IDG News Service - Intel gained PC microprocessor market share over Advanced Micro Devices during the third quarter, but worldwide shipments of x86 chips declined at rates not seen in more than a decade, according to Mercury Research. ...
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EMC today announced a series of software upgrades for eight products in its Documentum content management platform and its Captiva document capture software line. The upgrades,which address cloud-based document management,add mobile ...
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Computerworld - Apple yesterday updated its iWork suite -- Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- for the iPad and iPhone, beefing up compatibility with Microsoft's Office. The Cupertino, Calif. company may be trying to get the jump on ...
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Microsoft will"die and disappear"within the next few years,futurist and ex-CTO of BT,Peter Cochrane,has told Computing. "Microsoft will die and disappear in the next few years.There is no convergence in IT–what we see is ...
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Mobile business intelligence (BI) has started to cascade down in organisations over the past year, Adrian Simpson, chief innovation officer, SAP UK, will tell delegates to IRM UK's Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence conference in London ...
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Disconnecting Microsoft heritage Low cost iPhones Deploying MobileIron London Borough of Brent is planning to provide staff with up to 3,000 iPads and iPhones as it phases out Blackberry smartphones. London Borough of Brent will use ...
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The 2011 security breach at Dutch certificate authority(CA)DigiNotar resulted in an extensive compromise and was facilitated in part by shortcomings in the company's network segmentation and firewall configuration,according to Fox-IT,the ...
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Computerworld-Some early users of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet say they are confused or frustrated by the touch interface on the 10.6-in.display and are relying instead on the attachable keyboard with its more conventional track pad and ...
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Chip designer ARM has unveiled a new series of 64-bit microprocessors intended to drive the company into the server market. The launch comes a day after Intel's rival in desktop and server computing microprocessors, AMD, revealed its plans ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft has seen strong initial demand for its Windows 8 operating system,CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday. Speaking at an event to launch Windows Phone 8,a new operating system for smartphones,Ballmer said the new ...
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IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. The company said Sunday its research into semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, has yielded a new method to accurately place them on ...
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Fujitsu has announced a partnership with Violin Memory to incorporate the Silicon Valley firm's solid state drives (SSDs) into its storage arrays. The Violin 6000 system will be stocked solely with flash storage, offering a high ...
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Valve,the company behind the popular games platform Steam,has opened its Linux-based Steam portal for beta registration. The private external beta–which the company is requesting that only experienced Linux developers ...
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The growing use of virtualisation has really helped many organisations. Not only have the average utilisation rates of servers and storage improved, but the use of applications and other software packaged ready for installation – ...
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CSO-In Windows 8,Microsoft has greatly improved the operating system's ability to detect malware before it has a chance to run,experts say.Windows 8 should also make it more difficult for people to unknowingly install malware in the first ...