Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 will mark “the end” of the computer industry’s dominant OS due to increasing competition and choice sparked by alternatives, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff predicted Friday. Windows ...
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Sony Mobile today announced three new smartphones and a 9.4-in. Android 4.0 tablet at the IFA show in Berlin. The devices were described by Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai as helping accelerate Sony's turnaround. "Sony is an extraordinary company ...
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SAP is close to having 600 customers for its HANA in-memory database platform and is also making some adjustments to enterprise edition pricing, an executive said during a webcast event yesterday. There are now more than 500 total ...
Facebook users will no longer be allowed to vote on proposed policy changes at the company because their comments weren’t good enough. The move prompted data protection regulators in Europe to seek urgent clarification from the ...
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SAP is closing in on 600 customers for its HANA in-memory database platform and is also making adjustments to enterprise edition pricing, an executive has said. There are now more than 500 total customers for HANA, which was released ...
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HP CEO Meg Whitman has come forward to reassure customers that the future of its Autonomy product line is safe, a day after HP disclosed an alleged accounting scandal at the company it acquired last year. “We remain 100 percent ...
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While it continues to wrestle with an accounting scandal at its Autonomy business unit, Hewlett-Packard has revealed it may use some of Autonomy’s technology to offer a free online analytics service. The service would be based on ...
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Microsoft will webcast the opening hour of its Windows 8 and Surface RT launch Thursday,the company said today. The keynote,which starts at 11:15 a.m.ET,is the only part of the day-long event in New York that will be publicly ...
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UBM Canon leading brands MD+DI, MPMN, Qmed, Plastics Today, Packaging Digest, PMPN,and Design News are excited to continue their "MedTech Trends in 2013" Webcast Series. The second in the series, sponsored by Pall, will focus specifically ...
NextLot,Inc.has shown auctioneers in numerous industries across the world that its innovative,easy-to-use platform can increase auction sales.At a recent industrial auction in Iowa,NextLot lived up to its reputation as one industrial ...
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Sometimes,I may sound like a broken record.Five or six years ago,I had a fascinating conversation about pallet and packaging design with Mark White,then a professor at Virginia Tech University and Modern's resident pallet guru.I've been ...
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Mondelez International, the snacks group spun off from Kraft Foods last month, has reported a fall in underlying third-quarter sales amid problems in Brazil and Russia. The company, which produces brands including Cadbury chocolate, ...
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US cereal maker Post Holdings has recorded an increase in third-quarter profits and reaffirmed its outlook for the year. In the three months to the end of June, earnings reached US$15.8m, compared to $1.6m in the prior-year quarter, when ...
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Kraft Foods has booked an increase in first-half profits, despite recording a fall in sales, thanks to productivity and price gains. In the six months to the end of June, net profit increased 4.2% to US$1.85bn. Operating profit in the ...
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Price increases to offset higher commodity costs has boosted sales - and therefore profits - at US nut firm John B. Sanfilippo & Son. The company booked net income of US$7.5m for the quarter to 27 September, compared to $2.2m a year ...
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