Microsoft will reap enormous revenue when it introduces mobile versions of its Office productivity suite for iOS and Android, an analyst said on Friday, despite warning that the window of opportunity is quickly closing. “The day ...
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According to a team of researchers, there is a way to store digital data in the form of DNA, which could potentially last for tens of thousands of years. The encoding method makes it possible to store at least 100 million hours of ...
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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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The first mobile devices with Qualcomm’s new quad-core Snapdragon chip, which features an integrated modem, will be shown off later this month, the firm said on Monday. Device makers will show tablets and smartphones with the new ...
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Oliver Ebel, Executive Director and General Manager, Lenovo Middle East and Africa Lenovo announced on Monday that it is now the number-four PC manufacturer in the Middle East and Africa, based on the latest preliminary results from IDC ...
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Users of Microsoft's Bing search engine can now see a wider range of Facebook content from their friends appear alongside search results, part of an effort by Microsoft to make the site more social. When a person runs a query in Bing, the ...
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Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 10th January 2013). ID1,613 / $1,745 (-0.6%) (weekly change). The number of week traded shares was 23.3bn and the weekly trading volume was ID30.5bn ($25.4mn). ...
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Fiberlink, the leader in application management and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for secure mobile device management, recently held a free live webinar titled "Managing Mobile Chaos." Currently available on demand, this webinar ...
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If users take to Facebook's new search tool, the social network could be in line to haul in a whole lot of advertising dollars, say industry analysts. Earlier this week, the company announced Graph Search, a tool designed to enable users ...
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Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be ...
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Smartphones running Mozilla Firefox and Jolla Sailfish will launch separately in 2013 amid a crowded smartphone market. Their impact will be small but important initially, as the smartphone community seeks alternatives to the frontrunner ...
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Chinese firm Lenovo has overtaken Acer in the volume of EMEA PC sales made by quarter, to become the second biggest PC maker in the region, behind HP. According to figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 from analysts IDC, a sustained ...
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Intel's sales and profits have slumped as the world's biggest computer chip manufacturer feels the impact of a decline in PC sales. The company's fourth quarter report shows year-on-year net income fell 27 per cent to $2.5bn, ...
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Lenovo today announced the ThinkPad X131e Chromebook -- a fast booting, highly customizable laptop PC built with rugged features for the daily rigors of K-12 education. The ThinkPad X131e Chromebook simplifies software and security ...
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Computerworld - With Facebook's new search service out in the open, the social network seems to be on a collision course with search giant Google. "It appears that's the path Facebook is on," said Jeff Kagan, an independent industry ...
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