Microsoft may upgrade Office 2013 as often as four times a year, the company's top Office executive said this week, a massive change from decades of more measured development. The faster release pace for Office has been repeatedly touted ...
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Logicalis has agreed to acquire four European subsidiaries of the defunct computer services company 2e2 for €24m (£20.7m). The managed services provider will acquire the Spanish and Irish systems integration businesses, which ...
Next month Toshiba is to sample ARM-based image recognition processors for industrial use. Mass production is planned for January 2014. The industrial image recognition processors are a derivation of its Visconti range of image processors ...
In the 2012 financial year the flooring group Tarkett increased its turnover by 11% to €2.318bn. Organic growth (+4.6%), acquisitions (+3.6%) and favourable exchange rate influences (+2.8%) constituted some of the reasons for the ...
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The Canadian OSB manufacturer Ainsworth Lumber is having the main machinery from its Cook OSB mill in Minnesota auctioned off. Maynard Industries is running the auction. The auction includes a multi-opening press supplied by Siempelkamp in ...
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Chemineer, Inc. is offering the new Kenics UltraTab static mixer designed for turbulent flow applications where a high degree of mixing is required in a compact space. The new Kenics UltraTab provides a combination of advantages from ...
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The Swedish company Södra will begin installing a new unit for sorting side-cuts at its industrial sawmill in Värö in June 2013. According to information from the company, a cost-efficient solution for permanently overcoming ...
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Viralheat, a social media marketing suite provider, today announced the launch of a new platform designed to help developers make apps more social and validates success of the new platform with its first launch partners SocialChorus and ...
The idea that the technology behind search is a done deal is far from the truth, according to Google, as the company appears to still have plenty of tricks up its sleeve to improve it. "Everybody's mindset is that search is a solved ...
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Apple's U.S. retail Mac sales were up for the first month of the quarter, but not to the extent recently claimed by a Wall Street analyst, the NPD Group said today. Earlier this week, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, citing NPD data, ...
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SAP customers have made it no secret they believe the vendor's software licensing and pricing is far too complex, and a top company leader recently made a public pledge that things are changing for the better. But a recently created ...
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Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and head of the company's Glass project, said the computerized eyeglasses are more masculine than smartphones. Google co-founder Sergey Brin dons the company's Glass digital eyewear. (Photo: Andrew ...
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Sony, striving for its first annual profit in five years, said Thursday it sold a Tokyo office complex for about $1.2 billion. "Sony City Osaki," a building and block of land in a prime section of the Japanese capital near bustling Osaki ...
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Groupon's founder and chief executive, Andrew Mason, has been fired following a string of poor financial results. In a candid memo to Groupon's staff Mason said: "After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've ...
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Blue Chip Technology has designed a multicore Cortex-A9 based computer board with a dual display, CAN and Mini PC-Express peripherals in a fan-less embedded computer. Designated the RE3, it is available as a Cortex-A9 single core, dual ...
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