Microsoft today said that it will close the $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's handset business on Friday, about eight months after revealing the deal. Microsoft announced the acquisition of Nokia's devices arm?- and an associated patent ...
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Green Power Partnership released an updated list of the Top 100 organizations that are choosing to use electricity from clean, renewable sources like wind and solar power. "By using ...
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In case it wasn't clear already, Intel and Microsoft are no longer joined at the hip. Intel is trying desperately to grow its share of the tablet market, and with Windows flunking out on those devices, Android is the flavour of the month. ...
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While there is no governing body that controls or even defines Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), APICS, the Association for Operations Management does offer a certification program in production and inventory management (CPIM) that covers ...
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Hardware vendors making smartphones and tablets with screens smaller than 9 inches will get Windows for free, the latest aggressive move by Microsoft to increase the use of its OS on those devices. The move is the latest example of the ...
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Microsoft has finally released Office for iPad alongside Office Mobile apps for iPhone and Android. The individual apps – Word for iPad, PowerPoint for iPad and Excel for iPad – are free to install, but only allow you to ...
Nokia has released its Nokia X Android smartphone family – which has a tile-based interface inspired by the Lumia family – in the UAE. It comes with Fastlane, a screen which lets people switch between their favourite apps ...
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Devices that let you watch Netflix and other streaming video services on a big TV screen are popular, but there are limits to what you can watch. NBC, for instance, didn't make its Olympics apps compatible with Roku, Apple TV and Google's ...
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Bitcoin, 3-D printed candy and George Takei, the Star Trek-actor-turned-Facebook-phenomenon, are among the attractions this week at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, where the geek set is slowly filing out to make room for ...
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Tech titan Microsoft—which has struggled to keep pace with Sony and its PlayStation 4—is pinning its hopes on a new action video game, ironically named "Titanfall." The highly anticipated game for the new generation Xbox One ...
Supply chain professionals rarely have a degree in tax law. That's too bad… because understanding international regulations is important and getting more important every day. "As country-level agencies issue regulations and increase ...
Shipments of new personal computers, most of them equipped with Microsoft Windows, will face greater declines in 2014 than earlier anticipated, IDC said Tuesday. IDC said that PC shipments will drop by 6% from 2013 to approximately 296 ...
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Raynet will launch a new solution for software packaging in summer 2014: RayPack! With Symantec havingphased out the once globally dominant WISE Package Studio almost two years ago, the Paderborn-based manufacturer is stirring up the ...
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Sony on Monday appeared to be winning the latest battle in a long-running videogame console war. The Japanese consumer electronics and entertainment titan announced that it has sold more than 5.4 million PlayStation 4 (PS4) consoles since ...
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The iPad has been the king of?tablets?for a number of years but?Android?has taken top spot, according to new figures. Research firm Gartner has released its research on the tablet market which states a whopping 195.4 million tablets were ...