Computerworld-Soaring iPhone 5 sales in the U.S.have helped make iOS the top smartphone operating system in the country,edging out Android,according to market research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Kantar Tuesday said its research found ...
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Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, yesterday announced an unlocked version of the Huawei Ascend P1 is available to U.S. consumers through Amazon.com. The Huawei Ascend P1 comes ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft's recent price increases for its client-access licenses(CALs)is a"lose-lose"deal for enterprise customers but likely a major revenue boost for Microsoft,analysts said today. On Dec.1,Microsoft overhauled its ...
CIO-I'll never forget a conversation I had with the head of IT at PepsiCo's Pizza Hut division in 1984.At the time,Pizza Hut's technology operation was completely mainframe-based.The IT chief(who had a PhD in computer science)told me ...
IDG News Service-We had the opportunity to go hands-on with the Nokia Lumia 920 before the device was officially unveiled in Australia last week.What did we think?We've always been fond of the build quality of Nokia handsets and the Lumia ...
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Network World-Mobile apps are all the rage these days,but to get one built for your organization can be a daunting financial prospect.Should you decide to go to a bespoke shop to have your dream iOS or Android app coded you would be looking ...
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Computerworld-Late next year,consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone:one for personal use,one for work. The technology could ...
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Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year,an analyst said today. Brian White,of Topeka Capital Markets,said that his checks of Asian computer manufacturers--the relatively ...
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Computerworld-Some early users of two Windows Phone 8 smartphones have complained of recurring and random reboots on Nokia's Lumia 920 and HTC's 8X smartphones. More than 65 similar posts had been filed by users on a Microsoft support ...
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Ferguson Hill makes loudspeakers like no other specialist audio brand. Its first product was the FH001, a high-end speaker that resembles the clear horns of this Ferguson Hill FH009 system -- only those speakers stand 1.65m tall. More ...
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Organizers of Invest in Photonics 2012, a two-day international convention on photonics venture capital (VC) investment, said that participation at last month’s event increased “despite a tough investment decade in ...
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The Wi-Fi Direct standard may get a much-needed boost next year from work by the Wi-Fi Alliance to make it easier to use for both consumers and developers. The specification for peer-to-peer links among devices debuted in 2010 and has ...
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Google announced a new version of Android this week with some impressive new features, but it's unclear if it's done enough to solve a problem that has dogged its mobile OS: fragmentation. Even as it announced the imminent launch of ...
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Google-owned Motorola Mobility's acquisition of Viewdle this week, a jump in the number of visitors to the insideAR conference and Nokia's recent launch of the City Lens application all illustrate growing interest in augmented reality. ...
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A court in California said Thursday that it would consider Samsung Electronics' concern that the foreman of the jury deciding a patent infringement lawsuit between Apple and Samsung had concealed information. A jury in California decided ...
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