It is within IT's power to ensure horse meat can never again contaminate products marketed as "beef". This is the view of Sarah Leslie, CIO of Iglo Foods Group, which operates the Birds Eye brand in the UK. "With all manufacturing, IT is ...
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The Ubuntu Touch operating system, which is scheduled for October release on a range of smartphones and tablets, will struggle to find a niche in a crowded mobile marketplace. So says Larry Augustin, CEO of open-source CRM vendor ...
The European Union has fined Microsoft 561 million euros ($712m) for breaking a pledge to offer personal computer users a choice of internet browsers when they install the company's flagship Windows operating system. The penalty imposed ...
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Blue chips continued to climb to new heights, pushing beyond the record levels reached in yesterday's rally after a better-than-expected reading on the labour market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 42.47 points, or 0.3 per cent, ...
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Looking to turn a plain-Jane television into an Internet TV? The new Roku 3 flagship streamer ($100) has an updated user interface that should make finding movies and TV shows easier, plus a new motion-sensing remote control with a built-in ...
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Every month Google publishes the relative number of (active) devices running a given version of the Android platform, and the figures for the last month have just been released. The main points of interest this month are that Android 4.1 ...
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The new Audi A3 will start nearly $5000 below the model it replaces as the German company responds to an aggressive pricing strategy by rival Mercedes-Benz. Audi Australia has announced the next-generation Audi A3 luxury hatchback will ...
Touch-based Windows 8 notebooks have been selling well for Taiwanese PC maker Asus, but overall Microsoft’s new operating system has yet to find a major following, the company said. “I think the acceptance of Windows 8 in Q4 ...
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Apple announced that its App Store application store was downloaded over 40 billion times, and they paid more than 7 billion dollars to developers. Compared with Apple last year's fourth quarter revenue of 36 billion dollars which was ...
Individuals' personal data needs to be monetised if web service business models are to be sustained, otherwise we risk coming against an industry-wide "brick wall", computer scientist and Microsoft Research "scholar at large" Jaron Lanier ...
Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has begun a test run of a Google database of unused spectrum in the television bands that's available for wireless broadband. The FCC on Monday kicked off a 45-day trial of Google's so-called ...
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Yahoo is beefing up technology offerings and streamlining its media products in another sign it wants to improve its game against industry titans like Google, Apple and Facebook. It is putting the axe to more than a half dozen of its less ...
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After spending the past six months talking about prioritizing its business around mobile platforms, Facebook says it's time to get down to business. "Everybody is thinking about mobile, everybody is thinking about Android," said Mike ...
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Google today patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome, just two days before the start of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest that has $100,000 in prize money waiting for the first researcher to crack the browser. In an update Monday for the Windows ...
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