Patent portfolios are rapidly becoming the single most valuable asset for technology companies With Eastman Kodak's long-awaited patent auction taking place tomorrow,it is rapidly becoming clear that patent portfolios should now be ...
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Speculation last week of an impending new iPhone triggered a 70% increase in the number of owners trying to unload their current smartphones, online auctioneer eBay said. Smartphone trade-in offers at eBay's Instant Sale site during the ...
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Yahoo global media head Ross Levinsohn, who until two weeks ago was tipped as the next chief executive, has resigned from the company. He was appointed interim CEO in May after Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson resigned over inaccuracies ...
The future of Fraser&Neave has become the subject of speculation in recent days,with the Singapore-based food and drink group the centre of takeover talk. Heineken today(27 July)extended the deadline for Fraser&Neave to consider the Dutch ...
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Apple will launch its Mountain Lion operating system tomorrow, the company's chief financial officer said Tuesday. Speculation had centered on July 25 as the likely launch data for OS X 10.8, known as Mountain Lion, based on Apple's ...
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Advance demand for Apple's next iPhone is at an all-time high,said a research firm today,predicting huge sales later this year for what most have dubbed the"iPhone 5." A survey of more than 4,000 North American consumers by ChangeWave ...
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The Internet address registry for North America expects to start allowing transfers of IPv4 addresses to qualified users in Asia by the end of this month, possibly providing an escape valve for pent-up demand in that region. Carriers, ...
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BT has won the tender to provide fibre broadband across rural North Yorkshire, the company confirmed today. The agreement will see the UK's largest county be the first to receive funding from the government's Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) ...
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Computerworld-Yahoo today confirmed that 450,000 unencrypted usernames and passwords were stolen Wednesday from one of its services,although it downplayed the threat. "We confirm that an older file from Yahoo!Contributor ...
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Microsoft today patched 16 vulnerabilities, including one in Windows that's been exploited for weeks and two in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in the first-in-years back-to-back browser update. Of Tuesday's nine security updates, three were ...
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Microsoft today said it will officially launch Windows 8 in late October when it starts selling upgrades and its hardware partners begin selling PCs,tablets and hybrid devices powered by the new operating system. Windows 8 is also on ...
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The Power Tool Institute, the California Chamber of Commerce and retailers such as Home Depot and Lowe's strongly oppose AB 2218, known as the Table Saw Safety Act, Closets Daily reports. What is the Table Saw Safety Act? Introduced by ...
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Nestle has sold its Australian ice cream business Peters to private-equity firm Pacific Equity Partners for an undisclosed sum. The sale, which includes Nestle's Mulgrave factory, will also comprise sub-brands such as Original, Light & ...
Coasia Microelectronics, which mainly distributes IC components for Samsung Electronics such as CMOS image sensors, multi-chip package (MCP) memory and OLED displays, will grab new orders from several China-based handset makers for AMOLED ...
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David Seeger,President of JMC Steel Group,highlights why he thinks the future is bright for the US energy pipe market. David Seeger began his career in 1979 with UNR-Leavitt in the Sales&Marketing group,then moved to Welded Tube Company ...
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