Instagram can drive data to its computing systems on Amazon.com's EC2 service 20 times as fast with solid-state drives, a co-founder of the photo-sharing service said on Thursday at the GigaOm Mobilize conference in San Francisco. Rather ...
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Lenovo today announced a series of managerial changes including Oliver Ebel taking on the role of Executive Director and General Manager for Lenovo in the Middle East & Africa (MEA). Moving from his current position as Executive Director ...
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Octagonal Resources has received USD 150,000 drilling grant from the Western Australian Government to help fund first phase diamond drilling at the Burns gold copper silver Prospect at the Hogan's Project. The funds under Round 6 of the ...
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Thieves broke into a number of mobile phone shops across central Japan and stole hundreds of iPhone 5 handsets hours before the device went on sale Friday morning, police said. The robbers broke doors and forced open the front shutters on ...
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Google's mobile operating system(OS),Android,has been targeted again by malicious malware,which causes the device to send out spam SMS messages. The infected malware,known as SpamSoldier,has been hiding in free versions of popular Android ...
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Google Maps' return to the iPhone and iPad this week may not be permanent, an analyst said today. "It would have been out of the question," said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, referring to a rejection of ...
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Scientists at Pakistan’s Punjab University’s Centre for Excellence Molecular Biology (CEMB) have successfully developed Miracle CLCV-Resistant Cotton Plant having a capacity to efficiently resist the growth of cotton leaf curl ...
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Lenovo yesterday said it plans to acquire Stoneware, a small U.S. based company specialising in cloud products for schools and governments, as part of the PC maker’s strategy to bolster its cloud computing offerings. While Lenovo ...
Mr Andrew Forrest chairman of FMG said that Chinese customers are buying about 95% of the ore mined by Australia's Fortescue Metal Group Ltd. China needs us to supply the iron ore. Due to the booming demand in Chinese market over the past ...
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As part of the second India-Africa Forum Summit, 32 participants from six African nations including cotton scientists were trained at the Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR) on 'Modern Cotton Production Technology' in India. The ...
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Clariant, a world leader in Specialty Chemicals, joins high-level discussions shaping the future of the fabric and home care industry at the AOCS World Conference in Singapore, October 29-31, 2012. The inaugural event includes key note ...
During the SteelOrbis fall 2012 conference&67th IREPAS meeting held in Munich on September 30-October 2,Peter Marcus from World Steel Dynamics(WSD)has assessed the current situation in the world steel industry and provided an outlook for ...
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Sprint Nextel has offered US $2.1 billion, or $2.90 a share, for the nearly one-half interest in mobile broadband firm Clearwire that the company doesn't already own. Sprint, in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...
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Public cloud updated Sega's courier distribution to testers How a combination of public and private cloud helped Sega Cloud project yielded cost-control benefits for Sega Overcoming interoperability issues in private and public cloud The ...
Today marks the official release of VMware's vSphere 5.1, and despite the point release, there's much more to this version than minor updates and bug fixes. In fact, this is a release that would have been comfortable wearing the number 6. ...
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