With just over a month until Christmas, 57 percent of consumers (and 65 percent of men) have yet to begin shopping, mostly because they think they have plenty of time, according to the latest Consumer Reports Holiday Poll. However, in yet ...
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The National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S.plans to drop the BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion for Apple's iPhone,citing performance issues. The iPhone 5 smartphone will replace the NTSB's existing BlackBerry ...
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Microsoft's new mobile operating systems have been affected by a series of glitches that has had users complaining online – and some returning their devices to retailers and mobile telecoms companies for a refund. The most serious ...
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A man who exposed a major privacy weakness that divulged email addresses of iPad users on AT&T's network plans to appeal his conviction on two felony charges. Andrew Auernheimer,also known as"weev,"used an automated scripting tool called ...
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Computerworld-Apple has told Mac owners running OS X Lion that the beta of Messages,its replacement for both the older iChat instant messaging service and SMS(short message service)texting,will expire Dec.14. To keep using the ...
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IDG News Service-Apple's iPad shipments for China nearly doubled in the third quarter,after Apple settled in July a lengthy dispute over the iPad trademark name that once threatened to ban the device from store shelves in the country. ...
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Computerworld-Enterprise IT decision makers are about half as enthusiastic about the new Windows 8 as they were three years ago about the then-just-released Windows 7,an analyst said today. Employees,however,have a higher-than-expected ...
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In developing Bloomberg's next-generation mobile video app, general manager and global head of mobile and connected devices Oke Okaro (pictured) and his team of mobile experts studied how people use the news service. As Computer Weekly ...
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IDG News Service - A court in California has allowed Samsung Electronics to include Apple's iPhone 5 among the products alleged to have infringed its patents, while also allowing Apple to amend its infringement contentions to include the ...
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Let's face it: When we say "office" and "art" in the same sentence, you probably aren't thinking of anything you'd see in a museum. You're probably envisioning something more like cast-off dentist office prints and weird, bloopy obelisks ...
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The t'Light E, the latest innovation from M&C Lighting, featuring two models of eco-friendly desk lamps with dimmable 5W LEDs, as well as an Apple-approved USB charging port. The LED light source provides superior life, as well as lower ...
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IDG News Service - Some users of Microsoft's new Surface tablet are complaining about connectivity issues that are preventing them from getting on the Internet, according to posts on Microsoft's Surface support forum. Microsoft started ...
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CIO-With three major mobile platforms to choose from,what is an ambitious mobile app developer to do? There are Android and iOS,with 700,000 available apps each and huge market exposure--and the fierce developer competition that comes ...
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Belkin today announced the launch of a new portable keyboard folio for the iPad mini. Designed to provide a better typing experience in a smaller package, the Belkin Portable Keyboard Case combines a removable keyboard and convenient folio ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong - Two hotels in Hong Kong are leveraging mobile apps to give guests a new experience during their stay. Both Hotel ICON in Tsim Sha Tsui East and L'hotel A(c)lan in Kwun Tong have integrated apps for guests' use ...