Despite strong support from IT pros, SharePoint faces increased skepticism from business leaders and it's unclear whether the collaboration product will deliver cloud, social and mobile advancements needed for future growth. Those are ...
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Dropbox today announced a new synchronization API for iOS and Android-powered devices that it said will offer developers a new code library to help them better focus on creating mobile apps. The new API is available today on Dropbox's ...
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Salesforce.com has quietly acquired a startup called EntropySoft, a maker of content management and integration software, in a move likely meant to bolster Salesforce.com's Chatterbox service. The acquisition was first reported late ...
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UK upmarket retailer Waitrose has recalled its British beef meatballs after the product were found to potentially contain traces of pork. The retailer said today (13 February) two batches of its Essential 16 British Meatballs produced ...
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More than one billion glass containers are manufactured by Gerresheimer Essen every year. The facility has two furnaces - one for transparent and one for brown glass - which supply the production lines day and night with molten glass ...
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Princes has expanded its Crosse & Blackwell brand in the UK with the launch of two Best of British cooking sauce ranges. The first line of quick cook sauses includes four varieties: creamy mushroom, honey & mustard, sausage casserole and ...
Mexican glassmaker Vitro said on Monday that it is in talks with its creditors in the United States. The company made the comment to Mexico's stock exchange in a short statement that did not give further details. Vitro has been fighting ...
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Panasonic Eco Solutions North America has signed an exclusive multi-year solar photovoltaic development agreement with alternative energy company Coronal Management. The two companies aim to develop, build and operate a portfolio of solar ...
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Heinz has launched two new oriental sauces - Amoy Special Selection Soy Sauce and Amoy Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce. The company said that the launch came in response to increased demand for products that consumers can use to "cook from ...
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The VCE partnership involving EMC, its subsidiary VMware and Cisco will not change, even after Cisco last month expanded its partnership with EMC rival NetApp to sell preconfigured cloud architectures. "I feel the partnership is ...
Just as Dell announced it had finalized its buyout deal, Hewlett-Packard came out swinging, criticizing its rival and declaring it's going after Dell's customers. On Tuesday, Dell, the third-largest PC maker, said executives had finalized ...
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DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the development of Python's data processing and visualization capabilities for big data jobs. The ...
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Twitter has confirmed that it acquired Bluefin Labs, a vendor of data that uses commentary on social networks to measure the effectiveness of commercials and programs on TV. "We believe that Bluefin's data science capabilities and social ...
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iOS jailbreaks may come and go, but Apple continues to warn that hacking an iPhone to install unapproved software, while not illegal, may void the device's service warranty. The latest jailbreak -- the term for leveraging a vulnerability ...
Microsoft's $2 billion loan to Dell, the world's third-largest seller of personal computers, was a signal that the personal computer, Microsoft's Windows, or both, are at growing risk of irrelevance, analysts said Tuesday. The loan was ...