The mobile industry might be preparing to show off lots of new gadgets at this month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but a mergers and acquisitions specialist says the industry should forget about hyping them up and prepare for ...
The market will grow at a CAGR rate of 10%. The virtual appliances market is expected to reach 30% of total market revenue in 2017 which currently accounts 10% of the market. Increase in the implementation of virtual appliances in ...
Tags: virtual appliances market, Amazon Web Services, Services
They may say they'd rather read on paper, but one study found that for adults between the ages of 60 and 77, reading on digital devices such as tablets causes less strain on the brain. The study, conducted by a German university, measured ...
Tags: Tablets, Older Adults, Consumer Electronics
The fourth quarter of the global flat-panel computer sales were 52.5 million sets, an increase of 75.3% over the 29.9 million sets of the same period last year, hitting a new record. Among them, the apple in the overall market took the ...
Tags: Market Share, iPad Flat Tablet, iPad
The crowd-funded Ouya videogame console seeking to shake up a market dominated by Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo is gearing up for a US debut in June. The team behind Ouya has begun taking online pre-orders for the Android-powered devices ...
More than 15,000 execs from 92 countries have registered to attend next week's US Toy Fair in New York, according to the Toy Industry Association. Year to date registration for international buyers is up three per cent - at time of press, ...
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IDG News Service - Users of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service (RDS) can now keep track of their databases with new notifications via email and SMS. Amazon's Simple Notification Service (SNS) will give administrators a ...
Tags: Amazon, Cloud-Based Databases, Service
Over one third of all purchases made on Amazon are from third-party sellers. Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak said that 39 per cent of the “product units” sold on Amazon during the most recent quarter were from third-party sellers, up ...
Tags: Amazon sales, retail business, Amazon
Amazon is set to stock the new SoccerStarz Club 4 Packs from Creative Toys. The packs feature four SoccerStarz blisters from the same team in one box with club-specific packaging. These include official Manchester United, Chelsea FC, ...
Tags: Creative Toys, toy sales, Toys
Sub-900-gram carbon frames built with Campagnolo’s Super Record group are rare, but what gets the double-take and holds it is the Diamondback logo on the downtube. And when, if ever, was an $8,000 Diamondback road bike ...
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ShopSavvy, the world's leading mobile shopping platform, today announced a new release of ShopSavvy for Android and iOS that will provide its millions of users with a far richer user experience, making it easier for shoppers to get the ...
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Many of us carry on love affairs with our smartphone and tablet devices, and now KeyPoint Technologies gives Android users a distinctive way to show their affection -- with a Valentine's Day-themed version of Adaptxt . The keyboard theme ...
Visitors to what used to be Buy.com will see a few changes on the front page this week -- including a pronunciation guide for its new name. The site is now branded "Rakuten," after Japan's largest e-commerce firm, a massive online ...
Tags: Buy.com, Rakuten, e-commerce
American technology giants including Google, Yahoo and Amazon have been criticised by privacy groups and European regulators for lobbying in Washington against new EU data privacy laws. The American firms are campaigning for more relaxed ...
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Worldwide tablet sales jumped in the fourth quarter beyond even some of the most optimistic forecasts to 52.5 million - a growth rate of 75 per cent. The preliminary survey by business research firm IDC showed the tablet market grew 75.3 ...
Tags: tablet sales, tablet market, Apple