IDG News Service-Nokia plans an ambitious expansion of its mapping and location-based services platform beyond its own smartphones to competing devices running OSes other than Windows Phone 8,it said Tuesday. The move is being backed with ...
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Wasser Berlin International,the meeting place of water industry experts,is strengthening its image.The trade fair for water and wastewater,which takes place from 23 to 26 April 2013,has developed a concept that takes the changing situation ...
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This is a rough time for China in the U.S.Mitt Romney,the Republican presidential candidate,plans to declare on"day one,"if elected,that China is a currency manipulator.A congressional report this month said Chinese intelligence gathering ...
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The Department for Education(DfE)has announced scholarships to encourage graduates into teaching computer science. The British Computer Society(BCS)is managing the project for the DfE,with the department providing the funding alongside ...
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Google is introducing in the U.K.,and extending to more businesses in the U.S.a credit card to pay for spending on advertising through its AdWords program,the company said on Sunday. The expansion of the credit card program follows a ...
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Companies need to store emails and documents for at least six years in a central repository, before they consider deleting or destroying the information, according to Pinsent Masons lawyers. "In terms of retaining documents and having a ...
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Oracle president Mark Hurd has stated that his firm is focusing on the banking sector,which he said has a combination of extremely large IT budgets,and often outmoded systems and applications. "One of the core assets of banks is ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has hit back at calls to delay its flagship welfare reform following concerns that the IT underpinning the Universal Credit project is not ready. Labour is now calling on the government to ...
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Soft-Tex 2012 is a 24x7 dedicated online trade fair which brings the world's widest variety of IT solutions for the textile, apparel and retail sector, all under one roof, with an objective to showcase IT solutions as an asset rather than ...
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HP has confirmed it is writing off about$8bn after the drop in value of EDS,as the result of internal decisions combined with the global economic climate. Earlier this month Hewlett-Packard(HP)warned that it would write off$8bn after the ...
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WASHINGTON -- The United States has been shipping application development work offshore for years, but cloud computing may help make this country a provider of data center services to enterprises in other countries. Consider the situation ...
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Dot Com Infoway secured a spot among the top 15 Web development companies amidst stiff competition from hundreds of firms across the world. SAN FRANCISCO, CA, July 27, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dot Com Infoway (DCI), a premier IT company ...
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Computerworld-Like many other India-based IT services providers,Mahindra Satyam is expanding its presence in the U.S. In its case,Mahindra Satyam is opening an IT delivery center in Fargo,N.D.,with the help of anchor client Cargill,a ...
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By data-mining the US patent pool,a new tool could help futurists predict emerging technologies Horizon scanning.Strategic prediction.Futurism.Whatever you call it,companies need to anticipate the next hot technologies ahead of time or ...
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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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