Canonical is in talks with Dell on making a version of Ubuntu supported by the Chinese government available as a pre-installed OS on the PC maker's upcoming products destined for the Chinese market. Dell is a global partner for Canonical, ...
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Windows 8 may be seeing sluggish demand, but Dell believes its the best OS for business tablets and plans to roll out more products built with the operating system later this year, a senior executive said Tuesday. "The reason that our ...
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has spoken publicly about his company's court battle with Oracle, stating Google didn't "steal" an application programming interface (API) from the rival company. The two are locked in a long-running dispute ...
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BlackBerry this week took the wraps off a special edition Q10 handset, which will come coloured in gold and white.? The handset is exclusive to the Middle East, and comes in white with gold-coloured, stainless steel frame, BlackBerry ...
IT managers at SMEs will be made redundant in the next five years and replaced by a financial director or CIO, according to the MD of data centre provider City Lifeline, Roger Keegan. Keegan told Computing that in-house data centres are ...
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has announced a global partnership between the social media network and other technology firms, with the aim of making internet access available to the two-thirds of the world that are not yet connected. ...
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Jolla, the mobile operating system start-up established by ex-Nokia employees, says that it has sold out the first batch of its forthcoming debut smartphone. Based on the Sailfish operating system, a refined version of Nokia's Linux-based ...
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In the never-ending battle of iOS versus Android, one of the biggest marks against Google is that its Play store isn't regulated enough for the novice smartphone user.?For every golden application, there's at least three unsafe or ...
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The world's number one PC manufacturer Lenovo has announced that a replacement Start button for Windows 8 will be installed on many of its devices, beginning in the next few weeks. Windows 8 has struggled to make an impact in businesses, ...
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Nokia's credit rating has been cut even further by ratings agency Moodys, over concerns about the company's cashflow. The company's credit rating now stands at B1, four levels below "investment grade". Further reading Nokia to launch ...
HP CEO Meg Whitman has revealed that the company is still in the market for technology industry acquisitions - but "only" up to $1.5bn in value. Speaking in a US television interview after unveiling lacklustre financial results, Whitman ...
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Production of BlackBerry smartphone devices has been cut in half after the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, effectively put the company up for sale. Heins, who under his contract of employment stands to earn more than $50m if the company is ...
The German government has recommended that Federal Administration and other high profile public sector departments in the country do not use Windows 8 because, it warns, it contains security backdoors that cannot be controlled or trusted, ...
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If?Australian companies were to virtualize their severs and physical infrastructure, $6 billion in costs could be saved from now to 2020, according to a new whitepaper by research firm IDC. In the VMware sponsored whitepaper,?Vision 2020: ...
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NetApp is now selling software that uses NAND flash in its arrays to increase the performance of servers,the company has announced.It also unveiled a deal with Fusion-io to use that company's PCIe flash cards for arrays running its ONTAP ...
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