IDG News Service - Nvidia has unveiled its Tegra 4 processor, a chip that will bring consumers more power in mobile devices and help Nvidia remain competitive in the fast moving mobile market. The Tegra 4 is based on ARM's quad-core ...
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Furniture Today's 2013 Retail Planning Guide includes our economic analyses of the year that was 2012 and our outlook for 2013. The exclusive 49-page issue and report includes: Economic Outlook - A detailed look at 2012 furniture and ...
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Computerworld - After sparring for users' attention and wallets, PCs and mobile devices are starting to converge in size, style and how they are used. That convergence will start to play out at the International CES show in Las Vegas next ...
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Over half of the UK’s business IT networks (51 percent) were breached during 2012 due to employees using their personal devices at work, according to research carried out by Virgin Media Business. Some 500 British CIOs were ...
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The PC market was once the engine room of the global semiconductor market.But no longer. The two largest microprocessor suppliers to the PC market,Intel and AMD,see sales under pressure as smartphones and tablets take over as the chip ...
Enterprises buying new mobile devices and investing in security and storage management will give IT spending a boost in 2013. Worldwide IT spending is projected to total US$3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2 percent increase from 2012 spending ...
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The long courtship between the Wi-Fi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, which promotes a fast wireless LAN technology that runs on very high frequencies, is set to end in marriage just a little too late for the International CES ...
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Pick up your smartphone. Touch its screen. It's smooth, crystal-clear, and amazingly resilient. Chances are your smartphone is protected by a sheet of Corning Gorilla Glass. But what exactly is this Gorilla Glass? How is it fabricated and ...
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Social gaming firm, Zynga has cut 11 games in its planned shutdown of 13 game titles. The latest game to get the axe is PetVille, which shutdown on Sunday Dec 30, 2012. Petville had an average of 1 million monthly active users. Other ...
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Verizon's attempt -- unsuccessful so far -- to secure a patent for a so-called 'snooping technology,' which in this case would let television advertisers target individual viewers based on what they're doing or saying in front of their ...
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Toshiba is preparing a 20-megapixel image sensor for digital cameras that it says will be the highest resolution of its kind. The Tokyo-based firm said the new chips will be able to support capturing 30 frames per second at full ...
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Microsoft has acquired a small home entertainment technology start-up called id8 Group R2 Studios, which recently launched a Google Android application enabling users to control home heating and lighting systems from their mobile devices. ...
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Computerworld-NEW YORK-Tablet computing has become a top priority of Fortune 500 CIOs and will eclipse PC use by 2015,if not sooner.Email is becoming a legacy technology in the face of social media.And consumer app stores are offering ...
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Computerworld-Notebook computers equipped with hard disk drives won't face a significant threat this year from those with solid-state drives(SSDs),according to a report issued by IHS iSuppli. SSD-based notebook PCs like Apple's MacBook ...
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Computerworld-Cyber Monday 2012--yesterday--was the biggest online shopping day in history,according to multiple sources. The Adobe Digital Index,which tracks online spending,said that online sales totaled some$1.98 billion Monday,a ...