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Microsoft announced Sept. 10 the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate and noted that the company’s flagship application development suite will release to manufacturing (RTM) on Oct. 18. Microsoft also announced that it will be making its Windows 8.1 bits available to developers, which had been a point of contention between the devices and […]

The rumors regarding Microsoft’s upcoming Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 are abound and why not, since its also been said that Microsoft will even release them with a new Power Cover! And all this new and exciting information points to one thing, Microsoft is planning to add to its Surface range with a Surface […]

Microsoft has started sending out invitations to media members for a Sept. 23 event in New York City, where it’s expected to unveil second-generation versions of its Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets. Microsoft launched Surface last June at Milk Studios in Los Angeles, but it kept the venue secret until the last minute. This […]

Chrome users can now install Chrome Web Apps via the Chrome Store locally to their PC or laptop, web apps that behave as if they were traditional, locally installed applications. Web apps that are written using such technologies as HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Web apps that command their own windows independent of the browser and […]

RollBack Rx is an instant PC time machine utility that allows the reversion of an entire computer system back to any number of earlier points in time. RollBack Rx is an indispensable application to quickly recover from any unintentional error or malicious changes made to a PC. It’s intended as a replacement for Microsoft Windows […]

By Jared Bienz Apps can specify that they prefer portrait or prefer landscape in their appxmanifest by checking one or more boxes: However, the app is not guaranteed to get the preferred orientation. The classic example is a game that requests portrait but is being run on a desktop machine with a monitor that cannot […]

Bluetooth Smart innovator CSR plc has developed the world’s thinnest wireless touch interface to demonstrate the revolutionary potential of the technology for computing interfaces. The flexible device, which is less than 0.5 mm thick, turns any area into a touch surface. Combining CSR’s low-power wireless technology with the latest in printable, flexible electronics and touch […]

As the usage of the internet and the number of web applications over the internet have gone exponentially high there are bad people who continuously work around the clock to hack them. It may be for personal gain or just as an amateur act. Despite the intention of the bad guy the damage caused to […]

The component supports the ARM and Intel versions of processors. The report designer allows creating and editing reports on any device running Windows 8. Options for managing components vary including the ability to build reports using a mouse or stylus or just your fingers. The report designer for WinRT has the required set of features […]

With Outlook.com being down last week for several hours last week, and now, today, Microsoft announced that Skype has finally released for Outlook.com. Microsoft apologized over the weekend for the outage last week explaining the outage away as a caching issue, but as IT folks know, pushing out new software can create a domino effect […]

While the official release date for Microsoft’s next-gen tablet hasn’t been announced, a price cut typically precedes a next generation release thus hinting at things to come for the Surface 2 and Pro 2, along with the Windows 8.1 OS. Some features of the new tablet have included new fingerprint sensing technology which allows the […]

The Galaxy S4 brought Samsung their most profitable quarter to date as the company hods high hopes for a similar response with their soon to be released Galaxy S5. While details on their new flagship phone are scarce, its been announced in South Korea’s Electronic Times News that it will have such features as a […]