Microsoft yesterday added Android to the list of mobile operating systems now supported by Office Mobile. But Office Mobile for Android only covers phones, not tablets, limiting its utility. The Android version,?Office Mobile for ...
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Chinese telecoms hardware maker Huawei says that its profits for the first half of the year were up 10 per cent, after posting its operating interim results for 2013. It follows an increase in revenue of almost 11 per cent over the same ...
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Smartphone and tablet chip vendor MediaTek has unveiled an octo-core processor it says can run all eight cores simultaneously when active. The Taiwan-based company plans to launch the chip in the fourth quarter, MediaTek spokeswoman ...
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Apple sold 14% fewer iPads in the quarter that ended June 30 than during the same stretch in 2012, while the revenue it earned from those sales plummeted by 27%. Analysts tied the decline in revenue to the iPad Mini, Apple's smaller, ...
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Intel reported another drop in profits for the second quarter and narrowed its sales outlook for the full year, as the declining PC market continues to eat away at its business. Intel's profit for the quarter, ended June 29, was down 29 ...
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AT&T's Next smartphone and tablet upgrade and no-contract plan, announced Tuesday, competes with a similar plan called Jump! from T-Mobile and another expected soon from Verizon Wireless. Verizon is reportedly working on a no-contract ...
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More fixes are appearing for a pair of highly dangerous vulnerabilities exposed earlier this month in the Android mobile operating system. Security vendor Webroot and ReKey, a collaboration between Northeastern University in Boston and ...
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IBM saw its net income for its second quarter of 2013 drop by 17 per cent compared to the same period in 2012. The company earned $3.23bn, compared with $3.9bn 12 months ago. Total revenue for Q2 stood at $24.9bn, down three per cent on ...
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New research has shown that the vast majority of businesses are exposing sensitive corporate data to cyber-criminals by failing to implement effective BYOD strategies. The report, released this week, found that just over half of the 570 ...
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WatchGuard Technologies has been awarded a "Performance Verified Certification" by independent test lab, Miercom, for performing nearly 3.5 times faster than competing unified threat management (UTM) solutions with standard UTM features ...
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Apple may acquire the Israeli chip design company that provided the motion sensing technology used in Microsoft's popular Kinect video game controller, the Israeli business daily Calcalist reported today. In a Tuesday story, Calcalist ...
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Although a historic downturn in PC shipments has made headlines since April, "Peak PC" -- the moment when personal computers crested -- was two years ago, according to data from researcher IDC. In the third quarter of 2011, global PC ...
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The global outsourcing market will reach $288bn in value this year, according to analyst group Gartner. The figure represents a modest increase of 2.8 per cent - 5.1 per cent in "constant currency" - compared to 2012. "Nearly all ITO ...
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Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumia smartphones in the second quarter, its best yet for sales of the Windows Phone devices, but still made a net loss. Net sales totalled a!5.70 billion (US$7.48 billion), down 24 percent year-on-year. The company ...
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With Apple's iWatch and several competing smartwatches from major manufacturers in the works, some analysts question whether such wearable technology will gain popularity among consumers. The smartwatch market is especially questionable ...
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