Computerworld-Apple's new 7.9-in.iPad mini will be a huge hit with business users as well as consumers,several industry analysts predicted Tuesday. Why? It starts with the$329 price tag for a Wi-Fi-only 16 GB version,making it ...
Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year,an analyst said today. Brian White,of Topeka Capital Markets,said that his checks of Asian computer manufacturers--the relatively ...
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Nokia today announced the Windows Phone 8 Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820 smartphones,focusing on the 920's superior camera and its map and driving features that use augmented reality,as well as the phone's built-in wireless charging. The ...
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IDG News Service - By offering users of Windows 7, XP and Vista discounts to upgrade to Windows 8, Microsoft is putting itself in a position to reap both benefits and criticism in the consumer operating system market. Giving PC owners an ...
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After a disappointing Wall Street debut, all eyes will be on Facebook on Thursday when it makes its first quarterly earnings report as a public company. The world's largest social network is under a lot of pressure to show strong numbers ...
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IDG News Service-Corporate boards are prioritizing IT spending as highly as investments in sales operations,according to research announced Monday by analyst firm Gartner. IT and sales were tied as the top two priorities among 175 board ...
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IDG News Service - As a nine-person jury begins deliberations in the closely watched patent trial between Apple and Samsung, the companies and their lawyers are left waiting and wondering what the jury made of the three weeks of arguments. ...
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A new file backup feature in Windows 8 that Microsoft trumpeted this week will help users protect their data but it is incomplete and far from unique, according to analysts. The feature, called File History, is innovative because it makes ...
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With Black Friday just a week away and the nagging feeling that we need to get our holiday shopping done, how much online buying will be done at work? If it's not, this is the question that should be on IT managers' minds, according to ...
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MicroStrategy is set to unveil an array of enhancements to its BI(business intelligence)software platform,covering areas such as visual data-exploration and the open-source Hadoop data-processing framework,during the MicroStrategy World ...
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By grouping several big data, software development, and cloud efforts under a single operation, VMware and parent company EMC have developers and devops in mind, analysts say. The vendors' Pivotal Initiative, announced Dec. 4, is about ...
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How Dell IT has changed Internships and reverse mentoring Women in IT It is one thing being CEO of a company with best-in-class supply chain.But what happens when the business refocuses? Adriana Karaboutis has been global CIO at Dell ...
IT often virtualises new applications and workloads by default.Virtualisation is now the norm,deploying a physical server the exception.Yet,a third of companies admit they have not invested in security for their virtual computing ...
Businesses are adopting cloud-based services mainly to speed up innovation and cut costs,often overlooking the security risks of this new delivery model. But security is not the only thing that is being overlooked by eager adopters of ...
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Fewer than half of U.S. consumers have heard of Windows 8, hinting that Microsoft faces a tough task convincing buyers that they need to jump on the bandwagon. According to a telephone survey of almost 1,200 U.S. adults conducted by the ...
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