Microsoft is making $2bn every year in patent licensing for Android, according to Nomura financial analyst Rick Sherlund. However, the 95 per cent profit margins it enjoys as a result of the popularity of Android is covering up deep ...
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Software giant Microsoft has drawn up a shortlist of five people to replace Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft - and the shortlist includes former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Ford Motor Company's highly rated CEO Alan Mulally, according to ...
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With its powerful data mining capabilities, Hadoop is bringing together people across different places and even across different generations. While Hadoop continues to grow in popularity, most reported use cases around the open-source ...
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In an effort to expose the abundant natural fiber resources available in the Greater Bay Area, Fibershed presents the Fibershed Fashion Gala- a “Soil-to-Skin” sustainable fashion event featuring the collaborative works of top ...
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A study by analyst IDC shows how companies are using the open source Hadoop big data analytics systems alongside other systems to get value out of their data. IDC’s “Trends in Enterprise Hadoop Deployments” report, ...
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Anahata has just released the long waited ICT solution for the Melbourne fashion design industry. All the fashion designers can now acquire effective ICT solutions, custom designed to address the unique requirements, needs and challenges of ...
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Intel Capital, Intel's global investment and M&A organization, has announced investments in 16 new technology companies totaling US$65 million. Spanning nine countries, the investments will help drive innovations in the cloud, datacenter, ...
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The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has selected IT services and solutions provider Mastek to develop an identity and access management service. The announcement comes as part of the NHS Spine re-procurement and ...
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Ajlan & Bros, a large Saudi Arabian apparel distribution company which specializes in the design, manufacture and supply of clothing across the Middle East, has selected Oracle Commerce to improve its customer engagement capabilities and ...
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The $99 ZigBee Light Link Development Kit can help SSL product development teams quickly get wireless-enabled LED lamps or luminaires to market that interoperate seamlessly with other ZigBee products. Texas Instruments (TI) has announced ...
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US-based Heart Imaging Technologies (Heart IT) has announced the launch of OsiriX interface for the WebPAX image management system. OsiriX is an open-source software package for advanced post-processing of medical images and is the latest ...
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has not saved end users a vast amount of money to date, and saving costs is not the main reason that organisations opt for VDI, according to VMware's head of public services strategy, Andy Tait. ...
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VMware has acquired desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) firm Desktone for an undisclosed fee. The acquisition was announced today in Barcelona at VMworld Europe 2013, as part of the opening keynote. Desktone, which is an existing partner of ...
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The NHS has selected US developer Basho's open source database Riak to underpin its efforts to rebuild its Spine infrastructure. The new project, dubbed Spine2, will replace the existing infrastructure that was implemented as part of the ...
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Google said Wednesday it plans to reward developers for developing proactive security improvements for some of the most widely used open-source software programs. The program aims to “improve the security of key third-party software ...