It’s Friday morning and another ProMat is behind us. My legs are shot. My back hurts. My spirits are pretty high. That’s because I think it was a successful show. The best of the industry was on display. You expect that at ...
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Strong demand for Android tablets helped boost Carphone Warehouse's sales in the final quarter of 2012, the firm announced in its Q3 financial statement. Like-for-like revenue in the UK was up 16 per cent as the retailer's tablet sales ...
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From washers to thermostats, you'll find more touchscreen technology all around the house. Schlage's new Touchscreen Deadbolt Lock brings that convenience to your front door. The battery-powered deadbolt replaces your existing lockset ...
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Taiwan-based LED packaging house Unity Opto recently received an order for 20,000 street lamps from Europe, therefore, the firm expects first-quarter 2013 revenues to show an on-year increase of 60%. In addition to the street lamp orders, ...
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Amazon.ca today announced that the new family of Kindle e-readers is now available to customers in Canada. The all-new top-of-the-line Kindle Paperwhite is the most advanced e-reader ever built with 62% more pixels and 25% increased ...
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Business Technology Solutions (BizTech), a leading Business and IT Services firm and Oracle Platinum Partner, is pleased to announce the addition of Oracle E-Business Suite instance cloning onto Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its cloud ...
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SAP's revenue in the fourth quarter grew by 12 percent, helped by strong growth in the market for its cloud applications, its HANA in-memory database and mobile applications. Revenue in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 was $5 billion ...
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Internet retail colossus Amazon.com has announced the purchase of a text-to-speech technology company in a move evidently aimed at ramping up the capabilities of its Kindle Fire tablet computers. Amazon did not disclose financial terms of ...
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Lovefilm’s content deal with Channel 4 follows after it confirmed a deal with NBCUniversal for several shows. The new deal with give Amazon members' access to stream British entertainment from Channel 4's on Demand (4oD) archive ...
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Dell is said to be close to being bought out for about $24bn (£15.1bn) as the crisis amid PC makers takes its toll on one of the world's largest technology firms. The company, which has switched its focus from producing PCs to ...
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John Lewis is hiring an extra 100 IT staff as it continues its drive into online following a successful Christmas and sales trading season. And according to Paul Coby, IT director at the department stores chain, a high proportion of ...
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Few of us are actually headed to New Orleans this year to watch Super Bowl XLVII on February 3. But the next best thing to being there is watching it on a big-screen HDTV. An if you're in the market for a new set, you'll need to make sure ...
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Microsoft has announced that its business-oriented Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet computer will debut in the US and Canada in February with a lofty starting price of $US899 ($A851). Microsoft also said that the consumer-focused version of ...
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Amazon says its 22-million-song music catalogue is now "optimised" for users of Apple devices, making it easier for iPhone owners to circumvent the iTunes store. The move is part of a new push by the internet retail giant challenging ...
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A federal judge in California has ordered Apple and Amazon.com to sit down and attempt to settle a lawsuit between them over Amazon's use of the "Appstore" name for its online application marketplace. U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth ...
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