Seagate today announced upgrades to its 2.5-in. laptop hybrid drives and released its first 3.5-in. desktop hybrid drive. Hybrid drives combine a relatively small amount of NAND flash with traditional spinning disks along with firmware ...
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Software giant Microsoft has caved in to public pressure and will now allow buyers of Office 2013 to transfer their software licence to other PCs. The decision follows uproar over the draconian ratcheting up of software licensing terms by ...
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Middle East IT spending is projected to total $192.9 billion in 2013, a 5.5 percent increase from 2012, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The findings were revealed by Peter Sondergaard, Senior VP and Global Head of Research, ...
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Microsoft has started to warn customers who signed up for Office 365 subscription previews that their free ride is about to end. Emails sent by Microsoft last week outline what happens when the previews expire and urge customers to ...
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Worldwide PC shipments dropped in 2012 on an annual basis for the first time in more than a decade and that is expected to continue this year, research firm IDC said on Monday. Worldwide PC shipments are projected to drop 1.3 percent this ...
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Worldwide PC shipments dropped in 2012 on an annual basis for the first time in more than a decade and that is expected to continue this year, research firm IDC said on Monday. Worldwide PC shipments are projected to drop 1.3 percent this ...
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Windows 8's uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, an analytics company said today. According to Net Applications, Windows 8's February usage share -- including what the firm labeled as "touch" for Windows 8 and ...
Windows 8′s uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, an analytics company said today. According to Net Applications, Windows 8′s February usage share — including what the firm labelled as ...
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Prices are falling and the number of services is increasing as developers in the online underground compete fiercely for criminals looking to purchase botnets and other tools to mount cyber attacks. The trends in the so-called ...
With streaming media giants such as Netflix and HBO entering the Nordic market, Sweden's public broadcasting company felt pressure and started to charge broadcasting service fee for smartphone and tablet users. In Sweden, TV users must ...
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Microsoft's new version of Windows written for ARM processors may not be an unqualified success, but ARM CEO Warren East said the software maker will learn from its mistakes with Windows RT and come back with a better product. "I'm well ...
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Leveraging an asset—a Hollywood movie studio—that competitors like LG and Samsung must envy, Sony is planning a summer launch of a new distribution system that will allow Ultra HD TV owners to download 4K movies to a new ...
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The Game Developers Conference (GDC) has polled more than 2,500 North American game developers who attended the conference in 2012 or plan to attend GDC 2013 in March about their development practices, revealing several notable trends with ...
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ARM is promising close to 70% processor power savings with a new chip design called Big.Little, and mobile devices on display at the Mobile World Congress provided the first glimpse of how the technology works. The concept of Big.Little ...
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Microsoft will upgrade on Wednesday its existing Office 365 cloud email and collaboration suites for businesses, as well as introduce new bundles, growing even more the list of Office 365 editions, which some analysts and users had already ...
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