Some of the biggest names in IT including IBM, Microsoft, Google and Intel reported quarterly earnings this week, revealing a picture of the tech sector that, while not as gloomy as had been feared, is nevertheless mixed. The earnings ...
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Microsoft's chief financial officer yesterday confirmed that the company and its hardware partners would ship smaller, lower-priced Windows tablets in the next months. "We are working closely with OEMs on a new suite of small touch ...
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A Motorola Mobility patent that was successfully used to force Apple to turn off its iCloud push email services for users in Germany last year could be invalid, the District Court in Mannheim, Germany, said on Friday. The court said it ...
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Wikileaks' latest release is billed as a transcript of a "secret meeting," but it may more accurately be termed a promotion. The site on Friday released a five-hour transcript of a June 2011 meeting between Julian Assange, one of the ...
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Google's core product may always be search, but the company is just as serious about providing in-the-moment information to users with emerging technologies such as Google Now, self-driving cars and Glass, CEO Larry Page signaled on ...
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Retail searches made by customers using tablet devices in Q1 have risen 198% year-on-year. Search volumes on smartphone devices rose 66 per cent. Total retail search volumes grew 16 per cent compared to the same period last year. ...
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HTC's new flagship smartphone arrives today at RadioShack locations nationwide. To celebrate the launch, anyone who buys the new all-metal HTC One at RadioShack by June 1 will receive a $50 Google Play credit. The company's Trade & Save ...
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Microsoft's profits for the third quarter jumped 19 per cent as its core Windows division reported higher sales, despite reports of tanking sales for personal computers. Microsoft's Q3 earnings report follows figures released by IT ...
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Google received an ultimatum Thursday from German consumer organizations that want it to start answering questions from its users via email. The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) has asked Google to sign an undertaking ...
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"Amazon Elastic Map Reduce runs like a dog. It's pathetically slow, we've done benchmarks. It's because it's metered; they charge by the minute." Further reading Outage hits Amazon Web Services as Google lies in wait Intel launches own ...
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Google is acquiring iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city of Provo, Utah, as part of a plan to introduce its high-speed broadband network called Google Fiber there. As part of the acquisition, Google will upgrade the network to ...
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Americans are so fixated on social networks that they spend an average of 16 minutes out of every hour on them, according to a study by Experian Marketing Services. In the U.S., 27% of users' time online is spent on forums and social ...
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Google is moving to keep up with its mobile users, updating search on devices this week. The company added two new features, both aimed at getting users on the run to the information they want more quickly. "When you're searching for ...
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There is no way, absolutely no way, that Apple will surrender its iPhone interface to Facebook Home, analysts said today. "Apple will not do Facebook Home as implemented in the first version of Android. Absolutely not," said Patrick ...
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Following similar initiatives by Apple, Google and Facebook, Microsoft is enabling two-factor authentication for its Microsoft Account service, the log-on service for many of its online and desktop products. "With this release you can ...
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