Google's latest attempt to add more content to its local business listings by buying travel brand Frommer has been challenged by the Consumer Watchdog. The acquisition – the financial details of which were not disclosed – ...
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In an effort to significantly enhance its dealer/designer training capabilities and high-end client service offerings, Habersham has announced plans to convert its existing design studio near corporate headquarters in Toccoa, GA into a ...
IDG News Service - Responding to the trend of streamlining data-center management, Zenoss has added to its network monitoring software support for a popular open-source messaging bus. "This is one of the most significant launches in our ...
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Infoworld - When it comes to IT security, FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) is more than just the tool of overhyping vendors hoping to sell their next big thing. It is the reality that seasoned IT security pros live in, thanks in large ...
Tags: IT security, FUD, Paul Ferguson, antivirus scanner
Supermarket chain Iceland is to re-open the online store it closed six years ago due to rising demand from customers. Iceland pioneered online supermarket shopping as long ago as 1996,well before Tesco,Sainsbury's and other big ...
Tags: Iceland, online store, Big Food Group, UK
The CAGR of the semiconductor market for 2011-16 will be double that of the preceding five years, says IC Insights. Memory will drive the accelerated growth rate. NAND flash is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 16.6% until 2016 and DRAM is ...
Tags: CAGR, Wireless Devices, Semiconductor, Market Conditions
As predicted last month, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed a record fine on Google of $22.5m (£14.4m) to settle charges that the company wrongly assured users of Apple's Safari browser that its tracking cookies were ...
Tags: Google, Safari, FTC, Thomas Rosch, DoubleClick
Simulating the Mars mission Computational curiosity Landing system IT has been key to successfully landing the rover robot Curiosity, on Mars earlier this week. Mars missions in the past have not had a great track record. But the landing ...
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In July 2012, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up 9.2 percent year-on-year (the following growth rates of value added are real growth rates, after deducting price factors), 0.3 percentage ...
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The London Borough of Newham has spent £400,000 on case management software to help join up its disparate children's services databases. The ChildView software from supplier CACI will span education, intervention and prevention ...
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Colchester General Hospital has implemented a new system for tracking the whereabouts of its medical equipment using Wi-Fi technology. The organisation is using the real-time location tracking system (RTLS) from Ekahau to place tags on ...
Tags: Hospital Tracks Equipment, medical equipment, Wi-Fi Tracks Equipment
Computerworld-The Nexus 7 with 16GB of storage reappeared"in stock"on Wednesday in the Google Play online store after it was unavailable there and in many retail stores in the U.S.for about a week. Google launched its Nexus 7 tablet at ...
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Tech4Learning's Wixie is now available in the Apple App store for the iPad. SAN DIEGO, CA, August 01, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Tech4Learning's Wixie is now available in the Apple App store for the iPad. The new Wixie app takes advantage ...
Tags: Wixie iPad App, Tech4Learning, Wixie app, authoring tool, software
IDG News Service-After more than 25 years the venerable VGA port is finally disappearing from computers,but the interface is proving tough to phase out completely and will linger for years in projectors,monitors and TV sets. The VGA(Video ...
Tags: VGA Ports, VGA hardware, home computers, Digital Flat Panel
Computerworld - today announced a new solid-state drive (SSD) targeted at users who want to upgrade older computer systems with a flash drive that boasts a price well under $1 per gigabyte of capacity. Crucial's new v4 SSD, which is ...
Tags: Crucial, Laptops, flash-drive speeds