Computer giant Apple has become embroiled in a new row over its suppliers after China Labour Watch claimed that Pegatron, one of Apple's outsourced manufacturers in China, was violating local labour regulations. In a report released today ...
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The global smartphone market showed healthy growth in the second quarter, but Apple's iPhone was squeezed by competition from Samsung and other Asian manufacturers, surveys showed Friday. Apple's share of the global smartphone market fell ...
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Computerworld - Nokia Wednesday unveiled its largest Windows 8 smartphone today, the Lumia 625, which sports a 4.7-in. LCD screen and a price tag of under $300. The Lumia 625 Hero Windows 8 smartphone was unveiled by Nokia today. The ...
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Microsoft on Thursday took an unexpected $900 million charge to account for what it called "inventory adjustments" for the Surface RT, the poor-selling tablet that debuted last year. Later on in the day, Microsoft held a conference call ...
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Microsoft today launched Outlook Web App (OWA) for iOS, a "native" app that reprises -- and amplifies -- the in-browser OWA corporate workers have long used on devices that don't support the full-fledged Outlook client. The new app, which ...
Google has once again been told by the European Union that it must do more to allay fears that it is attempting to squeeze rivals from the web search market, after competitors - including Microsoft - voiced concerns that the concessions ...
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Nokia has overtaken BlackBerry in smartphones, according to the latest sales figures for its Lumia Windows Phone devices revealed in its second quarter results. However, while the total of 7.4 million sales of Lumia smartphones ...
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Microsoft's Business Division (MBD), the company's biggest money maker for 10 out of the last 11 quarters thanks to its Office cash cow, was not immune to the historic decline in PC sales, Microsoft acknowledged Thursday. MBD recorded ...
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Seeking a foothold in more enterprises running Microsoft software, Novell has introduced an application to streamline the process of connecting employees to workspace printers, even if they are using non-Microsoft computers and mobile ...
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The Australian share market fell today as Japan's share market succumbed to profit taking, reports from Orica and Santos disappointed the market, and some traders predicted a sharp fall in the US share market. Investors were sidelined ...
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Apple may acquire the Israeli chip design company that provided the motion sensing technology used in Microsoft's popular Kinect video game controller, the Israeli business daily Calcalist reported today. In a Tuesday story, Calcalist ...
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The computer hardware and software graphics market will grow in the coming years as applications become visually demanding, and employment opportunities in the field will expand, according to a study released on Tuesday. Sales of graphics ...
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Although a historic downturn in PC shipments has made headlines since April, "Peak PC" -- the moment when personal computers crested -- was two years ago, according to data from researcher IDC. In the third quarter of 2011, global PC ...
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Lenovo is expanding software partnerships as it tries to break into a server market dominated by Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell. Its first such partnership expansion, announced Tuesday, is with VMware on virtualization products. Lenovo ...
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Intel has moved to bring keyboard-free computing to PCs and mobile phones with the acquisition of Israel-based Omek Interactive. Omek offers software and programming tools that allow computers and handhelds to recognize hand and body ...
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