Nokia swung to a net profit during the fourth quarter, as it sold a growing number of Windows Phone-based smartphones. The company reported fourth-quarter sales of 8.04 billion euros ($10.71 billion), down 20% year-on-year, making a net ...
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Appearing to further distance itself from VCE coalition partners EMC and VMware, Cisco this week expanded collaboration with storage titan NetApp to deepen integration and market reach. Cisco and NetApp, a storage rival of EMC's, are ...
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Acer is trying to adapt to the slowdown in the PC market by shutting down its eMachines unit and refocusing Gateway and Packard Bell to offer new products that are "beyond the PC." Earlier this week, Acer took charges to the tune of ...
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Civica CTO John Hood has branded Microsoft's Surface RT tablet "a bit of a lemon", telling Computing that the machine lacks the established ecosystem and standout features to separate it from existing products. Speaking to Computing at ...
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Microsoft's quarterly figures came in today pretty much as analysts had expected, with earnings of $6.4bn (£4bn), down from $6.4bn in the previous year, and revenues of $21.46bn (£13.6bn), a three per cent increase year on year, ...
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Wednesday was energy day at the Glass Association of North America’s (GANA) Annual Conference, underway this week at the Coronado Island Marriott Resort and Spa. Numerous speakers throughout the day focused on the topic and how glass ...
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Newly designed Haver CSA 5.0 Software from Haver & Boecker enables simple and precise evaluation of sieve analysis using current Windows operating systems (e.g. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7.0). The results of measurement, detected ...
A low-cost board for x86-based embedded system development is available from GizmoSphere. It is based on an AMD Embedded G-Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). Gizmo is a 4 x 4in x86 development board that runs Android, Linux, ...
It's finally go time at Research In Motion. After delays that have tested the resolve of even its most enthusiastic customers, the Canadian company will finally launch its BlackBerry 10 OS on Wednesday and the stakes couldn't be higher. ...
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Cars are safer, more comfortable, and increasingly connected than ever before. However, not all these bells and whistles are necessities and some certainly work better than others. Since we test most of the vehicles on the market, we've ...
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Oracle will not stop bundling what critics describe as "crapware" and "foistware" with its Java installer anytime soon, a company representative intimated last week. The practice of offering up other software alongside Java updates, ...
Java's new security settings, designed to block "drive-by" browser attacks, can be bypassed by hackers, a researcher announced Sunday. The news came in the aftermath of several embarrassing "zero-day" vulnerabilities, and a recent ...
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Under the helm of its new CEO, Steve Bennett, Symantec last week outlined a re-organisation intended to lead to a leaner company and a new range of security and back-up services and products. These products would be built primarily on ...
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Microsoft will reap enormous revenue when it introduces mobile versions of its Office productivity suite for iOS and Android, an analyst said on Friday, despite warning that the window of opportunity is quickly closing. “The day ...
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iOS 6.1 patches more than two-dozen security vulnerabilities and adds three-dozen LTE carriers to the supported list for the iPhone 5. Computerworld - Apple today released iOS 6.1, the first major update for the mobile operating system ...
Tags: Apple, 4G Carriers, Electronics