Just having logged its one billionth user, Facebook now is looking forward to its biggest money-making strategy: mobile. However, that won't be an easy task for the social networking company. While figuring out how to make money off of ...
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FUTURIST and inventor Raymond Kurzweil said he was going to work as director of engineering at Google to help "turn the next decade's 'unrealistic' visions into reality". Kurzweil, an author whose books include "The Age of Spiritual ...
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Major retail hypermarket chain REAL, part of Metro Group, worked with IBM to launch a new electronic coupon system throughout its 320 German stores. This first-of-a-kind digital coupon system, developed with IBM Research scientists, ...
Trend Micro has updated its mobile security software to detect potential attacks on several Samsung Electronics devices that have a flaw that could allow a malicious application to access all of the phone's memory. The company's Mobile ...
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Google isn't getting coal in its stocking this year,but Santa's helpers have decided to ditch the popular Google Maps for Microsoft's Bing service. Once again,on Christmas Eve,the North American Aerospace Defense Command(NORAD)will be ...
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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 ...
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Well-known American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is joining Google. The 64-year-old, whose work includes computer and machine intelligence, neuroscience and virtual reality, revealed the move on his blog on Friday. Kurzweil said ...
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AU Optronics was fined $500 million by a court in San Francisco on Thursday, and two of its former executives were fine and sentenced to three-year prison terms in connection with an LCD price-fixing conspiracy, the Department of Justice ...
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Nokia today announced its results for the third quarter of 2012, showing revenues had fallen again. Nokia reported overall sales of €7.2bn for Q3 2012, down from €7.5bn in Q2 2012 and €9bn in Q3 2011. Sales from the ...
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It's NBA playoff season and this month Intertops Casino salutes basketball with its $60K Playoffs casino bonuses and $1000 cash prizes. All month players will earn points just by playing casino games. Draws for six levels of players will ...
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Apple apparently made the right decision to omit NFC from the iPhone 5, given that 68% of U.S. consumers prefer to buy good using cash and credit cards over mobile wallets, according to a recent consumer survey. “Consumers ...
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Late next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone: one for personal use, one for work. The technology could help ...
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SibCode announces the release of Retina App Tab Bar Icons, a royalty-free library of stock images for application developers and web designers. The new set includes 499 icons drawn in valid style, color and gamut. The Retina App Tab Bar ...
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IT spending in the EMEA region will reach $1.154 trillion in 2013, a 1.4 percent increase from 2012 projected spending of $1.138 trillion, according to Gartner. Despite the ongoing economic malaise, Gartner sees pockets of growth in IT in ...
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Trend Micro has updated its mobile security software to detect potential attacks on several Samsung Electronics devices that have a flaw that could allow a malicious application to access all of the phone's memory. The company's Mobile ...
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