Mozilla has used Mobile World Congress, which kicked off today in Barcelona, as the platform to preview the first commercial build of its Firefox OS open mobile ecosystem and announced new operator rollout plans. The first wave of Firefox ...
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Norway - Lighting designer, Trond Dybfest of Trondheim Lyd Lysverket recently chose a Jands Vista L5 console to control lighting for award-winning neo-classical duo, Secret Garden's latest tour. With over 3m international album sales and ...
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Google on Thursday took the wraps off the Chromebook Pixel, a touch-screen-enabled laptop. Inspiring its name, the new Chromebook has 4.3 million pixels, or 239 pixels per inch, which Google noted is more than any other laptop screen on ...
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Microsoft is wielding the big stick of dramatically higher custom support costs as it pushes enterprises to abandon the 11-year-old Windows XP, an analyst said today. Custom support plans, which Microsoft negotiates on a ...
Microsoft, EMC and NetApp have joined an appeal by Oracle against an earlier decision in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. The three companies on Tuesday filed a friend of the court brief in support ...
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Computerworld - After offering solid-state drives (SSDs) in its storage arrays over the past three years, NetApp said it will begin selling an all-SSD array this year and what it called a "purpose-built" flash storage architecture in 2014. ...
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Unico American Corporation (UNAM) has selected Insurance Systems to deliver a new policy administration system for its subsidiary, Crusader Insurance Company. Apart from providing ISI Enterprise, which Unico plans to implement as its core ...
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Tizen, the open-source project backed by Intel and Samsung Electronics, has released to software developers and device makers the software development kit and source code for a new version of its operating system. The Tizen 2.0 release ...
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Canonical, the open source software company behind the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux, has unveiled the next stage in its plan for a unified operating system. The Ubuntu tablet forms one-quarter of Canonical's strategy to produce a ...
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Apple on Tuesday said it was a victim of a malware attack when a small number of systems inside the company were compromised. The malware attack was tied to a vulnerability in a Java plug-in for browsers, Apple said in a statement sent ...
Google may be taking a page from Apple as it considers opening brick-and-mortar retail stores, according to reports. Google is working on plans to open retail stores in the U.S. where the company would sell Google-branded hardware, ...
Microsoft, EMC and NetApp have joined Oracle in an appeal against a court decision in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. The three companies on Tuesday filed an amici curiae brief in support of ...
US-based Launch Tech has introduced the X431 Launch Pad, a scan tool that can be used from diagnostics to repair of a vehicle. The pad works on OBDII wireless technology with a patented communications chip that utilizes large packet ...
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Adobe on Saturday said it would release an emergency patch for two Reader zero-day vulnerabilities this week. Hackers have already been exploiting the bugs using rigged PDF documents sent as email attachments. "Adobe plans to make ...
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Microsoft yesterday reminded customers that Windows 7's first edition, which shipped more than three years ago, will be dropped from support in early April. At that time, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will become the only officially ...
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