IT managers at SMEs will be made redundant in the next five years and replaced by a financial director or CIO, according to the MD of data centre provider City Lifeline, Roger Keegan. Keegan told Computing that in-house data centres are ...
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Jolla, the mobile operating system start-up established by ex-Nokia employees, says that it has sold out the first batch of its forthcoming debut smartphone. Based on the Sailfish operating system, a refined version of Nokia's Linux-based ...
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Nokia's credit rating has been cut even further by ratings agency Moodys, over concerns about the company's cashflow. The company's credit rating now stands at B1, four levels below "investment grade". Further reading Nokia to launch ...
A malicious software tool perhaps most famously used to hack RSA's SecurID infrastructure is still being used in targeted attacks, according to security vendor FireEye. Poison Ivy is a remote access trojan (RAT) that was released eight ...
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Nokia is to release its own tablet computer running Windows RT in September, according to sources in China, where it will be made. The device will feature a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 and will include support for 4G wireless ...
Etisalat UAE will soon be able to deliver new standards of LTE roaming across the globe to its customers, thanks to a newly signed IP exchange (IPX) agreement with SAP. The agreement will help Etisalat launch LTE roaming quickly by ...
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IDC expects that China's IT security appliance market will grow 14.7% to US$950 million in 2013; and this figure will reach US$1.56 billion by 2017, with a 2012-2017 CAGR of 13.5%. According to IDC, China's IT security appliance market ...
For its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (to 28 June 2013), Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) has ...
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Global sales of fiber optic circulators to reach $230 million in 2013, $313m in 2017, says analyst The global sales value of fiber optic circulators in optical communications will grow at an average annual rate of 8.4 percent, from ...
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China's telecoms regulator has recently added a touch of clarity to the confusion surrounding the future technological direction of the country's mobile market – a touch and nothing more. After months of speculation on when the ...
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Fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA says that, on the basis of preliminary financial results, it expects to report revenue of about $266m for its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (ended 28 ...
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Chinese telecoms hardware maker Huawei says that its profits for the first half of the year were up 10 per cent, after posting its operating interim results for 2013. It follows an increase in revenue of almost 11 per cent over the same ...
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The Irish telecoms regulator Comreg is planning to release one billion new phone numbers for machine-to-machine communications. The initiative will see phone numbers assigned to cars, industrial equipment and household appliances, such as ...
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Mergers and acquisitions in the UK food and drink industry hit a 10-year low at just 73 deals in the first half of this year, revealed figures from information services company Experian. Could AG Barr's acquisition of GSK's Lucozade and ...
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Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has received an R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine for its SPECTOR-HT ion beam deposition (IBD) System. The SPECTOR-HT is used to create precision thin-film coatings for the optical market for ...
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