What a year 2013 was for the supply and design chains! In this piece, EBN showcases its most-read 15 pieces of content as we review 2013. Apple surely grabbed the attention of readers this year, whether it was in anticipation of upcoming ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, 4D Printing
Target said Friday that debit card PIN numbers were among the financial information stolen from millions of U.S. customers who shopped at the retailer earlier this month. The company said the stolen personal identification numbers, which ...
Tags: Target, debit card PIN numbers, stolen personal identification numbers
The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to grow to 26 billion units installed in 2020, according to Gartner. Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc., sees opportunity in the key technologies that make the ...
Tags: consumer electronics, technology, market
Microsoft on Friday releases its Xbox One game console, taking on Sony's PlayStation 4 in a battle for the hearts and minds of Internet-era home entertainment. Sony last week unleashed its new champion in the long-running console war, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Xbox, Video Game
Microsoft on Friday crowed that more than a million Xbox One consoles were snapped up within 24 hours in 13 countries after hitting shelves for the first time in the morning. The US-based technology titan described it as the biggest ...
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Engineers at Imec and IBM have independently developed new manufacturing processes for making the next decade's leading chips, they revealed late last year. These efforts will allow the marriage of silicon wafers and certain exotic ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The Internet of Things, which excludes PCs, tablets and smartphones, will grow to 26 billion units installed in 2020 representing an almost 30-fold increase from 0.9 billion in 2009, according to Gartner. ?Gartner said that IoT product ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Tomorrow's data centre will be mobile, flexible, highly efficient and secure, says?David Cappuccio, Managing Vice President and Chief of Research for Gartner's infrastructure teams. Over the next five years, the data centre will continue ...
Tags: Gartner, Data Centre, computer, IT
The Nasdaq computer index Friday hit its highest point since November 2000, in the wake of the dot-com bust, despite mixed reports this week from the hardware and components sector. The Nasdaq computer index closed Friday at 1989.89, up ...
Tags: PC sales, online commerce
Once heavily reliant on the Chinese market, Lenovo is now looking to make acquisitions as it tries to expand its growing enterprise business to other countries. Lenovo, widely known as a PC company, started selling bare-bones servers in ...
Tags: Lenovo, acquisition, IBM
AURA, a global provider of AuraPortal Business Process Management (BPM) software, has announced that it has been presented with the "Best BPM Vendor" award in the first edition of the BPM Eastern Europe Summit 2013. AuraPortal has been ...
Salesforce1 is nothing more than an attempt by Salesforce to smooth over its customer message in the face of falling share value, a Gartner analyst has accused. Speaking to Computing at Salesforce's Dreamforce 2013 conference in San ...
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BlackBerry's chief operating officer, Kristian Tear, and chief marketing officer, Frank Boulben, have both left the company with immediate effect, while chief financial officer Brian Bidulka will leave at the end of the financial year, the ...
Tags: exec, BlackBerry, management, shake-up
A jury has ordered Samsung to pay US$290 million to Apple for infringement of several of its patents in multiple Samsung smartphones and tablets. The verdict, reached on the third day of deliberation by the eight-person jury, is less ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Patent Battle
Mobile management vendors including Good Technology and MobileIron are increasing their efforts to pitch Android and iOS as alternatives to BlackBerry, thanks to improved security and management tools. On Monday, BlackBerry announced it ...
Tags: management, vendor, BlackBerry, Android, IOS