PCs and mobile devices connected to peripherals via USB ports will in the future be able to transfer data at twice the speed possible today. A new specification that doubles the data transfer over USB to 10Gbps is in the works, said the ...
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Just as industry watchers have predicted, the race to the bottom for cloud computing prices continues. On Thursday, while announcing that the beta tag has been removed from the Google Compute Engine (GCE) cloud service, Google also ...
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Microsoft took off the gloves and took a big swing at Facebook today, calling the social network's new Home launcher an old idea. Facebook Thursday unveiled Home, a home screen, along with family of apps all for Android smartphones. ...
The more information that leaks about Windows 8's expected summer upgrade, dubbed "Blue" by Microsoft, the more questions that pop up, analysts said today. And with very few exceptions, customers don't have answers. The latest tidbit ...
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Microsoft today reminded customers running Office for Mac 2008 that support for the suite ends next Tuesday. "Support for Office for Mac 2008 will end April 9, 2013," Microsoft's Mac Business Unit (MacBU), the firm's OS X development arm, ...
Over 120 delegates from 50 companies convened in London for the TXT Thinking Retail! Event on the 21st of March 2013. The outstanding location of the Savoy hotel on the Strand hosted the 3rd edition of the TXT global summit, which was ...
Microsoft today launched a third wave of 'Scroogled,' its attack ad-based campaign aimed at Google, this time highlighting what it said were privacy flaws in the latter's Android app store. "When you buy an Android app from the Google app ...
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VMware's Zimbra division has provided a preview of some of the enhancements it's working on for the next major release of the Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS), including an HTML5 Web client interface for both online and offline access to ...
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Xamarin today announced the lineup of mobile development experts scheduled to speak at the company's first-ever developer conference, Xamarin Evolve 2013. Xamarin co-founders Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza will keynote and discuss ...
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CGS, a leading global provider of technology solutions, announced that Western Glove Works has chosen the BlueCherry Enterprise Suite. BlueCherry will help boost efficiency and productivity, while improving planning, costing and financial ...
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Smartphones using the Android platform boosted their US market share in recent months, extending their lead over Apple's iPhone, a new survey shows. Android, the free mobile operating system from Google, accounted for 51.2 per cent of US ...
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To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends. Then ...
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IT contracting is being favoured over permanent hiring in the current market but some senior roles are moving back in-house, a recruitment expert says. Hays IT senior regional director Peter Noblet said permanent roles were steady but ...
Gamers, designers and photographers have innovative treats in store when the Leap Motion 3D gesture-sensing computer interface is launched next month (May 13). The launch could be a watershed. Since last May, Leap Motion has shipped ...
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Google has announced that it will no longer be basing future releases of its Chrome browser on WebKit, the open-source rendering engine that it shares with Apple's Safari. Instead it will be releasing a fork of WebKit dubbed Blink, which ...
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