Microsoft, PC Industry Will Need Windows Upgrade Offer More Than Ever

With Windows 8 arriving as late as November, Microsoft is turning to its old standby — a guaranteed upgrade program.
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HP’s Whitman to Shed More Light on the Future, Including Job Cuts, Today

Expect earnings in line with expectations, but also some details about job cuts to come.
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A Scanner for All Seasons

For serious scanning needs, Xerox’s Mobile Scanner beats a smartphone app or pocket-sized scanner.
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Tablets Quickly Becoming the Portable PC of Choice

By 2017 NPD expects tablet shipments to hit 424.9 million units, exceeding notebook PC shipments — for the second year in a row.
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Are Macs More Secure?

Walt answers a reader’s question on whether Macs are as vulnerable to viruses as PCs.

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Despite Crackdowns, Sina Still Winning the Weibo Game

Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo may be in the midst of its most aggressive crackdown yet following an explosion of political rumors among users, but it is still beating Tencent in the microblogging race in China, according to a McKinsey & Co. report released this week.

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Musings on Malware (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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CrowdStar No Longer Developing Social Games for Facebook

Crowdstar’s CEO Peter Relan said in an interview that the longtime social games maker is no longer developing for Facebook.
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Sound Kick: Solid Sound, but a Shaky Speaker

How does a $99 Bluetooth speaker stack up next to the popular Jambox?
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Did PC Sales Just Bounce Off the Bottom? Not Quite.

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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Apple Sold More iPads Than HP Sold PCs