The iPhone 5 isn’t the only upcoming smartphone news of the day: Windows has announced on its official blog that the long-awaited Windows Phone 7.5 (codename: Mango), an update to its mobile operating system, will be released “in the next week or two.” Windows Mango is the follow-up to the Windows Phone 7 OS, and the interface and
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Microsoft has given the old blue screen of death the blue screen of death. On the recently announced Windows 8, available in very early developer’s beta, the Blue Screen of Death is going to look a little different, according to a discovery by Geek.com. The Blue Screen of Death, or BSOD, or Stop Error, has become
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Windows 8, which was fully unveiled at the Windows Build Conference in Anaheim, California, is here, and it looks much, much different from Windows 7. Sure, it has the start-bar-and-icon “Desktop” look that Windows users are familiar with, but it also has a new, touchscreen-optimized interface called ‘Metro,’ which looks more like the Windows Phone
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As many North Americans return to their offices after a long Labor Day weekend, they may find something unpleasant in their email inboxes. A malware campaign has been widely distributed over the last couple of days, using a wide variety of different subject lines and attachment names. There’s one thing in common between all the
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Anyone anticipating the release of Windows 8 might want to check out Microsoft‘s new blog, Building Windows 8, which will chronicle the development of the forthcoming operating system. Windows President Steven Sinofsky published the first post on Building Windows 8 (or B8 as it’s affectionately referred to by his team) on Monday evening. “We intend
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It’s only been a few weeks since the world’s web users woke up to discover a big black bar at the top of their Google search results (introduced when Google+ was launched). Now, some users of Google search might start seeing something else close to the top of the world’s most famous home page. The
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