US photography giant Eastman Kodak has agreed sell its digital imaging patents for $US525 million ($501m) to help it emerge from bankruptcy protection. Kodak said 12 intellectual property licensees, led by Intellectual Ventures and RPX ...
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Sharp is readying a 6-in. digital notepad with 60 hours of battery life under continuous use. The monochrome "Digital Note" features a pen-shaped stylus and has enough storage for 1,000 pages of hand-written notes. It syncs with a ...
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Vodafone today revealed its latest management strategy in Europe and has brought in a top telecoms CEO from the US. Mobile operator Vodafone has split its European operations into two divisions–Central and Northern Europe as one and ...
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The worldwide chip market dropped from being labeled "stagnant" to "in a slump" this year, with one analyst firm downgrading its forecast to a level that puts the entire year in a decline. IHS iSuppli announced Monday that it is ...
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Apple and four other e-book publishers have settled an antitrust battle with the European Union. After a year of investigations into allegations of cartel price-fixing, the European Commission has decided to accept commitments to alter ...
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The regular rant heard from mobile operators is how much "over the top" service providers are stealing their revenue. The likes of Skype and WhatsApp operate on their handsets, but allow users to circumvent the core voice, text and data ...
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California's attorney general has sued Delta Air Lines for failing to include a privacy policy within the company's mobile application, an alleged violation of the state's Online Privacy Protection Act. The lawsuit, filed in Superior ...
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About this time last year I did a post on the top gel ink pens as identified by their Amazon sales rank, that I had intended to follow on with a look at the top notebooks and journals. Well Brad’s post the other day on his top 5 ...
Tablets are hot-- so hot that IDC just bumped up its global market forecast for the tablet market for 2012 and beyond. The proliferation of Android tablets of various sizes, the trend toward lower prices and the launch of the Apple iPad ...
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FREMONT, CA, September 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Foxit Corporation, an Amazon-invested leading software provider of solutions for reading, editing, creating, organizing, and securing PDF documents, today announced it has attained a ...
Apple dominated the global tablet market last quarter on the back of record sales, a research firm said today, and reclaimed a massive lead over rivals. The Cupertino, Calif. company's share of all tablet sales jumped 44% in the second ...
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SAP Business Suite customers can now run the software in production form on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced this week during the Sapphire and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid. Certified modules include ERP (enterprise resource ...
An aggressive iPad Mini cannibalization rate could add as few as 3 million tablets to Apple's bottom line in what is shaping up to be a record total for the quarter, an analyst said today. Cannibalization -- as opposed to replacement -- ...
Tags: iPad Mini, cannibalization rate, tablets, Apple, bottom line, the quarter
Facebook met fresh criticism today after filings showed it paid just 2.6m in tax on profits of over 800m. The US-based company operates in numerous countries around the globe, but puts all of its transactions outside of its home territory ...
Online security risks could sink the government's proposed reforms to the welfare system, according to parliamentary under-secretary of state for welfare reform, Lord Freud (pictured). However, Freud told MPs on the Work and Pensions ...
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