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Microsoft announces Office 365 Home Premium for Macs, PCs and Windows tablets, points to February 27th release date

If you were wondering when Office 2013 would find its way to the Mac, it’s on its way come February 27th. And in a subscription model. Per CNET, after existing in preview form since last summer, Office 2013, the next version of Microsoft’s productivity software, is now available for download. The company has begun offering […]

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Intel demonstrates Near-Field Communications on upcoming Ivy Bridge notebook architecture

This could prove spiffy. Per Engadget and its CES coverage, Intel executive Mooly Eden has just confirmed that the company’s forthcoming Ivy Bridge chips will support Near-Field Communications (NFC), as demoed in a transaction involving a laptop and PayPass-enabled MasterCard. NFC technology has yet to be truly demoed as incorporated into notebooks and it’ll be […]

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Steve Wozniak, Leonard Nimoy to speak at DEMO Bay area technology conference

There shall be dorkitude. And it shall be awesome. Per MacNN, Apple co-founder and inventor Steve Wozniak will host a talk at a DEMO conference on technology’s past, present and future with special guest Leonard Nimoy, an actor and photographer best known for his role as “Spock” in the Star Trek franchise of TV shows […]

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id’s John Carmack demos 60 fps Rage game on iPhone 4

Ok, this qualifies as nifty. Per Kotaku, id Software’s John Carmack demonstrated Rage on the iPhone 4 handset at QuakeCon 2010. The title, which ran at 60 frames-per-second, allowed Carmack to “kill anything done on the Xbox or PlayStation 2.” The demo incorported id’s Tech 5 engine and could easily run on the 3GS with […]

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E3 2010: Portal 2 demoed, details surface

The long-awaited Portal 2 was demoed at this year’s E3 and the included gameplay footage aside, the following facts were garnered during the presentation: – The new title is wrapped around story, gameplay (fans wanted to be surprised again) and music (the Jonathan Coulton track “Still Alive” took off and became a calling card with […]