IDG News Service - Microsoft told the U.S. International Trade Commission that it expects Motorola Mobility to withdraw claims relating to two patents it says are essential to the H.264 standard in its complaint against the Xbox, in view of ...
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IDG News Service - Recent back-end upgrades by Microsoft to Office 365's SharePoint Online are causing problems for some users and developers whose workflows and applications have been disrupted by a variety of bugs. At SP Marketplace, a ...
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IDG News Service - Intel has announced plans to release its first quad-core Atom processor before the end of the year, as the company tries to capture a bigger share of the tablet market dominated today by ARM-based processors. Code-named ...
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IDG News Service - Panasonic introduced its 2013 TV lineup with a few whizz-bang features that look useful but others that seem a curious choice for the living room. On the useful side, 2013's update to Panasonic's My Home Screen ...
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The Huawei Ascend Mate sports a 6.1-in. screen. IDG News Service - It might not be a household name in the U.S., but China's Huawei sought to make a statement at CES in Las Vegas on Monday. The company, which is one of the world's biggest ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is rebooting its tablet strategy with the ElitePad 900, but faces challenges as it tries to overcome past tablet failures and deals with the slow adoption of the Windows 8 OS, analysts said. The ElitePad ...
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IDG News Service - Adobe Systems warned users of its ColdFusion application server software that hackers are reportedly exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in the product to take control of affected servers. The company published a ...
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IDG News Service - A prototype flexible tablet with edges that can be bent to switch between pages is expected to be shown at the International CES this week. The PaperTab has a flexible 10.7-inch grayscale screen and is being pitched as ...
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IDG News Service - Sharp has announced two new 4K LCD monitors, which will display images at close to four times the overall resolution of traditional 1080p high-definition monitors available today. The new 32-inch LCD monitor series will ...
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IDG News Service - Nvidia has unveiled its Tegra 4 processor, a chip that will bring consumers more power in mobile devices and help Nvidia remain competitive in the fast moving mobile market. The Tegra 4 is based on ARM's quad-core ...
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IDG News Service - Cisco Systems and NXP Semiconductors have both invested in connected car equipment vendor Cohda Wireless, as they look to make the Internet of things a reality and take a piece of a quickly growing market. The size of ...
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IDG News Service - China has punished six companies, including Samsung and LG, for manipulating LCD panel prices in the country, and ordered them to pay a total of $56 million in fines. Samsung, LG, and four Taiwanese companies ...
IDG News Service - The U.S. Department of State has described the timing of a proposed visit by Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt and others to North Korea as not "particularly helpful" in view of the Asian country's recent launch of ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. International Trade Commission is investigating Samsung for possible trade violations in response to a complaint filed by Swedish network equipment vendor Ericsson. The ITC said it's investigating whether a ...
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IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
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