Hardware manufacturers met in Silicon Valley last week to continue drafting new open standards for data centres and servers with components that can be put together like Lego. The Facebook-sponsored Open Compute Project summit in Santa ...
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Queenland utility company Energex has long required a device able to withstand extreme temperatures, dust and rain for its staff working in harsh weather conditions. It first turned to the Panasonic Toughbook CF-18 in 2006, but the need ...
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UTAH-based Fusion-io is making waves in Silicon Valley. With companies such as Facebook and Apple as clients, the $US2 billion ($1.9bn) start-up produces so-called NAND flash boards that are becoming a building block of modern data centres. ...
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VODAFONE has renewed calls for a review into how much telecom companies pay one another when their customers make calls to mobile phones, claiming that consumers have been ripped off to the tune of $1.3 billion by Telstra's intransigence to ...
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THINGS are getting increasingly touchy in the computer world. Touchscreens, which most of us have on our smartphones or tablets, are spreading to the full-size personal computing arena. They're increasingly common on notebook PCs, ...
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The new Artline campaign, created by newly-appointed advertising agency Little Giants, follows an extensive review of the brand's previous positioning and advertising. “Building on the brand's strong credentials and market ...
With Toy Fair 2013 upon us, we've produced a series of articles to help you get through it without breaking a sweat. Survival tipsTravel, accommodation and where to eatSupplier profilesExhibitor listFloor plansThe Alternative Toy Fair ...
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Users of Microsoft's Bing search engine can now see a wider range of Facebook content from their friends appear alongside search results, part of an effort by Microsoft to make the site more social. When a person runs a query in Bing, the ...
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There are a bunch of flu-related apps you can now download to your smart phones. We haven't tested any, but those described below are free and seem to offer some useful features. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a flu ...
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The updated Bing search engine adds more information from Facebook friends when searching. The revamped search option is expanding beyond Facebook likes, photos and profile information that relate to searches. Bing search will now show ...
Good Toy Guide Toy Clinics at Toy Fair are now fully booked. The free 20-minute sessions offered by the team have proved very popular with the industry. Dr. Amanda Gummer said: "We're looking forward to helping the next generation of ...
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TonerGreen, an environment-conscious printer supply store, is offering a sale to celebrate this year's winter season. So stack up on the printer supplies with TonerGreen's remanufactured toner cartridges and remanufactured ink cartridges ...
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If users take to Facebook's new search tool, the social network could be in line to haul in a whole lot of advertising dollars, say industry analysts. Earlier this week, the company announced Graph Search, a tool designed to enable users ...
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With its new MiO liquid flavoring, Kraft Foods is targeting "Generation Next," the 18-to-39 year old men and women who look at personalization and experimentation as a fact of everyday life. Promoted as a water enhancer, MiO is packaged ...
Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be ...
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