Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind the new OS, is leaving the company, Microsoft announced today. Sinofsky was also the public face for Windows 8 and its new ...
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Reportedly, Fitch Rating has reported the healthy 2013 outlook for steel-consuming industries in CIS region. Cost competitiveness and pro-cyclical ruble movements support the stable the metals and mining sectors. For Russian ...
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Apple apparently made the right decision to omit NFC from the iPhone 5, given that 68% of U.S. consumers prefer to buy good using cash and credit cards over mobile wallets, according to a recent consumer survey. “Consumers ...
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Accent importer GuildMaster filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday following a federal indictment alleging sale of lamps with counterfeit Underwriters Laboratories stickers. The indictment, filed in the ...
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As we predicted, you may not be getting your hands on a new iMac this side of Christmas. MacBidouille has spoken to retail sources in France and reports that expectations that 21in iMacs would arrive on 27 November (the day after ...
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Mozilla said that income from search partners climbed 31% last year, hinting at the reportedly lucrative deal the open-source foundation struck with fierce browser rival Google. Royalties, almost all of which come from search services ...
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Apple today exhausted its supply of the iPhone 5 within an hour of opening its online store for pre-orders, and now is telling customers that their orders won’t ship for two weeks. Apple ran through its iPhone 5 pre-order inventory ...
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[Ask the iTunes Guy is a regular column in which we answer your questions on everything iTunes related. If there's something you'd like to know, send an email to the iTunes Guy for consideration.] Most of the Ask the iTunes Guy columns so ...
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Apple and Samsung have emerged as the global kings of smartphones, tablets and PCs even though the two vendors have very different product and pricing strategies, IDC said yesterday. On price, Apple’s average selling price (ASP) for ...
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Despite Intel's claim that 40 percent of all laptops sold this year would be ultrabooks the most popular, mid-tange priced ultra-portable notebook today is Apple's MacBook Air. Intel defines an ultrabook as an ultra-portable computer ...
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The U.S. on Thursday said it ordered sanctions against Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Reza Taghipour, and other entities and persons responsible for engaging in censorship in their country. Taghipour is ...
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Oracle is planning to deliver 88 security fixes next Tuesday for a wide range of its products, according to a pre-release announcement posted to its website on Thursday. A number of the bugs affect more than one product, and customers are ...
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The Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) business process outsourcing (BPO) market could be worth US$9.5 billion in 2016, up from US$5.9 billion in 2011, according to a Gartner report. The study, Market Trends: How to Profit From BPO Services ...
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Cyber criminals are using compromised Twitter accounts to distribute messages disguised as coming from friends who suggest recipients click on a link to see themselves on a Facebook video. Sophos reported the trick after receiving a ...
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According to a recent report from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), some 19 million Americans live in rural areas where broadband Internet access is either unavailable or delivered at speeds that fall well below targeted goals. ...
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