Google shares on Monday to a record in the history of the highest closing price at 821.50 dollars per share. The stock has risen 700% since 2004. By the dominance of its Android software in the mobile phone market, and the leading ...
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There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a ...
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The daily deal industry has fallen a long way since Groupon came onto the scene in 2008 and created a niche within e-commerce. Tineka Smith reports. Daily deals innovator Groupon burst onto the scene in 2008 and by 2010 had clocked up 35 ...
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Some thousand-plus Google users have been subject to FBI security information requests since 2009, the company said Tuesday. The data build on Google's already existing tally of government data requests. The new figures look at the number ...
European antitrust regulators will slap Microsoft with a "large fine" Wednesday for failing to live up to a 2009 settlement that requires it to offer Windows users a browser ballot, the New York Times reported today. According to the ...
China signaled it wants to reduce its dependence on Google's Android OS, alleging that the U.S. company has discriminated against local companies over the use of the mobile operating system. "Our country's mobile operating system research ...
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European antitrust regulators will slap Microsoft with a "large fine" Wednesday for failing to live up to a 2009 settlement that requires it to offer Windows users a browser ballot, the New York Times reported today. According to the ...
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Contactless payments at sandwich chain Pret A Manger have boomed over the past 12 months, according to the firm's director of IT, delivery and support, Andy Chalklin. "Contactless payments in terms of our overall transactions have gone ...
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Microsoft today denied reports that it has halted its anti-Google "Scroogled" campaign, and trumpeted the number of signatures its online petition has accumulated. Initial reports Monday, based on a Microsoft executive's interview with ...
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Part of what Microsoft hopes customers will understand about Windows Phone 8 smartphones is that they are linked to an ecosystem that includes Excel, PowerPoint and Word. That ecosystem concept should intrigue IT managers, even though ...
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Augmented reality and 3D printing are the hottest emerging technologies to watch, according to Tom Soderstrom, chief technology officer for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The impact of both technologies is already being felt with some ...
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The Google Glass project is generating a significant amount of buzz. Really, it is scary how amped up people are about the product. But, why shouldn’t they be? It is a whole new technology. If you don’t know, Google Glass is the ...
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DuPont said that while new digital technology is allowing farmers to gather massive amounts of data, the real value comes when data drives insights to help them improve their operations’ profitability. “In today’s ...
A quartet of low-cost but feature-packed gadgets to make life that little bit more exciting. ASUS MEMOPAD ($199) ASUS's new ultra-cheap yet feature-packed 7-inch Android tablet has a 1024x600 pixel, 10-point multi-touch LED-backlit ...
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European Union (EU) antitrust regulators have fined Microsoft €561m (£485m, $731m) for failing to adhere to commitments to provide European consumers with a choice of web browser. In 2009, the European Commission (EC) made ...
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