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Article | 16/02/2012 New processor to cut cost of LTE smartphones, says Renesas
Chip maker Renesas Mobile has launched the MP5232, a processor that will allow vendors to build LTE (Long Term Evolution) smartphones with a price tag...
Article | 16/02/2012 Boost for wireless in Europe as more spectrum is made available
Wireless broadband got a boost in Europe when the European Parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of reallocating radio spectrum frequencies.
Article | 16/02/2012 EMC and VMware team with Atos to create European cloud company Canopy
EMC and VMware are teaming with French IT services company Atos to create a European cloud infrastructure provider, Canopy, the companies announced We...
Article | 16/02/2012 Rackspace enlists Redapt for private cloud installs
Rackspace hopes to make it easier to use its OpenStack private cloud offering by partnering with Redapt, a company that procures, configures and ships...
Article | 16/02/2012 Sweden gets Europe's first LTE smartphone
Thanks to the imminent availability of the Galaxy S II LTE, Sweden will become the first European country where consumers can pick up a phone with int...
Article | 16/02/2012 Oracle preps MySQL Cluster for Web use
Oracle has updated its MySQL Cluster software to make it more appealing to large Web service providers, among other users of large-volume distributed ...
Article | 16/02/2012 Enterproid to enable work and personal numbers on one phone
Enterproid is expanding its dual-persona phone platform to include voice through a new deal with BroadSoft.
Article | 15/02/2012 Ordinary Chinese divided on iPad trademark dispute
Ordinary Chinese people are taking sides in the iPad trademark battle between Apple and local display vendor Proview, with some thinking the U.S. tech...
Article | 15/02/2012 Acer sees profit in Q4 after reporting losses in previous two quarters
Acer reported fourth quarter profit of US$2.4 million, a financial turnaround after the company faced back-to-back <a href="http://itfinance.computerw...
Article | 15/02/2012 Android loses market share,as Apple has exceptional quarter, Gartner says
Android lost smartphone market share for the first time, as Apple had a great fourth quarter buoyed by the launch of the iPhone 4S, according to data ...
Article | 15/02/2012 Activist-backed online collaboration platform due for release in March
The Global Square, an online global collaboration platform for activists backed by WikiLeaks among others, plans to have a functional prototype by Mar...
Article | 15/02/2012 Adults only ratings for video games on track for 2013
An adults only rating for video games will finally become a reality from the start of 2013, assuming it passes through parliament
Article | 15/02/2012 Apple's iPad 3 could face customs ban in China
Apple's much speculated iPad 3 has emerged as the latest target in an ongoing trademark dispute in China, after a little-known Chinese firm said on We...
Article | 15/02/2012 Yahoo faces board challenge from activist shareholder
Activist Yahoo shareholder Daniel Loeb has rejected the slate of board candidates put forth by the company's newly minted CEO, serving notice of his i...
Article | 15/02/2012 HP, Intel rethink processor upgrades in servers
Hewlett-Packard and Intel are rethinking processor upgrades in servers, coming up with a new chip-slotting technique that could reduce the chance of e...
Article | 15/02/2012 FCC seeks to kill LightSquared's LTE network plan
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission wants to drop the conditional waiver that could have allowed LightSquared to operate an LTE network in freq...
Article | 14/02/2012 Apple asks Fair Labor Association to inspect Foxconn
Apple on Monday announced that, at its request, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) will begin special, voluntary inspections of Apple’s final assembly s...
Article | 15/02/2012 Canada unveils latest lawful Internet access law
The Canadian government has introduced its long-awaited legislation giving police new powers to get Internet and wireless subscriber information witho...
Article | 15/02/2012 NewNet vows to drive forward with onetime Motorola WiMax business
Motorola's former WiMax business unit set up shop under new owner NewNet Communications Technologies on Tuesday, diving into the next chapter of a tec...
Article | 15/02/2012 HP to make ARM servers available for testing in Q2
Hewlett-Packard will open a lab in the second quarter where select customers will be able to play around with its first low-power server based on an A...