Google Glass should be banned entirely, according to one in five UK and US adults who took part in cloud hosting provider Rackspace's new survey. The survey, dubbed "The Human Cloud: Wearable Technology from Novelty to Productivity", was ...
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Manufacturing activity in May contracted for the first time since November 2012, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). The PMI, the index used by the ISM to measure manufacturing activity—at 49 in May was down 1.7 ...
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Growth in the UK’s manufacturing sector hit a 14-month high in May but dairy purchasing costs increased, according to the Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). The Purchasing Managers Index hit a 14-month high in ...
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Smartphone owners who also have a tablet spend three times as much on apps as those who only own smartphones, according to a survey by research and consulting firm Analysys Mason. The finding is an argument for wireless carriers and app ...
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Report shows 55% will change backup tool by 2014, in order to better protect virtual environments. Veeam Software, provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, has ...
During National Homeownership Month in June, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is telling young people that the time is right to buy a home, and the nation's builders are building the homes they want. "As the economy ...
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With the cycle in rules changes affecting equipment and uniforms in something of a lull, the SFIA’s annual meeting with the NCAA and the NFHS rule making bodies focused on how technology can be used to enhance play and, more ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- After months without the service, West Virginia Recycling Services will resume collection of glass recycling at its Charleston center. The Slack Street recycling center hasn't been able to accept glass since it ...
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Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its software packages and services to help developers and IT managers modernize their applications so they will better fit into today's always connected environment. Enterprise software users now ...
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Unless you work at Yahoo, where CEO Marissa Mayer has banned telecommuting, there's a good chance you work from home or at a coffee shop once in a while. That's according to Forrester Research, which found some big changes in the way we ...
Tags: IT, Yahoo, Telecommuting
The Consumer Specialty Products Assn. (CSPA) has released the results of its 2012 Aerosol Pressurized Products Survey, which serves as an annual indicator of the business strength of the aerosol products industry. For a third consecutive ...
Sprint recently saw growth in the percentage of its customers owning iPhones, while both Verizon Wireless and AT&T saw declines, an analyst firm said today. The percentage of smartphone customers using an iPhone at Sprint went from 33.4% ...
Retail sales fell at their fastest rate in more than a year in May, according to the CBI's latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey. The survey of 69 retailing firms saw the steepest fall in sales since January last year – showing ...
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All that new data flowing into enterprises can bring along an expensive partner: multiple copies. For better or worse, many types of data are copied multiple times for multiple purposes, including backup, archiving and development work, ...
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The sharemarket is set to open significantly lower after heavy falls on Wall Street on Friday night. But encouraging manufacturing data out of China on the weekend could provide a boost for mining stocks. At 7am AEST, the June share ...
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