Digia,the Helsinki-based software firm,has completed the acqusition of the Qt software technologies and Qt business from Nokia. Digia becomes responsible for all the Qt activities formerly carried out by Nokia. These include product ...
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Tablets running on Intel's upcoming Atom chip code-named Clover Trail could come with the Android OS,adding another OS option for the processor platform in addition to Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Windows 8 OS,Intel said on Monday. ...
The forthcoming"Clover Trail"version of Intel's Atom chip will not work with Linux,the company reportedly confirmed on Thursday. Instead,speaking at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco,the company said Clover Trail will be"a ...
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Microsoft has launched Visual Studio 2012 and .Net Framework 4.5, its integrated development platform for building and managing applications. The company hopes developers will use the latest Visual Studio and .Net platform to build ...
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Microsoft is expected to comply with its obligation to offer browser choice in the European Union (EU). Microsoft admitted a failure to comply with anti-competition regulations in July 2012. Joaquin Almunia, vice-president of the ...
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IDG News Service-Worldwide IT spending remains on course to grow by 6%in 2012 despite the grim economic situation in Europe,thanks to strong software,storage,smartphone and tablet sales,according to IDC. While 2012 has been a tough year ...
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To benefit from a growing Chinese market, Microsoft on Thursday said it is increasing its investment in the country, with new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and provinces to bring cloud ...
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Amazon on Thursday heated up the tablet competition with the introduction of new Kindle Fire HD tablets, including a model with LTE capabilities and another model with an 8.9-inch screen that can display images at a resolution of ...
Amazon is expected to announce one or more new models in its Kindle Fire range later today,at an event in Santa Monica,California. The conference will start at 10.30am PST(6.30pm UK time),and while Amazon has not directly admitted what it ...
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Nokia seems to have played it safe with the choice of a dual-core processor for its first Windows Phone 8 smartphones. The Lumia 820 and Lumia 920 smartphones,which were unveiled today,both use Qualcomm's 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 dual core ...
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As Google touted Chrome's fourth launch anniversary on Tuesday,a pair of Web measurement firms continued to argue about whether the browser is still gaining ground or has stalled. According to California-based Net Applications,Chrome's ...
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It's a rare year that sees updates to both OS X and Windows,but 2012 marks such an occasion.About a month after Apple released OS X Mountain Lion and two weeks after Microsoft finalized Windows 8(not shipping until Oct.26 but available for ...
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Microsoft has launched Windows Server 2012 to general availability with a strong message that the operating system will capitalise on the growing importance of cloud and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) computing. "This is one of the most ...
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Nokia today revealed its latest flagship Lumia smartphone to the world,dubbed the Lumia 920,running Microsoft's upcoming mobile operating system(OS),Windows Phone 8. Despite looking much like its previous range of flagship mobiles,a raft ...
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While images hit the internet yesterday,today brings"leaks"of a wireless charging station for Nokia's Lumia 920,before the company's official announcement of its new phone tomorrow. The Lumia 920 is expected to be positioned as Nokia's ...
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