New research conducted by Thorn Lighting has highlighted concern at internet purchasing Thorn Lighting has conducted a survey in which over half of respondents said they were concerned by the quality of cheap lighting imports and their ...
A fully integrated national advertising campaign for the launch of the all-new Honda Civic began April 20.The strategy developed by Honda's long-standing agency of record,RPA,demonstrates the idea that we're all different and there's a ...
As mobile devices and social media put down ever deeper roots in IT, businesses are seeing big changes in how employees do their jobs and how customers interact with them, in addition to--ideally--using the technologies to find new revenue ...
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IDG News Service - India has asked Internet service providers to block certain websites and restricted users from sending bulk SMSes for two weeks after threatening content caused panic across the country, official sources said. About 156 ...
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IDG News Service - Infosys said Monday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lodestone Holding, a management consultancy firm in Zurich with skills in the area of SAP software, as the Indian company attempts to move into ...
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Google has acquired Wildfire Interactive, a social media marketing company, aiming to creating new opportunities for its clients to engage with people across all social services, it said Tuesday. Started four years ago, Wildfire in ...
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As Hurricane Sandy roars up the East Coast, residents, news organizations and government agencies are taking to social networks to get their messages out. The hurricane is bearing down, bringing rain, wind gusts over 70 mph and flooding. ...
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The next version of Ubuntu Linux will include a new feature that can incorporate commonly used Web apps directly into the user's desktop, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced at OSCON on Thursday. The new feature, called Ubuntu ...
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For all the promise that big data holds, the fundamental challenge with collecting massive volumes of data from different sources is finding new business uses for it, according to several IT managers at Computerworld's BI & Analytics ...
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Computerworld - Facebook may be the biggest social network in the world, but rival Google+ wins when it comes to user satisfaction. Facebook users have become increasingly unsatisfied, according to a report from the American Customer ...
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Pinterest, a social pinboard site, has thrown open its doors to anyone who wants to join. "We're thrilled to announce open registration," Pinterest said in a blog post Wednesday. "For those of you who haven't joined Pinterest yet, this ...
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IDG News Service - A partnership of New York City businesses has put out a call for innovative financial technologies. Sponsored by The Partnership for New York City Fund and Accenture, the FinTech Innovation Lab seeks novel technologies ...
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Instagram has seen a huge spike in popularity among mobile device users over the past six months, pushing it past Twitter for the first time. Instagram, which is just two years old, went from 886,000 daily mobile users in March to ...
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Taiwan's MediaTek, a designer of mobile processors, plans to help bring Twitter to lower-end feature phones, by pre-installing the social media service on to the company's chipsets. The two companies announced the new partnership on ...
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Nancy Stanek is used to predictions of her toy shops' demise. In the 1970s, catalogs were expected to be the death of her Toys et Cetera stores. Then it was the big-box discounters such as Wal-Mart and Target. More recently, the big, ...
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