While Windows 8.1 promises many changes from Windows 8, one thing that will remain the same is the price to U.S. consumers. For people who are on Windows 7 and previous editions of the OS, the standard version of Windows 8.1 will cost ...
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Current proprietary software models are not fit for purpose as companies increasingly enter the cloud, IT bosses from Channel 4, accounting software firm Sage and Investec Bank have agreed. Speaking on a customer panel at Amazon's AWS ...
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Brazil needs its own global technology companies if it is to capitalise on its market growth, says Antonio Gil, president of Brasscom, Brazil's technology industry trade body. Brasscom represents 45 companies in Brazil's IT industry and ...
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SAP is to circumvent any spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) in Brazil by building data centres in the South American country. In documents aired by Brazil's biggest television network, Globo, the NSA had a presentation dated ...
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BlackBerry has announced its fourth new BlackBerry 10-based smartphone of the year with the Z30, a five-inch screen device that will become the company's flagship smartphone. The OLED touchscreen will offer a resolution of 1,280 by 768 - ...
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Systems giant IBM is to open its wallet and write out another $1bn cheque to support the development of open source operating system Linux in an era of cloud computing and big data. The investment was announced at LinuxCon North America ...
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The sale of BlackBerry is in danger of descending into a dismemberment as the buyers that have so far indicated an interest in the company are only interested in purchasing parts of the smartphone maker. According to Reuters, interest in ...
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Nokia was examining a switch from Microsoft to Google's Android operating system before it was bought out by the software giant, according to those close to the matter. The New York Times reports that, even while Nokia and Microsoft were ...
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Swedish online music streaming service Spotify is to work with Hadoop distributor Hortonworks as it looks to further personalise its services and improve its analytics. An early adopter of the Apache Hadoop data storage and processing ...
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When Microsoft finally completes Steve Ballmer's last-ever super-soaraway acquisition, some 32,000 lucky Nokians will be magically transformed into Microsofties. For a company shrinking as fast as Nokia, it's amazing there are so many ...
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Dr Phillip Hallam-Baker, a vice president and principal scientist in charge of web security software development at security software vendor Comodo, has published a paper calling for a more robust internet architecture that can combat web ...
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Twitter has announced that it is to file for an initial public offering (IPO) with the US regulators. The filing is confidential, as is allowed under US law for corporations with less than $1bn in revenue. Such companies do not have to ...
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Supermarket chain Morrisons spent £27m developing its own online delivery system - before lashing out £170m in a deal with Ocado. The figures were revealed in the company's half-year results in which it saw pre-tax profits ...
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Internet giant Google is migrating from Oracle's MySQL databases to MariaDB, the fork from MySQL established by its co-founder, Monty Widenius. The news was broken by Jeremy Cole, a senior systems engineer at Google at the Extremely Large ...
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So, it seems that the iPhone 5, launched just last year, was a flop: not necessarily in terms of sales, but Apple's margins. What else explains why the device has been taken off the market so abruptly, rather than being shifted down in ...
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