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PlayStation 4 Sales Hit 18.5 Million

With no need for price cuts Sony on Monday announced that it had sold 18.5 million PlayStation 4 consoles to consumers since the device's launch in November 13, further distancing the front-runner from the Xbox One. Furthermore, the consumer electronics firm sold 4.1 million PS4 consoles in the final six weeks of 2014 alone, a healthier-than-expected end to an already dominant year. read more

Posted January 06 / by WindowsITPro - Paul Thurrott's WinInfo News

About All Those Things at CES 2015

Michael Crichton saw this one coming The buzzword at this week's CES 2015 in Las Vegas is of course "The Internet of Things," an annoying term for something—interconnected embedded devices—that has been around for many years. This isn't the first time the tech industry has jumped the shark with a new term for something old—cloud computing is an obvious recent example—but surely there is a better way to discuss this technology and how it will impact our lives. read more

Posted January 07 / by WindowsITPro - Paul Thurrott's WinInfo News

Short Takes: January 9, 2015

An often irreverent look at this week's other news An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including an ignoble end for Microsoft's advance security notification service, the malaise that is CES, Maryland chooses Office 365 and common sense, Microsoft supports Bitcoin on Windows Phone, you can play old MS-DOS video games on the web for free, Google is selling auto insurance, and Apple reaped $4.5 billion from third party app sales in 2014. read more

Posted January 09 / by WindowsITPro - Paul Thurrott's WinInfo News