How To Snag Discounts on Software

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Sep 102013
 

Good software (or apps as they’re fashionably referred to these days) is not cheap. Whether you’re buying directly from the vendors or from AppStores like Mac, good quality software often runs upwards of $10 and can go up to even a hundred dollars. The majority of apps on Apple’s AppStore Read More

Eisenpower App is Now Quadranto – New Features and Higher Price

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Sep 092013
 
Eisenpower App is Now Quadranto - New Features and Higher Price

Eisenpower Interface I purchased the Eisenpower task manager app (version 1.1.3) from the Mac AppStore for $4.99 in March 2013 and have been using it on and off. The beauty of Eisenpower is its simplicity: there’s no learning curve to get started. Within a few seconds after downloading it to Read More

Microsoft Starts Screwing Windows XP Users

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Sep 092013
 
Microsoft Starts Screwing Windows XP Users

Microsoft has already started making life difficult for Windows XP users as the company gets ready to end support for Windows XP (and Office 2003) on April 8, 2014. I recently got a preview of Microsoft’s non-support vis-a-vis Windows XP will be like. I removed my hard drive from a Read More

Beware Limitations of Find My Mac

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Sep 072013
 

When Apple introduced the free Find My Mac feature in 2011, Mac users who forked out a hefty sum for their MacBook Pros and iMacs were elated. Mac owners’ thinking was that any thief making away with their precious Mac computers would soon be caught saving them the anxiety and Read More

No Flash in the Pan, Pure Storage Picks Up $150m in Pre-IPO Round

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Aug 302013
 
No Flash in the Pan, Pure Storage Picks Up $150m in Pre-IPO Round

Pure Storage, which is at the vanguard of enabling the storage industry’s seismic transition from mechanical disk to flash memory, has raised $150 million in its Series E round. The latest round values the four-year-old Mountain View, California startup at a billion dollars. Pure Storage‘s FlashArray  T. Rowe Price, Tiger Read More

IDC Errs in Tablet Shipment Forecast Cut

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Aug 292013
 
IDC Errs in Tablet Shipment Forecast Cut

Market researcher IDC today modestly lowered its worldwide tablet shipment forecast for 2013 citing diversion in consumer spending on larger screen smartphones and new categories such as wearable devices like smart watches. IDC’s revised tablet shipments forecast for 2013 is 227.4 million units, down from its earlier estimate of 229.3 Read More