The US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman to provide Gen II mission computers in support of the US Marine Corps (USMC) H-1 helicopter upgrade programme. The new suite includes voluntary benefit ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says the company plans on a big comeback in the Internet search business, which means directly taking on industry giant Google. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last ...
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Motorola Solutions believes workplaces will find value in rugged handheld mobile computers that cost several times more than consumer-focused smartphones, but last much longer. The MC45 mobile computer from Motorola. In that vein, ...
Cisco this week unveiled a new Catalyst switch and WLAN controller designed to converge wired and wireless networks and centralize management of both environments. The new switch is the Catalyst 3850 and the WLAN controller is the Cisco ...
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Infor is being sued by a Puerto Rican tax authority on grounds that its failure to maintain software used by the organization racked up $9 million in costs. The Municipal Revenue Collection Center first acquired a limited license in 2006 ...
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Contract packaging company in the US Pharma Packaging Solutions has unveiled a new bottle line, which has been designed to support quick change-overs and custom packaging on batch sizes that are small. The new packaging line uses channel ...
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) today announced what it said is the industry's highest-capacity 10,000rpm, enterprise-class hard drive: the Ultrastar C10K1200. The 2.5-in. drive comes in capacities of up to 1.2TB and features a ...
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AppSense has released MobileNow, a cloud-based service that combines device and application administration features, as it hopes to take a bite out of the growing mobile management market. As the BYOD, or bring-your-own-device, trend ...
Netherlands based insurer Aegon has agreed to acquire Eureko’s life insurance and pension business in Romania, further strengthening its operations in the Central and eastern European region. Financial terms of the agreement have ...
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Global packaging company AGI-Shorewood has unveiled its new name ASG (AGI Shorewood Group), along with its latest visual identity. ASG marketing and business development vice president John Barker said the rebrand is expected to further ...
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Midwest-based property/casualty insurer West Bend Mutual Insurance has selected Risk Control (RC) Technologies-built RC Inspection software solution to enhance efficiency of loss control operations. West Bend loss prevention manager Chuck ...
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Commercial insurer National Insurance and Guarantee (NIG) has introduced a full-cycle eTrading platform for commercial brokers. Dubbed TheHub, the platform builds on NIG's proven eTrading track record, and provides the brokers with an ...
Apple today doubled the maximum storage space of its fourth-generation iPad to 128GB, and announced it would start selling the new tablet next week. The Wi-Fi-only 128GB iPad will cost $799, while the cellular-enabled model will run $929. ...
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Developers of the Ruby on Rails Web development framework released versions 3.0.20 and 2.3.16 of the software on Monday in order to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability. This is the third security update released in ...
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The U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have asked for more time to consider Softbank's proposed takeover of Sprint Nextel, a move that may signal a rough road ahead for the US$20 billion deal. In a letter ...
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