Upgrading to Windows 7 is having little effect on IT departments' PC purchasing decisions Businesses are actively moving off Windows XP, as support for the legacy operating system (OS) is due to end in 2014. But, according to researcher ...
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An IDC study has found that businesses using Amazon's cloud services over the past five years have made considerable savings. The Amazon-commissioned survey was based on interviews with 11 large and mid-sized organisations,based in North ...
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In a special series,Fairfax Business Media Asia will be previewing speakers from the CIO Summit 2012. The debate on cloud computing should not be about private or public clouds but on the data centre,according to Raju Chellam,cloud ...
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HTC has sold back about half its majority stake in Beats Electronics,signaling according to analysts that its investment in the U.S.headphones provider may have fallen short of its expectations. The Taiwanese phone maker said in a Taiwan ...
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IDG News Service-SAP is planning to organize its analytics and BI(business intelligence)product strategy around five"pillars,"or subject areas,spanning from essential platform technology to social collaboration,the company announced ...
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The HP Eco Solutions Printing Awards recognise Australian and New Zealand businesses that are leaders in their industries for driving environmentally sustainable methods in imaging and printing. The winners of the 2012 awards are: ...
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Acer is offering a free upgrade to Windows 8 on some ultrabook models, saying it will refund the upgrade fee being charged by Microsoft on certain Windows 7 PC models purchased by buyers. Acer will refund consumers who purchase the Aspire ...
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Windows 8,the next major upgrade of Microsoft's operating system for PCs,tablets and laptops,will be released to manufacturers in August and will ship commercially in October,the company announced on Monday. Microsoft had previously said ...
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IDG News Service-A mixture of intense excitement and skepticism followed the launch a year ago of Office 365,as backers and critics debated whether the cloud collaboration,productivity and communication suite would succeed. Skeptics said ...
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Mozilla rebranded its mobile operating system -- which it's been working on for more than a year -- as Firefox OS to tie it with its best-known product, the Firefox browser. Smartphones powered by the new Firefox OS will be manufactured ...
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Google is readying a new set of Analytics usage reports designed specifically for mobile applications,the company announced at its I/O developer conference on Friday. So far,Google Analytics has approached mobile-application tracking ...
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Research in Motion's stock price plunged 19%Friday following RIM's announcement late yesterday of a$518 million first quarter loss and that its BlackBerry 10 smartphone has been further delayed. At the close of markets Friday,RIM's ...
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Oracle unveiled Oracle Retail Customer Analytics, a business intelligence solution that helps retailers better understand their customers and what drives their buying decisions. Oracle Retail Customer Analytics helps retailers increase ...
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Computerworld-Apple's Retina MacBook Pro is now shipping faster to online customers,according to the company's e-stores for the U.S.,Brazil,Canada,China,France,Germany,Japan and several other countries. The higher-resolution notebook now ...
HP has released a StoreOnce data deduplication back-up system,which it claims can ingest data at 100TB per hour–three times faster than EMC's recently launched Data Domain 990. HP said the competition-beating speeds can be achieved ...
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