The iPad Pro grows up with second-gen Apple Pencil, slimmer bezels

It's slimmer, brighter and has more intuitive design. The iPad Pro's power is also being utilized for the full Photoshop program and NBA 2K.

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With Galaxy Note 9, Samsung could approach productivity with DeX cable

Instead of a DeX Dock or DeX Station, why not a DeX cable? Turns out that a bulky, overengineered product doesn't exactly sell well.

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Legacy versions of Google Drive apps will be cut off from service access

Older versions of Docs, Sheets and Slides will also be shut down on both iOS and Android with update prompts in March. The effective date is April 3.

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Samsung Focus to launch with Galaxy Note 6 as a sort of BlackBerry Hub

It’s been too long since BlackBerry OS got wide appreciation, especially as we’ve turned from BB10. But one good vestige of the platform that’s made the move to Android was the BlackBerry Hub — a river of communications, calendar and reminder heads-ups and memorandums at a glance. The feature ...

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Microsoft strikes app-loading deal with Acer, 74th of its kind

The Office pool has grown just a bit larger.ASUS signed with Microsoft to include the latter’s suite of productivity apps. After a few bouts of fighting, so has Samsung. Acer thought it was time to do the same as it will begin pre-loading

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3 Microsoft Office apps and OneNote get 3D Touch, Apple Pencil functionality

Microsoft seems to be a diligent player in another company’s walled garden. With the introduction of the iPhone 6s and the iPad Pro, two new iOS interaction methods have changed up what it means to be an app on an Apple device. And ...

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Microsoft: Apple’s strategy puts iPad Pro as “a companion device”

Is the iPad Pro a personal computing replacement? Will spending at least $1,067 for a tablet, keyboard and stylus as opposed to an 11-inch MacBook Air with an accessory or two really make sense? Why not consider a Microsoft Surface? Well, it depends on your way of thinking when it comes to tablets and laptops.Microsoft’s Senior ...

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Google Apps for Work free while you’re still hitched to another software provider

Microsoft may have spread its productivity presence like a bagel shop spreads butter on toasted dough. It has focused gaining purchase on different mobile platforms while tightening up the value proposition on it consumers. But Google’s cloud-based answer to the Office 365 suite (and to others as well) has been out there as well, stewing up on a faster development cycle.Google’s now proud ...

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Microsoft Surface Pro 4 hands-on (Video)

The Surface Pro series turned the corner on the age of stationary computing for Microsoft. The migration of all the hard components from keyboard area to screen bulkhead made for some interesting innovations in the keyboard and stylus accessories.The Surface Pro 3 made a pretty good impression on us, but the newer, lighter, stronger and faster Surface Pro 4 had the whole room at Microsoft’s Windows 10 devices event ...

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In the Surface series, everything is a detachable computer

Of course, a ton of people would be at Microsoft’s Windows 10 briefing today using their Surface computers. Of course, Microsoft would announce a new Surface Pro today. Not of course was the Surface Book we got today. It’s a laptop. But not ...

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