"Paris-Roubaix: The Inside Story" is a new book by Les Woodland on the legendary French road race, published by McGann Publishing. Woodland tells the inside story: how one of cycling's classics grew from several 19th century businessmen's ...
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There appears to be no end to the Chromebook phenomenon, which has seen PC maker after PC maker jump onto Google‘s Chrome OS-powered bandwagon. Samsung, Acer, Lenovo, and HP have all joined the fray, and this week Acer expanded its ...
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A US judge has ordered Apple's chief executive Tim Cook to testify in a case brought by the government accusing the tech giant of conspiring to raise e-book prices. US Federal Judge Denise Cote issued the order after a teleconference ...
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Amazon has ramped up its challenge to Apple's iPads by making the large-screen Kindle Fire available in new markets and trimming its price - but it is still not available in Australia. The online retailer cut $US100 from the price of ...
Joe Doucet Studio today launches its popular, physics-based puzzle game, Piece Corps for Kindle and Mac OSx. Piece Corps is now available for download from the Amazon app store and has also been optimized to work on more Apple devices, ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its Elastic Beanstalk to include Node.js, in an effort to make it easier to deploy and manage application development on its cloud. Elastic Beanstalk allows developers to upload an application and ...
On March 1, "Fortune" magazine publishes "2013 Global Most Admired Companies" list and Baosteel is again on the list.. According to this year's "Fortune" list, Apple, Google, Amazon rank the top three of the Most Admired Companies and ...
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Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent of rounding out its software stack for building hybrid clouds. Based in Mountain View, California, ...
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On Thursday, apple filed a patent application,the technology is designed to create a market for second-hand digital products. Last month, Amazon has a patent to create a trading market for second-hand digital content. Apple's patent ...
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If are ready to start building up a set of Makita 18V cordless tools, and one of their LXT cordless oscillating multi-tools is on your list, you might be interested to know that Makita is now selling them in combo kits. I like to check ...
VMware is reportedly preparing a public cloud offering that it would run itself, however VMware officials have refused to comment on the rumours – sort of. Late last week, the company’s vCloud Director Twitter account ...
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According to foreign media reports, informed sources pointed out that Amazon may not be in accordance with the original plan scheduled to launch its first smartphone in the second quarter of 2013, mainly due to the company's manufacturing ...
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Some school administrators are testing a bold idea to integrate the multitude of systems that are used to store student data, giving teachers a single view of how students are performing and allowing them to better deliver the right ...
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Amazon.com's application for top-level domain strings, including for ".book" and ".read," has come under attack from publishing industry groups and competitor Barnes & Noble. Authors Guild in New York, for example, said it objected to the ...
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IBM's announcement this week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as the standard in enterprises. IBM along with Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Cisco, Red Hat and Rackspace, which helped ...
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