Posts Tagged ‘ Microsoft ’

LG TV named best gadget, Microsoft bows out in style 

January 14, 2012
LG TV named best gadget, Microsoft bows out in style 

   People are seen mingling in front of a display of LG Electronics televisions during the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, where LG unveiled their 55-inch OLED TV, said to be the world’s largest. The TV set was later crowned ‘best gadget’ of the CES. A razor-thin television from LG Electronics was [...]

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Basic phones lift Nokia to surprise Q3 profit 

October 20, 2011
Basic phones lift Nokia to surprise Q3 profit 

A corporate logo is displayed at the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki in this picture taken September 29, 2010. The world’s largest cellphone maker Nokia reported a smaller than expected fall in third quarter profits as price cuts and new models lifted sales of its basic cellphones in key markets like India. Shares in Nokia [...]

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Microsoft riled by charge Bing is a copy cat 

February 3, 2011
Microsoft riled by charge Bing is a copy cat 

A Microsoft’s staff member demonstrates maps using Bing at an exhibition in Las Vegas. A spat between Internet titans heated up with Microsoft angrily denying that Bing copies Google’s search results and the world’s top online search engine adamant it has proof. Microsoft senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi went on the offensive in a blog [...]

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Google unwraps Chrome PCs too late for holidays 

December 8, 2010
Google unwraps Chrome PCs too late for holidays 

Brian Rakowski, director of product management for Google, speaks during the company’s Chrome event in San Francisco December 7, 2010. The first laptops powered by Google Inc’s Chrome operating system will reach store shelves months later than expected and miss the holiday shopping season as the Internet company fixes software issues. The Web-centric computers, intended [...]

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U.S. automaker GM picks Microsoft CFO to run finances

December 23, 2009
U.S. automaker GM picks Microsoft CFO to run finances

U.S. automaker General Motors Co. has tapped Chris Liddell, chief financial officer of Microsoft Corp., to be its new vice chairman and chief financial officer, the company said Monday. “Chris will lead our financial and accounting operations on a global basis and will report directly to me. We’re also looking to his experience and insights [...]

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Microsoft says patch of Windows 7 isn’t cause of black screen

December 3, 2009
Microsoft says patch of Windows 7 isn’t cause of black screen

Microsoft on Tuesday denied a claim that its November security patch of Windows 7 is among the possible causes of the black screen problems affecting some Windows users. On Friday, Prevx, a maker of antivirus software, which is based in the U.K., attributed some of these black screen crashes to the Microsoft’s new operating system [...]

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President Triet meets Russian president, and Siemen, Microsoft leaders

November 16, 2009
President Triet meets Russian president, and Siemen, Microsoft leaders

President Nguyen Minh Triet held talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and met with Microsoft chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie and Siemens AG CEO Peter Loscher on November 14. LookAtVietnam – On November 14, Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet held bilateral talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and met with Microsoft chief research [...]

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Microsoft’s search engine to pose more challenges to Google

November 13, 2009
Microsoft’s search engine to pose more challenges to Google

Microsoft’s search engine Bing, launched May this year, is going to add more applications and tools as an upgrading step to challenge the search engine market leader Google. Search engine websites as Google and others respond to users’ queries by providing links to other websites that netizens can access to information easily. Bing, as a [...]

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Vietnam retailers selling PCs with original Windows 7

November 2, 2009
Vietnam retailers selling PCs with original Windows 7

Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, launched worldwide on October 22, has been made available in new PCs sold by many Vietnamese retailers, the company said in a statement released Saturday. Among the retailers having Windows 7 installed on their PCs are Nguyen Kim, Phong Vu, Tran Anh and Dang Khoa, the company said. Hoang Anh [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...