Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced intentions for a "fundamental shift" in Microsoft's technology business model, describing a future in which the company will start to "build specific devices for specific purposes". In his annual ...
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China Garments & Textiles Sourcing Fair (CGTSF) will take place from October 27-30 in Hong Kong. It is a unique one-stop sourcing event during Asia's peak fashion sourcing season and gives international buyers the opportunity to trade with ...
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison revealed this week at the OpenWorld conference that the next version of the company's flagship database,Oracle 12c,would feature a radical new architecture called pluggable databases. Pluggable databases will ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.Ambassador to the European Union on Tuesday told European telecommunications operators why the U.S.will not support their proposals to change a treaty on the handling of international voice,data and video traffic. ...
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The Labour Party is to call on the government to spend the funds it raises from auctioning off 4G spectrum on building affordable housing. The opposition will kick off its annual conference with the proposal later today, when shadow ...
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Google said it had no choice but to block a political video in Brazil, after it lost a court appeal. "We are deeply disappointed that we have never had the full opportunity to argue in court that these were legitimate free speech videos ...
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Congress should invest $5 billion in the country's education system -- particularly in math, science and technology education -- over the next 10 years and pay for it with increased fees on high-skill immigration, a Microsoft executive ...
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British retailer Debenhams launches a new department store in Indonesia,the brand's second international opening in just one month. Demonstrating the retailer's progress in delivering a key growth strategy,Debenhams'new addition is its ...
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Japanese-owned companies, Kirutorisu Tech Sdn Bhd and ATOTIS Co., Ltd. to supply light emitting diode (LED) lighting to vending machines in Japan. These contracts will enable MyLED Opto, Malaysia's LED and solid state lighting (SSL) ...
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Many signs suggest that Oracle is about to introduce a next-generation version of the Exadata database machine,the first and apparently most successful of its"engineered systems"that combine Oracle software with servers,networking and ...
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The U.S.Federal Communications Commission needs to be a"cop on the beat"to ensure mobile and broadband competition across the country,the agency's chairman said Tuesday. The FCC must resist calls for the agency to phase out nearly all ...
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Built on a green field site adjacent to its existing paper mill, the new paper mill, based in Rosslyn, is one of Nampak's largest capital projects to date, according to the firm. According to the firm, the objective of the expansion is to ...
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Deputy Information Commissioner David Smith has told Computing that,while he does not dispute the accuracy of figures to suggest a 1,000 per cent rise in UK public and private sector data breaches in the past five years,he is unsure ...
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The “2012 Glass Furnace Technology Seminar” organized jointly by TAC of China Daily Glass Association and Furnace Committee of China Ceramic Society was held recently in Shandong Province. More than 150 representatives from ...
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Indonesia,a country that's basically an archipelago of more than 70,000 islands that has infrastructure issues in electricity and limited bandwidth,is rolling out the world's most ambitious biometrics-based national identity card project ...
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