Shares of technology companies finished up for the third quarter Friday, but face economic uncertainty for the rest of the year. The Nasdaq Computer Index closed Friday at 1,675.51 compared to 1,580.13 at the end of June. However, they ...
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Chip company Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it would lay off 15 percent of its workforce as it tries to inch back to profitability at a time when the PC market is slumping. The company will lay off close to 1,800 people, and it ...
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As the countdown clock ticks toward Windows 8's launch later this month, Microsoft has still not shown that there will be enough apps to drive users toward the new OS, an analyst said Friday. Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer again ...
An Apple iPad with a smaller screen, if released, could create tough decisions for buyers and slow the momentum of the current 9.7-in. iPad and a number of Android devices with 7-in. and 8-in. screens, analysts said on Thursday. ...
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Amazon is keeping busy as the e-retailing company is reportedly prepping to release four new tablets and a smartphone. Amazon is working with manufacturer Foxconn to create the smartphone, according to a Bloomberg.com report that cited ...
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Apple and Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC have settled all of their outstanding patent disputes, they said. The settlement includes a 10-year agreement under which the companies will license current and future patents from each other, they ...
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BitDefender Labs has discovered Android malware that regularly broadcasts the location of the infected mobile device to a remote server. What the malware creators intend to do with the privacy-invading information is not clear. The app ...
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Project Jigsaw, which is intended to provide a module system for Java, has been deferred from the Java SE (Standard Edition) 8 release planned for next year until Java SE 9, which is due in 2015, a high-ranking Oracle executive revealed on ...
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Cegid, an international enterprise management and vertical software vendor specializing in merchandise management and point-of-sale solutions for specialty retailers - including Quiksilver, Ted Baker and Devanlay Lacoste - is launching its ...
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About 100 people waited outside Boston’s Microsoft Store Friday to buy the company’s new Surface tablet, which runs a new version of Windows. Unlike previous versions of the operating system, Windows RT runs on an ARM ...
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The global software market grew 4.7 percent in the first half of this year to US$167 billion, with CRM (customer relationship management), virtualisation and collaboration coming in as the fastest-growing segments, according to figures ...
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Apple has seen its tablet market share decline during the third quarter of the year to Google Android rivals. The iPad maker has seen its share in the tablet market drop 15.1 percent to 50.4 percent, according toIDC. The charge of Android ...
Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 8, with the hope of reclaiming a portion of the fast-growing smartphone market. The tech giant has been largely absent from the smartphone market during its most-recent years of explosive growth, but ...
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Intel used its Developer’s Conference in San Francisco to unveil a desktop computer prototype that has a display that can double as a 27-inch tablet with a four-hour battery life. Slate producers like Samsung, with its Galaxy Note ...
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Dell mapped out the next phase of its data centre strategy on Thursday with new hardware and software that it says will make it faster and cheaper for customers to deploy new hardware and applications. The new products include the Active ...
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