Tech stocks were flat Friday afternoon after earnings announcements from IT vendors this week and a government economic report offered glimpses of good news, but not enough to dispel the pall that hangs over the technology market. Apple, ...
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The Apple effect is rubbing off on Citrix, with the desktop virtualisation specialist posting 16% year-over-year growth for the second quarter of 2012. Sales of iPads and tablet computers have driven adoption of XenApps, said Citrix CEO ...
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance has announced that it is teaming up with the Small Cell Forum to deepen integration between Wi-Fi hotspots and licensed small cells. A number of companies already manufacture small cells that incorporate ...
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Boston-area Starbucks stores are the first in the nation to take part in a pilot program of Duracell's Powermat wireless charging technology. Seventeen stores in Boston and neighboring Cambridge are included in the wireless charging ...
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Texas Instruments Wednesday unveiled its first single-stage wireless charging integrated chip (IC). TI said the new IC is 60% smaller than its predecessors. The company today also added a power controller chip that it said increases the ...
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As mobile devices and social media put down ever deeper roots in IT, businesses are seeing big changes in how employees do their jobs and how customers interact with them, in addition to--ideally--using the technologies to find new revenue ...
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Many people have used mobile devices to answer work-related calls and emails while they're at home or at social gatherings. Still, how commonplace is the practice? A new survey of 1,000 U.S. workers found that people spend an average of ...
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Computerworld - Google's decision to cut 20% of the workers from its Motorola Mobility unit re-ignited fears that Google was primarily after the 17,000 patents Motorola held when it was acquired in May. "Everyone at Motorola is asking [if ...
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Computerworld - Imagine sitting down at work, plopping a mobile device on the desk and having it wirelessly charge itself while, at the same time, synchronizing new data to your PC. In that world, one could also wirelessly charge a phone ...
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Kicking off what may be the company's most challenging marketing effort yet, Microsoft has launched its next generation operating system, Windows 8, in New York City. "Windows 8 shatters perceptions of what a PC really is," said Microsoft ...
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Monday, Microsoft unwrapped the next edition of its Office money maker at a press event and simultaneously launched a public preview for users to try out now. CEO Steve Ballmer touted the new software as "the most ambitious release of ...
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Network World - To handle the explosion of mobile devices in the enterprise, Dell this week unveiled plans for a server designed to automate a wide range of mobile management jobs for mid-range business customers. The K3000 Mobile ...
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For all the promise that big data holds, the fundamental challenge with collecting massive volumes of data from different sources is finding new business uses for it, according to several IT managers at Computerworld's BI & Analytics ...
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Microsoft Studios has announced the opening of a dedicated mobile device videogame development studio in London. The studio joins the software company's existing three UK-based games development studios; London-based Soho Studios, ...
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Three advocacy groups plan to file a formal complaint against AT&T, alleging the carrier is violating the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules for blocking a video-conferencing application on Apple's iPhones and ...
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