Frank Baitman, the CIO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was at the Amazon Web Services conference here praising the company’s services. His talk was on the verge of becoming a long infomercial, when he ...
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Tablet applications have the potential to so engage school kids that the time it takes to teach a subject could be cut from four years to six months. That's what Nolan Bushnell, the "father of modern video gaming", founder of Atari and ...
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Microsoft is to buy Nokia's mobile phone business and license its patents in a deal worth $7.2bn (£4.6bn). Further reading Nokia whacked by another downgrade – Moody's rates Nokia four notches below investment grade Microsoft ...
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Customers who bought e-books during a period of alleged price-fixing between Apple and five major publishers may be eligible to compensation payments. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has announced ...
This year has been a busy one for materials handling acquisitions. Earlier this month, Daifuku Webb purchased Wynright. Less noticed was the acquisition of Portec, a specialty manufacturer of belt curve conveyors, by Interroll that closed ...
Just because we are used to scissors being able to do only one thing—cut, it doesn't mean we have to be stuck with scissors that can do only one thing. Smart Sizzors can do more than one thing, that's why they are called smart. But do ...
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In new jobs after graduating from university, Eric Perriard and Tom Wright found their employers could articulate grandiose strategies for their businesses. But there was little connection to how the average employee could help out. ...
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The market share of Apple's iPad fell dramatically in China during the second quarter as a result of competition from Android tablets made by little-known "white box" vendors. The iPad has historically dominated China's tablet market, ...
Supermarket giant Tesco is to step up its battle with Amazon and Apple by launching a keenly priced tablet computer in time for Christmas. The company, which has had its profitable entertainment business hit by Apple and Amazon, is to ...
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has announced a global partnership between the social media network and other technology firms, with the aim of making internet access available to the two-thirds of the world that are not yet connected. ...
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Capgemini has launched an on-demand analytics platform via Amazon Web Services (AWS) to give companies a cost-effective way to handle their Big Data. Capgemini's Elastic Analytics offering is billed as "an enterprise-ready solution that ...
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Apple could be about to launch new Haswell-based MacBook Pro and iMac models, according to new reports. With Apple's rumoured 10 September event just around the corner, speculation about a?MacBook Pro refresh?and an update to the iMac is ...
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Ecommerce technology giant, LAN Services LLC, is driving the retail industry with the integration and launch of 24Seven Cart with Visual Retail Plus point of sale (POS). Product lines become unmanageable if it contains a large variety of ...
Amazon is believed to be testing a new, pervasive wireless network in Cupertino, California. According to Bloomberg, which says it has spoken to those close to the project, Amazon has been working with spectrum owned by satellite ...
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Piers Linney, co-founder and CEO of cloud services and unified communications company Outsourcery, believes that it will take the cloud between five and 10 years to fully mature. In an interview with Computing, the entrepreneur, who has ...
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