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https://www.infoworld.com:443/d/the-industry-standard/dells-acquisitions-not-yet-paying-dividends-208882?source=rss_ Dell's effort to move away from PCs into enterprise products has been slow as the company battles a challenging economy and tries to weave together acquisitions in a coherent manner. Dell's legacy has been entrenched in the PC business, but in recent years it has focused on moving..

https://www.infoworld.com:443/d/mobile-technology/microsoft-may-not-want-smashing-surface-rt-tablet-sales-208857?source=rss_ The reported slow early sales of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet has raised a question among IT analysts -- does Microsoft truly want to produce boffo sales of the new device? Some analysts say that Microsoft can't afford to have smashing Windows RT- or Windows 8-based Surfa..

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/20/windows-1-0-the-windows-8-of-its-time/ I keep saying that the closest parallel Windows 8 has in tech history is nothing less than Windows 1.0 itself

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/22/behold-some-of-the-first-apple-computer-photos-ever/ Paul Terrell opened the Byte Shop in Mountain View, California in December of 1975. It was one of the first computer stores in the world, and did a lot to help popularize a business which just barely existed at the time. And it earned an even more legendary spot in tech history in 1976, when a couple of loca..

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/26/no-google-didnt-buy-icoa/ When I woke up this morning, the big breaking technology news on the web was that Google had plunked down $400 million to buy ICOA, a builder of public Wi-Fi networks. Numerous major tech sites published pieces on the acquisition, some with helpful analysis explaining why it was such a significant development. And then, there was more..

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/25/facebook-asks-staffers-to-dump-their-iphones-and-use-android/ In the Bay Area, where so much mobile software is developed, the iPhone

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/26/prweb-making-the-web-more-spammy/ Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land has a fascinating post on PRWeb, the company which issued a fake press release about a fake Google acquisition. Even when it

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/26/brydg-review/ Back in April, I read a TIME.com story by my colleague Jared Newman about a Kickstarter project called Brydge. It was an anodized aluminum-cased rechargaable Bluetooth keyboard with a clamshell hinger which could be clamped securely to an iPad, turning Apple

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/27/once-again-the-kindle-is-selling-like-an-unspecified-number-of-hotcakes/ Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us, and Amazon wants us to know that its ever-expanding line of Kindles sold well. Great news! But as usual, the company isn

http://techland.time.com/2012/11/27/windows-8-sales/ It