Google's Nexus 7 tablet can now be ordered on more retail websites worldwide, but so far the less expensive US$199 model remains exclusive to Google's Play online store, according to current listings. Retailers such as Staples, B&H Photo ...
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Thanks to the popularity of Apple's iPad and iPhone mobile devices, the Objective-C language has overtaken C++ in Tiobe's monthly assessment of programming language popularity. Objective-C, the language used for developing applications to ...
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At $199, Google's Nexus 7 may seem like a tempting tablet, but some potential buyers and analysts say that it lacks hardware features and is a feeble attempt to energize the Android OS in a market dominated by Apple. Google on Wednesday ...
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Microsoft's Surface for Windows RT tablet will sell for $199 when it ships on Oct. 26, according to an unnamed source in an Engadget report. At that price, Microsoft would surely be selling below its costs, analysts said. However, ...
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Samsung makes $56 more selling each new $499.99 Wi-Fi-only Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet than Apple gets by selling the iPad for the same price. That's because Samsung's cost for materials is just about $260, while Apple's costs were $316 when ...
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Boundary is trying to reach more customers for its application performance monitoring service with a free version that has all the same features as the existing offering. The service has also been upgraded to simplify problem diagnosis, the ...
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Last year the company announced an initial version of OpenShift, an application development tool optimised to run in the cloud, marking the company’s foray into the PaaS market. Today, after running it in beta for 18 months, Red Hat ...
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Penguin Group has become the latest book publisher to reach a settlement with the U.S.Department of Justice in a lawsuit that alleges that Apple and five publishers had conspired to raise e-book prices. Under the proposed settlement ...
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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has ratified the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), a set of protocols defining how companies can safely move data between private and public clouds. The Storage Networking ...
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PicsArt, Inc., one of the world’s most popular mobile photography application for Android phones, is now available on Kindle Fire HD, bringing the radically enhanced features found in PicsArt3 to the latest Kindle device - the first ...
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Integration platform Celigo launches an advanced integration between e-commerce and CMS platform Web Cube and ERP system NetSuite. Leading e-commerce and CMS platform Web Cube has announced the launch of an advanced software integrator ...
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With each year, Oracle becomes a bigger company and in turn, so does its annual OpenWorld conference, which kicks off Sunday in San Francisco. In fact, Oracle's long run of acquisitions, spanning from applications to middleware to ...
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Advanced Micro Devices has announced it will sell ARM-based server processors in 2014, ending its exclusive commitment to the x86 architecture and adding a new dimension to its decades-old battle with Intel. AMD will license a 64-bit ...
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Amazon.com made a net loss in the third quarter, its first loss in nine years, even as revenue increased by 27 percent year on year. The US$274 million third-quarter loss compared with a net profit of $63 million a year earlier. Net sales ...
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Adding to an already considerable set of cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, pitching it as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise data warehouse deployments. “Anyone who has ...
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