Nokia has dropped off the list of the top five smartphone vendors in the third quarter, facing stiff competition from Samsung and Apple globally, and from high-growth vendors like Huawei in China, where Nokia was the dominant player as ...
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Advanced Micro Devices has announced it will sell ARM-based server processors in 2014, ending its exclusive commitment to the x86 architecture and adding a new dimension to its decades-old battle with Intel. AMD will license a 64-bit ...
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Samsung Electronics has started mass production of a new type of memory chip for mobile devices, LPDDR3, that will dramatically increase performance in future smartphones and tablets, it said Tuesday. The new memory, which meets a ...
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As the battle between Apple’s iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S III rages on – a study conducted by the disassembly firm iFixit and nonprofit organisation Ecology Centre has concluded that the iPhone 5 is less toxic than the ...
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Apple today announced a Sept. 12 event in San Francisco to unveil its newest iPhone. Invitations to the media and analysts went out Tuesday for the long-expected event next week, and hinted at the likely name for the iPhone refresh. ...
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An international research team based in Bristol, UK has reportedly developed a new quantum chip that could enable the creation of ultra-fast computers and unhackable mobile phones, according to a report in the Financial Times. The report ...
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Check Point Software Technologies plans to introduce document security software that encrypts and controls access to files across an organization's various departments and also meets the growing need for corporate users to access company ...
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has developed a standard for handling 2D barcodes that it hopes will direct mobile phone users to websites more easily. By standardizing the specification for encoding, decoding and resolution of 2D barcodes, ...
Staffordshire County Council claims it has managed to save pound 1.5m by adopting the Cabinet Office framework for a public sector network. Staffordshire County Council was one of the first to embrace the public sector network (PSN) ...
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Microsoft Windows 8 support for TPM Tipping point for TPM TPM gathers momentum The end of the password? TPM in action across all devices Since 2006, many new computing devices have been sold with a built-in trusted platform module ...
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Just a few days after Ericsson filed several patent-infringement lawsuits against Samsung in the U.S., the Swedish mobile phone company also filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), asking for an import ban ...
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The 64-year-old, whose work includes computer and machine intelligence, neuroscience and virtual reality, revealed the move on his blog on Friday. Kurzweil said his work at Google would focus on new projects involving machine learning and ...
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During the next eight years, the amount of digital data produced will exceed 40 zettabytes, which is the equivalent of 5,200 GB of data for every man, woman and child on Earth, according to an updated Digital Universe study released today. ...
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Many students return to school today to start the new e-skills computing curriculum. Speaking at the education show BETT, in January, education secretary Michael Gove said the current ICT curriculum is too off-putting, demotivating and ...
As telecom companies in Africa scramble to adopt next-generation mobile services to boost revenue, MTN South Africa has launched a commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) network with the help of Ericsson. The network is the first to be ...
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