Orange Digital, the subsidiary of Orange that manages digital services for EE, had a legacy physical infrastructure that was inadequate to offer scalability at low costs. Its IT team has adopted cloud services, not just for high ...
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Microsoft's Windows 8 may be lagging far behind Windows 7 in its usage uptake,but it's easily topping the low bar set by Windows Vista,according to data from Web metric firm Net Applications. Windows 8 accounted for 0.45%of all ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Net Applications
Rail Settlement Plan(RSP),the company that provides IT and retail services to UK rail operators,is upgrading its systems with AWS cloud to provide a next-generation ticket issuing systems as a growing number of commuters adopt the"click and ...
Tags: UK, RSP, AWS, Smart421, rail operators, cloud-based service
Amazon suffered another embarrassment as web services hosted at its Virginia datacentre were subject to an outage, bringing websites of a number of high-profile customers down, and for not the first time. The cloud infrastructure was hit ...
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has outlined her strategy for the company, with the focus firmly fixed on mobile and improving the "user experience" of the company's services. Further reading Yahoo's Mayer brings fellow ex-Google exec on ...
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Tablets will outsell laptops for the first time ever this quarter,at least in North America,and will continue to outsell them next year. That's according to NPD DisplaySearch,whose Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report suggests ...
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With just over a month until Christmas, 57 percent of consumers (and 65 percent of men) have yet to begin shopping, mostly because they think they have plenty of time, according to the latest Consumer Reports Holiday Poll. However, in yet ...
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The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word"commodity."You push a button,and voilA,a root password is yours within minutes.The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out ...
Tags: Joyent Cloud, commodity cloud provider, SmartOS, virtualization tool
Enterprises can now run Windows Server 2012 on the Amazon Web Services cloud,and take advantage of improved management features and new versions of IIS and the.Net framework. AWS isn't the only provider whose cloud can run Microsoft's new ...
Tags: Windows Server 2012, Amazon Web Services cloud, server operating system
GoodSync is single-minded:It's intended to provide automatic synchronization and backup across folders and remote volumes.That narrow focus has two repercussions.First,the utility offers exhaustive,rich,and deep support for an array of ...
Tags: GoodSync, file-transfer, user interface, three popular standard protocols
IDG News Service-Apple's iPad shipments for China nearly doubled in the third quarter,after Apple settled in July a lengthy dispute over the iPad trademark name that once threatened to ban the device from store shelves in the country. ...
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In developing Bloomberg's next-generation mobile video app, general manager and global head of mobile and connected devices Oke Okaro (pictured) and his team of mobile experts studied how people use the news service. As Computer Weekly ...
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Texas Instruments today announced 1,700 job cuts and a change in strategy away from the mobile market. Texas Instruments makes chips for a number of mobile devices, including Amazon's Kindle Fire, but had been talking in recent months of ...
E-commerce giant Amazon could venture into the mobile chip arena,as it looks set to acquire the mobile chip arm of semiconductor firm Texas Instruments. Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet,released in the UK this month,is powered by a processor ...
Tags: Amazon, mobile chip, Texas Instruments
Ample picture quality now comes from small packages;you can stream high-quality video content using a smart phone or Roku's tiny,Wi-Fi-connected Streaming Stick,for example.Now a gadget that's almost as small as those,the 3M Streaming ...
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