Microsoft today shipped an emergency update for Internet Explorer (IE) to stymie attacks that have been occurring since at least Dec. 7. The "out-of-band" update -- the label for a security fix outside a vendor's normal schedule -- was ...
The continuing decline in PC sales worldwide potends a "structural shift" in the market for personal computing devices, says Gartner. Gartner Monday reported that fourth quarter shipments of personal computers were nearly 5% less than in ...
Tags: PC sales, computing device, computer
Banking on the trend toward cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard has created a stand-alone organization to oversee the company's hosted computing services and software offerings. Saar Gillai will oversee the new unit. Gillai, whose title is ...
Apple has slashed orders for iPhone screens in the first quarter by half, according to Monday reports out of both Japan and the U.S. Earlier today, Japan's Nikkei and the U.S.-based Wall Street Journal (subscription required), both citing ...
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The vice president of global manufacturing and president of international operations for General Motors, Tim Lee, has said in an interview at the Detroit auto show that he is confident in the Holden local manufacturing plan approved to ...
The market for personal computing devices is enduring a “structural shift”, which can be seen in the continuing decline of PC sales, Gartner reported on Monday. The research firm said that fourth quarter shipments of personal ...
Tags: personal computing devices, structural shift, PC sales
Shortages of touch-enabled Windows notebooks led to a steeper-than-expected decline in PC sales last quarter, an analyst said. According to IDC, global PC shipments in 2012's fourth quarter fell 6.4% compared to the same period in 2011, a ...
Tags: Windows notebook, PC sales, PC shipments
Revenue at Infosys grew in the fourth quarter, but profit fell as a result of a wage rise and investments in newer businesses. Revenue for the quarter was $1.9 billion, up 5.8% from the same quarter last year, helped by the company's ...
Tags: Infosys, revenue, acquisition, Lodestone Holding
Microsoft and a respected researcher disagreed this week about whether a bug in Windows RT is actually a security vulnerability that should be patched. The bug, revealed Jan. 5 by a hacker known as "clrokr," can be used to bypass a ...
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The head of Mercedes-Benz Cars says sales of large luxury cars such as the E-Class are set to stabilise or grow in the coming years after a period of global decline. In an interview with CarAdvice in Detroit, Dr Dieter Zetsche, the ...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, E-Class, Sales, RWD
Cement stocks have fallen sharply this week. In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Deep Mukherjee of India Ratings says he expects the cement sector to grow in the range of 5-8 percent for calendar year 2013. Below is the edited transcript of ...
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Head of licensing Darran Garnham (left) and senior consumer products manager Sam Ferguson (right) reveal how they're growing the Moshi Monsters brand even further with Poppet. Why licence out the Poppet Moshi Monster in particular and ...
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Verizon wants to use its nationwide LTE wireless network to stream the 2014 Super Bowl live, CEO Lowell McAdam told a keynote audience at International CES late on Tuesday. "Using LTE...we'd love to broadcast the Super Bowl in the 2014 ...
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The PC market may be taking a beating but chip maker Advanced Micro Devices is has no plans to move toward the hot new market: smartphones. Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer at AMD, made it clear in an interview with ...
Tags: AMD, tablets, hybrids, smartphones
Intel expects to see more innovation in PC design in the next year than there has been since the mid-1990s. That's the take of Navin Shenoy, Intel vice president and general manager, who is focused on thin and lightweight ultrabooks and ...
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