When he joined Great Ormond Street Hospital as IT director three-and-a-half years ago,Mark Large was faced with immediate issues as the result of an ageing IT infrastructure. Staff were tied to their desks because there was not a viable ...
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Nokia shipped 10.2 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2012 – 39% less than the same period last year. The company reported its results for Q2 today, which revealed only four million of the 10 million handsets sold were ...
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Dell has laid out a plan to dramatically grow its software business by targeting mid-sized companies that it says are under-served by rivals such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle. Its plan is to target four key areas: security, ...
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IDG News Service - Ask any Silicon Valley entrepreneur about their startup and they'll usually tell you the sky is the limit. For some, it's not just the limit but the goal. Combining advances in electronics and new sources of funding with ...
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Advanced Micro Devices will detail its upcoming low-power CPU for tablets code-named Jaguar at the Hot Chips show in August, and share the stage with IBM, Oracle and Fujitsu, which will provide further insight into next-generation server ...
Tags: AMD, low-power CPU, CPU for tablets, Hot Chips show, server processors
Terumo Interventional Systems has completed enrolling patients in its Occlusive/Stenotic Peripheral Artery REvascularization StudY (OSPREY). The MISAGO stent comprises a nitinol stent pre-mounted on the distal portion of a rapid-exchange ...
Tags: OSPREY Trial, Misago Stent system, superficial femoral artery
UK confectioner Thorntons has maintained a cautious outlook, despite seeing some improvement in sales trends during the fourth quarter. The company, which sells chocolates through supermarkets as well as its own and franchised stores, ...
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The business arm of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Riba Enterprises, has rolled out an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform, which it estimates will save £100,000 over three years. The deal with managed services ...
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Microsoft today said it will officially launch Windows 8 in late October when it starts selling upgrades and its hardware partners begin selling PCs,tablets and hybrid devices powered by the new operating system. Windows 8 is also on ...
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Windows 8,the next major upgrade of Microsoft's operating system for PCs,tablets and laptops,will be released to manufacturers in August and will ship commercially in October,the company announced on Monday. Microsoft had previously said ...
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Amit Rohatgi,principal architect for mobile at MIPS Technologies, considers the Android apps development landscape and offers a positive view of the significant progress that has been made towards unification. We often hear in the media ...
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Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) is under the process of developing high-powered LED lighting for homes and offices by a new manufacturing system called ‘liquid forging’. Chua Beng Wah, lead researcher ...
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Premier Farnell has bought China-based Shenzhen Embest Technology which makes embedded system development boards and tools and supplies design engineering services. The addition of Embest's products and services enables Premier Farnell to ...
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the advanced applied science arm of the US Department of Defense (DoD), has selected Lockheed Martin, Virgin Galactic and Boeing to develop small launch vehicles under the airborne ...
Arqiva will acquire Spectrum Interactive for a cash sum of £23.4m after the boards agreed the deal this week. The agreement will see Arqiva grow its already substantial base of communications infrastructure across the UK with the ...
Tags: Arqiva, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi service, Wi-Fi Range