Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the company’s annual Build developer conference emphasising the momentum of the company’s new Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 operating systems. “In just the last three days, we have ...
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Crystal Lake-area charitable agencies report a drop in cash donations for this holiday season,but toy and food contributions have increased. The Salvation Army of McHenry County,290 W.Crystal Lake Ave.,in Crystal Lake,at this time last ...
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Microsoft has seen strong initial demand for Windows 8, exceeding that of its predecessor Windows 7, CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday. Speaking at an event to launch Windows Phone 8, a new operating system for smartphones, Ballmer said the ...
The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a certification program for its Miracast video transmission specification, offering a seal of approval that should ensure many different phones, tablets, laptops, TVs and other products can send video to each ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has handed out fines totalling £300,000 to four different councils for a variety of data breaches. The ICO also criticised local government agencies for continued poor attitudes to data ...
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Samsung has announced that net profit nearly doubled in the third quarter on strong sales of its Galaxy S III and Note 2, which also boosted results in its component business. The world’s largest maker of mobile handsets said net ...
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Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India fell Wednesday,as lack of cargoes and vessel oversupply weighed down on the market,sources said. "Supramaxes are doing well,but ...
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Rambus on Thursday announced it signed a six-year patent licensing agreement with Fujitsu Semiconductors, which will use Rambus technology in chips and integrated circuits. Rambus holds patents related to memory architecture and logic, ...
After almost a year of preparation, The OpenStack Foundation has launched as a stand-alone nonprofit organization, freeing its namesake stack of open source cloud hosting software from the management of hosting provider Rackspace. ...
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In response to a White House mandate, the agencies and departments of the federal government are gradually moving their IT operations to the cloud in a shift that could save billions of dollars, while also raising serious security concerns. ...
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Dutch security researchers hacked an iPhone 4S on Wednesday, showing how a malicious webpage can send all pictures, address book data and browsing history on the phone to a server of the attacker's choice. As participants in the Mobile ...
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Apple could be on the verge of losing the bans on sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab it has won in German courts. If the Dusseldorf lower regional court were to rule today, Samsung would be unlikely to be found infringing on Apple's design ...
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Russia is ready to increase its gas supplies to Turkey by 3 billion cubic meters/year,a spokeswoman for Russia's energy ministry told Platts late Tuesday. "In principle,Russia is ready to increase supplies to Turkey by 3 Bcm/year,we are ...
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Atlantic Coast ULSD stocks were at 20.109 million barrels,up 2.7 million barrels,in the reporting week ended December 14,the Energy Information Administration said Wednesday.This was the highest rise in inventories on a weekly basis since ...
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Future warfare could be fought by soldiers using bullets and bombs as well as people hunched over laptops according to experts in cyber conflict. The analysis comes in response to a recent article, titled “U.S. Admits to Cyber ...
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