According to the International Data Corporation, Android tablet shipments rose significantly in Q3 2012, while Apple saw their tablet market share drop. The tablet market grew 49.5% year-over-year in Q3 2012 with global tablet shipments ...
The job cuts amount to about 5% of TI's nearly 35,000 employees worldwide US based semiconductor firm Texas Instruments (TI) is planning to cut about 1,700 jobs globally to reduce costs as part of its plans to shift focus from ...
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Network World-During Hurricane Sandy this fall,The Weather Channel experienced its highest traffic ever.Normally the media company--which spans television,desktop and mobile platforms--supports about 90 million Web and mobile users a ...
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Dixons Retail will deploy cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 software across its operation in the UK and Ireland,Czech Republic and Hong Kong,the owner of the retail chain,and others including PC World and Currys has announced. The ...
Single Pack of the Bic Duo Highlighter and Pen Combo I've been meaning to review this Bic Duo Highlighter for a while now,but Amazon only had them in bulk quantities so I kept holding off on buying som.I finally gave in and picked ...
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Amazon currently uses chips from Texas Instruments in its Kindle Fire tablet Internet retail major Amazon is in advanced negotiation to acquire the mobile chip unit of Texas Instruments, according to a report by Israeli financial ...
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Specialty Retail 2012: Mobile and Amazon are reshaping retail. M-commerce is the fastest growing channel in the history of commerce Digital IQ Index: Specialty Retail 2012: E-commerce is now M-commerce L2, a think tank for digital ...
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Apple's iPad and iPad Mini took top honors in a pair of tablet battery shootouts conducted by consumer watchdogs in the U.S.and the U.K. Consumer Reports,in the U.S.,and Which,from the U.K.,have recently run dozens of tablets through ...
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Apple's planned investment of$100 million next year in a U.S.manufacturing facility is relatively small,but still important.Apple has the money,talent and resources to build a highly automated factory that turns out products that are ...
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Microsoft is set to slash Windows Azure Storage prices by 28% from 12 December 2012. The news comes just days after Google cut its cloud-based storage prices by 20% and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a 25% price reduction for Amazon ...
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Barnet Council will cut 70%of staff from the back-office functions it is outsourcing to Capita in a controversial deal to automate council services. The London borough's Cabinet is expected to approve the deal in a vote this evening,that ...
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Hot sauce manufacturer Frank's RedHot has entered into a partnership with Domino's Pizza in the UK,under which,the company's RedHot sauce will become a key ingredient in Domino's new hot wings. The new RedHot Wings will be now available ...
Wishpond today announced the broad international rollout of its premiere All-In-One Marketing Suite.By expanding beyond North America into Latin America,Europe and Asia,Wishpond becomes the only platform provider to offer all the tools ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA, which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, has reported its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year results for the period ending 28 September 2012. Revenue for the ...
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The latest predictions from researcher IDC show a continuing increase in tablet sales from the end of 2012 all the way through 2016,according to the company's latest Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. IDC raised its estimate for the ...