IDC expects that China's IT security appliance market will grow 14.7% to US$950 million in 2013; and this figure will reach US$1.56 billion by 2017, with a 2012-2017 CAGR of 13.5%. According to IDC, China's IT security appliance market ...
North American robotics companies have set new sales records through June of 2013, according to new statistics released from Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry's trade group. A total of 10,854 robots valued at $679.3 ...
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
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Intel is looking to use light and lasers to shuffle data faster among servers, and is proposing a new optical interconnect, MXC, that could change the way servers are implemented in data centres. The chip maker is pitching MXC as a ...
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Software giant Microsoft is being sued by a group of stockholders who claim the company misled them over the true parlous state of Surface RT tablet computer sales. They claim the company had led shareholders to believe that the launch of ...
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IBM is to acquire security firm Trusteer, whose software aims to help protect organisations against financial fraud and advanced security threats. Financial terms were not disclosed. Further reading IBM acquires cloud computing firm CSL ...
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With A-level results appearing up and down the country, the JCQ (Joint Council for Qualifications) has released its reports on attainment, as well as numbers of pupils entering for examinations, with ICT once again falling outside the top ...
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Telefonica-owned mobile operator O2, has unveiled its 4G tariffs, and customers hoping that a switch to 4G would be cheaper than on rival EE will be left dissatisfied. O2 does not have a similar option to EE's cheapest price plan of ...
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The University of St Andrews, one of the oldest universities in the world, has slashed its power bills and carbon emissions with a radical process of server consolidation and virtualisation. The project, which is ongoing, involved ...
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The government has stepped up the process of equipping every home in the UK with smart energy meters by selecting the vendors to provide the kit, the data service and wide area communications, in addition to a smart meter governing ...
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In a bid to plug a "major skills gap" in the datacentre industry, the professional association Data Centre Alliance (DCA) has launched a bootcamp to lure unemployed graduates to work in the industry. The DCA claims that the data centre ...
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There's "no reason at all" for the Force India Formula 1 team to upgrade its network operating system to Windows 8, Adrian Collinson, its head of IT, has told Computing. Force India's systems at both the factory and the track currently ...
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Chinese smartphone maker ZTE has revealed that it will sell the Mozilla Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open on auction site eBay, retailing at a price of £59.99 [$79.99]. The device, first revealed at Mobile World Congress earlier this ...
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German telecommunication policy has contributed to the emergence of innovative services and new networks, while supporting the availability of fast internet access. However, at the same time, demand for high-speed connections has developed ...
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Taiwan-based EMS provider Lite-On Technology reported its July consolidated revenue of NT$17.89 billion, up 4% M-o-M and 3% Y-o-Y. Revenue continued to grow in all of Lite-On’s Strategic Business Groups (SBG), of which Power SBG, ...
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