maker Lenovo has agreed to buy IBM’s low-end x86 server business for $2.3 billion, enabling IBM to shift its focus to its services and software business.
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What You Need to Know Microsoft's New Surface Tablets #CES2014
Microsoft doesn't have an official presence at the International CES in Las Vegas this week. It stopped participating in the opening keynote and abandoned its booths on the show floor two years ago.
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IBM To Furlough Hardware Division Workers As Revenues Dive
More trouble for IBM. According to reports, IBM is forcing the employees in its hardware business to take a week off with only one-third pay to cut costs as sales plummet. During that week, which is due at the end of this month, executives will not be paid either.
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Samsung Dominates In Smartphones but Market Share is Falling
Samsung's market share is pretty much out of reach now, with its huge device range, but Apple's profits remain untouchable, even as the little guys start to crank up the sales.
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IBM Earnings Up Over Q1, But Still Point to Weak Market
IBM is generally considered the weather vane for the global tech industry and after last night's release of its Q2 figures it was firmly pointing to unsettled weather ahead for everyone.
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IBM Profits Plummet, Jobs To Be Slashed, Offloading Small Server Business
If you’re not clear why IBM figures are so important for the IT industry, then the Q1 figures that have just been released should explain.
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Gartner: European Q4 PC Market Doubles US Decline, HP Maintains Market Lead As Dell Struggles
Last month Gartner published its findings on the PC market in the US. There we saw shipments down 5% on the same quarter last year.
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Windows 8 Hardware Turns up the Power and Flexibility at CES
Aside from some of the key launch devices, much of the first rush of Windows 8 hardware from various vendors was just a tweak on their Windows 7 products.
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