The complexity of global supply chains, increasing costs, explosion in order and delivery channels, rising customer expectations and new consumer behaviour have all contributed to the growing challenges faced by organisations when it comes ...
China signaled it wants to reduce its dependence on Google's Android OS, alleging that the U.S. company has discriminated against local companies over the use of the mobile operating system. "Our country's mobile operating system research ...
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Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require a losing plaintiff to pay legal costs in many patent infringement lawsuits, in an effort to discourage so-called patent trolls from filing court cases. The Saving High-Tech ...
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Africa has become a battleground for low-to-mid-range smartphones following high-profile launches of products from leading manufacturers in the last two months. In Kenya last month, Safaricom, the region's largest mobile carrier, launched ...
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In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Barack Obama made a point of drawing attention to three big tech firms: IBM, Apple and Intel. Apple was praised by the president for its recently announced plan to begin "making ...
Huawei is now the world's third biggest smartphone maker after a strong fourth quarter, according to Gartner. Should the UK share US fears over Chinese tech firms? Apple iOS watch with smartphone features reportedly in development ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has labelled China a menace to the internet, complicit in the use of cyber-crime as part of efforts to undermine its corporate and political opponents. The claims are made in his upcoming book, The New Digital ...
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New legislation introduced by a bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators would nearly double the number of H-1B visas that companies can get each year to hire foreign high-skill workers, including technology employees. The Immigration ...
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Google, AT&T and Verizon Communications were among the top corporate spenders on lobbying the U.S. government in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to information released this week by the U.S. House of Representatives. In some other ...
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Huawei saw net profit rise by 33 per cent in 2012, the Chinese telecommunications firm announced in its financial results for the year. The profits were much improved on 2011, with the firm expecting to make a net total of 15.4bn yuan ...
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Internal emails at Apple, Google, Intel and a number of other high-profile technology companies suggest organisations have been discussing potential anti-poaching agreements, with an apparent intention of dampening competition between ...
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HP has received overtures for enterprise search firm Autonomy and IT and equipment provider Electronic Data Systems (EDS), sources familiar with the discussions have revealed. The Wall Street Journal reported that the expressions of ...
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IDG News Service - The venture capitalist Vinod Khosla recently described Silicon Valley as a state of mind, rather than a geographical place. If that's the case, that state of mind can increasingly be found in San Francisco. Young tech ...
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Apple and Facebook this month each filed plans to expand data center operations in Prineville, Ore., a small community that's on its way to becoming one of the top data center locations in the U.S. Once the latest projects are completed, ...
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"Apple Maps is the worst-received new product to come out of Cupertino since the 1993 launch of the Newton...the child of a nasty divorce between two of the world's most powerful companies." " -- Forbes magazine Those two companies are ...
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