When it comes to staying connected at 30,000 feet, tablets and smartphones now make up a whopping 67 percent of the devices being used to connect to the Internet through Gogo's in-air network. Tablets are now the preferred device at 35 ...
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China signaled it wants to reduce its dependence on Google's Android OS, alleging that the U.S. company has discriminated against local companies over the use of the mobile operating system. "Our country's mobile operating system research ...
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Apple on Monday patched Java 6 for OS X, following Oracle's lead and quashing a browser plug-in vulnerability that hackers have been exploiting. Oracle issued the "out-of-band," or emergency, update for Java 6 and Java 7 to patch two ...
The Google Glass project is generating a significant amount of buzz. Really, it is scary how amped up people are about the product. But, why shouldn’t they be? It is a whole new technology. If you don’t know, Google Glass is the ...
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A quartet of low-cost but feature-packed gadgets to make life that little bit more exciting. ASUS MEMOPAD ($199) ASUS's new ultra-cheap yet feature-packed 7-inch Android tablet has a 1024x600 pixel, 10-point multi-touch LED-backlit ...
Tags: Android tablet, home networks, SMART Camera
The Ubuntu Touch operating system, which is scheduled for October release on a range of smartphones and tablets, will struggle to find a niche in a crowded mobile marketplace. So says Larry Augustin, CEO of open-source CRM vendor ...
The European Union has fined Microsoft 561 million euros ($712m) for breaking a pledge to offer personal computer users a choice of internet browsers when they install the company's flagship Windows operating system. The penalty imposed ...
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News Corporation has taken the wraps off its new tablet computer for the school market, saying the device would use "digital innovation to transform teaching and learning". Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate showed the Amplify device at ...
Tags: tablet computer, screen tablet, Android operating system
The third-party tools and software ecosystem is expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D3 microcontrollers. A5 is ARM's baby A-series-compatible core, designed as an up-grade from the ARM926 and ARM1176 with better mW/MHz than ...
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Touch-based Windows 8 notebooks have been selling well for Taiwanese PC maker Asus, but overall Microsoft’s new operating system has yet to find a major following, the company said. “I think the acceptance of Windows 8 in Q4 ...
Tags: Windows 8, Sluggish, Healthy Touch Notebook
After spending the past six months talking about prioritizing its business around mobile platforms, Facebook says it's time to get down to business. "Everybody is thinking about mobile, everybody is thinking about Android," said Mike ...
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Google today patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome, just two days before the start of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest that has $100,000 in prize money waiting for the first researcher to crack the browser. In an update Monday for the Windows ...
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The European Commission has imposed a €561 million fine on Microsoft for failing to comply with its commitments to offer users a browser choice screen enabling them to easily choose their preferred web browser. In 2009, the Commission ...
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European Union antitrust officials today hit Microsoft with a $732 million fine for failing to live up to a 2009 settlement that requires it to offer Windows users a choice of alternate browsers. The announcement made by Joaquin Almunia, ...
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Already a platinum member of the cloud operating system platform OpenStack, IBM officials said open source code from the project will be the foundation of the company’s cloud strategy moving forward, including a new product it ...
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