As China's economy has boomed in recent years, several of its technology firms have also flourished on a global scale. Further reading Google must do more to allay competition fears, says EU antitrust chief Microsoft loses EU antitrust ...
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Big businesses feel that Google is not a suitable choice for enterprise contracts, according to a survey. The Corporate IT Forum, which represents IT directors and CIOs, surveyed 100 heads of IT at some of the UK's largest organisations. ...
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Search engine giant Google has entered into an agreement with the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) to use 48MW of wind energy from the Canadian Hills Wind Project to power its Oklahoma datacentre. The collaboration is part of Google's ...
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Apple has announced a 7.9-inch version of its market-leading iPad to compete with its rivals in the smaller tablet market. The iPad Mini will come in both Wi-Fi and 4G models, with 16GB, 32GB or 64GB capacity. But with prices starting at ...
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Cloud computing is going to cause a spate of horrible problems as data owners lose control of their information, according to the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak. Wozniak, who co-founded the world's most valuable company with the late ...
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Infoworld - Demonstrating increased independence, individual business units -- and not IT -- have been taking the lead in paying for mobile application projects, a new report reveals. Meanwhile, the march toward BYOD (bring your own device) ...
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Microsoft has announced it intends to "retire" its instant message chat tool Windows Live Messenger in favour of Skype's messaging tool. The announcement comes just 18 months after Microsoft announced plans to acquire internet telephony ...
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Research in Motion (RIM) has pinned all its hopes on its upcoming mobile operating system (OS) BlackBerry 10 (BB10). Despite promises to launch by the end of the year, the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, told the world they would have to ...
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Window's cloud service, Azure, suffered an outage on 26 July because of a "safety valve" configuration error, Microsoft has said. The outage, which affected parts of Western Europe for more than two hours, meant that customers experienced ...
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A Packing Tape is perfect for wrapping several items together; the working of such tapes ensures you get the boxes taped in right manner. There are several brands present in the list which can be considered worth the value, all you need to ...
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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have finalized the creation of a joint venture that will deliver e-reading applications, and the new company will be called Nook Media LLC, the book seller said on Thursday. Previously called NewCo, the joint ...
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After backing off a controversial change to its Terms of Use policy,Instagram may have avoided a debacle but is still taking a big hit to its once glossy image. Analysts,however,say users are probably too addicted to what is becoming one ...
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Yahoo has announced new versions of its Yahoo Mail in the first major product overhaul since Marissa Mayer became CEO. As well as revamping standard Yahoo Mail, Yahoo has released new versions of the web mail service for smartphones and ...
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The European Parliament has voted in favour of a new patent law to provide one regulation and one court to cover inventions across the European Union (EU). Currently EU citizens can either apply for a national patent in their own country ...
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Mobile US advertising is expected to rise 180% this year. A report by eMarketer that US mobile ad spending has skyrocketed, with a large majority attributed to ad formats like Facebook's newsfeed ads and Twitter's promoted products. ...
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