Google announced a new version of Android this week with some impressive new features, but it's unclear if it's done enough to solve a problem that has dogged its mobile OS: fragmentation. Even as it announced the imminent launch of ...
Tags: Google, Android, Jelly Bean, new features
Subaru Canada has reported sales of 31,003 units in 2012 in the US with a 14.9%increase in the over-all sales in the country. The Japanese automaker has registered sales of 2,814 units in December 2012 that inclined 12.9%compared to the ...
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The future of appliances--refrigerators, toasters, washers, dryers, you name it--can be summed up as "smarter." But this smart revolution has already come to the trusty alarm clock, of which Stem Innovation's $100 Time Command is a good ...
Tags: appliances, future, smarter, iOS
Small cars have once again dominated new vehicle sales in 2012, with the Mazda3 leading the way in its second straight year as Australia’s favourite car. Four of the top six models sold across the country last year belonged to ...
Tags: Car Sales, Small Cars, Mazda3, small-car segment
One day after the launch of its next generation mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has released the SDK (software development kit) that will allow programmers to write applications for the new platform. Microsoft released ...
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Security analysts this week challenged South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's defense of the state's information security practices in the wake of a data breach at the S.C. Department of Revenue that exposed the Social Security Numbers ...
Tommy Hilfiger a brand renowned for its stylish winter apparel has launched a limited edition collection, part of holiday collection for Fall/Winter 2012. The SNOW CHIC collection is a blend of classic winter staples, outerwear and ...
Tags: Tommy Hilfiger, stylish winter apparel, limited edition collection
On June 28,Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins announced the company's latest financials in a particularly grim earnings call.Heins reported a first-quarter loss of$518 million,or 99 cents a share.Overall sales for the period were$2.8 ...
Tags: RIM, BlackBerry, CEO Thorsten Heins, consumer electronics
Computerworld - Microsoft will speed up the release cadence of Windows, starting in 2013, to issue annual OS upgrades, according to reports on the Web today. But analysts believe that the new pace will be both difficult for Microsoft to ...
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Computerworld - Despite calls for Facebook to stop planned changes to the way it makes privacy policy, analysts are divided over whether the changes would be bad for users. Last week, Facebook announced that it's making an adjustment to ...
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When seawater flooded streets in lower Manhattan Monday night, it filled the bottom floors of the basement of an office building at 75 Broad St. and its lobby up to four feet. This was not a good development for the data center ...
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Computerworld - Users remain significantly less enthused about Windows 8 than they were three years ago about the then-unfinished Windows 7, according to data from an analytics firm. The new numbers from California-based Net Applications ...
Tags: Windows 8, reception, consumer, computer platform
IDG News Service - A court-appointed damages expert who served in the intellectual-property suit Oracle lodged against Google over the Android mobile OS could receive nearly $2 million in compensation, according to court filings late ...
Tags: Oracle, Google, Android mobile OS, progaming
IDG News Service - By offering users of Windows 7, XP and Vista discounts to upgrade to Windows 8, Microsoft is putting itself in a position to reap both benefits and criticism in the consumer operating system market. Giving PC owners an ...
Tags: Microsoft, consumer operating system, benefits, criticism
Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
Tags: iPad apps, App store, IT groups, IT industry