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Microsoft Kicks Off Free Office 2013 Upgrades

Microsoft on Friday launched an Office upgrade offer that gives customers who purchase the current Office 2010 a free copy of the upcoming Office 2013. The deal, stuck with the official title of "Microsoft Office Pre-launch Offer," started Oct. 19 and ends April 30, 2013. Customers who buy a retail copy of Office 2010 for Windows or one of several stand-alone applications within that period can download a free copy of the corresponding version of Office 2013, or in some cases, choose a free one-year subscription to an Office 365 plan.

October 22, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google

Google Maps Adds 25M New Building Footprints

Google has added another layer of detail to its maps for desktop and mobile. Now, besides, streets, parks, and bodies of water, users can also see even more building footprints in major cities across the U.S. The Web giant debuted this new addition yesterday by adding 25 million new building footprints to its map platform. Cities include Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

October 19, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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General

Mozilla Opens Its Firefox For Android Marketplace

Mozilla launched the latest Aurora version of Firefox for Android and with this, the organization is also opening the Firefox Marketplace to early adopters and testers. The Firefox Marketplace is similar to the Google’s Web Store for Chrome. Users can browse the store to find mobile web apps and developers can showcase their web apps. These apps run in full-screen mode and can also be pinned to the home screen. Distant Orbit, Jauntly, Soundcloud and Twitter are among the first apps in the store, where all the apps are currently available for free.

October 19, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Microsoft

IE10 May Get a New Test Build for Windows 7

Microsoft will finally launch a preview of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 in mid-November. With the Windows 8 launch less than two weeks away, Microsoft has obviously been focusing on the release of Internet Explorer 10 for its new operating system lately. Internet Explorer 10, after all, will be an integral part of Windows 8, both on the Metro/Windows 8 UI side of the OS and on the classic desktop. As far as IE10 for Microsoft’s older operating systems, though, the company has stayed relatively quiet until now.

October 18, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google

Google to Hold October 29 Event

Google just sent out invites for an October 29th Android event in NYC. The festivities start at 10:00 EDT and the event will also be live streamed on YouTube, seemingly indicating this is a big announcement. The invite sheds little light on the subject matter, but that’s the date long-rumored for the launch of LG Nexus smartphone.

October 18, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Apple

Apple Sets Oct.23 Event

Apple just sent out invitations to a special event that it's holding next Tuesday, October 23, starting at 10 a.m. PT, presumably to unveil the much-rumored smaller iPad model. The tagline of the invite is "We've got a little more to show you," and the invitation shows the top of Apple's logo. Apple is holding the event at the California Theater in San Jose, Calif., just a block away from the courtroom where its major trial with Samsung took place.

October 17, 2012 Lubov Cholakova

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Apple

New Mac Minis Said to Join Rumored iPad Mini Debut

Next week's iPad Mini event, which remains a rumor at this point, may be bring another Mini product along for the ride. Apple will also update its Mac Mini desktop computers, says Apple blog 9to5mac. The publication says Apple will stick with its existing lineup of two machines aimed at consumers and a server model. Those devices will be available "immediately" after the event the blog says.

October 16, 2012 Lubov Cholakova

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Google

Google Releases Web Site Speedup Software

As part of its "make the Web fast" effort, Google has released version 1.0 of a module designed to improve the very widely used Apache software that's very widely used to host Web sites. The Apache Software Foundation's flagship project is Web server software that delivers Web pages to people's browsers when they request it. It can be extended, and Google believes its mod_pagespeed extension for Apache is ready for use.

October 15, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google

Google Reigns in Search For September

Surprise, surprise, Google is still the king of search in the U.S. In fact, any other search engine pales in user numbers comparison. According to new data released by digital analytics company ComScore yesterday, 66.7 percent of users core searches in September were on Google, which is 0.3 percent higher than August. Trailing behind were Microsoft's search engines, which got 15.9 percent of the market share, and Yahoo came in third with 12.2 percent - which is down 0.6 percent from August.

October 15, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Microsoft

Windows 8 Gets A Post-RTM Update

Microsoft announced a post-RTM update for Windows 8 that will bring a number of improvements to the company’s new operating system ahead of its full launch on October 26. This update, which follows a similar update to virtually all of the built-in Windows 8 Metro apps earlier this week, will bring improvements in broad areas of performance, power management and battery efficiency, media playback, and compatibility.

October 10, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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