Google has added offline presentations and editing to its Slides application, as it continues to bring its Internet apps to the desktop. The company announced in a Google Drive blog post that its presentation software now allows users to ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review an earlier decision that found Samsung Electronics' products infringed four patents owned by Apple. The four patents relate to the ornamental design of a device, commands ...
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Strong demand for Android tablets helped boost Carphone Warehouse's sales in the final quarter of 2012, the firm announced in its Q3 financial statement. Like-for-like revenue in the UK was up 16 per cent as the retailer's tablet sales ...
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Taiwan-based LED packaging house Unity Opto recently received an order for 20,000 street lamps from Europe, therefore, the firm expects first-quarter 2013 revenues to show an on-year increase of 60%. In addition to the street lamp orders, ...
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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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Several organisations and individuals have sent a letter to Skype owner Microsoft, explaining that the firm should release information about how much user data it gives to third parties, including government agencies. The groups, ...
The third annual Cloud World Forum MENA will attract over 40 keynote speakers from the region’s top organsations, such as Google, Gulf Air and Emirates Flight Catering, it was announced this week. The speakers will join hundreds of ...
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 ...
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Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened Palm with a patent lawsuit if it did not enter into an agreement in which the companies pledged not to hire employees from each other, unsealed court documents show. Jobs threatened Palm with ...
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Access to software collaboration site GitHub appeared to be restored in China on Wednesday, just as former Google executive Kai-Fu lee criticized its blocking as a senseless move that would harm the nation's developers. GitHub, a U.S. ...
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Android handsets are on top worldwide but Apple's iPhone remained the most popular smartphone among US buyers in the closing months of 2012. "At the end of 2012, the global (operating system) picture shows Android on top, but clearly ...
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Internet retail colossus Amazon.com has announced the purchase of a text-to-speech technology company in a move evidently aimed at ramping up the capabilities of its Kindle Fire tablet computers. Amazon did not disclose financial terms of ...
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The world's most dominant search engine, Google, has made recent improvements that will positively impact a user's experience and eliminate explicit images from search results, says online reputation management firm Reputation Advocate. ...
Google, AT&T and Verizon Communications were among the top corporate spenders on lobbying the U.S. government in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to information released this week by the U.S. House of Representatives. In some other ...
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With speculation swirling that Google is preparing to come out with what's been called the Google X phone and a Google X tablet this spring, analysts say the company is pushing the hardware envelope. For the past month or so, there have ...
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