Research in Motion (RIM) has sold its cloud services company NewBay to Synchronoss Technologies at a considerable loss, just a little more than a year after purchasing it. RIM's purchase of Irish software company NewBay for $100m in ...
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Smartphone manufacturer HTC is confident it can turn its fortunes around after a poor 2012. Shares in the Taiwanese firm have dropped by as much as 80 per cent since 2010, as sales of devices such as the HTC Desire have suffered at the ...
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Computerworld-Now that NASA's rover Curiosity has safely landed on Mars,it's time for the robot to get to work. And that's exactly what NASA engineers say is happening today. "The surface mission of Curiosity has now begun,"Michael ...
Sun European Partners’ affiliate has acquired a majority stake in Paragon Print and Packaging, the UK-based packaging and outsourced services provider, to the private label fresh and chilled food market. Terms of the deal were not ...
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USA - Mixing veteran Jeff Peterson wrapped work recently on two high-profile gigs: Spike TV's Video Game Awards and CNN's Heroes: An All-Star Tribute. Peterson mixed both the production elements and live bands on an SD5 console provided by ...
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The European Union has granted CE mark to NeoChord's minimally invasive device, DS1000, that allows implantation of artificial chordae tendinae for the repair of mitral valve prolapse, via a transapical, off-pump procedure. In addition, ...
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Computerworld-Nuance Communications Monday introduced Nina,a virtual speech assistant that companies can add to iOS and Android mobile apps. Nina combines Nuance speech recognition technology,text-to-speech software,voice biometrics and ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Soft Tissue Regeneration's biodegradable scaffold for use in soft tissue augmentation and rotator cuff repair. The STR GRAFT scaffold, a patch, can be draped over the tendon, that sits ...
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The former Home and Personal Care (HPC) business unit of Rexam has been established as a new company clalled KubeTech Custom Molding. KubeTech Custom Molding president and CEO Steve Wirrig said the company aims to be the preferred choice ...
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Computerworld-A Maine construction company that sued its bank after losing$345,000 in an online banking heist has settled its dispute after a protracted legal battle that raised questions about the bank's responsibility in protecting ...
IDG News Service-BBVA Compass,the U.S.subsidiary of the Madrid-based Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria banking group,is modernizing its core IT banking infrastructure,making it one of the first banks in the U.S.to offer real-time processing ...
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Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe has established a new Bermuda domiciled special purpose insurance vehicle, Upsilon Reinsurance II (Upsilon Re II), to offer additional capacity to the reinsurance market worldwide. The new special purpose ...
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Computerworld-Soaring iPhone 5 sales in the U.S.have helped make iOS the top smartphone operating system in the country,edging out Android,according to market research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Kantar Tuesday said its research found ...
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Computerworld-Cyber Monday 2012--yesterday--was the biggest online shopping day in history,according to multiple sources. The Adobe Digital Index,which tracks online spending,said that online sales totaled some$1.98 billion Monday,a ...
Dune Medical Devices' MarginProbe system, designed for the detection of breast cancer, has obtained premarket approval (PMA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The system is an intra-operative tissue assessment tool which ...
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