BlackBerry began a fight to regain share in the key U.S. market on Friday with the debut of the first phone running its BlackBerry 10 operating system. The BlackBerry Z10 went on sale nationwide at stores of AT&T, the country's biggest ...
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Both BlackBerry and the U.K. government have denied reports that the new BB10 software has been rejected for use in sensitive government communications. Tuesday evening, U.K. newspaper The Guardian reported that the new BB10 operating ...
Apple's iPhone yesterday again took the top ranking in J.D. Power and Associates' smartphone customer satisfaction survey, the company said. Apple scored 855 out of a possible 1,000 points in the customer satisfaction survey, leading four ...
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Tanner EDA has released version 16 of its HiPer Silicon full-flow design suite, offering a complete analogue and mixed-signal design flow from digital (HDL) and analogue (Spice, Verilog-A) electrical design and simulation, through synthesis ...
China is standardising on Ubuntu for the country's open source operating system. Government agency, the China Software and Integrated Chip Promotions Centre (CSIP) has selected Canonical’s Ubuntu for a reference architecture to be ...
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BlackBerry has denied reports that its smartphones are set to be dropped by the Pentagon, insisting the Z10 smartphone and BB10 are in the US Department of Defense's plans. Sources suggested that the Pentagon was purchashing 650,000 Apple ...
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While existing technology continues to advance in incremental - boring - steps, the next wave is on its way, promising to turn us all into friendlier, more-adventurous versions of the Terminator. I welcome our new google overlords. ...
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Oracle suffered the most as growth in the storage market continued to slow during the end of 2012. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM also struggled while EMC emerged as the big winner. Revenue totaled $6 billion in the fourth quarter of last ...
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BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins has taken a swipe at rival Apple's iPhone, claiming that its user interface is five years old and suggesting that it is in need of a refresh. "Apple did a fantastic job in bringing touch devices ...
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Gartner analysts have said in a report released Monday that BlackBerry’s new BB10 software isn’t going to achieve world-beating results anytime soon. The researchers predicted that BlackBerry’s global smartphone market ...
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BlackBerry's new operating system faces its first big test in the U.S. Friday when the first phone based on BlackBerry 10 goes on sale. The U.S. launch comes more than a month after the phone, called the Z10, went on sale in the U.K. Jan. ...
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While U.S. markets have surged lately, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting milestone after milestone in 10 straight days of advances, a relatively modest increase in the value of IT company shares reflects the reality that a ...
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Samsung is planning to release a high-end smartphone running on the open-source Tizen operating system in August or September, the company confirmed Friday. Samsung makes half of the Android-based smartphones globally, and Android now has ...
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The password encryption algorithm used in some recent versions of the Cisco IOS operating system is weaker than the algorithm it was designed to replace, Cisco revealed earlier this week. The new encryption algorithm is called Type 4 and ...
Third-party hardware and software developers can more easily design products that integrate with Philips' color-tunable Hue LED lamp using free tools. The Philips LED-based Hue lamp, launched late in 2012, has garnered an enthusiastic ...