After a year in which some people called into question Research in Motion's future,the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is hoping that the much-delayed BlackBerry 10(BB10)operating system will help turn the company around. Further ...
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Macworld-The release of the fourth-generation iPad so soon after the third-generation iPad ,but the device itself won't.By now,we all know what an iPad looks like,and the fourth-generation iPad looks nearly identical to a third-generation ...
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Mac owners still running 2009's OS X 10.6 are not about to give up on the operating system,making arguments strikingly similar to those trotted out by diehard Windows XP users. A news story Monday that cited statistics from Web metrics ...
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Apple is growing increasingly confident that its own chip designs will be used to replace Intel processors in its Mac personal computers. Apple engineers, who began using Intel chips for Macs in 2005, believe that the ARM-based ...
IDG News Service-British chip designer Imagination Technologies plans to acquire the operating business of processor maker MIPS Technologies,as well as some of its patents,in an effort to strengthen its position on smartphones.At the same ...
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Free smartphone apps pose huge threats to user privacy by collecting unnecessary information,says a report from Juniper Networks. The network security firm analysed 1.7 million applications on the Android market over an 18-month period ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices. The project has enabled RBS to determine running costs of its IT infrastructure, and provide ...
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Computerworld - One in four Macs now run OS X Mountain Lion, Apple's newest operating system, data released last week showed. But there are signs that OS X Snow Leopard, an edition shipped in August 2009, may be the Mac's equivalent of ...
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Computerworld - Apple yesterday updated its iWork suite -- Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- for the iPad and iPhone, beefing up compatibility with Microsoft's Office. The Cupertino, Calif. company may be trying to get the jump on ...
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Mobile business intelligence (BI) has started to cascade down in organisations over the past year, Adrian Simpson, chief innovation officer, SAP UK, will tell delegates to IRM UK's Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence conference in London ...
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Meet the JBL? SoundFly? Air AirPlay plug-in speaker. It plugs directly into your wall outlet. All you need is an Apple AirPlay-enabled audio device, such as an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, and a home Wi-Fi? connection. Don't be fooled by the ...
IDG News Service - Five years after its inception, Android is more dominant than ever in the smartphone OS market, despite facing a number of challenges along the way. Android has endured legal battles, platform fragmentation, security ...
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bebe stores,inc.announces the appointment of Ben Baum to the newly created position of Chief Digital Officer,reporting to Manny Mashouf,Chairman and CEO. Mr.Baum,who was previously the Head of Business Development for Shopping at ...
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Endsleigh Insurance Services chose nearshore application development resources from a supplier when it was stretched during the busiest time of the year. The finance firm, which specialises on the student insurance market, outsourced ...
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Android-operated devices now represent three-quarters of the smartphone market, according to third quarter figures, far ahead of the iPhone in second place with 15 per cent. BlackBerry is a distant third, according to the research by ...
Tags: Smartphones, Android, group IDC