Consumers worldwide are projected to spend some spend $2.1 trillion in 2012 on digital information and entertainment products, such as mobile phones, computing equipment, digital media and services, according to Gartner. The Gartner ...
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Ofcom has published a draft code today to tackle illegal file-sharers by passing their information onto copyright owners. The regulator was required to put together the code as part of the Digital Economy Act voted through in 2010. ...
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The total value spend of Near Field Cummunication (NFC) mobile payments will rise from $4 billion in 2012 to $191 billion in 2017, breaking the $100 billion mark in 2016. Despite Apple rejecting NFC for its latest smartphone, the iPhone ...
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In the latest twist in a saga that has dragged on for seven years, a federal judge on Thursday refused to set aside a $675,000 fine that a jury had imposed on a former Boston University student for illegally downloading 30 songs. In a ...
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ATLANTA, GA, June 14, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- This new partnership guarantees b-pack's customers to obtain the highest level of integration for electronic invoicing. ReadSoft Online is fully integrated into b-pack and can use its ...
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The BCM56545 series delivers application level visibility on a single switch chip Broadcom, a semiconductor applications firm for wired and wireless communications, has introduced new stackable enterprise switch series with integrated ...
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Dutch automaker Spyker has signed a framework agreement with the Chinese car manufacturer Zhejiang Youngman Passenger Car group (Youngman) to acquire 29.9% stake in Spyker and jointly set up two new joint ventures (JVs). Under the deal, ...
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Google's Android mobile operating system(OS)is under siege by attackers,with malware and information stealing adware targeting the platform up 483%in the last quarter. While Apple's relatively rigorous approach to vetting apps before ...
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Swedish file sharing website, The Pirate Bay (TPB), has moved into the cloud in order to improve its services, lower costs and evade shut-down from authorities. The BitTorrent site, which had its servers raided by police in 2006, has now ...
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Google engineers have volunteered the company's VP8 video codec for an emerging standards project,called WebRTC,that could provide a real time communications protocol for the Web. "We believe that the WebRTC effort represents an ...
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Softros LAN Messenger 4.5.9 is a local and secure messenger, which is used for LANs, WANs and Intranets, for communication among employees inside of the company, TORRENCE, CA, July 24, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Softros LAN Messenger ...
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A block on file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is proving ineffective, according to data from a top UK internet service provider (ISP). In May, the UK High Court ruled that UK ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay site – but the 11% ...
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