The newly rechristened BlackBerry has delivered on its promise to breathe new life into its aging, iconic product line for diehard fans, but faces an uphill battle against the iPhone and devices based on Google’s Android operating ...
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Lenovo on Monday played down reports that it was interested in buying Research In Motion, saying that the BlackBerry maker was one of many companies it was looking at as a potential takeover target. Lenovo's chief financial officer, Wai ...
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The "big data" buzzword and industry trend had a pretty good year perception-wise in 2012, but the hype may soon fade into a period of disillusionment among users, according to analyst firms Ovum and Gartner. Big data refers to the ...
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The social network is rolling out a free calling service to iPhone users in the US. According to The Verge, the updated app will allow users to make free voice calls to their friends on Facebook. To make a call, users just need to open ...
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The social network has released the “graph search” which allows users to find information and new connections on the site by using key phrases. The Graph search will now allow users to do specific searches about friends on the ...
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CBR rounds up expert opinions on what Facebook’s new graphic search means for the future of the company and its search engine competitors. Jonathan Beeston, director of new product innovation at Adobe Facebook Graph Search is a ...
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Apple's iOS and Google's Android have the widest adoption among mobile BI (business intelligence) applications, as the products are becoming more mature, according to a report from market research company Ovum. Mobile BI is far from a new ...
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Following news that Dell was in negotiations for a private equity buyout, analysts said on Tuesday that multiple private equity firms would have to invest in Dell for a buyout to be possible. The analysts pointed toward the company’s ...
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The arrivals of high performance mobile devices and robust data-carrying infrastructures have helped push mobile BI forward. Analysts at Ovum say that Mobile BI solutions have suffered from a lack of technological advancement but with ...
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Business software provider SAP has announced that its ERP suite can now run on its real-time in-memory database HANA. Further reading Analysis: SAP stares down its licensing critics SAP users frustrated over complex licensing and ...
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Business software provider SAP has announced that its ERP suite can now run on its real-time in-memory database HANA. Further reading Analysis:SAP stares down its licensing critics SAP users frustrated over complex licensing and'licence ...
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Ovum analysts and SAP User Group UK Vice Chair comment on SAP's claims of analytics speed record SAP has said that its Business Suite will now run on its HANA in-memory platform.The new software is intended to help enterprises run their ...
Business software provider SAP has announced that its ERP suite can now run on its real-time in-memory database HANA. Further reading Analysis:SAP stares down its licensing critics SAP users frustrated over complex licensing and'licence ...
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DG News Service-The mobile device is causing just as big a change in ways of working at the beginning of this century as the internet was at the end of the last century,says Kevin Noonan,consultant with Ovum. In the early days of internet ...
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Network World - Venture capitalists have pumped oodles of money in recent years into startups that exploit telecom networks and wireless infrastructure, but now it might be time for infrastructure startups themselves to start attracting ...
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