A picture is worth a thousand words; the grey line in a graph from MetroStore Scanner, a site that keeps unofficial tabs on new additions to the Windows Store, shows the growth rate over the Windows Store over the past 15 days. It’s a ...
A research firm on Friday said that more than a third of surveyed consumers who once used personal computers to access content said they had switched to tablets and smartphones. But unlike others, who, noting the same trends, have said it ...
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Gartner on Sunday predicted that the MENA public cloud services market will generate $462.3 million in revenue during 2013, marking a 24.5 percent increase from 2012. Gartner said that this market is forecast to show 13.4 percent growth ...
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According to a company blog post, Oracle is due to release another batch of patches for Java SE on February 19. On February 1, Oracle pulled the trigger early on the February release, which had originally been scheduled for February 19, ...
Controller John Chiang Following a spate of major delays and cost overruns, the U.S. state of California has terminated a contract with SAP that would have overhauled the state’s payroll system at a cost of $371 million. Some $254 ...
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Microsoft announced on Friday that its SkyDrive cloud storage service now plays host to one billion Office documents. While a billion may seem like a lot, the most popular consumer cloud storage service, Dropbox, has more than 100,000,000 ...
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Germany-based specialty fiber manufacturer Kelheim Fibres GmbH has developed Olea, an intrinsically water-repellent viscose fiber. The company reports it is able to retain the viscose fiber's characteristic properties by incorporating ...
David Peck, a fashion designer with Parisian fashion training and New York experience, has opened David Peck USA, the South's first full-scale fashion house. Peck established the company in 2010 and last year moved its headquarters ...
Austria-based yarn spinner Schoeller GmbH & CoKG has developed a range of colors for Merino wool processed using Enciel technology to produce pure white fiber that enables brilliant colors to be realized in dyeing, according to the company. ...
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The Australian government’s Corporate Champions program is an Australian first and aims to help businesses recruit and retain mature aged people (aged 45 and over) in their workplace. Eligible employers receive tailored support and ...
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Gemalto on Sunday announced that it will be providing an end-to-end electronic passport solution for the Sultanate of Oman as part of a multi-year contract. Applications will be issued with secure travel documents, using the latest ...
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Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium, raising questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in HP’s high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to its website on January ...
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Huawei last week opened its first Middle East IT Competence Centre in Bahrain, as part of its effort to support the development of the country’s IT and telecoms industry. The centre will help to develop the high-level IT skills of ...
Since August last year, Baosteel gradually introduces same project color coated product chromatic abberation management, aimed at in-depth understanding of users' needs and promoting lean management. They carry out color coated product same ...
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Recently on the 3rd China Smart Energy Summit, Baosight Software raises Internet of things common application software platform concept and makes clear that in future they will base on Internet of things common application software ...
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