There are two ways analysts report hiring trends in the tech: Some focus on the half-empty, others on the half-full. For the half-empty view, there is this new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which claims that layoffs in ...
Tags: Computer Products, IT economy, telecommunications industries
China's largest search engine Baidu is planning to acquire two leading app stores in the country for $1.9 billion, as the company seeks to expand its presence in the mobile Internet space. Baidu on Monday said it signed an agreement to ...
Tags: baidu, Computer Products, web service, APP
Sony wants to simplify laptop backups. The company says it will soon launch a new line of SD cards and accompanying software that will allow laptop users to carry their backups along with them while on the move. The solution is meant to ...
Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumia smartphones in the second quarter, its best yet for sales of the Windows Phone devices, but still made a net loss. Net sales totalled a!5.70 billion (US$7.48 billion), down 24 percent year-on-year. The company ...
Tags: Lumia Smartphones, Nokia
Microsoft has completed its purchase of InCycle's InRelease business unit, announced in June, and is now deploying the software to offer DevOps capabilities to its Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server users. The company has released ...
Microsoft is reportedly moving ahead quickly on development of a smartwatch, having reached the prototype stage with a 1.5-in. device running on a modified Windows 8 housed in a translucent aluminum case. In addition to a housing made of ...
Tags: Smartwatch, Computer Products
Opscode, the foundation for the coded business, announced that Bonobos, the largest apparel brand ever built on the web, has automated its entire Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with Opscode Hosted Chef. Using Hosted Chef, Bonobos ...
Tags: Web Service, Textile, Service
As digital commerce extends into mobile technologies, growing numbers of consumers are integrating smartphones into their purchasing processes. This worldwide trend is moving fastest in certain emerging markets, where switched-on consumers ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Mobile Shopping, Americans
Chris Sawyer's 31X Ltd and Origin8 Technologies Ltd are proud to announce that a revitalized version of the gaming classic Transport Tycoon will be arriving on iOS and Android platforms in late 2013. Upon its original release in 1994, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Tycoon, Mobile
Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, but it is not clear whether it will eventually promote phones running the open-source Ubuntu OS on its network. Canonical, the company behind the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The latest simulator for the upcoming Firefox mobile OS is aimed to please developers planning to sell applications. Firefox Simulator 4.0, released on Thursday, "is a boon for those developers that want to make money using their app in ...
Tags: APP, Computer Products, software
Shale gas production in the UK could boost tax revenues and improve the nation's trade balance, but is unlikely to reduce gas prices, and is no short-term fix for national energy needs, according to Howard Rogers of the Oxford Institute for ...
Philips has updated its Ambilight color-illumination system for TVs by integrating it with Hue wireless LED lightbulbs, spreading content-themed light effects around the room. The update – which comes with a new Ambilight+Hue app for ...
Tags: LED, TV, Lights, Lighting, Elevation TV
A massive energy farm planned near a Cumbrian village would be equivalent to the size of 40 football pitches. Fears have already been expressed that the proposed 72-acre solar energy park will be an eyesore that will drive tourists away. ...
Tags: Solar Farm, Solar, Energy
Using LEDs as light sources in vegetable gardening is a new business opportunity in Japan, according to a recent Sankei Biz report. Large Japanese real estate developers, consumer electronics manufacturers, and architecture firms are ...
Tags: LED farm vegetable garden, LED, Lights, Lighting