A consortium led by Canada’s Fairfax Financial Holdings has offered to acquire struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry. The proposed deal, which is supported by BlackBerry’s board of directors, values the company at US$4.7 ...
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Apple’s voice-recognition based personal assistant Siri has been in beta for the last two years, and has remained as such until the recent launch of iOS 7. Although voice recognition software itself has been around for some time, ...
In both iOS 4 and iOS 5, Apple gave the Mail app major overhauls. Even in iOS 6, Mail gained some significant new features. This time around, in iOS 7′s version of Mail, the biggest changes are to the look-and-feel, thanks to the ...
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Oracle has kicked off its Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference in San Francisco by unveiling in-memory processing for its Oracle Database 12c product, as well as new hardware to run it on, and a new cloud-based database backup solution. ...
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The Highways Agency is tracking the movements of millions of motorists via their mobile phones and satellite navigation systems, raising concerns over privacy. A trial by the agency involved collecting data from satnavs and mobile phones ...
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Tesco has entered the tablet market with the launch of its own low-cost option, the Hudl. With a 7-inch screen and running on Android JellyBean 4.2, the £119 device marks Tesco's attempt to carve a share of the budget end of the ...
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Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry has agreed to a US$4.7bn takeover bid from a consortium led by its biggest shareholder, Fairfax Financial. In a statement released today, the company has signed a letter of intent agreement under which ...
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Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has quantified just how bad business is at the moment, as users abandon its once-dominant platform. The company said it plans to record a GAAP net operating loss during the July to September quarter ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has used what will likely be his last meeting with Wall Street analysts to defend his tenure at the helm of the software giant. Ballmer, who recently announced he'll be stepping down in the next year, openly ...
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Microsoft is pursuing the ideal of OS platforms: a unified code base that runs from smartphones to servers, giving users a consistent experience across devices at home and at work, and developers a common tool set for building applications. ...
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Countries that have pledged to support Internet freedom should allow technology vendors to report the number of electronic surveillance requests they receive, a tech advocacy group said Thursday. The Global Network Initiative, whose ...
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iOS 7 is here, and it's packed full of all sorts of features you don't want to miss knowing about. Here's an overview of what you can expect from Apple's newest operating system, with links to our in-depth articles on each topic. Update ...
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BlackBerry could slash its workforce by up to 40 per cent before the end of this year, as the struggling smartphone manufacturer attempts to cut costs. According to The Wall Street Journal, the BlackBerry job cuts will take place across ...
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CyanogenMod, an open source alternative operating system built on top of Google Android, looks set to become an operating system in its own right after raising $7m (£4.3m) in funding. The smartphone operating system "mod" has ...
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Microsoft still hasn't found what it's looking for in the search market – a way to beat Google – but it's not giving up just yet. Microsoft detailed on Monday a set of new and reworked features for Bing that the company hopes ...
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