Macy’s Inc. reported strong third quarter earnings that underscore the company’s continued progress in implementing key business strategies to drive growth. Earnings were 36 cents per diluted share for the third quarter of 2012, ...
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The Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide will map the IT buying cycle of our readership onto relevant editorial that will inform and educate readers and help them towards making the right buying decision. On a three week cycle the publication ...
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Computerworld-More than half of next year's expected 5.7%increase in global IT spending will be driven by sales of smartphones,tablets and e-readers,IDC said in a forecast published Friday. IDC projects that mobile device sales will make ...
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PC manufacturers always look forward to a new Windows release, as it invariably boosts sales. Not this time it seems. Compared with 2011, laptop sales for the three-week period following October 26 2012 - when Windows 8 was launched - ...
Computerworld-The results of a multinational employee survey published today by public research firm Ovum,shows 46.1%of respondents believe their IT shops ignore the use of personal mobile devices for business purposes. The October survey ...
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Research in Motion Thursday released an upgraded version of its mobile management software designed to help its users prepare for a"simple and straightforward upgrade"to the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 release slated for early next ...
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Xirrus has formally announced a partnership DB Systems. The partnership enables DB Systems' Event Networks division to deploy Xirrus' expanding range of high capacity wireless arrays when providing IT infrastructure services at large scale ...
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For third-quarter 2012, RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has reported revenue of $200.8m, down 7% on $216m a year ago but up 13% on $178m last quarter, driven by ...
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Taipei, Nov. 8, 2012 (CENS)--To further expand touch-module production capacity at its Vietnamese factory, Taiwan-based Wintek Corp. is raising NT$10 billion (US$333.3 million) in a syndicated bank loan, saying it is scheduled to raise ...
Tags: touch-module production, small-and medium-sized touch panels
RBS is the first bank in the UK to adopt Visa Europe's digital wallet with an initial roll-out of technology that the bank believes will make it easier for customers to securely buy while on the move. Visa Europe's V.me digital wallet was ...
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BOSTON — Wayfair.com, the online retailer of home furnishings and other products, said it had a record-breaking Black Friday with sales of more than $3.5 million. Sales for the holiday weekend were up 37% from a year ago, and the ...
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Apple retained its stranglehold on mobile shopping over the two-day stretch of Thanksgiving and Black Friday in the U.S.,IBM said last weekend. More than three-fourths of all mobile traffic to online retailers during those two discount ...
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Orange Digital, the subsidiary of Orange that manages digital services for EE, had a legacy physical infrastructure that was inadequate to offer scalability at low costs. Its IT team has adopted cloud services, not just for high ...
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The combination smartphone-tablet Samsung Galaxy Note II has proven more popular than analysts had expected. Samsung has sold 5 million of the so-called"phablet"mobile devices worldwide in two months,the South Korean company said in a ...
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The University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is looking for a supplier or suppliers for new IT hardware in an agreement worth between 50m euros and 100m euros. Acting as an agent for the Trust,group purchasing ...
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