Dell, once the world's biggest PC maker, has seen its quarterly profits slump by 47 per cent year on year to $475m (£300m), with sales to both consumers and businesses down. Third-quarter revenues from consumers were hit ...
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A US congressional committee has reported that Chinese telecommunications equipment providers Huawei and ZTE pose a security threat to the US, following a year-long investigation. A draft of the report from the House Intelligence ...
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Microsoft on Monday began taking orders for the $14.99 Windows 8 upgrade promised to customers who purchased a new Windows 7-powered PC in the last 11 weeks. People who bought an eligible Windows 7 machine starting June 2 can now file an ...
Non-profit organisation the Alzheimer's Society has opted for Salesforce.com over Microsoft Dynamics because it was "easier to use" according to the charity's head of IT Phil Shoesmith. Further reading Benioff: 4G will enable an ...
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The main thrust in enterprise systems this year has been the introduction of Windows 8 as the new Windows client OS. Windows 8 introduces WinRT, a new programming model for Windows software development, as well as a new way of thinking ...
Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies will invest 70 million euros (US$90.6 million) over a five-year period to establish a research and development center in Helsinki. Its first task will be to build software for smartphones and ...
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The reported slow early sales of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet have raised a question among IT analysts -- does Microsoft truly want to produce boffo sales of the new device? Some analysts say that Microsoft can't afford to have smashing ...
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62,000 students graduate from the universities and technical schools in Cluj, Romania, each year. A handful have just been awarded prizes by an American company, Imprezzio, which provides software solutions to tough business challenges. ...
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Unlike rival Microsoft, Apple has consistently been able to get a significant portion of its Mac customers to quickly upgrade to the newest version of OS X, data from a Web measurement company showed. The last three versions of Apple's ...
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Undoubtedly 2012 has been another big year for mobile. From high-profile launches to security scares, from hot tablets entering the enterprise to huge players trailing with their tails between their legs, mobile is certainly the direction ...
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LA JOLLA, CA, July 09, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- MadCap Software, Inc., the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft XPS, today announced that it has published a new case ...
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A security scare for Microsoft users hit late yesterday, after vulnerability management company Rapid7's Metasploit penetration tool project discovered an Internet Explorer exploit that is said to affect all browsers earlier than IE9, and ...
Microsoft has revealed the pricing details of its new operating system (OS) Windows 8, due to be released on the 26th of this month. An upgrade edition of Windows 8 Pro is now available for $69.99 in the US, or £49.99 in the UK. ...
Steven Sinofsky Computerworld - Steven Sinofsky, the former Microsoft executive ousted as the head of its Windows group five weeks ago, yesterday said he would teach at the Harvard Business School this spring. Sinofsky, 47, announced the ...
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IDG News Service - Nokia has signed a new patent license agreement with Research In Motion, which will end all existing patent litigation between the two companies. RIM will make a one-time payment and on-going payments to Nokia, but the ...
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