IDG News Service-Samsung's efforts to seek injunctions against Apple for standards-essential patents in the mobile phone market may be an abuse of its dominant position and a violation of European Union antitrust rules,the European ...
Tags: Samsung, FRAND patents, mobile phone market, Intellectual property rights
IDG News Service - This year at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin vendors introduced and demonstrated a plethora of ultra-high resolution TVs, hybrid tablets based on Microsoft's upcoming operating systems, as well as the first ...
Tags: IFA, Hybrid Tablets, 4K TVs, Berlin
The launch of Google Maps in Apple’s App Store last week has boosted iOS 6 adoption by 29 per cent, new data reveals. When iOS 6 launched in September, many iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users decided not to update to Apple’s ...
Tags: Google Maps, IOS 6 Adoption, Computer Products, App
IDG News Service - An Internet safety education campaign will point out scams and other online dangers with an initial target audience of children and seniors. The new Digital Citizens campaign, launched Thursday, will also strive to shed ...
Tags: Internet Safety, Digital Citizens Group, safety education campaign
IDG News Service - Name: Joe Busky Age: 45 Time with company: 4 years Education: Bachelor of Arts in accounting; MBA in business administration from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore Company headquarters: Chicago Revenue: ...
Tags: Questions, Innerworkings, CFO, Joe Busky
The U.S. is once again home to the world's most powerful supercomputer, rebounding after it was knocked out of the top spot by China two years ago and Japan last year. The latest Top500 list of supercomputers, released last month, also ...
Tags: U.S., supercomputer, top spot
Following last year's merger with Activant Solutions, ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Epicor is closing in on US$1 billion in revenue, a figure that belies the vendor's relatively low profile compared to giants such as Oracle and ...
Tags: Epicor, CEO, Pervez Qureshi, SaaS, growth plans
IDG News Service - Oracle's second-quarter earnings announcement beat expectations in some respects, but also raised a number of interesting and in some cases, unanswered questions. Here's a look. Is Exadata carrying the day for Oracle's ...
Tags: Oracle, second-quarter earnings, beat expectations, hardware business
The first batch of iPhone 5 handsets began shipping on Tuesday to people who ordered them online last week, according to FedEx tracking notices delivered the same day. Receipt of the notices was widely reported on the Twitter ...
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IDG News Service - A new piece of malware that deletes entire partitions and user files from infected computers has been found in Iran, according to an alert issued Sunday by Maher, Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination ...
Tags: malware, deletes entire partitions, deletes user files, CERTCC
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Monday said Windows Phone will grow quickly in the global smartphone market. “We are still relatively small … I expect the volumes on Windows Phone to really ramp quickly,” Ballmer said, as ...
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IDG News Service-Sony said Friday that its current round of job cuts will include workers in its struggling TV business and at its headquarters in Tokyo,and it will close a mobile phone and lens factory in central Japan. The job cuts,part ...
Tags: Sony, Cut Jobs, Phone, Headquarters, TV Group
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor's big interest these days is "the mobile wave," which refers to a re-ordering of technology and modern life through the proliferation of iPads, smartphones and the increasingly sophisticated software that ...
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When users install Google Maps on their iPhone, the option to share location data with Google is switched on by default. By doing this, Google violates European data protection law, according to a German data protection watchdog. Google ...
Tags: Google Maps, Computer Products, Iphone, German Watchdog
YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code, they are using Google's programming language ...
Tags: YouTube, Computer Products, MySQL, Go Code