MICROSOFT is moving to bolster its new tablet fleet as declining sales of PCs create concerns around sales of Windows 8. The Wall St Journal reports Microsoft is developing a fresh range of its Surface tablets, including a 7-inch screen ...
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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 ...
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Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French ...
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ARE you forever mislaying your mobile phone, your wallet, handbag or car keys? You're not the only one. Here at Chez Gadget we don't normally carry a handbag, and we do mostly remember to hang the keys on a nail, but the hunt is often on - ...
BIOSHOCK Infinite is whacky, smart, horrific and vastly entertaining. Once begun, get ready to lose a chunk of your life to this addictive role-playing shoot-em-up game. Also in this story Login to read the rest of this article Login ...
VODAFONE Australia boss Bill Morrow will flick the on switch to the telco's 4G mobile network in June, boasting that the recovering telecoms company will have the fastest 4G services in Australia. Speaking at a strategy update in North ...
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Shenzhen, China People looking for top notch gadgets at cost effective rates online need not search further - AtCina, the Shenzhen based leading gadget resource, has declared to provide with high quality electronic products. The wholesale ...
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On this week's podcast we discuss Samsung breaking away from Android, Google's privacy woes, then 40th anniversary of the mobile phone, and the potential demise of Windows RT. This episode of Crash is presented by Graeme Burton, with ...
South Korea's Samsung Electronics says it expect to earn an operating profit of 8.7 trillion won ($7.4 bn) in the first quarter of 2013, up 52.9 per cent from a year earlier. Samsung, the world's largest technology firm by revenue, was ...
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SALES of traditional desktop and mobile personal computers are expected to drop 7.6 per cent this year as consumers shift to tablets and other devices, a market tracker says. The report by research firm Gartner said all connected devices ...
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Samsung expects a rise in operating profit of 8.7 trillion won (£5.05bn) in the first quarter of 2013, a 53 per cent year-on-year increase. In the first quarter of 2012, the South Korean firm made an operating profit of 5.7tn ...
Cisco has agreed to acquire UK-based small cell basestation developer Ubiquisys for $310m. Privately-held Ubiquisys, which is based in Swindon, has developed indoor 3G and LTE small-cell basestation technology along with software for ...
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Spreadtrum Communications, the China-based mobile phone chipset supplier, has announced the commercial availability of its dual-core 1.2GHz smartphone chipsets for TD-SCDMA (SC8825, pictured) and EDGE (SC6825). This follows the successful ...
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Nearly fifteen years of sourcing in China opens up new worlds of business, experience and friendship for Julie Wing. I first went to China in 1999 to visit a jewellery factory. At the time, I had neither experience in jewellery nor ...
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Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. The new feature is designed to block unauthorised changes to ...