Raises its overall projection, but lowers estimate for devices including tablets Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2% increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion, according to the latest forecast by ...
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Tobii Technology will soon start shipping a device that allows users to control a PC using their eyes. Developers will be able to buy the REX next week, and Tobii will make it more widely available in the second half of the year, the ...
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The annual CES trade show in Las Vegas gets under way this weekend with big announcements from gadget makers keen to wow and convince us they have the next big thing. But it's worth remembering that some of the promises and predictions made ...
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Final online usage numbers for 2012 released Tuesday confirmed that Windows 8 failed to match Windows Vista's uptake pace during its first two months. Preliminary numbers from Net Applications last week indicated that Windows 8 would end ...
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2012 has been a year of re-invention among the tech industry's biggest players, with Microsoft overhauling many of its key product lines, most notably Windows, while also boldly entering the hardware market with Surface tablets. HP slashed ...
Nestléhas won the latest legal spat in its chocolate war with Cadbury after it stopped its rival from copying the shape of its KitKat fingers. Rowntree launched the KitKat in the 1930s and Switzerland-based ...
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Toshiba is developing a tiny digital camera module similar to the Lytro camera, which shoots tens of thousands of individual photos and then allows the user to pick the point of focus. The new camera will have from 30,000 to 50,000 tiny ...
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With just a week left in the month, Windows 8's usage uptake has slipped behind Vista's at the same point in its release, data from a Web measurement company showed. According to Net Applications, Windows 8's online usage share through ...
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Microsoft on Wednesday revealed six locations for new retail stores it will open in early 2013, including four transformed from its holiday specialty stores, dubbed "pop-ups," that it established in October. The move will expand the ...
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Global IT spending will total $3.7tn (pound 2.28tn) in 2013, a 4.2 per cent increase from 2012, according to analyst firm Gartner. In 2012, $3.6tn (pound 2.23tn) was spent on IT and this was set to rise in 2013 by only 3.8 per cent, ...
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Microsoft won't have its signature mega-booth at International CES 2013 starting next week in Las Vegas,but that's not expected to lessen the trade show's impact,or largesse. Show organizers said there will be 3,200 exhibitors and they ...
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IDG News Service-Lenovo hopes that computers made in its first U.S.manufacturing facility will attract more buyers,while also making the delivery of ThinkPad laptops and tablets faster to U.S.customers. The company,which is based in ...
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Computerworld-SAN DIEGO--In three to six months,SAP plans to ship software designed to separate business data from users'personal information on smartphones and tablets,the head of the enterprise software maker's mobility unit said on ...
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IDG News Service-Lenovo is challenging Google's Nexus 7 tablet with a new range of affordable IdeaTab tablets,which start at$299 and have the Android 4.0 OS. The US$299 IdeaTab A2109 comes with a 7-inch screen,while the$399 IdeaTab S2110 ...
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IDG News Service-Cisco Systems is modifying the licensing options for its Unified Communications Manager's UC Release 9.0 in an attempt to simplify the process and make the use of a variety of client devices easier,the company said on ...
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