Lenovo is buying up patents related to 3G and 4G technologies from U.S.-based Unwired Planet for US$100 million, as the company sets about expanding with its proposed Motorola Mobility acquisition. The 21 patent families Lenovo is ...
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Shipments of new personal computers, most of them equipped with Microsoft Windows, will face greater declines in 2014 than earlier anticipated, IDC said Tuesday. IDC said that PC shipments will drop by 6% from 2013 to approximately 296 ...
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Secretive Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is a 64-year-old man living near Los Angeles who has declined to talk about his role in the digital currency, according to a report from Newsweek.? Newsweek found Nakamoto, the alleged Bitcoin ...
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The Commonwealth Cybergovernance Model adopted by ICT ministers from the 53-country Commonwealth of Nations this week could encourage African nations to move forward on controversial proposals to combat cybercrime and develop common ...
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IT spending by oil and gas companies across the Middle East and Africa in 2014 will primarily be driven by ambitious infrastructure investment plans, the modernisation of operational processes, and the quest to add more value to the ...
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According to a new IBM study, 82 percent of CFOs see the value of integrating enterprise-wide data, but only 24 percent think their team is up to the task. This marks a 205 percent increase in the gap between the importance of data and ...
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Thanks to China's abundant cheap labor resources, the Samsung has established the Smartphone Empire, but as costs soaring, Samsung in order to maintain profits have gradually shifted its production base in Vietnam. After doing business in ...
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Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have demonstrated the potential of using a virtual computer environment for distance healthcare education for an international audience that often has limited access to conventional ...
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IBM today announced plans to commit $1.2 billion (£730 million) to expand its global cloud footprint through a number of new data centres set to open this year. The company said it will use the money to open up to 15 new data ...
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Kicking off an initiative to better bridge cloud services with its own software, Oracle has released an adapter that allows organisations to copy data between their Salesforce.com accounts and Oracle software. The?Oracle Cloud Adapter for ...
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US chip giant Intel said Friday it will trim its workforce by five percent this year as it shifts from personal computers to powering mobile gadgets. Word of the job cuts came a day after Intel reported that its net profit last year sank ...
The notice of the state council, explicitly allow foreign-funded enterprises engaged in the game of the equipment production and sales, which means that the video games in our country officially lifted bans on regulations. Expert analysis, ...
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Hewlett-Packard announced Wednesday it was launching a line of "voice tablets," or outsized smartphones, for consumers in India. The devices will be the first smartphones from the US computer giant since it stopped production of Palm ...
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IBM is spending $1 billion to give Watson its own New York City–based business division as it seeks commercial applications for its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer in healthcare and other fields. But will medical companies truly find a ...
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Moore's new law is that big data will lead to big science. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation plans to give US$1.5 million grants (in $200 000 to $300 000 yearly installments) to 15 worthy interdisciplinary scientists who can develop and ...
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