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30 Years Ago: PC Spreadsheets Bring Number Crunching to the Masses

PC spreadsheet software brought about a fundamental change in the way that the corporate number crunchers—the accountants, financial analysts, stock traders and marketing managers—got...

Newcomer Starcounter Updates High-Performance Database

Upstart Starcounter, a small Swedish company that competes with the Oracles and SAPs of the world with its speedy, big data in-memory database, released...

30 Years Ago: Windows Evolved Slowly Before Microsoft Got It Right

Microsoft really started on its course toward great fortune and power when Windows 1.01 arrived in 1985. Since then, Microsoft and Windows have been...

Google Announces Research Award Winners

Google has revealed the winners of 105 Google Research Awards for computer science projects that will be conducted by graduate students around the world,...

Samsung Offers $10,000 Reward for Best Flexible Display Idea

Samsung has launched a contest, in hopes of rounding up the best uses for its flexible display technology."We are calling on the most innovative...

Microsoft Nixes Xbox One Kinect Requirement

As launch day approaches, Microsoft is softening its stance on the Xbox One's most controversial requirement.The second-generation Kinect sensor, which will ship with each...

Hybrid Storage Provider Tegile Completes $35M Funding Round

The storage sector remains a hit one for investors. Newark, Calif.-based Tegile Systems, which makes hybrid storage arrays for virtualized server and virtual desktop...

Ellison Indicates Apple Will Take a Slide Without Jobs

Oracle CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison and Apple CEO Tim Cook probably won't be doing a summer barbecue together any time soon, not after...

30 Years Ago: How Email Rose to Become the No. 1 Killer App

When the first personal computers started being sold by Apple and IBM in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was common for people...

NBC News Acquires Stringwire Real-Time Reporting Service

NBC News has acquired startup Stringwire, in an effort to be a better, more nimble news machine.NBC News is scheduled to officially report the...