In the battle for the hearts and minds of enterprise mobile developers, Apple's iOS has taken a commanding lead as businesses show concern over Android, according to a recent survey of mobile developers by Appcelerator and IDC. Does ...
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Once a high-flying web property, Digg was sold Thursday for a paltry $500,000. The sale to Betaworks, maker of an iOS news aggregator app and an URL clipper, Bit.ly, was a fraction of the $45 million lavished on the venture by Silicon ...
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Wartsila,the marine industry's leading solutions and services provider,has signed a contract for the design of a new diving support vessel(DSV)to be built for Subsea 7,the seabed-to-surface engineering,construction,and services contractor ...
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The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA proudly presents Suited for Space, a stunning new exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, exploring the "wearable spacecraft" that keep astronauts alive ...
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When Apple switched to Intel processors, Windows switchers as well as Mac users who needed to run the occasional Windows app rejoiced. That's because the chip switch was soon followed by the release of virtualization software that would ...
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Worldwide spending on public IT cloud services is expected to touch the $100 billion mark in 2016, as companies accelerate their shift to the cloud services model for IT consumption, according to research firm IDC. Public IT cloud ...
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US poultry giant Sanderson Farms has reported an annual profit thanks to higher poultry prices and increased production. The return to profitability reflected higher production In the 12 months to the end of of October, earnings ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw his bonus shrink a little in 2012 while that of other Microsoft executives rose significantly, the software maker said Tuesday. Ballmer received a bonus payment of US$620,000, about 91 percent of his ...
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Two privacy watchdogs filed a joint letter with the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday alleging Facebook may already be skirting an agreement to be more clear over how it handles user data. A partnership with a data collector called ...
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As negotiations between the International Longshoremen's Association and employers represented by the US Maritime Alliance remain in a stalemate,participants in the US petrochemical markets were mixed on the impact,with some sellers ...
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Apple is considering licensing a custom radio streaming service similar to Pandora, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The company recently started negotiations with record labels for such a service, which would still take ...
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As supercomputers grow more powerful, they’ll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. A few researchers at the recent SC12 conference, held last week in Salt Lake City, offered ...
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Facebook's announcement that it now has more than a billion active users shows the resiliency of the social networking platform, analysts say. "It's a platform that has survived and grown despite its privacy issues, usability issues and ...
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What's "guanxi"? Guanxi in Chinese means "relationship" or social networking. It's regarded as the central idea in Chinese society. "Guanxi" can take on many forms. It does not have to be based on money. The kernel of guanxi is doing ...
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Finding manufacturing partners, keeping it SIMPLE and SAFE How to protect my IP Rights? Register your intellectual property right(s) (IP rights) under your country's law. You can protect your Logo(s) and Slogan(s) under the Chinese Anti ...
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