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Good Lord, I Might Now Want to Use Yahoo Search Again — Product Dudes Talk About New Axis Browser (Video)

Kara Swisher in News on May 23 at 8:14 pm PT

Hey now, Yahoo commits an act of innovation!

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Average Facebook Mobile Use Beats Desktop Access

Mike Isaac in Social on May 8 at 8:02 am PT

Facebook users spent an average of nearly 7.5 hours accessing the site from mobile phones in March, according to a recent comScore report, surpassing the average time spent accessing the site via desktop by nearly an hour. The trend is consistent with the shift of users relying more heavily on mobile devices to access the site, as the company itself has noted; more than half-a-billion people accessed Facebook via mobile device in March.

Did PC Sales Just Bounce Off the Bottom? Not Quite.

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 11 at 3:37 pm PT

After the second-worst year in the history of the PC industry, PC shipments grew slightly worldwide, but that growth depended on where you looked.

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Still Waiting on Office for iPad? OnLive’s New Subscription Service Has Office, Flash and More.

Lauren Goode in News on February 22 at 4:55 pm PT

For those of you still holding your breath while you wait for an official Microsoft Office app to come to iPad, here’s something that might help in the interim: OnLive Desktop Plus, a premium, $4.99-a-month version of the OnLive Desktop app for iPad and other tablet devices. The newest version of the app offers a cloud-based Internet Explorer 9, Adobe Flash, and PDF capabilities, in addition to the full Office suite and the “accelerated browsing experience” that OnLive created for fast pushing and pulling of data on a remote-access desktop.

Avid Brings Its “Pro-sumer” Video Editing App to iPad

Lauren Goode in News on February 1 at 9:00 pm PT

Avid is best known for its high-end video production tools, as well as its desktop video editing app. Now it’s targeting tablet users.

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Vizio Jumps Into PC Fray

Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 7 at 9:57 am PT

Vizio Inc., which shook up the market with inexpensive high-definition televisions, now wants to become a computer manufacturer.

Loading Photos Into the Kindle Fire

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on December 7, 2011 at 2:38 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ technology questions, including loading photos into the Kindle Fire.

Microsoft Windows Phone Head Andy Lees: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 4, 2011 at 6:10 pm PT

It’s a great time to watch this interview with Andy Lees, president of Microsoft’s Windows Phone unit, since the software giant is holding a big event in New York on Monday to celebrate the U.S. launch of devices running the new Mango version of the smartphone.