| Amazon Rips iPad in New TV Ad The ad is true, as far as it goes. The Kindle's E-paper screen is easier to read in bright sunlight, but the iPad's display is superior in other settings. IPad - Amazon Kindle - Kindle - Business - Amazon feeds.pcworld.com |
Rhomobile Brings IPhone App Dev to Windows PCs An update to the company's RhoHub cloud platform lets developers create iPhone apps on Microsoft systems. iPhone - Rhomobile - Handhelds - Smartphones - Apple feeds.pcworld.com |
Xmarks Is Gone, But Browser Sync Lives On Xmarks may be shutting down, but there are still decent ways to keep your browser data synchronized across multiple computers. Xmarks - Browser - Google Chrome - Web browser - Bookmark feeds.pcworld.com |
Did Intel's Results Boost Microsoft's Stock? Trefis submits: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) produced better than expected results for the third quarter of 2010, posting an 18% jump in revenues compared to the same quarter in the year before. Intel’s earnings is a leading indicator for the PC and server market and better than expected results have allayed fears of a sharp slowdown in PC sales. We believe that this is positive news for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), which depends heavily on the PC and server market growth as a bulk of its products are related to the PC and servers market. Microsoft’s main products include the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, and Windows and SQL servers. We estimate that these products together constitute around 81% of the $28 Trefis price estimate for Microsoft’s stock.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
Rebuilding a 19th-Century Computer: One Programmer's Quest A programmer--and Charles Babbage fan--is attempting to complete a failed 19th-century attempt at building a functioning computer. feeds.pcworld.com |