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Google Reduces Its Cloud Storage Pricing For 2nd Time

This is competition at work: earlier this week, Google announced that it would reduce the price of its standard Google Cloud Storage by just a bit over 20%. Then, Amazon announced that it would reduce the price of its S3 cloud storage service by about 25% across the board. Yesterday, in a somewhat surprising move, Google announced that it would reduce the price of Cloud Storage by yet another 10%, resulting in a total price reduction of over 30% once you include the earlier cut.

November 30, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Microsoft

Microsoft Updates Visual Studio 2012 Testing Tools

Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is now available for download. The update allows users to develop applications for Windows XP and more thoroughly test their work. The previous version of Microsoft's development tool was launched along with .NET 4.5 in September this year. An update arrives so quickly following the launch is part of Microsoft's plan to upgrade Visual Studio at shorter intervals.

November 30, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Microsoft: 40 Million Windows 8 Licenses Sold

Tami Reller, chief marketing and financial officer for Windows, announced the number during her appearance at the Credit Suisse Annual Tech Conference. Microsoft had not released any sales figures for Windows 8 other than saying the company sold 4 million upgrade licenses of the operating system to those with previous versions of Windows during the first three days it was available. Microsoft launched Windows 8 commercially on October 26.

November 30, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Firefox Beta Features Retina and Touch Support

Yesterday was beta-release day at Mozilla, and the organization is launching new beta versions of Firefox for the desktop and Android. This time around, the desktop version is set to get the most interesting updates, including the new IonMonkey just-in-time JavaScript compiler, as well as support for Macs with Retina displays and W3C Touch Event support for machines with touchscreens. On Android, Firefox now offers better phishing protection and – as an opt-in – search suggestions.

November 27, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google Drops Pricing On Cloud Storage

Google has dropped cloud storage pricing 20 percent, has added a set of new features, and is expanding its availability in Europe — all in advance of rival Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) first major event this week in Las Vegas. With the drop in pricing, Google is offering a new service called Durable Reduced Availability Storage, a service that allows people to store data at a lower price by limiting its availability.

November 27, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Microsoft

Microsoft Promises to Support Surface RT for 4+ Years

Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after its launch. The support lifecycle for the Surface with Windows RT tablet is less than half the usual 10 years Microsoft allots its software products - including Windows 8 - but is considerably longer than what Apple has given the first-generation iPad, which has already dropped off.

November 26, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Mozilla Quietly Ceases Firefox 64-bit Development

Mozilla engineering manager Benjamin Smedberg has asked developers to stop nightly builds for Firefox versions optimized to run on 64-bit versions of Windows. A developer thread posted on the Google Groups mozilla.dev.planning discussion board, titled Turning off win64 builds by Smedberg proposed the move.

November 26, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Unlicensed Installations of Windows 8 Pro

Users running pirated copies of Windows 8 Pro can reportedly upgrade to a fully licensed and permanently activated version of the OS by simply installing a free Windows 8 Media Center upgrade offered by Microsoft. The relatively simple technique that essentially allows users to get Windows 8 Pro for free was described late Tuesday on Reddit by a user named noveleven who claims to have successfully tried it out. At least one other Reddit user confirmed that it works in the same discussion thread.

November 22, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google Maps Brings Indoor Layouts to the Desktop

The indoor floor plans that you’ve been using on Google Maps for Android to figure out where you are and what’s around you within many popular indoor locations are now available on Google Maps for your desktop! Before heading home for the holidays or out to shop on Black Friday, check out indoor maps of the airport or shopping mall on your desktop to better plan your trip.

November 22, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Firefox 17 Launches With New Social API

Mozilla just launched the latest stable version of Firefox. This release introduces Firefox’s new Social API with a preview of the first social integration with Facebook Messenger for Firefox. This was previously only available in the Firefox beta channel. The Social API allows social services like Facebook, Twitter, blog networks or even news sites to easily add persistent social sidebars, toolbar notifications and chats to the browser, no matter which site a user is currently looking at.

November 21, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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