As General Motors brings its heavily outsourced IT environment in-house, we examine whether the decision is likely to trigger other companies into similar transitions or whether it will be a one-off. General Motors (GM) announced earlier ...
Tags: General Motors, IT services, HP, EDS
IDG News Service-Analysts have predicted a trend towards moving IT from on-premise to off-premise,new cloud applications and an increase in spending on cloud services next year. IDC head of research Matthew Oostveen said with cloud ...
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Samsung has almost doubled its profits in its third quarter of 2012,thanking the performance of its smartphone division for the significant rise. Net profit for the three-month period hit KRW6.56tn(GBP3.7bn),which represented a ...
Tags: Samsung, smartphone sales, Net profit, KRW26.25tn, Nokia
The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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Business software provider SAP has posted strong Q3 financial results,with cloud representing a key area of growth. The firm's software revenues rose to€1bn,a rise of 17 per cent compared with this time last year.Cloud subscriptions ...
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Microsoft will not sell Windows 8 as a physical boxed product in China and instead will only distribute the OS through downloads and pre-installs on devices,in a move that could help the company drive consumers away from pirated copies of ...
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Computerworld - The Windows division's share of Microsoft's revenue last quarter dropped to a four-year low as Windows 7 sales stalled before the launch of Windows 8, financial data released by Microsoft yesterday showed. The Windows and ...
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)posted third-quarter revenue figures of$1.27 billion(£0.79bn),a 10 per cent decrease on Q2 figures,and a 25 per cent year-on-year decline.This was in line with revised guidance issued by the firm ...
Tags: AMD, chip, job cuts, computing devices, steep decline in the PC market
IDG News Service-Chip company Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it would lay off 15%of its workforce as it tries to inch back to profitability at a time when the PC market is slumping. The company will lay off close to 1,800 of its ...
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IDG News Service-Information about sales,profits and margins for specific Apple products should be made public,the judge hearing the company's lawsuit against Samsung Electronics ruled on Wednesday,though a higher court's decision could ...
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IDG News Service - Almost half of IT managers in a survey last month said that they plan to standardize their company's mobile platform on devices running Microsoft operating systems, including smartphone OSes Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows ...
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IDG News Service - Laptops and desktops with Intel's next-generation Core processor, code-named Haswell, will be available in the first half of next year, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said during a financial conference call on Tuesday. The ...
HP has lost its title as the world's biggest PC vendor after new quarterly figures from analyst group Gartner showed that it had been overtaken by rival Lenovo. According to Gartner's figures,Lenovo edged ahead in the third quarter with a ...
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IDG News Service-China Mobile,the country's largest mobile carrier,will develop its own company-branded handsets,while hoping to eventually strike a deal with Apple for the iPhone. The operator's CEO Li Yue made the comments while ...
Tags: China Mobile, iPhone, handsets, Apple
Microsoft has acquired mobile authentication solutions provider PhoneFactor, which it hopes will help it to offer secure mobile business applications for enterprises. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Further reading ...
Tags: Microsoft, PhoneFactor, Windows Phone 8, MFA