The Silicon Valley dream of the sixties,seventies and eighties is no longer an option for modern IT startups,current financial and technological realities meaning new companies would be better selling up than branching out. This is the ...
that will give Oracle customers access to Nokia mapping software and services. The deal,to be announced today at the Oracle OpenWorld 2012 show in San Francisco,California,will enable Oracle to embed Nokia's Navteq mapping technology into ...
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TI has given up on the smartphone and tablet markets for it OMAP processors and connectivity products,and is going to focus those products on the embedded processing market,says Greg Delagi,senior vice president for embedded processing at ...
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Blitz Sport, a supplier of martial arts equipment, is among a handful of UK firms implementing NetSuite's SuiteCommerce platform. Blitz has replaced Sage Line 50 and Dydacomp Mail Order Manager with NetSuite SuiteCommerce, which provides ...
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Barnes&Noble announced two new tablets today,the 7-in.Nook HD,starting at$199,and the 9-in.Nook HD+,starting at$269. The Nook HD,a 7-in.tablet,features the highest resolution of any tablet of its size. Both will be available in the ...
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Netflix no longer wants to run a data center to support its in-house IT services. Instead, it's shifting internal applications to Amazon's cloud and turning to software-as-a-service providers for other business systems. Mike Kail, vice ...
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Equinix,the provider of network-neutral datacentres,is adding 4,000 square metres of datacentre space with an additional capacity for 1,400 cabinets at its London Slough LD5 International Business Exchange(IBX)datacentre. Equinix will ...
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A controversial project to mine Brazil's vast indigenous territories in the Amazon, to be presented at the South American country's Congress in October, has revived a long-dragged confrontation among authorities, environmentalists ...
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The government has spent 638m pounds on universal credit IT to date, with 441m pounds going on design and development, the minister for employment Mark Hoban revealed in answer to a Parliamentary question. A breakdown of the IT ...
It seems like just yesterday that we saw the release of Sabayon 9 with its three desktop flavors,but already the project team behind the popular Linux distribution has launched a new version. Sabayon 10 made its official debut late last ...
Cyber security is the biggest challenge for the government's universal credit roll-out,welfare reform minister David Freud has told a select committee. Speaking to a select committee,pensions minister Ian Duncan Smith said government had ...
American Apparel,the vertically integrated clothing manufacturer based in downtown Los Angeles,is announcing its participation in Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week TOKYO 2013 S/S(MBFW TOKYO). American Apparel's participation celebrates the ...
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The new 7-in.Kindle Fire HD tablet by Amazon,starting at$199,scored a 7 out of 10 rating from iFixit for its repairability by do-it-yourselfers. The main reason iFixit didn't give the Kindle Fire HD a higher rating--a 10 indicates repairs ...
Amazon Web Services(AWS)has announced an online marketplace where users of its cloud computing services can sell their reserved server instances to other companies,the company said on Wednesday. Reserved instances allow avid cloud users ...
Liverpool FC, the most successful club in English football history, has migrated its website to a public cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The club's website experiences major peaks of traffic around match days and when major news ...
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