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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 31, 2011 at 5:45 am PT
A new deal bundling HP’s TouchPad tablet with its PCs is probably the device’s last hurrah. For real this time.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on August 10, 2011 at 6:03 pm PT
Walt tests the Telikin, an all-in-one desktop for anyone who craves greater simplicity in a PC.
Kara Swisher in Enterprise on July 13, 2011 at 10:31 am PT
VMware CEO Paul Maritz has his hands full trying to keep the lead in the hyper-competitive virtualization space, as more and more businesses move into the cloud.
He talks about the complexities and the competition with companies like Microsoft, where — irony alert — he was a former top exec and is often mentioned as the best candidate to be its next CEO.
