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Comcast + Skype = Genius

by Mike Mansell June 15, 2011

Video conferencing is by no means a new or unorthodox concept. If you look ten or even fifteen years back, large companies were taking advantage of video communications system to hold virtual and entirely visually interactive discussions and meetings with colleagues around the world.

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Apple Dropping Support for Windows XP?

by Mike Mansell June 13, 2011

Even with Apple’s famed Macintosh product line becoming more and more popular and well-supported each and every day, there is absolutely no denying the fact that Microsoft’s Windows operating system easily surpasses the popularity of Mac OS X several times over. But even with the improvements made in the 2009 release of Windows 7 a [...]

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Microsoft-Branded Tablets Coming in 2012?

by Mike Mansell June 10, 2011

Recently, I wrote about how Microsoft’s next generation operating system, currently known simply as Windows 8, had very high potential for mainstream success. In this article I discussed how that this time around Microsoft’s focus on tablet computers in this release is going to arguably be just as important – if not more important – than the desktop and notebook features.

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Windows 8: Microsoft’s Game of Catch Up

by Mike Mansell June 8, 2011

It’s no secret that Redmond-based Microsoft Corporation went through somewhat of a rough patch and a sizable public image meltdown when Windows Vista (early 2007) failed to meet the expectations and needs of consumers. Seeing as how the release sported the most significant jumps since the release of Windows 95 in terms of both GUI [...]

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What’s the Best Webcam?

by Jeff Weisbein June 1, 2011

Back in 2008, I wrote about the best webcam at the time, but here we are in 2011 and there currently better webcams on the market. So what is the best webcam in 2011? Well, as the technology has gotten better over the years so have these cameras. In fact, some of them are very impressive. I just purchased the Microsoft Lifecam Studio and it’s awesome.

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Office for Mac vs iWork: Which One is Best for You?

by Mike Mansell May 3, 2011

When we look at modern-age computer programs it is often a challenge to think back to the “simpler” times when computers and technology revolved solely around the purpose of making our day-to-day lives easier. Before social media and before online videos and Internet-connected games computers were primarily found in offices and businesses for processing data [...]

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Microsoft’s Latest Problem: Windows Phone 7 Isn’t Attracting Developers

by Mike Mansell April 11, 2011

The other night I read a post on the Seattle Times about Windows Phone 7. What initially caught my eye about the article in question was the fact that it was the only news pertaining to Microsoft’s mobile operating system that I have seen or come across in quite a long time. After all, there [...]

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HP Just Became Apple. Minus The Sex Appeal.

by Jeff Weisbein February 9, 2011

HP just announced its new mobile product line which includes the HP Pre 3, HP TouchPad, and HP Veer. As expected all three devices run WebOS. However, at the end of the event, HP threw a curve ball which most of us probably did not expect to hear. HP is planning on putting WebOS on [...]

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4 Ways Microsoft Could Improve Bing

by Mike Mansell February 2, 2011

When it was first launched in June of 2009, some proclaimed that Bing – a search engine owned, operated, and maintained by software giant Microsoft – would be the future of how we search the web. And while Bing did have a handful of shiny bells and whistles (for the time), the search engine has [...]

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