Mac sales plummeted in the fourth quarter of 2012, falling 22% from the same period the year before, with computer sales accounting for a record low percentage of Apple's total revenue of $54.5 billion. The decline in Mac sales was ...
Google has added offline presentations and editing to its Slides application, as it continues to bring its Internet apps to the desktop. The company announced in a Google Drive blog post that its presentation software now allows users to ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review an earlier decision that found Samsung Electronics' products infringed four patents owned by Apple. The four patents relate to the ornamental design of a device, commands ...
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Apple TV was until now considered a "hobby," by Apple's own admission, but the product has taken on more importance for CEO Tim Cook. Shipments for the Apple TV video-streaming box totaled 2 million units during the first quarter of 2013, ...
Apple's revenue grew but profit was flat in its first fiscal quarter of 2013, during which sales of iPhones and iPads rose, but Mac and iPod shipments dropped. Apple reported a net profit of $13.1 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 29, ...
As expected, the average selling price (ASP) of Apple's iPad line fell sharply in the fourth quarter of 2012 as the lower-priced iPad Mini reached customers. The iPad ASP for the quarter was $467, down $101 from the same period the year ...
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Strong demand for Android tablets helped boost Carphone Warehouse's sales in the final quarter of 2012, the firm announced in its Q3 financial statement. Like-for-like revenue in the UK was up 16 per cent as the retailer's tablet sales ...
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Cambridgeshire County Council workers won't get a penny extra for joining the council's new BYOD scheme because the authority is worried about being "pilloried in the local press" if they did. Staff signing up to the scheme, which began ...
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Civica CTO John Hood has branded Microsoft's Surface RT tablet "a bit of a lemon", telling Computing that the machine lacks the established ecosystem and standout features to separate it from existing products. Speaking to Computing at ...
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Samsung posted a record net profit of $6.6bn (£4.2bn) in the final quarter of 2012, the firm announced in its Q4 earnings release, but warned of more difficult times to come. It comes one day after rival smartphone producer Apple ...
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GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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Microsoft will reap enormous revenue when it introduces mobile versions of its Office productivity suite for iOS and Android, an analyst said on Friday, despite warning that the window of opportunity is quickly closing. “The day ...
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iOS 6.1 patches more than two-dozen security vulnerabilities and adds three-dozen LTE carriers to the supported list for the iPhone 5. Computerworld - Apple today released iOS 6.1, the first major update for the mobile operating system ...
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Cloud Desktop is an entire computer system including operating system and applications in the Cloud, accessible via any browser and without any plug-in or software installation. Mikogo, the global provider of online collaboration ...
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Amazon.ca today announced that the new family of Kindle e-readers is now available to customers in Canada. The all-new top-of-the-line Kindle Paperwhite is the most advanced e-reader ever built with 62% more pixels and 25% increased ...
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