THE ailing personal computer market is getting weaker, and it's starting to look like it will never fully recover as a new generation of mobile devices reshapes the way people use technology. The latest evidence of the PC's infirmity ...
Tags: PC, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics
A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8 and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a free fall during the first quarter this year, according to the latest report from research ...
Tags: PC, software, Computer Products
Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones, and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today. But it's ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft
Virtualization and cloud services are making it easier for companies to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many organizations are doing. The trend is most prevalent among small and midsize ...
Tags: Pulling, Data Centers
eSolutions Maximo’s Maximo Middle East User Group Conference 2013 kicks off on Tuesday, April 7, at the JW Marriott Marquis Hotel in Dubai. The conference promises to offer IBM Maximo clients insight on enterprise infrastructure such ...
Tags: Maximo Middle East, eSolutions, Computer
Badgeville, the gamification platform, today announced that it has appointed Ken Comee as Chief Executive Officer. Comee joins Badgeville to scale the company to meet global enterprise demand for gamification from CMOs and CIOs. Founding ...
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Microsoft on Monday released a public beta of Office 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2), the first major update to the suite in almost two years. The preview of Office 2010 SP2 can be downloaded from Microsoft's Connect website, the company said. ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft
Less than a year after Facebook called mobile one of its biggest risks, the social network has made another big move to attack the mobile market. On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's co-founder and CEO, unveiled a launcher, called ...
Tags: Facebook, Mobile Market, Mobile
The HTC First smartphone will have native support for Facebook Home when it ships on AT&T April 12. Some analysts wonder how soon -- or whether -- native support for the app will be added to more smartphones. Given Facebook's enormous ...
Tags: Smartphones, Facebook, HTC
Over 120 delegates from 50 companies convened in London for the TXT Thinking Retail! Event on the 21st of March 2013. The outstanding location of the Savoy hotel on the Strand hosted the 3rd edition of the TXT global summit, which was ...
Plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) installed with the vehicle-to-building (V2B) technology are expected to register total sale of 200,000 units from 2012 to 2020, according to the report by Navigant Research. The increase in sales is ...
Tags: PEVs, Vehicle-to-Building Report, Auto
VMware's Zimbra division has provided a preview of some of the enhancements it's working on for the next major release of the Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS), including an HTML5 Web client interface for both online and offline access to ...
Tags: Zimbra, Computer Products, software
Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm are top three. Global semiconductor revenue has declined 2.6% to $299.9bn in 2012, according to a report from Gartner. The top 25 semiconductor vendors reported a 2.8% decrease in annual revenue, and accounted ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm
Like many things, 3PLs (third-party logistics service providers) come in many shapes and sizes. There are myriad things for shippers to consider when evaluating which 3PL to use, including size of company, type of business, value-added ...
Tags: logistics functions, logistics
The company shot down speculation yet again today that it has a phone under wraps. Instead, the social network unveiled a home screen, along with a family of apps, for Android phones. "There is no phone," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook ...