DELL'S financial advisers tried to persuade 71 potential bidders to make an offer for the troubled personal computer maker before two of them emerged to challenge a proposed $24.4 billion deal with the company's founder, according to ...
FACEBOOK has fuelled fresh talk about its interest in mobile phones after the leading social network scheduled a press announcement for next week. Shortly after the Facebook invitation went out for the April 4 event, the technology news ...
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Business analytics provider SAS has launched the SAS Student Academy to help staff a big data analytics revolution, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City University (BCU). In this video, the CEO of sector skills body e-skills UK ...
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TELECOM Corporation of New Zealand expects to incur one-off restructuring costs of between $NZ70 million ($58.6m) and $NZ80m this year in relation to the reduction of its local and Australian Gen-i operations, the company said in a ...
TWITTER is on track to earn more than a half-billion dollars in ad revenue this year and close to $US1bn ($A958m) next year, industry tracker eMarketer has estimated. About 53 per cent of the ad revenue at Twitter this year will come from ...
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Worldwide spending on IT products and services will grow 4.1% this year to roughly $3.8 trillion, according to new forecast figures released by analyst firm Gartner. Cuts in U.S. government spending and the debt crisis in Cyprus have ...
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SALES of tablet computers will surpass sales of both desktop and portable PC sales by 2014. A report by the research firm IDC said worldwide shipments of these devices -- personal computers, tablets and smartphones -- grew 29.1 per cent ...
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WITH Healthcare Australia running in a "bandaid-type" environment, an overdue upgrade was considered the best treatment. The organisation's legacy infrastructure included a 10-year-old email system.
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A PROGRAM that can predict a patient's vital signs 20 seconds into the future could make surgery safer than ever. Victoria University's Centre for Applied Informatics has developed algorithms to read and compress patient body-function ...
HTC finally has an Android smartphone capable of taking the fight to Samsung's Galaxy S4 and other recently announced handsets. That's our assessment after spending time using the HTC One smartphone; the new fourth-generation, LTE-capable ...
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FORMER Australian schoolboy Nick D'Aloisio is set to become one of the world's youngest self-made multi-millionaires after selling his Summly news summariser app to internet company Yahoo!. The 17-year-old, born in London to Australian ...
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KEN Boal has taken the reins at Cisco Australia and New Zealand, replacing Richard Kitts, who has been moved upstairs to a broader Asia-Pacific role for the networking giant. Boal joined Cisco in 2004, handling the public sector, and his ...
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RETAILERS have to take the next step towards personalised engagement with consumers who use mobile applications or risk losing them, an expert has warned. Mobile applications provided the opportunity to engage with shoppers 24/7, but ...
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Intel aims to deliver more targeted packages of TV and Internet content at different price points through its upcoming TV set-top box, which will better address user needs than bundles offered by cable TV and satellite companies. Later ...
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THE world's peak internet naming authority is expected to approve hundreds of new generic top-level domain suffixes over the coming months, with .melbourne expected to beat .sydney to the web. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ...