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Apple set to answer all iCloud anticipations

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Apple had kept the market in mystery by not revealing the details of ‘ the upcoming cloud service offering’, since the announcement of unveiling Lion, iOS 5, iCloud in the press release.

Android, Apple iOS top market share gainers in U.S.

Android mascots are lined up in the demonstration area at the Google I/O Developers Conference in the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
With a gaining 5.2 percentage point to capture 36.4 percent of all smartphone users, Google's Android was at the top in the U.S. smartphone operating system market for the three months ending in April, a ComScore report revealed.
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With the likely reveal of its next generation console, Nintendo will make the biggest splash at E3 analyst say.

E3 Preview: All Eyes On Nintendo

With the likely reveal of its next generation console, Nintendo will make the biggest splash at E3 analyst say. The expo comes at a critical time for Nintendo as sales for its Wii console have begun to sizzle out and more people have turned to Xbox 360 and PS3.
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Schema.org: Google, Bing and Yahoo! tie up for better search results

Search giants Google, Bing and Yahoo! announced overnight a combined venture to help web search more user and webmaster friendly. The project, schema.org, is a directory of html mark-ups that can be used for Search Engine Optimization for better indexing of web pages. With the tie up of the major search engines, webmasters don’t need to lose sleep over the troubles of assigning different mark-ups for each engine, which makes it a win-win situation for all.
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James Cameron Helps Open New Avatar Exhibit in Seattle

Seattle's Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame is hoping to draw fans of the Oscar-winning film “Avatar” to its new exhibit on how James Cameron brought Pandora and its inhabitants to the silver screen.
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Microsoft shows off Windows 8 operating system

Microsoft Corp showed off a version of its next operating system at technology conferences in the United States and Taipei, as some PC makers grumbled over restrictions on their involvement in the development of the system.

Is Android a better option for Nokia than Windows Phone 7 OS?

As Nokia wade through troubled waters with a worsening share value and diminishing market dominance, one wonders how it could possibly recover by tying up with something as low-profiled as Windows mobile OS, which runs a mere 4 million handsets when compared to the 400 million handsets run on Symbian. At the D9 conference in California, yesterday, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop explained the reasons for his decision to use Microsoft's Windows Phone OS despite having considered Android. The company r...
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Microsoft shows off new Windows 8 operating system

Microsoft Corp showed off a version of its next operating system at technology conferences in the United States and Taipei, as some PC makers grumbled over restrictions on their involvement in the development of the system.
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After Skype, Microsoft eyes Nokia?

After getting slammed by the market today, speculation is now mounting that Nokia may become the acquisition of software giant Microsoft.
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Nokia calls report of Microsoft deal baseless

Shares in struggling mobile phone handset maker Nokia Oyj jumped on Wednesday in reaction to a web site report that said U.S.-based Microsoft Corp had struck a deal to buy its mobile phone business for $19 billion.
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Microsoft places restrictions on chipmakers: report

Microsoft Corp has told chipmakers who want to use the next version of Windows for tablet computers, to work with only one manufacturer speed up the delivery, Bloomberg said, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

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