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Tech Digest daily roundup: Amazon to close Book Depository

UK-based online store Book Depository is being closed down by its parent company, the US technology giant Amazon. Book Depository has told customers it will cease operations later this month after almost two decades in business. It comes after Amazon announced plans to cut thousands of jobs as it shakes up its businesses globally. The…

5 April 20235 April 2023 Chris Price News

Everything Microsoft announced at its Surface event

Microsoft has revealed its first two dual-screen devices as part of a major revamp of its Surface product line of mobile computing products. The new Neo and Duo folding devices will launch at the end of next year but were unveiled alongside new versions of popular Surface computers and the company’s first wireless earphones. Here…

2 October 20193 October 2019 Chris Price News

Microsoft announces foldable Surface Duo smartphone

Microsoft is re-entering the smartphone market with a dual-screen foldable handset. The Surface Duo is the tech giant’s first smartphone since the Microsoft Lumia 650 in 2016, when the company appeared to give up on mobile because of intense competition from iOS and Android. At an event in New York, Microsoft showed off the pocket-friendly…

2 October 20193 October 2019 Chris Price Microsoft, News

Microsoft to unveil new Surface devices

Microsoft will announce a range of new devices later on Wednesday, with a new dual-screen Surface tablet device reportedly set to be among the unveilings. The computing giant is also widely expected to announce a new version of its Surface Pro laptop-tablet hybrid, as well as preview the next version of its Windows operating system.…

2 October 20192 October 2019 Chris Price Microsoft, News

Microsoft rumoured to be stopping Surface production – though it is probably DigiTimes talking rubbish again

Another day, another completely spurious rumour from Taiwan's DigiTimes. The website is reporting that Microsoft is about to kill off its Surface line of tablets. There are mountains of salt not large enough for our scepticism on this claim. Such a move could conceivably make sense: The first two Surface generations bled money for the…

10 October 201418 April 2021 James O'Malley Microsoft, Skeptech, Tablet

Is Microsoft developing a smartwatch?

A new patent reveals that Microsoft is working on a smartwatch to rival the Samsung Galaxy Gear and the rumoured Apple iWatch. The patent application, which was filed in 2012 but only published by the US Patent Office this week,…

8 May 2014 Stuart Apple, Gadgets, Microsoft, Samsung, Smartwatches

Microsoft Surface RT performance damages company's latest earnings

Microsoft have revealed their fiscal Q4 2013 earnings. And while overall impressive (with the company posting fourth-quarter earnings of $4.97 billion – 59 cents a share – on revenue of $19.9 billion), it also revealed disappointing Surface RT tablet performance…

19 July 2013 Gerald Lynch Microsoft, Tablet, Tech Digest news

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