Investment bank Morgan Stanley is delaying a planned upgrade of its BlackBerry smartphones because of fears about the Canadian firm's ability to support the latest BlackBerry 10 platform over the long term, according to Bloomberg. Two ...
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A week after Steve Ballmer said he plans to step down as CEO of Microsoft, ValueAct Capital, one of its biggest investors, has secured the right to appoint its president to Microsoft's board. Microsoft has signed a "cooperation agreement" ...
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Imagine your manager offered to eliminate much of the red tape, bureaucracy and distractions you encounter daily. Imagine eliminating the hours spent in meetings to discuss the need for more meetings. Imagine your manager were able to ...
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Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said on Friday that the company would move ahead with its lawsuit against the U.S. government, seeking permission to release more information on demands Microsoft receives from the National Security ...
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Cisco Systems released security patches for Secure Access Control Server (Secure ACS) for Windows to address a critical vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute arbitrary commands and take control of the ...
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The jam-packed VMworld show this week in San Francisco has been VMware's launchpad for flights deeper into storage, an area that the company thinks is due for more virtualization. While VMware's new NSX network hypervisor has sent ...
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Up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has hired Hugo Barra, former Google vice president for Android product management, to lead its expansion worldwide. The hiring of Barra is a high-profile move for Xiaomi, a company that only ...
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Today marks internet video calling tool Skype's 10th year since its launch in 2003. Using the anniversary as a launch-pad, Skype has also announced that 3D video calls are under development. Further reading Cisco goes to court to annul ...
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MailPile, an open-source email client that will offer "user-friendly encryption", has smashed its $100,000 target for funding on Indiegogo with two weeks left to run on its campaign. The company will be established in Iceland, which ...
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Microsoft, Nokia, AT&T and Avanade have teamed up to create a mobile tool for Delta Air Lines' flight attendants, which the airline hopes will improve its customers' experience. More than 19,000 of Delta's flight attendants will receive a ...
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Reports suggest that BlackBerry is looking at spinning off its BlackBerry Messenger service as a standalone business, positioned to compete with such consumer stalwarts as WhatsApp and Viber. While BlackBerry has so far refused to comment ...
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Fast-growing semiconductor designer ARM has snapped up Sensinode, a Finnish start-up specialising in software technology behind the "internet of things". Like ARM, Sensinode makes money by licensing, but of software to semiconductor ...
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Microsoft has today released Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 RT to hardware partners, with the company declaring the patch "a significant update" that provides an "intuitive and fluid computing experience". Fresh from Friday's sudden ...
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Solid-state drive adoption will continue to grow and it will be more than 10 years before it is ultimately replaced by a new memory technology, experts said. SSDs are getting more attractive as NAND flash gets faster and cheaper, as it ...
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The New York Times blamed a prolonged website outage on Tuesday on a hacking attack at the company's Australia-based domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. A story published by The Times on Tuesday afternoon quoted the company's CIO, Marc ...
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