IDG News Service-Cisco Systems and Qualcomm are putting their considerable wireless weight behind a system to make it easier for retail stores and other venues to offer information to visitors over Wi-Fi. Many shops,airports and other ...
Tags: Cisco, Wi-Fi, brick-and-mortar stores, ThinkSmart Technologies
Growth in own-label food has helped Sainsbury achieve a 2.5%rise in profits to £405M in the six months to September 29. Underlying profit before tax climbed by 5.4%to reach £373M. The retailer's ceo Justin King told BBC ...
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Cisco Systems plans to build small cellular base stations,building upon its fast-growing business in Wi-Fi base stations for mobile operator networks,Chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. The move will bring the networking giant ...
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At a time when cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure have increased 17-fold(between 2009 and 2011),the need for highly trained cybersecurity professionals is acute.However,83%of federal hiring managers in a recent survey said it ...
ROAM Inc., the leading mCommerce Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, announced that TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company is the first retail customer to integrate ROAM's software developer's kit (SDK) in its TaylorMade Performance Labs (TMPL). ...
Tags: ROAM, SDK, PaaS, TaylorMade, NFC
Macworld-The release of the fourth-generation iPad so soon after the third-generation iPad ,but the device itself won't.By now,we all know what an iPad looks like,and the fourth-generation iPad looks nearly identical to a third-generation ...
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Best Buy's Insignia LEDs cost less than half what similar bulbs cost two years ago, and smartphone-controlled bulbs are becoming available. At first blush, expensive LED light bulbs zre an unlikely technology to succeed with consumers. ...
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IDG News Service-Nextel,an upstart mobile operator formed in the 1990s that attracted a loyal following in construction and other trades,looks set to disappear after Japan's Softbank buys 70 percent of Sprint Nextel. After the closing of ...
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Microsoft and Google are in discussions with the UK government and regulatory officials about unused sections of airwaves known as white space. These discussions have led to speculation that the two companies are looking to set up a free ...
EDF blamed a major upgrade of its core systems for failing to meet customer complaint handling standards, but expects to have resolved problems by the end of the year. EDF recently migrated millions of customer accounts from multiple ...
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OJ-Bio has secured grants from the UK government's Biomedical Catalyst to further develop its hand-held flu diagnosis device. The device, which is developed under the company's £1m ($1.5m) project, features bio-sensor materials with ...
Tags: flu diagnosis device, diagnosis device, hand-held flu diagnosis device
IDG News Service - Five years after its inception, Android is more dominant than ever in the smartphone OS market, despite facing a number of challenges along the way. Android has endured legal battles, platform fragmentation, security ...
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It is 50 years since laser scientist Dr Nick Holonyak and his team of researchers at General Electric made the breakthrough with a new type of alloy that allowed them to create the first practical, visible-spectrum LED and paved the way for ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that in Q3/2012 the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO), China, ordered two Aixtron Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS), metal organic chemical vapour ...
AIXTRON SE today announced that the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO), China, has made a purchase order for two AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) systems to extend the center's nitride semiconductor research. The ...