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Windows 8 Tablet Due in June
The head of Nokia in France, Paul Amsellem said in an interview for a French newspaper that the company will introduce a Windows 8 tablet in June 2012. Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop didn't confirm any plans for tablets but pointed in the Financial Times the similarities in user interface between Nokia Lumia line of Windows Phones and the upcoming Windows 8 operating system.
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Socl - Microsoft's Secret Social Search Project
Earlier this year Microsoft accidentally published a Web site called Socl.com which caused various rumors that the company will launch its own social network with social search service. According to the company statement, the site was an internal design project from one of Microsoft's research teams which was mistakenly published to the Web.
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Apple Names Levinson as Chairman
Apple named Arthur D. Levinson as non-executive chairman of its board and added Disney CEO Robert Iger as a board member. The change of the board members was the first important step that Apple took since the passing of co-founder Steve Jobs, when the company didn't named its successor.
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Microsoft Outlines Plans to Deliver Windows 8
Microsoft has already announced its plans to update some of its Windows Embedded operating systems with Windows 8 versions. The company has even begun to share early ship targets for some of these versions of the embedded operating systems. According to the plans Windows Embedded Enterprise v.Next will be out a quarter after Windows 8 is available for PCs and Windows Embedded Standard v.Next in the first quarter of 2012.
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ITunes 10.5.1 with Match Feature
Apple released its iTunes 10.5.1 that includes a new match feature. It scans a user's library for music that was bought from other than Apple store. If there is a match of this music in their own music store, Apple provides the user with the same quality cloud-based version of the song if he is subscribed to the matching service.
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Adobe Touch Apps Available in Android Market
Adobe announced that the family of the six intuitive touch screen applications, called Adobe Touch Apps, is already available for Android 3.1 or higher in the Android Market. At the moment only one of the apps, Adobe Ideas is on iOS, the other five iOS apps versions are expected to come in early 2012.
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Ten Recent Google Search Algorithm Changes
Google posted a highlight list of the algorithmic changes that they’ve made over the past month, on Inside Search blog. The purpose of this blog is to share the methodology and process behind the Google search ranking,evaluation and algorithmic changes. In the list you can read a description of the recent changes that improve almost everything from translation, to snippets to autocomplete.
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New Desktop Interface Flops
An interface should be designed to make it easy for people to get their work done. The problem with Windows 8 Metro and Linux GNOME 3.2
is that they neither address any existing audience, nor do a good job of delivering the goods to any actual user. Microsoft just dump decades of
design work on a popular and usable system for one that could be fine only for children.
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Google Music Store
According to some rumors Google is planning to present various new features, which probably will include a new music store app and downloads to its cloud music service. The company is expected to unveil them at the ‘These Go To Eleven’ event on November 16th, but some recently leaked screenshots shows an early look at them.