Computerworld - Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) turned things around in 2012, posting an annual usage share gain for the first time in the last eight years, according to data published earlier this week by a Web analytics company. Net ...
IDG News Service - The patent injunction portion of Google's antitrust settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week won't mean an end to patent disputes between Google and mobile device makers, but it does take away one major ...
Tags: Google, patent, mobile device, computer information
IDG News Service - Lenovo is reorganizing its operations into two business groups, in an apparent move to leverage the company's ThinkPad brand to better compete in the market. The reorganization, which will be completed on April 1, seeks ...
Tags: Lenovo, ThinkPad, server business, storage business
Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret AS(Kardemir)has announced its planned sales volumes of rebar,billet and bloom,beams and pig iron for the January to March period of 2013. According to ...
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The World Trade Organization will investigate China's quotas and tariffs on rare earth minerals following prompting from the US, EU and Japan, who allege the export restrictions are in contravention of international trade regulations. ...
The Supreme Court of Virginia has vacated a preliminary injunction against reviews posted by a woman on Yelp and Angie's List, in an outcome that is being described by civil rights groups as a victory for freedom of online speech. In a ...
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The U.S. government misrepresented facts when it approached a court for search warrants against Megaupload, according to a filing Wednesday by counsels of the file-sharing site. The basis for the warrants was the charge that Megaupload ...
Tags: U.S.government, Megaupload, infringing files, warrants
Molycorp (NYSE:MCP) has seen its share price sink to abysmal lows following numerous problems in 2012, leaving the American rare earth producer a highly appealing takeover target. Bloomberg reports that Molycorp, which owns the USA's ...
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Pick up your smartphone. Touch its screen. It's smooth, crystal-clear, and amazingly resilient. Chances are your smartphone is protected by a sheet of Corning Gorilla Glass. But what exactly is this Gorilla Glass? How is it fabricated and ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung plans to launch its first cell phones this year based on Tizen,a Linux-based operating system that will principally rival Google's Android OS. Tizen is being developed by Samsung and Intel in part to reduce their ...
A half-million lines of custom code wasn't enough to produce a viable Dynamics AX ERP(enterprise resource planning)system for point-of-sale and RFID products distributor ScanSource,according to a lawsuit it has filed against Avanade,the ...
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Capital Invest - Capital Malls aims at the realization of real estate investments that provide a safe and profitable capital growth through the application of funds in commercial real estate, shopping malls, hotels and commercial ...
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The University of Otago is auditing the safety of architectural glass sheets in some of its more than 200 buildings as it faces problems with spontaneously shattering glass, including an incident in the week before Christmas. The audit ...
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New laws coming into effect this year will ban employers from demanding access to prospective and current employee social networking accounts. Facebook had announced in March 2012 that it was receiving a "distressing increase in reports" ...
Tags: Facebook, profiles, information, privacy, employers
With the new reporting interface just released by FaceItPages (the popular Facebook Page Tab creation service) ad agencies, marketers, and professionals now have advanced tools that will provide them deeper understanding of the fan activity ...
Tags: FaceItPages, Facebook Page, Tab creation service, Facebook