Apple retained its stranglehold on mobile shopping over the two-day stretch of Thanksgiving and Black Friday in the U.S.,IBM said last weekend. More than three-fourths of all mobile traffic to online retailers during those two discount ...
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Lonely Planet Guide Reveals Its Best for 2013 Lonely Planet's eighth eagerly-awaited annual collection of the best places to go has named Hobart and Christchurch as two of the world's top cities for next year in 2013. Other cities to ...
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The U.S.Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed Titan system,a Cray XK7,has been anointed as the world's fastest supercomputer in the newly released 40th edition of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest ...
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Future Lighting Solutions and Shanghai Grand Light are pleased to announce the successful completion of a landscape lighting project illuminating several kilometers in the commercial and cultural heart of Shaoxing City. In total, 7300 ...
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IDG News Service-As the U.S.launched what's expected to be the world's fastest supercomputer at 20 petaflops,China is building a machine that is intended to be five times faster when it is deployed in 2015. China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer ...
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Lenovo has become the world's top supplier of PCs, according to the latest market data from Gartner. Lenovo took the top spot for worldwide PC shipments for the first time in its history, with its global share increasing to 15.7%, putting ...
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HP has lost its title as the world's biggest PC vendor after new quarterly figures from analyst group Gartner showed that it had been overtaken by rival Lenovo. According to Gartner's figures,Lenovo edged ahead in the third quarter with a ...
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Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer reportedly detailed her plans to rebuild the Internet company to Yahoo employees today at a meeting. While a few reports hit Twitter that at least one of the two planned meetings had begun today,there has ...
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Computerworld - China will overtake the U.S. as the global leader in smartphone shipments this year, according to IDC. China will receive 26.5% of all smartphone shipments for 2012, compared to 17.8% for the U.S. In 2011, the U.S. had ...
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Dell has dropped two places to fourth largest PC supplier in Western Europe as it strives to transform from PC manufacturer to services organisation. According to Gartner's latest PC shipment figures, a total of 13.6 million units were ...
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Nottingham Trent University student Oliver Hrubiak has won the Lighting Industry Association's Student Lighting Designer of the Year award. Hrubiak's winning design, 'Frank' is a contemporary table lamp designed for the domestic ...
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Samsung has rejected Apple's claim that it copied the iPhone during opening arguments in the first court clash between the two technology companies before a US jury in San Jose, California. The technology firms have each accused the other ...
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Samsung today announced revenues of £26.6bn thanks to a huge boost from its mobile business. The overall revenue amount was 21% higher than the same period last year, with operating profits rising 79% year-on-year to £3.7bn. ...
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If Chinese-based computer manufacturer Lenovo keeps moving at its current pace,the company will surpass Hewlett-Packard as the world's largest PC maker by the beginning of 2013,industry analysts say. That would represent a big shift for ...
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Within hours of launching Chrome for iOS,the'Safari-ized'browser took the top spot on the App Store's free download chart.Computerworld-Google Chrome,released yesterday for the iPhone and iPad,has already snatched the top spot in Apple's ...