Amazon's new tablet lineup, ranging from a $159 repriced Kindle Fire to the all-new $499 Kindle Fire 8.9-in. HD 4G, pose little threat to Apple's tablet dominance, several analysts said. On Thursday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled several ...
Amazon will create more than 2,000 permanent jobs in the next two years with the opening of three more distribution centres. Another 3,000 temporary jobs will also be created at the new centres during the Christmas peak period. Further ...
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The Paralympic Games was the largest live broadcast undertaking for Channel 4, but also gave the IT team an equally complex project that presented a range of new challenges and had to be executed under very tight deadlines. To broadcast ...
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Amazon on Thursday heated up the tablet competition with the introduction of new Kindle Fire HD tablets, including a model with LTE capabilities and another model with an 8.9-inch screen that can display images at a resolution of ...
Amazon is expected to announce one or more new models in its Kindle Fire range later today,at an event in Santa Monica,California. The conference will start at 10.30am PST(6.30pm UK time),and while Amazon has not directly admitted what it ...
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IDG News Service - D-Link's latest addition to its network-attached storage portfolio, the Cloud Storage 4000, can store up to 16TB of data which can be accessed remotely using smartphones or tablets. But the company offers few cloud ...
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CIOs have been urged to rethink their partnerships with strategic suppliers as the industry goes through its most disruptive period since the dot com crash. The rapid shift towards digital technologies,from big data to social ...
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IDG News Service-Enterprise software rivals Red Hat and Oracle,along with a number of other software and online services providers,have collaborated on a standard that they hope will ease the use of PaaS(platform as a service)among ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong - At a Computerworld Hong Kong event years ago, I heard a senior executive explain how online retailer Amazon re-engineered their e-commerce process for the Christmas gift-giving season. Like many retail ...
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Yahoo said Tuesday that Kathy Savitt, former founder and CEO of social commerce company Lockerz, is joining the ailing Internet company as chief marketing officer, responsible for all worldwide marketing and branding. Savitt will join the ...
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Foxconn International Holdings(FIH),the world's largest contract producer of smartphones,has seen shares fall 3.5 per cent after its worst-ever first-half net loss. The manufacturer posted a$226m loss for the January to June ...
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With downward price pressures, the excess capacity that providers must have on hand for peak traffic becomes a drag on profits. After the cloud gold-rush era is over, providers will need to find ways to turn that cost center into a profit ...
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PC World - The past six months or so have seen a veritable flurry of tiny, Linux-powered PCs descend upon the market, including not just the widely embraced Raspberry Pi but also the Mele A1000, the MK802, and the Oval Elephant, to name ...
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Many businesses are still reluctant to move sensitive data into an outsourced datacentre,according to analyst Gartner. The findings,based on Gartner's latest annual survey of the state of risk management programmes globally,show that many ...
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IDG News Service - Apple has opposed a government proposed judgment in an e-books price-fixing lawsuit, stating that the judgement seeks to terminate and rewrite its contracts "before a single document has been introduced into evidence, ...
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