Usman Khalid
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Articles By Usman Khalid
Officials at Japan’s Suzuki and Nissan cited the future government incentives as an impetus for growth, while South Korea’s Hyundai Motors cited the improving economic environment for its optimism in Indonesia. “Indonesia is so hot for the auto industry because the economy is growing significantly,” said Jongkie Sugiarto, president director of Hyundai’s Indonesian unit. The […]
Jan 20 2012 | Posted in
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Microsoft is embarking on what is believed to be its biggest challenge yet—the end of the road for x86 architecture. Microsoft has dominated the PC desktop and notebook markets for more than two decades. Competitors have come and gone but Microsoft remained on top. However, the winds of change are approaching, and they are approaching fast […]
Jan 19 2012 | Posted in
Sci-Tech |
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One surefire indicator is that the worldl is now in a post-PC era. Those old metrics such as GHz and GB have given way to new metrics such as weight and battery life. ‘Post-PC’ has in many ways made the personal computer even more personal. And Microsoft is positioning itself ready for the ‘post-PC’ era. It’s seeing […]
Jan 19 2012 | Posted in
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Another problem is that Windows is primarily a desktop operating system. It’s on the desktop that the OS really shines. It also works pretty well on notebooks and not so well on devices that have a cramped screen space such as netbooks. On tablets, it’s a disaster. To help alleviate this Microsoft has developed a completely new user interface […]
Jan 19 2012 | Posted in
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Facebook unveiled Open Graph at F8 2011last fall, which is now available for developers interested in building apparently any lifestyle application they wish. Facebook is strongly supporting its Timeline project with two major product announcements. First, Facebook has signed over 60 new partners that are integrating with the social network to help the users to […]
Jan 19 2012 | Posted in
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This might be another step further in making the company a profitable enterprise prior to going public. The media and application development partnerships might evade the opprobrium the social network had been attracting of late. Many experts have been of the opinion that Facebook has no permanent and satisfactory tools to increase the profits from […]
Jan 19 2012 | Posted in
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Last year brought a host of new smartphones to the market with mega-pixel cameras and dual-core processors. Android released its new edition of the mobile operating system Android, the Ice Cream Sandwich and Microsoft brought an update to the Windows Phone 7, the 7.5 Mango. Apple made news with its new iOS 5 on the […]
Jan 19 2012 | Posted in
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3. Pantech Pocket The smartphone with a bigger screen than most of its peers in the market gives a look of a Personal Digital Assistant without the need of stylus. It gives a flamboyant look in hand. An intriguing design, user-friendly take on Android, and a reliable camera make the Pantech Pocket an interesting choice […]
Jan 19 2012 | Posted in
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More than 2,700 companies took part in Consumer Electronics Show 2012 using up 171 963 net square meters of showroom floor where over 20,000 new products were exhibited. Probably the most interesting announcements came from Sony, the Japanese electronics giant. Their Xperia lineup got two more additions in the face of the Xperia ion and […]
Jan 18 2012 | Posted in
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Jerry Yang’s announcement that he’d be resigning from the Yahoo!, Alibaba Group, and Yahoo! Japan boards tonight is very significant. Whether intentional or not, Yahoo!’s board has long been “Jerry’s Board.” Directors would weigh whether or not they should do something by the litmus test question: “What does Jerry think of this?” That deference, over […]
Jan 18 2012 | Posted in
Business |
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Microsoft announced in 2011 that they will be coming with an entirely new operating system in the Windows line. In October, the company announced the Beta version of new Window 8 for experts and technology professionals all over the world for a deeper insight to system. Although the new operating system is developed especially to […]
Jan 18 2012 | Posted in
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That said, one of Microsoft’s goals with ReFS is to “maintain a high degree of compatibility with a subset of NTFS features that are widely adopted while deprecating others that provide limited value at the cost of system complexity and footprint,” Verma said. ReFS is designed to complement the Storage Spaces feature in Windows 8 […]
Jan 18 2012 | Posted in
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