Lenovo, the Beijing-based PC and server maker, was rebuffed in its attempt to acquire smartphone maker BlackBerry by the Canadian government, which blocked its bid on national security grounds. According to Canada's Global and Mail ...
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Global steelmakers, metallurgical coal miners and merchant coke producers are feeling the heat thanks to sluggish steel and coal prices coupled with the prospect of higher energy costs in the US due to regulation, participants said Tuesday ...
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BlackBerry's dramatic fall in the enterprise has left CIOs scrambling to pick a new mobile platform provider. Will it be Apple? Samsung? Or Microsoft? Or it will be all of the above. "The entire landscape has shifted in a very short ...
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The United Kingdom has reiterated its openness to Chinese investment in the country's nuclear power industry, a senior British official has said. "Britain is the most open economy in the world, and that goes for our energy markets as ...
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Oracle has kicked off its Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference in San Francisco by unveiling in-memory processing for its Oracle Database 12c product, as well as new hardware to run it on, and a new cloud-based database backup solution. ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has spoken publicly about his company's court battle with Oracle, stating Google didn't "steal" an application programming interface (API) from the rival company. The two are locked in a long-running dispute ...
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The German government has recommended that Federal Administration and other high profile public sector departments in the country do not use Windows 8 because, it warns, it contains security backdoors that cannot be controlled or trusted, ...
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US government agency, the Department of Interior (DOI) has selected IBM in a deal worth up to $1bn (£600m) as it bids to shift its IT into the cloud. The contract is an "indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity" (IDIQ) contract ...
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) is attempting to beef up its security by letting go of 90 per cent of its system administrators, automating their roles instead. The NSA has faced increased scrutiny after former contractor Edward ...
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Mobilising apps for employees to use on their iPhones and Android devices sure sounds like a fun idea. Employees would actually be thankful for having such a cool IT department, a forward-thinking team on the cutting-edge of consumer tech ...
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High-growth countries are usually exhibited by a low per capita income. The upside, though, is that such countries, usually emerging countries, are able to do more with fewer resources. Dr Gilbert Saggia, Oracle Country Manager for Kenya, ...
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Cisco waited too long to address the software-defined networking trend now sweeping the industry, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said last week at the?Cisco Live conference.? The company, which announced its?Cisco ONE programmable ...
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Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) has received a $100m minority investment from the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs in a deal that APT describes as the largest investment in predictive analytics to date. Further reading How ...
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Retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies today are dealing with new rules of consumer engagement as they seize opportunities from advanced technology and the digitally connected consumer, according to the 2013 Financial ...
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LinkedIn's domain name was temporarily redirected to a third-party server Thursday, which resulted in a service outage and potentially put user accounts at risk of compromise. Uptime monitoring service Pingdom recorded that LinkedIn was ...