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Microsoft Visual Studio 2013: Key New Features for Developers

Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate and noted that the company’s flagship application development suite will release to manufacturing (RTM) Oct. 18. Microsoft als...read more

iPhone 5S, 5C Sport New Features, but No Big Secrets

Apple, a company renowned for how fiercely it keeps its secrets, held a Sept. 10 event at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters where nary a single feature hadn't been discussed and dissected by the media for weeks. Still, A...read more

AMD Shows Off Servers, Notebooks, Other Devices Running on Its Chips

SAN FRANCISCO—On the day before Intel kicked off its annual developer conference, executives from rival Advanced Micro Devices were in a nearby hotel announcing the company's 2014 roadmap for embedde...read more

iPhone 5S, 5C Lets Users Choose Thick, Thin, Metal or Plastic

Apple launched its newest iPhones, the 5S (thinner, metal and more expensive) and 5C (fatter, plastic and less expensive) Sept. 10. Once again, there was not a single instance in which the actual telephone function...read more

Firewall Evolution: 5 Milestones, 5 Predictions

Remember firewalls? They're simply a standard part of the overall security fabric now—analogous to XML in networks—but they've never gone away. The firewall has been around since the earliest days of network secur...read more

iPhone 5S or iPhone 5C: Which Apple Smartphone Is the Best Buy?

Apple's big day is set for Sept. 10. The company will be delivering to customers not one but two new smartphones media and analyst reports agree will be named the iPhone 5C and the iPhone 5S. The iPhone 5C will ...read more

Galaxy Gear Sets a Low Bar for Apple Smartwatch

Samsung Galaxy Gear, the smartwatch introduced Sept. 4 by the world's best-selling smartphone maker, is fascinating for how minimally it advances the smartwatch form factor. It's not very sleek—it has exposed screws tha...read more

Larger iPhone Screens Are a Good Idea: 10 Reasons Why

Screen size didn't matter to Apple for years. While all of the company's competitors were delivering products with bigger screens, Apple stuck to its standard 3.5-inch display. And despite request after request to up the...read more

iPad Apps Provide Mobile Tools for Military Veterans' Caregivers

The Department of Veterans Affairs is working on a yearlong pilot to see how iPads help more than 1,000 family caregivers tend to injured post-9/11 veterans. The department has distributed 900 iPads to caregiv...read more

Samsung Galaxy Note 3, 10.1 Tablets Improve Features, User Joy

Samsung may have followed Apple, and even Dell, into the tablet market, but it continues to be an innovator in the space. While Dell bombed with the Streak, a device people complained was too big to be a phone an...read more

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