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“For me, this all comes down to our willingness to win, and we are committed to winning,” HP CEO Whitman declared.

published 1 hour ago by Rachel King

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Adobe taps into a number of M&A trends at once with Thumb Labs being that it is a mobile app design startup based in New York City.

published 2 hours ago by Rachel King

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The Microsoft-Google feud continues, with Microsoft meeting some -- but not all -- of Google's terms-of-service demands around the Microsoft's recently developed YouTube app.

published 2 hours ago by Mary Jo Foley

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Wall Street was expecting earnings of 81 cents a share on revenue of $28.08 billion for the second quarter.

published 2 hours ago by Rachel King

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After a long string of high profile attacks on accounts held by government and news agencies, Twitter is finally stepping up its game.

published 2 hours ago by Rachel King

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It's funny to look back on my personal history with Linux and remember how subversive and alternative it once was. These days, it's just another operating system. That original subversive spark is gone.

published 3 hours ago by Ken Hess

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In last week's ZDNet "Great Debate," Robin Harris and I faced off on the question of whether "we need data scientists to make sense of this tidal wave of information." I think data scientists are important, but they're not the solution. What follows is my argument, in essay form.

published 4 hours ago by Andrew Brust

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MS CRM on your Xbox One? Will any and all Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps be allowed to run on the just-announced Xbox One?

published 4 hours ago by Mary Jo Foley

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One-size-fits-all computing is an antiquated paradigm. Forrester's J.P. Gownder explains how workforce segmentation drives innovation.

published 4 hours ago by J.P. Gownder

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The virtual desktop is on its way to being spruced up as Nvidia sharpens its focus on the enterprise.

published 5 hours ago by Rachel King

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There's no doubt that the Xbox One is a games console, but it's a games console with a twist -- it's also an entertainment system.

published 5 hours ago by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

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Bottom line: Amazon is looking for the next "Fifty Shades of Grey" by panning directly to would-be fan fiction authors.

published 6 hours ago by Rachel King

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While Intel is enthusiastic about touch-enabled devices, even if it hits 25 percent market penetration by 2016, it will still be niche rather than a must-have feature, which doesn't bode well for Microsoft and its touch ambitions for Windows.

published 6 hours ago by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

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The U.S. IT company sees value in the mobile document signing company.

published 7 hours ago by Andrew Nusca

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A new study that measures app usage on Windows 8 PCs finds that Metro style apps are gaining traction slowly. But a surprising result suggests that app developers who deliberately break Microsoft's design guidelines are most likely to win users over.

published 7 hours ago by Ed Bott

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