Since it launched last year, Heroes of the Storm has become one of the most popular MOBAs in the world. Its success can be put down, in part, to how the game pulls its playable characters from all four of Blizzard’s main franchises. ...
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Vibram FiveFingers announced the details of its continued long-term partnership with Warrior Dash, a leading obstacle race series, for 2015. Warrior Dash, dubbed “The Battleground” by race organizers, ...
Just as the mobile world seems to be finding peace and harmony around LTE, the age-old feud between GSM and CDMA is flaring up again. Now, the battleground is M2M (machine-to-machine) communications, the emerging use of wireless to link ...
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The return of Alfa Romeo to the US market is critical to its future success, says the Italian brand’s parent company FiatChrysler. Alfa will belatedly relaunch in North America in the second half of 2013 with its new 4C sports car. ...
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ISIS Innovation, the technology transfer company of the University of Oxford, is expanding Down Under with the appointment of Helen Ujvary as Australian representative for the Isis Enterprise consultancy business. Ujvary was previously ...
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Austrilian bricks-and-mortar retailers bruised by the high dollar, lack of innovation and perceived threat from online players have been urged to "personalise" customer experience to build loyalty. A retailer in the US has begun ...
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One of the nation's biggest private hospital operators, the Calvary group, is holding discussions with a range of multi-national and local IT companies to roll out a range of cutting edge tele-health services across its nationwide network. ...
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Hardware manufacturers met in Silicon Valley last week to continue drafting new open standards for data centres and servers with components that can be put together like Lego. The Facebook-sponsored Open Compute Project summit in Santa ...
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Queenland utility company Energex has long required a device able to withstand extreme temperatures, dust and rain for its staff working in harsh weather conditions. It first turned to the Panasonic Toughbook CF-18 in 2006, but the need ...
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AUSTRALIA is gearing up to be the battleground for cloud computing supremacy among the world's largest computing players with Oracle global president Mark Hurd boldly pledging to make "heavy" investments locally to achieve pole position. ...
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UTAH-based Fusion-io is making waves in Silicon Valley. With companies such as Facebook and Apple as clients, the $US2 billion ($1.9bn) start-up produces so-called NAND flash boards that are becoming a building block of modern data centres. ...
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VODAFONE has renewed calls for a review into how much telecom companies pay one another when their customers make calls to mobile phones, claiming that consumers have been ripped off to the tune of $1.3 billion by Telstra's intransigence to ...
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THINGS are getting increasingly touchy in the computer world. Touchscreens, which most of us have on our smartphones or tablets, are spreading to the full-size personal computing arena. They're increasingly common on notebook PCs, ...
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The European Commission (EC) has launched a public consultation on cyber security that will run until 12 October 2012. The EC is seeking the views of governments, businesses and citizens about their experiences and possible EU responses ...
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U.S.President Barack Obama won re-election Tuesday night,topping 270 electoral votes to defeat Republican challenger Mitt Romney just after 11 p.m.yesterday. Romney held a small lead in the battleground state of Virginia,but most election ...
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