Category Archives: Tablet

Will paywalls save the newspaper business

Faced with sharply declining advertising revenue for both print and online newspapers, papers are trying to entice free readers to pay up for the news. It works partially: old people will pay anything to keep their news habit but young readers have already left the barn.

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Charlottetown Guardian erects paywall for digital readers – will it be enough (Guardian photo)

From Rupert Murdoch to the 25 local newspapers in the Quebec based Transcontinental chain, newspapers are struggling to survive the double whammy of the digital world and young readers who don’t give a flying fig about reading a paper.

Paywalls, charging for online access, is a temporary fix for the huge decline in newspaper subscription and advertising revenue.

The long-term survival of newspapers is in doubt.  Continue reading →

Windows 8 Mail Calendar and People apps get refresh bugs still unfixed

Windows 8 Mail Calendar and People embedded apps get refresh with many rough edges yet and a hidden security gotcha from Office 365

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Mail Calendar and People get mid-term update on the road to real app-dom

The much ballyhooed update of core Windows 8 apps came over night on Monday. You may miss the subtle changes if you don’t look closely.

SkyDrive also got an upgrade that seems positive. I’ll research that a little more and report back.

My personal hopes of seeing People fixed so that social media Sharing would work were dashed. People is still an unorganized and buggy app to avoid.

This is a slow march for Microsoft towards creating a Windows-8-only world in which we don’t or can’t fall back on our favorite Desktop applications like Outlook and Facebook.  If that is good or bad is up to you to decide. Continue reading →

Windows 8 hits 60 million

Microsoft exec Tami Reller tells investors Windows 8 passed 60 million licenses

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Tami Reller (CFO) and Steve Ballmer (CEO) Microsoft (photo @Photo Creative Commons License)

Microsoft Corp sold 60 million licenses and upgrades for Windows 8 operating system in the ten weeks since its launch, Tami Reller Microsoft CFO said at the CES 2013 Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday.

“Windows 8 sales are growing in line with those of Windows 7, Microsoft’s last operating system, launched in 2009,” said Tami Reller, chief financial officer of the Windows division, in a presentation to analysts and investors at the J.P. Morgan Tech Forum in Las Vegas.  Continue reading →

Review Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse

Unique wedge-shaped mouse is ultra small and has some Windows 8 touch features

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Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse

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The Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse provides a small solution for people who want to use the touch features on Windows 8 without investing in a new laptop or computer.

The Microsoft Wedge Touch is a Bluetooth replacement mouse solution with 4-Way touch scrolling for navigating up, down, left and right.

It does not give you full 10-point touch capabilities and needs a Bluetooth receiver on your computer. Continue reading →

Windows Store blows past 35,000 apps

The Microsoft Windows Store has 35,971 apps for Windows 8 customers

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Windows Store has 35,971 apps

According to MetroStore Scanner the Microsoft Store has 35,971 apps for Windows 8.

That’s 16,000 more apps than the Microsoft Store had at the end of November.

The rate of new apps has accelerated to 415 per day from 362 per day in November.
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Fujitsu not building computers people want

Fujitsu president Masami Yamamoto blames 1 million unit drop in sales on Windows 8 but the problem is building the wrong boxes

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Windows 8 start screen (photo TechRadar)

The reality is that Fujitsu is not making computers that people want.

The tech media are falling all over themselves reporting the misleading statement by Fujitsu president Masami Yamamoto.

He said that Windows 8 has depressed sales of his company’s computers.

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Windows 8 captures 2.3% of internet traffic

But will Windows 8 be enough to keep Microsoft from sliding into 3rd place?

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Windows 8 versions

The introduction of touch to desktops began with Windows 8 in October 2012. Microsoft’s new touch operating system slowly gains user acceptance.

But will Windows 8 be enough to keep Microsoft from sliding into 3rd place in computers and mobile devices?

Since launch Windows 8 has sold 40,000 million licenses and now has 2.3% of all Windows traffic on the Internet. Continue reading →