Lenovo's CEO said on Thursday he expects the market will gradually move away from entertainment-focused tablets in favor for convertible PCs,which he said can strike a balance between the functions of touch-based tablets and the ...
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Streetlights across a the borough of Westminster are to be fitted with remote monitoring CMS (Central Management System) technology, which can be controlled from an iPad. This will alert technicians to any problems as soon as they arise. ...
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Lenovo said Thursday its net profit for the fiscal second quarter increased by only 13% year-over-year, marking a shift from the high profit growth the company has previously seen. For the fiscal second quarter ending on Sept. 30, ...
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Macworld-The release of the fourth-generation iPad so soon after the third-generation iPad ,but the device itself won't.By now,we all know what an iPad looks like,and the fourth-generation iPad looks nearly identical to a third-generation ...
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Mac owners still running 2009's OS X 10.6 are not about to give up on the operating system,making arguments strikingly similar to those trotted out by diehard Windows XP users. A news story Monday that cited statistics from Web metrics ...
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Apple is growing increasingly confident that its own chip designs will be used to replace Intel processors in its Mac personal computers. Apple engineers, who began using Intel chips for Macs in 2005, believe that the ARM-based ...
IDG News Service - Intel gained PC microprocessor market share over Advanced Micro Devices during the third quarter, but worldwide shipments of x86 chips declined at rates not seen in more than a decade, according to Mercury Research. ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft has confirmed what many had suspected,that it didn't offer a 16GB Surface RT tablet because there would have been virtually no room for customer content on the device. According to a FAQ published Monday,a 32GB ...
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EMC today announced a series of software upgrades for eight products in its Documentum content management platform and its Captiva document capture software line. The upgrades,which address cloud-based document management,add mobile ...
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Microsoft makes more than$300 on each Surface RT tablet it sells,showing that the company has adopted the business model of its rival,Apple,analysts said yesterday. According to IHS iSuppli,which disassembled a 32GB Surface to estimate ...
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Apple's iPad has lost ground in the tablet market,with Android devices gaining momentum during the third quarter,according to a report by IDC. Q3 saw worldwide tablet shipments reach 28 million,up 50 per cent on the same period last ...
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Free smartphone apps pose huge threats to user privacy by collecting unnecessary information,says a report from Juniper Networks. The network security firm analysed 1.7 million applications on the Android market over an 18-month period ...
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Infoworld - Thinking about the bits of data you leave behind is a one-way ticket to paranoia. Your browser? Full of cookies. Your cellphone? A beacon broadcasting your location at every moment. Search engines track your every curiosity. ...
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Computerworld - Apple yesterday updated its iWork suite -- Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- for the iPad and iPhone, beefing up compatibility with Microsoft's Office. The Cupertino, Calif. company may be trying to get the jump on ...
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Microsoft will"die and disappear"within the next few years,futurist and ex-CTO of BT,Peter Cochrane,has told Computing. "Microsoft will die and disappear in the next few years.There is no convergence in IT–what we see is ...
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