Ireland-based food company Glanbia has implemented a print and apply solution from Zetes, which enables the company to meet the new customer requirement for full product traceability and highest possibility quality standards. Currently, ...
One Laptop Per Child has cancelled plans to release its XO-3 tablet,although technology from that project could still be used in other products,OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said. "The XO-3 is by no means gone.It may emerge in its ...
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IDG News Service-It already sells phones and tablets,provides a wealth of online services and has been laying high-speed fiber to people's homes.Now Google is apparently considering a wireless network service as well. Google has been in ...
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Japanese consumer electronics firm Panasonic is to axe 8,000 jobs by the end of March 2013 as it continues its restructuring plans. The company has already axed 38,800 staff in a bid to return to profit, and the additional cuts will mean ...
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IDG News Service - Texas Instruments will lay off 1,700 employees as it refocuses its efforts away from the wireless sector -- including cellphones and tablets -- and toward embedded systems, the company announced Wednesday. The news ...
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AT&T announced general availability of its Enhanced Push-to-Talk service on Tuesday,taking on Sprint's Direct Connect Now app as the carriers vie to attract users of the fading Nextel network. Nextel pioneered push-to-talk(PTT)long before ...
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Microsoft and Motorola Mobility will face off in court on Tuesday for the start of a patent trial that could help establish how royalty rates are calculated for standards-essential patents. Microsoft sued Motorola's smartphone division, ...
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In case BlackBerry users needed another reason to upgrade to a newer smart phone, research released today suggests there could be a health benefit to doing so, at least for people with skin allergies. In a small study presented at the ...
Apple is growing increasingly confident that its own chip designs will be used to replace Intel processors in its Mac personal computers. Apple engineers, who began using Intel chips for Macs in 2005, believe that the ARM-based ...
Computerworld - One in four Macs now run OS X Mountain Lion, Apple's newest operating system, data released last week showed. But there are signs that OS X Snow Leopard, an edition shipped in August 2009, may be the Mac's equivalent of ...
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A highly anticipated patent infringement case between Apple and Motorola Mobility was dismissed Monday by a federal court judge in Wisconsin,hours before the trial was due to begin. The two companies were arguing over license rates for ...
IDG News Service - Five years after its inception, Android is more dominant than ever in the smartphone OS market, despite facing a number of challenges along the way. Android has endured legal battles, platform fragmentation, security ...
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Apple executive Eddy Cue gets a flattering write-up,Motorola gets a flat take-it-or-leave-it offer from Cupertino,and how to turn your older Mac's drives into a Fusion Drive in twenty-seven hours flat.The remainders for Wednesday,October ...
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The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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IDG News Service-Google CEO Larry Page tried to put a positive spin on his company's poor third-quarter financial results,which were released prematurely Thursday and triggered a panicked stock sell-off before trading was abruptly halted. ...
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