IDG News Service - Texas Instruments will lay off 1,700 employees as it refocuses its efforts away from the wireless sector -- including cellphones and tablets -- and toward embedded systems, the company announced Wednesday. The news ...
Tags: wireless, business, third-straight
SAP has developed an update for its HANA in-memory database that will enable it to"power mission-critical transactional and analytical applications in one platform,"the vendor announced Wednesday during the Tech Ed and Sapphire conferences ...
Tags: SAP, HANA in-memory database, service pack stack 5, SPS5
Google was yesterday accused of being"cleverer than the tax man"by MPs as it was questioned by the Public Accounts Select Committee over its controversial tax bill. Labour MP Margaret Hodge led the questioning of Matt ...
Tags: UK, MPS, Google, Tax Avoidance, internet giant, corporation tax
IDG News Service-Nokia plans an ambitious expansion of its mapping and location-based services platform beyond its own smartphones to competing devices running OSes other than Windows Phone 8,it said Tuesday. The move is being backed with ...
Tags: Nokia, location service, Windows Phone 8, smartphones
When customers buy Microsoft SQL Server 2008 retail products, they will receive a free tablet. Depending on order size, customers will have their choice of one of the following: iPad Mini, Microsoft Surface, Google Nexus 7, or Amazon Kindle ...
Tags: Tablet, SQL Server 2008, Microsoft, iPad Mini
Holiday wish lists may deal another blow to the PC industry, according to a new survey. Asked if they'd rather receive a PC or a tablet as a holiday gift, 59% of respondents in a PriceGrabber survey opted for the tablet, the price ...
Tags: PC, tablet, holiday gift, iPad 3, Holiday Shopping
Apple is growing increasingly confident that its own chip designs will be used to replace Intel processors in its Mac personal computers. Apple engineers, who began using Intel chips for Macs in 2005, believe that the ARM-based ...
Microsoft makes more than$300 on each Surface RT tablet it sells,showing that the company has adopted the business model of its rival,Apple,analysts said yesterday. According to IHS iSuppli,which disassembled a 32GB Surface to estimate ...
Tags: Microsoft's, BOM, ape-Apple strategy, Surface RT tablet
Apple's iPad has lost ground in the tablet market,with Android devices gaining momentum during the third quarter,according to a report by IDC. Q3 saw worldwide tablet shipments reach 28 million,up 50 per cent on the same period last ...
Tags: iPad, tablet market, drops, smartphones, iPad Mini
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices. The project has enabled RBS to determine running costs of its IT infrastructure, and provide ...
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As the US presidential election gathers pace,Silicon Valley looks on anxiously to see what effect more than 100 million American votes will make to the technology industry. Further reading US government agency drops BlackBerrys for ...
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Amazon Web Services(AWS)has added its Relational Database Service(RDS)to the free-usage tier of its service. RDS enables users to set up,operate,and scale a relational database in the cloud.With Amazon's announcement,customers will now be ...
Tags: Amazon, AWS, free database service, a pay-as-you-go model
One-quarter of more than 400,000 Android apps examined in the Google Play store pose security risks to mobile-device users,according to new research. SECURITY:Android malware market exploding,says Trend Micro Security vendor Bit9 ...
Tags: Security Research, Android apps, mobile-device, Google Play
An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers,which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit,Imgur,AirBNB and ...
Tags: AWS, bug, Northern Virginia data centers, outage
Amazon has introduced the second generation of its EC2 computing on-demand infrastructure as a service cloud service, with higher performance processing designed for larger applications. The Second Generation Standard Instances offer 50% ...
Tags: Larger, Workloads, infrastructure