Google is ramping up plans to open an app store focused solely on Google Glass, the computerized eyeglasses expected to launch in 2014. The company confirmed to Marketing Land that the dedicated Glass app store will launch next year. ...
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Mobile browsing continued to post gains last month at the expense of personal computers, a trend that has put Google into the second spot behind Microsoft as the browser maker with the longest reach, a Web metrics company said Sunday. ...
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Microsoft got some good news Sunday as metrics company Net Applications said Windows 8′s user share in August is now larger than Vista's at the same point in the latter's post-launch timeline. Windows 8′s user share of all PCs ...
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Plans for an initiative to boost Oracle User Group membership numbers worldwide has been revealed, shortly after the new head of the UK Oracle User Group detailed plans to turn around dwindling membership. According to the International ...
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SAP has said that customers should take it as a general rule that if they got a good deal first-time round on maintenance discounts, it is unlikely that they will benefit from new changes that allow companies to partially cancel unused ...
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NetApp is now selling software that uses NAND flash in its arrays to increase the performance of servers,the company has announced.It also unveiled a deal with Fusion-io to use that company's PCIe flash cards for arrays running its ONTAP ...
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Computerworld - Starbucks has dropped AT&T as its in-store Wi-Fi provider, teaming up instead with Google and Level 3 Communications to offer 10 times faster network speeds. The coffee shop chain said the changeover will start in August ...
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Computerworld - Corporate attitudes toward bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies appear to fall into one of three categories, according to a survey of IT users released this week: There's no official BYOD policy, devices are banned, or no ...
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The founder of the UpTime Institute, Kenneth G. Brill, 69, died Tuesday, the institute's parent company announced. Brill, an electrical engineer by training, is credited with playing an enormous role in shaping the modern data center ...
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created a robot with six curved legs that can do a hand-stand, jump over gaps and climb over rocks. The robot could one day be used by search-and-rescue teams or by the military in ...
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Computerworld - Nokia Wednesday unveiled its largest Windows 8 smartphone today, the Lumia 625, which sports a 4.7-in. LCD screen and a price tag of under $300. The Lumia 625 Hero Windows 8 smartphone was unveiled by Nokia today. The ...
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Several smartphone launches are imminent, including next Tuesday's Verizon Wireless event in New York City to unveil what the carrier's calling "the next generation of one of their most popular family of devices." Other smartphones ...
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Computerworld - Even as the market for Surface RT and other Windows RT tablets grows more dire by the day, chip supplier Nvidia said it remains bullish to the platform and is committed for the long term. Nvidia's commitment to Surface RT ...
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Sprint on Monday experienced network outages affecting voice communications for several hours in various regions nationwide, the wireless carrier confirmed. The problem stemmed from a software maintenance procedure started early Monday on ...
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Computerworld - Nokia launched its Lumia 1020 on Thursday with a raft of high-end camera features, including a 41-megapixel optical sensor. Nokia's Lumia 1020 smartphone. With that megapixel count, the Lumia 1020 sensor is ...
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