The U.S. International Trade Commission plans to investigate the smartphones of Samsung, Nokia and Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE for patent infringement, after wireless technology provider InterDigital filed a complaint. InterDigital ...
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Windows 8 fell further behind the pace of Windows Vista's uptake last month, a metric company said today, even as usage share of the new operating system continued to slowly climb. Statistics from Net Applications showed that Windows 8's ...
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Microsoft this week launched the first two of its new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for Office. The company's rarely-shy CEO Steve Ballmer called the sales approach "an entirely new way to think about the productivity experience," and ...
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Microsoft's new pay-as-you-go Office 365 subscription plans differ from traditional buy-once software in one important aspect: When customers stop paying, the applications stop working. Although that makes sense -- Office isn't freeware ...
Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday made its bid to reduce the complexity associated with managing IT security processes in corporate environments, with a new product that combines the company's anti-malware technology with new mobile and system ...
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As expected, Microsoft today updated Office for Mac 2011 to work with the new Office 365 Home Premium software-by-subscription plan the company debuted Tuesday. The update, dubbed both 14.3 and Service Pack 3 (SP3), includes several fixes ...
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Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday made its bid to reduce the complexity associated with managing IT security processes in corporate environments, with a new product that combines the company’s anti-malware technology with new mobile and ...
Tags: Kaspersky Lab, IT security processes, new mobile, anti-malware technology
Microsoft will begin selling worldwide on Tuesday the new consumer version of the Office suite, making it available both via a subscription model and perpetual licenses. Consumers have historically bought Office in the traditional way, ...
Actian, formerly Ingres, is to acquire Pervasive Software, a vendor of cloud-based and on-premises software for data management and analysis. The deal is targeted at the growing big data market. Under the terms of a definitive agreement ...
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Starter, the groundbreaking sports apparel brand founded in 1971, partners with G-III Apparel Group to revive the classic satin jacket - one of the most iconic team apparel items in the history of sports licensing. Over the years, the ...
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Australian subscribers will pay $119 per year for what Microsoft calls its Office 365 Home Premium - more than US subscribers who will pay $US100 per year. Its release comes six months after Microsoft previewed the new-look Office, which ...
Twenty-eight Turkish companies renewed their COTTON USA licenses for 2013. Representing producers throughout the supply chain, including spinners, weavers and knitters, the licensed products account for the equivalent of over 1 million ...
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Revenue at Microsoft's Windows division was up 11% in the fourth quarter of 2012, bucking the long-running trend where the company's OS sales have mirrored PC sales. But the unexpected results, which made Windows the company's top ...
AT&T will buy mobile spectrum in the 700MHz band from Verizon Communications for $1.9 billion, AT&T said Friday. AT&T will pay cash and trade AWS (advanced wireless services) spectrum for the B block of the 700MHz spectrum, the company ...
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Microsoft reported a drop in profit for the second quarter of its fiscal year, though revenue increased, thanks partly to a 24 percent jump in sales from its Windows division. Microsoft's revenue increased 2.7 percent to US$21.46 billion ...
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