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LinkedIn, not Facebook, became social IPO star
May 18, 2013 at 02:02 | Source: Market Watch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Facebook Inc. isn’t the only social-media company marking the anniversary of its public trading debut this week. LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE:LNKD) will celebrate the second anniversary of its initial public offering on S...
Windows Phone overtakes BlackBerry, now third-largest OS in the world
May 17, 2013 at 16:50 | Source: Business Today
Nokia accounts for 79 per cent of Windows Phone sales as Korean giant Samsung and Taiwan's HTC seem to have lost interest in the operating system. Windows Phone has, for the first time, overtaken BlackBerry to become the third-largest operating syst...
Google gets personal with self-drive cars, Google Glass
May 17, 2013 at 11:02 | Source: Financial Express
For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer. �Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them happiest in life,�� Page told a crowd of 6,000 software developers and entrepreneurs who flocked ...
Facebook’s 1-year fight to regain IPO heat goes on
May 17, 2013 at 03:22 | Source: Market Watch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — At the one-year anniversary of its initial public offering, Facebook Inc. investors find themselves struggling with the question of whether the glass is half-empty, or half-full. Facebook’s (NASDAQ:FB) debut was o...
Smartphones: Google Android trumps Apple iOS, Windows edges up
May 16, 2013 at 21:52 | Source: Financial Express
Google's Android mobile system boosted its lead in the global smartphone market over Apple in early 2013, while Microsoft's Windows edged into third place, a survey showed today. The IDC survey showed Android's commanding lead with a 75 percent mark...
Staying on XP to cost more than moving to Windows 8: Microsoft
May 16, 2013 at 21:52 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Mumbai, May 16: Companies may have to spend three times more or about $300 per user if they do not plan to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7 or Windows 8, a study commissioned by software giant Microsoft today said.According to the study conducte...
Smartphones: Google's Android trumps Apple, Microsoft's Windows edges up
May 16, 2013 at 21:50 | Source: Economic Times
WASHINGTON: Google's Android mobile system boosted its lead in the global smartphone market over Apple in early 2013, while Microsoft's Windows edged into third place, a survey showed on Thursday. The IDC survey showed Android's commanding lead with...
Staying on XP to cost more than moving to Windows 8: Microsoft
May 16, 2013 at 19:12 | Source: Financial Express
Companies may have to spend three times more or about $300 per user if they do not plan to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7 or Windows 8, a study commissioned by software giant Microsoft today said. According to the study conducted by research f...
Microsoft says upgrade to Windows 8 or spend more
May 16, 2013 at 18:56 | Source: Economic Times
BANGALORE: In an attempt to encourage enterprises to upgrade computer operating systems to the latest version of Windows, Microsoft said companies that fail to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7 or 8 could end up spending over three times the supp...
Google digs deeper into people's lives, but fails to unveil NextGen mini-tablet Nexus 7
May 16, 2013 at 17:52 | Source: Financial Express
For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer. ''Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them happiest in life,'' Page told a crowd of 6,000 software developers and entrepreneurs who flocked to Sa...
Google to roll out new products, services to dig deeper into people's lives
May 16, 2013 at 13:27 | Source: Economic Times
SAN FRANCISCO: For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer. ``Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them happiest in life,'' Page told a crowd of 6,000 software developers and entrepreneurs wh...
Google I/O 2013: Technology should do the hard work for people, says Page
May 16, 2013 at 07:44 | Source: FirstPost
San Francisco: For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer."Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them happiest in life," Page told a crowd of 6,000 software developers and entreprene...
IDC Energy Insights IDC MarketScape Evaluates IT Service Providers in EMEA <b>...</b>
May 15, 2013 at 18:00 | Source: Wall Street Journal
IDC Energy Insights today announced a new IDC MarketScape, IT Service Providers in the EMEA Utilities Market 2013 Vendor Assessment (Doc #EIOS02V). The new report examines vendors' ability to supply utility companies with services that suppor...
Microsoft Windows 8.1 update to be available for free
May 15, 2013 at 13:41 | Source: Business Today
PHOTO: Associated Press Microsoft has announced that it will offer for free the update to its latest version of Windows 8 operating system - Windows 8.1 - later this year. Not charging extra for Windows 8.1 is consistent with the company's practice ...
Nokia Lumia 925 looks like Lumia 920 on a diet, says analyst
May 15, 2013 at 10:51 | Source: FirstPost
Nokia unveiled a lighter, metal model in its Lumia smartphone range, as it tries to catch the eye of buyers to close the huge market lead of rivals Samsung and Apple Inc in the lucrative handset market.The Lumia 925 is the latest in Nokia's range usi...
Google Glass may be main draw at I/O conference
May 15, 2013 at 02:37 | Source: Market Watch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Google Inc. will kick off its key developers’ conference on Wednesday, and expectations are relatively muted compared to last year’s event, which featured a new version of Android, the company’s first tablet and...
Blackberry expands BBM chat app to Android and iOS
May 14, 2013 at 23:31 | Source: BBC
The Blackberry Messenger (BBM) app is to be offered as a download to run on rival platforms. Blackberry said it would initially offer texts, photo messages and group sharing functions on devices running Google's Android and Apple's iOS oper...
Taiwanese tech giants should follow 'innovative' example of Asus to take on Apple, Samsung?
May 13, 2013 at 14:46 | Source: Economic Times
TAIPEI: Jonney Shih, the chairman of Asus Computer, has epitomized the Taiwanese electronics engineer for a generation: A slender figure in rumpled, baggy trousers, he once helped Intel solve heat problems in its Pentium 4 microprocessors. So it has...
Carl Icahn, Southeastern table firm bid for Dell
May 11, 2013 at 20:22 | Source: DomainB
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have tabled an alternative proposal to the $24.4-billion bid for Dell Inc from a consortium comprising of founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners. In a letter to the Dell board,...
AppTab iTech launches new smartphone
May 10, 2013 at 22:47 | Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
Bangalore, May 10: Another Indian phone maker has jumped into the smartphone arena. Bangalore-based AppTab iTech has launched a 5.2’ smartphone, which the company feels will open up this segment in India. The company has priced this smartphone...
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