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• HP is now two companies. How did it get here?

  01-11-2015 21:00
  
  If Hollywood wanted a script about the inexorable decline of a corporate icon, it might look to Hewlett-Packard for inspiration. Once one of Silicon Valley's most respected companies, HP officially split itself in two on Sunday, betting that the smaller parts will be nimbler and more able to reverse four years of declining sales.HP fell victim to huge shifts in the computer industry that also forced Dell to go private and have knocked IBM on its heels. Pressure from investors compelled it to act
  
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• Report: Major Windows 10 update, codenamed 'Redstone,' due next summer

  01-11-2015 17:08
  Redstone is no longer just a mineral in the Minecraft universe; according to WinBeta, it’s the codename for an upcoming major Windows 10 release that’s due next summer.
  As WinBeta reports, Redstone will be the next big WIndows 10 update after the upcoming Threshold 2 release. Redstone will include a number of major new features, though Microsoft is reportedly still determining exactly which features to include in the update.
  WinBeta does specify two new features in the works, howeve
  
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• Windows 10 powers 132M PCs as growth again decelerates

  01-11-2015 16:14
  
  Three months after its launch, Windows 10 now powers an estimated 132 million PCs, according to data published Sunday by an analytics vendor.
  Numbers released today by U.S. metrics company Net Applications showed that Windows 10's user share -- a proxy for the portion of all systems worldwide that ran the OS -- grew 1.3 percentage points in October to 7.9%.
  Microsoft launched Windows 10 on July 29, making October the third full month that the free upgrade for Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 devices wa
  
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• 3 must-have mobile apps (and gadgets) for fall 2015

  01-11-2015 13:50
  
  Since I published my list of the 5 best Android and iOS apps of summer 2015 back in late June, I've tested dozens more apps. I also put several mobile devices, many with corresponding apps, through their paces. Most of them I quickly disregarded, but I continue to use the following three on a daily basis.Automatic makes your car smart(er)Automatic ($100) is a dongle that plugs into your car's OBD-II data port. (If your car was built after 1996, it very likely has one of these ports).
  
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