Taiwanese PC maker Acer reported a small profit in the third quarter, after a larger loss a year earlier. However, revenue decreased as the company transitions to selling new PCs running Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system, it ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook today apologized to users for the substandard Apple Maps app in iOS 6, and steered them toward alternatives including Microsoft's Bing app and Google's online Maps. The Hoover Dam bypass bridge south of the dam ...
Japan’s Casio is preparing to launch a new Android tablet for businesses that acts as a personal scanner. The company’s new Paper Writer line has a camera that faces downward in front of the screen, to take images of documents ...
Several collision repair groups have announced new acquisitions and shop openings recently. Gerber Collision and Glass, a subsidiary of the Boyd Group, has announced the opening of another Florida repair center. The shop, which Gerber has ...
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Adobe plans in February to close a dangerous hole in its Shockwave application that causes the application to be downgraded when a user launches older multimedia content, allowing hackers to target years-old vulnerabilities. The U.S. ...
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China has blocking access to Google in what’s likely a move to squelch any controversial content on the nation’s Internet as its government prepares to change leadership. The blocking was reported by GreatFire.org, which ...
Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services said Friday that about 8.22 billion Indian rupees (US$155 million) in its fixed deposit accounts will be frozen for 150 days by India’s Directorate of Enforcement in connection with charges ...
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Java 6 will be retired from security support in less than two months, and users and businesses should prepare now for its demise, experts said today. Oracle will publicly patch Java 6 for the last time on Feb. 19, 2013. After that ...
Arno Raaijmakers has joined JD Group as Benelux service manager for the company's TransX electric bike drive systems. Raaijmakers will be the company's prime contact person for the markets in the Netherlands,Belgium and Luxembourg.His ...
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WASHINGTON, DC (BRAIN) — The League of American Bicyclists has announced a slate of speakers for its Women Mean Business event, which will be held March 4 during the League's National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. Georgena Terry ...
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Bring your own device (BYOD) programmes have provided the most radical shift in the economics of client computing for business since PCs invaded the workplace, according to research conducted by Gartner. BYOD is an alternative strategy ...
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Foursquare has expanded its recommendation capabilities by including suggestions from Facebook friends. The new feature aims for users to see more personal information about places they want to go. "The best recommendations often come ...
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OnlineCasinoMan.co.uk has been newly created by the clever people at Pioneer Gaming to give UK players a massive range of online casino games that are free to play, reviews of the best UK online casinos, and guides to the casino games ...
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Enterprise IT decision makers are about half as enthusiastic about the new Windows 8 as they were three years ago about the then-just-released Windows 7, an analyst said. Employees, however, have a higher-than-expected interest in the ...
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Germany's cybersecurity agency on Monday urged users to drop Internet Explorer (IE) and switch to a rival, like Chrome or Firefox, until Microsoft patches a new critical bug in its browser. In an alert released Monday, Germany's Federal ...
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