Microsoft's new Windows RT tablets will cost up to$300(£191)less than their Windows 8 counterparts,PC maker Lenovo has said. Microsoft will launch its latest operating system on 26 October and in order to gain traction in the ...
Microsoft's new Windows RT tablets will cost up to$300(£191)less than their Windows 8 counterparts,PC maker Lenovo has said. Microsoft will launch its latest operating system on 26 October and in order to gain traction in the ...
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Google yesterday said it will pay up to$2 million for major vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser at a second Pwnium hacking contest this fall. Pwn2Own,a rival contest sponsored by Hewlett-Packard,will award as much as$200,000 in a ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft and Nokia will hold a press conference in three weeks, an event that will likely center around Windows Phone 8, the next version of Microsoft's OS for mobile devices. Nokia is a close Microsoft partner in the ...
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IDG News Service - Android continued to increase its dominance of the smartphone market during the second quarter, powered by Samsung's success. Competitor Apple in contrast struggled somewhat as consumers held out for the next iteration of ...
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Calligra has published the second stable release of its open source suite that includes word processing, spreadsheets and a sketching program. The new version greatly improves the support of Open Document Format (ODF) documents, said one of ...
Digia,the Helsinki-based software firm,has signed an agreement to acquire Qt software technologies and Qt business from Nokia. Following the acquisition Digia becomes responsible for all the Qt activities formerly carried out by Nokia. ...
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Samsung is the world's most successful mobile phone maker because the launch of the Apple iPhone caused a 'crisis of design' at the company, leading to design improvements - while Nokia ignored the competitive threat until it was too late. ...
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Three major Japanese technology companies are investing in a new "fabless" semiconductor startup, intended to capture a share of the burgeoning market for smartphone chips. The venture, called Access Network Technology, has been set up ...
Tags: Fujitsu, NEC, Docomo, smartphone chip
IDG News Service-Mobile malware is rising fast,infecting nearly 13 million phones in the world during the year first half of 2012,up 177%from the same period a year ago,according to Beijing-based security vendor NetQin. In a report ...
Tags: Mobile malware, NetQin, smartphones, running Android
In a deal that should help Apple boost its enterprise security offerings, the iPhone maker is planning to buy mobile security company AuthenTec for $8 per share or a little over $356 million, AuthenTec said on Friday. AuthenTec provides ...
Samsung today announced revenues of £26.6bn thanks to a huge boost from its mobile business. The overall revenue amount was 21% higher than the same period last year, with operating profits rising 79% year-on-year to £3.7bn. ...
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Advance demand for Apple's next iPhone is at an all-time high,said a research firm today,predicting huge sales later this year for what most have dubbed the"iPhone 5." A survey of more than 4,000 North American consumers by ChangeWave ...
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Nokia had a Q2 loss of Euros 1.4bn on sales down 19%to Euros 7.5bn and smartphone sales falling 34%to Euros 1.5bn.Y-o-Y revenues were down 26% CEO Stephen Elop blamed it on"greater than expected competitive challenges". Four million ...
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Quarterly earnings from some of the biggest tech companies in the world this week were decidedly mixed,but showed some signs of strength,particularly in enterprise IT spending. Tech vendors with exposure to the hardware market have ...
Tags: tech companies, PCs, Intel, smartphone