It has been a long and somewhat slow journey to get here, but this week the UK finally saw the launch of a 4G network by mobile operator EE. Formed from the merger of T-Mobile and Orange, EE has rolled out the faster broadband ...
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An endless stream of tweets and blog posts have noted,described and bewailed last week's Amazon Web Services outage.Some people characterized the outage as an indictment of public cloud computing in general.Others,some of whom work at other ...
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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 ...
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Cloud computing is moving away from being monolithic,where Amazon Web Services(AWS)was the only major cloud service provider,to a marketplace technology,with several cloud-based service providers,as users'appetite for cloud grows,according ...
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IDG News Service-Taiwanese PC maker Asus saw major growth in its tablet shipments in the third quarter with the launch of Google's Nexus 7 and projects the shipments will reach at least 10 million units next year. In this year's third ...
IDG News Service-Amazon Web Services has upgraded its Storage Gateway so it can cache data locally,and has also made it generally available. The Storage Gateway is a software appliance that integrates local and cloud storage and can be ...
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Taipei, Oct. 24, 2012 (CENS)--LED maker Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd. vows to snatch 50% of the non-Apple tablet PC backlight market next year. The company predicts to outperform other Taiwanese backlight manufacturers in revenue this ...
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Taiwan LED maker Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd. has targeted to snatch 50% of the non-Apple tablet PC backlight market in 2013. Unity Opto attributes its advantage outperforming other Taiwanese backlight manufacturers in revenue this ...
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CSO-It was almost a year ago that a curious mathematician with no real Internet security training was able to walk through a gaping security hole left by Google--a weak email cryptographic key. But most security experts say that while the ...
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics reported record net profits for the third quarter based on strong sales of its Galaxy smartphones and flat panels. The world's largest technology company saw net profits grow 91 per cent to Won6.56tn ...
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Express mail and logistics provider Crossflight sees cloud storage as positive for well-defined services like CRM and email,but less so for more complex,bespoke applications. The firm expressed the view following a deal with EMC to drive ...
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Amazon made a net loss in the third quarter,its first loss in nine years,even as revenue increased by 27%year on year. The$274 million third-quarter loss compared with a net profit of$63 million a year earlier.Net sales grew to$13.8 ...
Most organisations are failing to put the necessary protections around data in virtual environments, leaving them wide open to attack, says Jason Hart, vice-president cloud solutions, SafeNet. "In the virtual world, the basic security ...
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The text on Amazon's newest Kindle reads top-to-bottom and right-to-left. The massive online retailer announced its first Japanese-language e-reader on Wednesday, a version of its Kindle Paperwhite that will go on sale in mid-November. ...
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The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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