There's "no reason at all" for the Force India Formula 1 team to upgrade its network operating system to Windows 8, Adrian Collinson, its head of IT, has told Computing. Force India's systems at both the factory and the track currently ...
Tags: Windows 8, Computer Products
Canonical has claimed its first corporate backer for its Ubuntu Edge smartphone after Bloomberg, the financial news giant, signed up to the $80,000 "Enterprise 100" package. Canonical has resorted to the Indiego "crowdfunding" website in ...
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PC sales in Western Europe crashed by 20 per cent in the second quarter, according to analyst group Gartner, with Acer and Asus experiencing crushing falls in sales of more than 40 per cent. Gartner's Meike Escherich, principal research ...
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LinkedIn used to offer a pretty passive experience: Put your resume on the professional social networking site and hope it catches a recruiter’s eye. But LinkedIn isn’t resting on its laurels, especially when it comes to ...
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Mobilising apps for employees to use on their iPhones and Android devices sure sounds like a fun idea. Employees would actually be thankful for having such a cool IT department, a forward-thinking team on the cutting-edge of consumer tech ...
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Recent advances in the smartphone/handheld device technology have led to a boom in the mobile device manufacturing industry. It has also given rise to a situation of patent warfare, wherein each company operating in this segment is locked ...
Tags: Mobile Devices, Electrical, Electronics
Overall, the global economic recovery was muted during the first quarter of the year under review, though there were signs of a bottoming out. Regionally, the U.S. economy recovered at a gradual pace, getting a boost from improved ...
Tags: economic recovery, Seiko Epson
Apple's new low-cost iPhone may be called the iPhone 5C, a name that didn't strike analysts as "C" for "Comforting." The name of the long-rumored lower-priced iPhone -- meant to give Apple new ammunition in its war against Android ...
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The worldwide IT outsourcing market is poised to grow more slowly than previously expected, reaching $288 billion in 2013, a 2.8 percent increase from 2012, according to Gartner. Looking out further, Gartner predicts a 5.4 percent compound ...
NEC Display Solutions, a provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, has received the Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its 21-inch MultiSync MD211G5 medical-grade monitor. The LED-backlit IPS diagnostic ...
Microsoft has revealed in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it achieved just $853m in Surface RT and Surface Pro sales during its 2013 fiscal year to the end of June. CEO Steve Ballmer had ...
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On Tuesday, Microsoft announced the preview version of Windows 8.1 for enterprises, bringing all of the functionality of Windows 8.1 to big business, with specific improvements for enterprises. Microsoft also reiterated that the corporate ...
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The U.S. smartphone market is about to get more crowded, as Asustek Computer -- maker of the Nexus 7 tablet -- could have an entry as early as 2014. Asus Chairman Jonney Shih told Ina Fried of the AllThingsD tech news website that the ...
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ASUS has announced the launch of its latest M51AC desktop with Windows 8 operating system and powered by the latest fourth-generation Intel Core processors (Haswell) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics. The M51AC also has a Wireless Charger ...
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ONE-TIME market leader Toshiba is on the comeback trail in the notebook and tablet arena and its Portege Z10t is an attempt to nail the tricky hybrid tablet/ultrabook zone. The hybrid attempts to straddle the best of both worlds by ...
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