BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has announced another set of disappointing quarterly financial results. The results which reflect BlackBerry's third quarter ending December 1 2012, state that the company made a net profit of $9m ...
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Softbank will soon offer a new satellite phone for use in earthquakes and other natural disasters. The Japanese carrier said Monday it has teamed with Thuraya, a Dubai-based provider of satellite operator services and phones, to offer ...
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Security software vendor Symantec said Wednesday that Enrique Salem, its president and CEO, had stepped down effective immediately, after the company reported that its revenue for the quarter ended June 29 grew just 1% year-over-year to ...
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Microsoft this week raised prices of its Office suite by as much as 17% and eliminated multi-license packs, all part of a plan to push consumers and small businesses toward new subscription programs, analysts said. On Monday, Microsoft ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle's second-quarter earnings announcement beat expectations in some respects, but also raised a number of interesting and in some cases, unanswered questions. Here's a look. Is Exadata carrying the day for Oracle's ...
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Marketing software firm will form part of Customer Experience Cloud. Just days after announcing financial results boosted by the performance of its cloud division,Oracle has further strengthened its portfolio by agreeing to acquire ...
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WatchGuard Technologies has announced the availability of its latest Extensible Content Security(XCS)solutions for small and mid-sized businesses.The new XCS 280 and XCS 580 models offer the same trusted content protection but with ...
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Oracle on Tuesday reported that net income jumped 18 percent to US$2.6 billion while revenue rose 3 percent to$9.1 billion for the second quarter,but the company's hardware revenue continued to show weakness. Hardware systems product ...
IT giant Oracle has posted a modest increase in sales of 3%to$9.1bn(£5.6bn)for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2013,compared with the same quarter the year before. New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions ...
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The music streaming application Grooveshark is available again for Android devices 16 months after it was removed by Google from its application market. Grooveshark, which is run by Escape Media Group based in Gainsville, Florida, has had ...
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Oracle on Tuesday reported that net income jumped 18 percent to US$2.6 billion while revenue rose 3 percent to$9.1 billion for the second quarter,but the company's hardware revenue continued to show weakness. Hardware systems product ...
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SAP is set to unveil a line of cloud-based EPM (enterprise performance management) applications that run on top of its HANA in-memory database platform. EPM software is a subset of the broader BI (business intelligence) market, honing in ...
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In a cryptic statement during the launch of Nokia Windows Phone 8 smartphones this week, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop might have tipped the company’s hand about developing tablets. If the company does make a Windows 8 tablet, it ...
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Amazon.com made a net loss in the third quarter, its first loss in nine years, even as revenue increased by 27 percent year on year. The US$274 million third-quarter loss compared with a net profit of $63 million a year earlier. Net sales ...
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An Apple iPad with a smaller screen, if released, could create tough decisions for buyers and slow the momentum of the current 9.7-in. iPad and a number of Android devices with 7-in. and 8-in. screens, analysts said on Thursday. ...
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