IDG News Service-Oracle researchers are"winding down"development of the Fortress programming language for high-performance computing,an effort started nearly 10 years ago by Sun Microsystems. Fortress was meant to provide a superior ...
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A year ago,we saw the first Samsung Chromebook and we were left feeling pretty underwhelmed with it.Not only was the hardware clunky and slow,but Google's much-anticipated Chrome OS was far more basic and limited in what it could do that we ...
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To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is embarking on an aggressive strategy that calls for ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime. The company on Tuesday ...
Tags: AMD, server, x86 chips, Opteron Processors, low-power Opteron processors
About this time last year I did a post on the top gel ink pens as identified by their Amazon sales rank, that I had intended to follow on with a look at the top notebooks and journals. Well Brad’s post the other day on his top 5 ...
Vodafone has publically stated it is "extremely disappointed" with Everything Everywhere's successful bid to revamp its 2G databand into the UK's first 4G network coverage. Speaking at yesterday's Broadband Britain Westminster eForum, the ...
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"Apple Maps is the worst-received new product to come out of Cupertino since the 1993 launch of the Newton...the child of a nasty divorce between two of the world's most powerful companies." " -- Forbes magazine Those two companies are ...
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Proactive Investors reported that Reward Minerals will now move ahead with the exploration and feasibility stages for its Lake Disappointment potash project in Western Australia after securing a key agreement. The Lake Disappointment ...
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A US court has ordered Twitter to release old tweets and other details of a user arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. The micro-blogging firm refused at first, saying the tweets were owned by users and not Twitter. ...
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Advanced Micro Devices has lured Jim Keller from his role as platform architect at Apple to head its processor group as the struggling company tries to reshape its chip strategy and stem a loss in processor market share. Keller was part ...
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In a rare admission of error, Apple said Friday that it's back in EPEAT, the environmental standards group for electronics products that it withdrew from earlier this week. "We've recently heard from many loyal Apple customers who were ...
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New Zealand's prime minister called on Monday for an inquiry into illegal spying on individuals connected with the now defunct file-sharing site Megaupload by one of the country's intelligence services. Prime Minister John Key said Monday ...
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There is no doubt consumers are returning to both brick-and-mortar stores and online shopping channels with renewed confidence. Recent increases in household savings levels and lower unemployment rates – along with an $800 billion ...
Tags: Scalable Tech, category management, shopping channels, reactive mode
The President of Tirupur Exporters Association(TEA)has expressed disappointment with the RBI's latest monetary policy review. Dr.A.Sakthivel,President,TEA said he was disappointed with the RBI's Mid Quarter Monetary Policy Review as there ...
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Facebook, under extreme pressure to cheer up its disappointed investors, posted revenue growth of more than 30 percent in its third quarter on Tuesday, and beat Wall Street expectations, but also recorded a loss. Facebook’s revenue ...
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In his first public appearance since his company's sluggish IPO, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the social network's stock performance "disappointing." Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to ...
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