IDG News Service-Enterprise software rivals Red Hat and Oracle,along with a number of other software and online services providers,have collaborated on a standard that they hope will ease the use of PaaS(platform as a service)among ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong - Apple's iCloud service, which was recently forced upon former-users of mac.com (including myself), has not proven to be a shiny seamless service. Many tech journos complain that iCloud doesn't represent the ...
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IDG News Service - , which Microsoft is positioning as a reinvention of its Hotmail and of competing consumer webmail services, appears at first glance more evolutionary than groundbreaking, according to several industry analysts. "This ...
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Apple is to acquire finger print sensor technology company AuthenTec for $356m (£227m), in a move to enter the mobile payments space. The technology enables smartphone users to securely identify themselves when making mobile ...
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Quarterly earnings from some of the biggest tech companies in the world this week were decidedly mixed,but showed some signs of strength,particularly in enterprise IT spending. Tech vendors with exposure to the hardware market have ...
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French tax authorities have visited the headquarters of Microsoft France to conduct an inspection, a spokesman for the company confirmed Wednesday. The visit, last Thursday, was a routine check, according to a statement on the company's ...
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Microsoft is taking a massive$6.2bn hit on its fourth quarter revenues,following a failure of its online business to generate advertising revenue. The write-down is a result of the$6.3bn acquisition of advertising network aQuantive in ...
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Nationwide uses a virtualised environment to test its new internet banking system to cut costs and development time for new online services. The bank is using CA's Lisa Virtualise software to create copies of its 36 back-end systems to ...
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For Europe to take full advantage of the spectrum on its shores,broadcasters must share their allocations with mobile broadband providers. This was the conclusion of Neelie Kroes,a vice-president of the European Commission and the lead ...
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Google and Amazon pay for faster connections Lack of transparency over traffic management EC could force net neutrality issue Consumers need to know about net management The questions of how to handle the growing amount of traffic on ...
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