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Microsoft tablet risks alienating PC makers
With the unveiling of the Surface tablet, Microsoft is heading into unusual territory: competing with its partners, the very same companies that make ...
Review: Microsoft Surface straddles divide
Microsoft seems to have gotten the design and form factor right with its new Surface tablet computer. But the user interface, not so much. That's an ...
Barnes & Noble 4Q loss narrows
Barnes & Noble said Tuesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter loss narrowed as the company continues to invest in its Nook e-reader business and adjust ...
How Microsoft's new device compares with rivals
Microsoft Corp. has unveiled its Surface tablet computer as part of the software company's effort to compete with Apple Inc. and its popular iPad.
Stocks snap higher on hopes for new Fed action
Stocks rose sharply on Wall Street Tuesday as traders turned their focus back to corporate news from the U.S. and hopes that the Federal Reserve will ...
J.C Penney's stock tumbles after key exec's exit
J.C. Penney's shares are tumbling a day after the department store chain announced the sudden departure of Michael Francis, a former top Target ...
Microsoft's long and tortured history in tablets
For decades, the tablet computer was like a mirage in the technology industry: a great idea, seemingly reachable on the horizon, that disappointed as ...
Microsoft's 'Surface' tablet aims for productivity
Microsoft unveiled a new tablet computer, Surface, that attempts to take advantage of one of the few criticisms of Apple's iPad — that it is better ...
Top 5 manufacturers of tablet computers in 2011
In producing its own tablet computer called Surface, Microsoft Corp. is entering a market dominated by Apple Inc. Six out of every 10 tablets shipped ...
List of Microsoft tablet models announced Monday
On Monday, Microsoft Corp. announced the Surface, a tablet computer it believes will compete with Apple Inc.'s dominant iPad. There are two models of ...
Oracle's surprising 4Q release pleases investors
Oracle was so pleased with its latest quarter that it apparently couldn't wait to share the news. In surprise move, the business software maker ...
Phones gain ability to learn by touching
There's a form of extra-sensory perception called psychometry, whose practitioners claim to learn things about objects by touching them.
Ahead of the Bell: 'Major' Microsoft announcement
Microsoft is expected to make a "major" announcement after the market closes Monday. Speculation about the Los Angeles media event has ranged from an ...
Analysts upgrade Nokia on cost-cutting plans
Nokia shares partially recovered from a massive sell-off from a day earlier, with at least two Wall Street analysts upgrading the telecom after it ...
Moody's downgrades Nokia to junk status
Moody's ratings agency on Friday downgraded Nokia's debt grade to junk status, citing greater than anticipated pressure on the struggling cellphone ...
Disney rolls out more live TV apps with Comcast
Disney rolled out three more apps that enable pay TV subscribers of Comcast to watch live TV on the go. Pay TV distributors like Comcast Corp.
Yelp serves restaurant reviews to Microsoft's Bing
Yelp is feeding its online reviews of restaurants and other local merchants to Microsoft's Bing search engine in a move to compete against Zagat ...
Nokia cuts 10,000 jobs, streamlines to save costs
Nokia says it will slash 10,000 jobs and close plants as the ailing company fights fierce competition, and gave a grim outlook for most of the year, ...