IDG News Service - IBM has teamed with AT&T to offer secure shared cloud services to customers over private networks rather than the public Internet, the companies said Tuesday. The service to be delivered from early next year is targeted ...
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Samsung's tablet sales have grown by 325% in one year, according to new figures released today. Analyst firm IDC reported the numbers in its worldwide quarterly tablet tracker report, which showed 5.1 million shipments in the third ...
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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have finalized the creation of a joint venture that will deliver e-reading applications, and the new company will be called Nook Media LLC, the book seller said on Thursday. Previously called NewCo, the joint ...
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VMware has fleshed out its desktop virtualisation strategy with a suite of products designed to make desktop computing more manageable by using workspace aggregation. As 30 June, 2014 – the end of support date for Windows XP – ...
A Microsoft-commissioned report published last week said companies can save tens of thousands of dollars in support and development costs by standardizing on one browser. Although the report, conducted by Forrester Research and paid for ...
Reports that Microsoft could launch its own Surface smartphone next year have surfaced again, leading some tech experts to ask: "Why, pray tell, why?" The latest round of speculation began Monday when the China Times reported Microsoft ...
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Samsung shipped nearly twice the number of smartphones as Apple during the second quarter, as potential buyers of Apple's phones and operators hold off purchases in anticipation of a rumored new iPhone 5 by October, research firm Strategy ...
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IBM and Oracle shared more details this week about new RISC chips they're building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. The Unix server market continues to contract as x86-based systems gain more ...
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Users of Windows Phone 7-based phones will have to wait until the new year for the long-promised version 7.8 updates to the obsolete operating system. The update is intended to improve customisation and mimic the features and functions of ...
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Using the slim evidence of new device identifiers, the developer of the popular Instapaper software yesterday speculated that Apple's long-rumored "iPad Mini" will include some of the same components as the low-priced iPad 2 tablet. Marco ...
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Blue Coat has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire network security company Crossbeam Systems. The acquisition brings together two market leaders that deliver complementary technologies to scale and secure the ...
MediaTek Inc., currently Taiwan’s No.1 vendor of cellphone chips by revenue, maintains its revenue goal for the fourth quarter and is projected to see revenue for next quarter rise 20% from this quarter mostly thanks to its rollout of ...
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Android was on over two-thirds of smartphones shipped in the second quarter, with Apple's iOS on around a sixth of them -- more than all the remaining smartphone OSes combined, IDC said Wednesday. Windows Phone's share of the market ...
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Intel warned Tuesday that it expects to see lower-than-anticipated growth for c because consumer spending in Western Europe and North America has not recovered as predicted. The news came as the company posted mixed results for the second ...
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The continuing slide in Facebook's stock price is fueling speculation that the social network might be better off without co-founder Mark Zuckerberg at the helm. Facebook shares hit a record low of $19.87 at the close of trading Thursday. ...
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