IDG News Service-Sharp said Tuesday that mobile devices using its new IGZO display technology,which can triple battery life while offering higher touch sensitivity,are about to surge. The company decline to provide specific details,but ...
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British Gas chief information officer(CIO)David Cooper likes to keep things low-key.But the scale of his multimillion-pound technology transformation,and the impact his team's work has on customer spending,makes his one of the ...
Tags: British Gas, 26 IT workstreams, CRM, UK
The FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) Council of Europe has blamed the tradition of one large incumbent provider and the lack of ambition from the government for the UK lagging behind when it comes to fibre broadband. This week sees the council ...
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Lenovo's highly anticipated ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 will be priced starting at$629,the company said. The tablet will have a 10.1-inch screen and become available on Oct.26,alongside Microsoft's launch Windows 8 for PCs and ...
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UK employers, across the IT sector, have come together to back a new skills framework from the National Skills Academy. Free for IT professionals to use, the online IT Professional Profile enables individuals to benchmark their skills ...
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Intel has unveiled its chip focused on tablet systems,the Atom Z2760,revealing it'll launch after Windows 8 becomes available next month. Formerly known as Clover Trail,the system-on-a-chip design of the Intel Atom Z2760 is said to offer ...
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Earlier this year,the Ohio Department of Public Safety successfully completed a five-year effort to move its mainframe applications to a Windows-based system,and IT personnel did all of the work in-house. The agency began work on the ...
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The labelling of two IT suppliers as high-risk by government is part of a tightening-up of outsourcing,but how far can the government practically address the problem of failing outsourcing contracts? Fujitsu is among the companies ...
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The Cabinet Office has blacklisted Fujitsu and another IT supplier from tendering for government IT contracts because they constitute too high a risk. According to FT.com, Fujitsu will not be considered by the Cabinet Office for new ...
Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe(FSEU),headquartered in Langen,Germany,says it has demonstrated the transmission of>100Gbps over a single CEI-28G-VSR channel,effectively quadrupling the data rate throughput defined by the Optical ...
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SEMICON Taiwan 2012 kicked off yesterday for a three-day run at the Taipei World Trade Center's Nangang Hall,with approximately 600 manufacturers from 20 nations displaying their latest technologies at over 1,250 booths. The is expected ...
After 7 times of successfully being hosted, now the exposition has its loyal exhibitors, experienced staff. The visitor’s person time amounted to more than 400,000 in the past 7 years. They were manufacturers, distributors, importers ...
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Computer giant Oracle has said that it will continue to develop software for servers based on Intel's Itanium microprocessors after all,following a court ruling that the company is obliged under the terms of its contract with partner HP to ...
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IBM and Hewlett-Packard tied for the top position in server factory revenue in the second quarter, with a 29.2% and 29.6% share respectively, IDC said on Tuesday. But Dell was the only vendor among the top five whose server revenue ...
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Specsavers moved to an IT service management system from BMC Software when it wanted to become ITIL compliant and standardise the service globally. The optical retail chain implemented BMC FootPrints in 2008, when it upgraded a system ...
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