IDG News Service - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Wednesday doubled down on the company's embrace of social networking software, urging customers, partners and prospects to join him in a "social revolution," during a keynote address at ...
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Computerworld - American Airlines Wednesday said it plans to deploy 17,000 first-generation Samsung Galaxy Note devices to flight attendants for use onboard its planes. The flights attendants will use the smartphone-tablet Notes device to ...
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As the new chief information officer (CIO) at Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) – the world's largest business travel management company – Kevin O'Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company's IT strategy to support ...
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Arti ve Arti Teknoloji Hizmetleri San. Tic. A.S. joins FCS as a Southeastern Europe Valued Business Partner servicing all of Turkey FCS Computer Systems (FCS), a leading comprehensive hospitality solutions and services provider, announces ...
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Taipei, Dec.27, 2012 (CENS)-- Taiwan's EVA Airways Corp. (EVA Air) confirmed that Kuo-Wei Chang, the general manager, has been promoted to chairman to help EVA Air in modernization and globalization. The airline's parent company Evergreen ...
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California's attorney general has sued Delta Air Lines for failing to include a privacy policy within the company's mobile application, an alleged violation of the state's Online Privacy Protection Act. The lawsuit, filed in Superior ...
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Airplane passengers aren't the only ones fed up with restrictions on the use of portable electronic devices during takeoff and landing. Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has written a letter urging the ...
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Australia’s competition watchdog gave its preliminary approval yesterday to a global alliance between struggling carrier Qantas and Dubai based Emirates, but only for five years initially. The Australian Competition and Consumer ...
Boeing has announced it will build in Wi-Fi connectivity into its lines of 747-8 and 777 planes from the end of 2013. Boeing said the technology would be installed at the production line stage and enable passengers to use mobile phones, ...
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Hey, Siri, you better look behind you. Google on Tuesday upgraded its Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad, giving the feature a voice search functionality that poses a challenge to Apple's Siri. The app, which is available for free ...
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Internet access in Syria has been shut off nationwide, and network watchers Akamai and Renesys have issued charts illustrating the dramatic traffic collapse. RELATED: Anatomy of an Internet blackout Syria has experienced partial ...
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As workloads expanded at Dublin Airport Authority, it launched a major IT infrastructure overhaul earlier this year with HP’s converged infrastructure and VMware vSphere platform. In under a year, the virtualisation project has given ...
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As Hurricane Sandy roars up the East Coast, residents, news organizations and government agencies are taking to social networks to get their messages out. The hurricane is bearing down, bringing rain, wind gusts over 70 mph and flooding. ...
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Starbucks said Friday it will update Passbook in iOS 6 at the end of September, presumably meaning it will integrate its existing Starbucks digital payment card into the new app for users to pay for coffee. In a tweet, the company said: ...
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The Federal Aviation Administration is reassessing its rules about the use of portable electronic devices on airplanes, seeking public comments and forming a government-industry group to study when the devices can be used safely. ...
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