IDG News Service-Facing a sluggish PC market and deferring revenue from sales of its upcoming Windows 8 OS,Microsoft reported$4.47 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2013,a 22%decline from the same period a year earlier. ...
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DG News Service-The mobile device is causing just as big a change in ways of working at the beginning of this century as the internet was at the end of the last century,says Kevin Noonan,consultant with Ovum. In the early days of internet ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft's recent price increases for its client-access licenses(CALs)is a"lose-lose"deal for enterprise customers but likely a major revenue boost for Microsoft,analysts said today. On Dec.1,Microsoft overhauled its ...
Computerworld-The PC industry got another does of sour news Friday when Intel announced it's cutting its third-quarter revenue outlook. The world's largest chip maker lowered its revenue forecast from an expected$13.8 billion to$14.8 ...
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PC World-We've known for some time that a"pure GNOME"version of Ubuntu Linux was in the works,and following last week's release of Ubuntu 12.10"Quantal Quetzal,"the first GNOME Remix of the software has now made its debut as well. "The ...
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PC World-For all the media attention that goes to Ubuntu,Linux Mint,Fedora,and the other leading Linux distributions,casual observers would have to be forgiven if they have no idea that hundreds of other distributions are out there as ...
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Network World-Canonical community manager Jono Bacon has announced that testers and developers are needed to help bring Ubuntu 13.04 to the Nexus 7 tablet,as part of an effort to move the Linux-based operating system onto multiple ...
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Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year,an analyst said today. Brian White,of Topeka Capital Markets,said that his checks of Asian computer manufacturers--the relatively ...
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Microsoft is modifying its Office 365 sales agreement with partners to motivate them to push the product more aggressively, the company announced on Monday. Microsoft wants to make Office 365 easier to sell and more profitable for its ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,16 commodities increased in prices, 17 fell and 65 remained unchanged on 28/12/2012.The largest rises were DOP (1.34%),Hydrofluoric acid (0.88%),Silver (0.68%),while the ...
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Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday cut its revenue forecast for the third quarter, saying a challenging economy hit demand for all its products. The chip maker now expects revenue for the quarter ending Sept. 29 to be down about 10 ...
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Dell is back in the tablet market after laying low for a few months, announcing the XPS 10 tablet, which has an ARM processor and Microsoft's upcoming Windows RT OS. The XPS 10 is intended for work and play, said Alison Gardner, director ...
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Unity Opto revenues hit 24-month high in June Siu Han,Taipei;Steve Shen,DIGITIMES[Friday 6 July 2012]LED packaging firm Unity Opto Technology saw its consolidated revenues grow 20%on month and 40%on year to hit a 24-month high of NT$710 ...
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Visa said Tuesday that it has expanded its digital wallet service V.me to an additional 53 banks and 23 merchant partners. About 55 million cardholders now can use V.me for their online shopping. V.me is a wallet service that aims to make ...
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IBM is planning to release on Dec. 14 a public beta of Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition that will no longer use the Lotus brand. IBM has decided to offer a public beta, the first in a long time for Notes and Domino, because of the ...
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