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SingTel gobbles up online food service HungryGoWhere for $12 million
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Telecom group SingTel has made another notable acquisition after it announced the $12 million purchase of Singaporean food website HungryGoWhere, further expanding its business outside of its core telecom focus. The latest acquisition comes two months after the telecom giant picked up US-based advertising firm Amobee, which itself just bought innovative 3D...
Microsoft Office for iPad spotted in the wild, coming soon?
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Microsoft's rumored Office for iPad application appears to have leaked into the wild this week. The Daily revealed an exclusive picture of what it claims is Microsoft Office running on Apple's iPad tablet today. We are unable to immediately verify the photo, but the interface includes Excel, Word, and...
Panasonic forms new Eco Solutions unit, aims to be 'leader in green innovation' by 2018
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Panasonic has been touting its eco-minded efforts for quite some time now, but it's gone one step further at the currently-happening Fortune Brainstorm Green Conference. The company has announced the formation of a new Eco Solutions business unit, which will be focused on "end-to-end energy solutions" for the United...
Microsoft goes green, commits to be carbon neutral from July 1
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Microsoft has become the latest technology company to commit to reducing its environmental footprint, today announcing that it wants to make its data centers, software development labs, air travel, and office buildings carbon neutral. The software giant’s new initiative will begin from July 1 (also the start of its fiscal year 2013), introducing...
SingTel-owned Amobee moves into a new dimension, snaps up innovative 3D ad maker AdJitsu
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Mobile advertising firm Amobee, which was recently snapped by SingTel for $321 million, has made an acquisition of its own, after it revealed that it has bought innovative 3D ad maker AdJitsu for an undisclosed sum. A standalone business unit of app specialist Cooliris, AdJitsu creates 3D adverts for smartphones and...
Nokia lowers Q1 2012 outlook despite ‘early momentum with Lumia’
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia this morning announced that it has lowered its first-quarter 2012 outlook for the key Devices & Services unit. Press release is below, we’re digging through it and updating this post. Difficult financial performance reflects company in transition Positive early momentum in Lumia smartphone strategy Nokia...
Telefónica brings Electronic Arts on board to offer more mobile games to the masses
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Telefónica Digital, the global business unit announced by Telefónica back in September to spearhead the telecom company’s digital growth, has launched the latest move in its global gaming strategy by teaming up with Electronic Arts’ (EA) mobile division. The tie-up with EA Mobile will let the telecommunications giant’s customers access...
Nokia’s Q1 Financials: $1.76 billion operating loss, sales down 40% with 11.9m smartphones sold
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Nokia has published its first quarter financial results for 2012, displaying a 1.34 billion Euro ($1.76 billion) operating loss, as net sales of mobile devices declined by 40% on year, with smartphones taking a 51% hit over the past 12 months. In it’s last quarter, Nokia’s net sales hit €7.35 billion ($9.65...
Major European operators label Nokia smartphones expensive, unoriginal and buggy
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European mobile operators appear to have dealt Nokia a fresh blow in its bid to overturn its flagging smartphone business, with its latest devices receiving a lukewarm response from four of the continent’s major carriers, Reuters reveals. Nokia, which signed an agreement with Microsoft to power its new smartphones with...
NVIDIA officially brands Tegra 3's five-core quad-core architecture as 4-PLUS-1
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NVIDIA's cooked up a few ways to describe the Tegra 3's quad-core-with-a-spare architecture, usually by giving the extra Cortex A9 a cute nickname like "ninja," or "companion." Until now, the proper description was "Variable Symmetrical Multiprocessing," or, vSMP for short. Despite how much fun (and technically accurate) some of...
Oracle to Court: Let's Try SAP Again
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Here we go again. It looks like one of the ugliest trials in the history of the software industry is about to repeat itself. Last year the judge offered Oracle a choice. Accept a judgement of $272 million in damages, that had been reduced from $1.3 billion awarded at trial...
Telefónica launches Tu Me for iOS, an all-in-one communications app with searchable timeline
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Telefónica Digital, the global business unit announced by Telefónica back in September to spearhead the telecom company’s digital growth, has launched a new mobile app called Tu Me. The app is currently iOS only (Android is on the way) and it enables communication and sharing between mobile phones, recording every...
TI demos Windows RT on OMAP 4470, we go hands-on (video)
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It seems like every ARM chip manufacturer wants a piece of Windows 8 here at Computex 2012 -- and for good reason. Hot on the heels of Asus' Tegra 3-equipped Tablet 600 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4-based development tablet, Texas Instruments is showing Windows RT on its very own OMAP...
Microsoft Office for the iPad is all about the Enterprise
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It appears that Microsoft may finally unveil an iPad version of its bread and butter Office productivity suite. More interestingly, the launch seems to timed with a possible on stage presentation at the iPad 3 event in a few weeks. Remember when Roz Ho, former head of the MS Mac...
Nokia sold 2M low-priced Lumias last quarter; lowers outlook
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Nokia still has a long road to return to prominence, even as people buy its first line of Windows Phone devices. The company said on Wednesday that it sold 2 million Lumia handsets in the first quarter of 2012, but it is lowering guidance due to its continued transition. In...
Red Hat and 10Gen partner up to power development of open source data platforms
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Two of the biggest names in the open source world announced a partnership yesterday. Red Hat, the North Carolina based provider of open source software for the enterprise and 10Gen, the New York based company behind the increasingly popular NoSQL database MongoDB, are partnering to help developers deliver on the...
At $1.7 billion, Nook is worth more than Barnes & Noble itself
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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have buried the patent hatchet and teamed up to compete against Apple and Amazon in the eBooks business. The new partnership sees Microsoft investing $300 million in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary. (My colleague Laura Owen has the complete breakdown of the deal over...
Lenovo's first Windows 8 Pro tablet set for October release
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Lenovo (0092) isn’t going to let the Microsoft (MSFT) Surface have all the Windows 8 tablet glory. The ThinkPad manufacturer on Thursday announced that its first-ever Windows 8 Pro tablet, dubbed the ThinkPad Tablet 2, will become available in October — possibly on the 26th when Microsoft officially releases the...
The Nokia torture
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Once the leader in the mobile phone field, Nokia is now in a tailspin – taking its employees into the groundHow would you like to be a Nokia employee? Last week the bosses came up with more bad news: In order to cut €3bn (about £2.4bn) in expenses by the...
Nokia trims Q1 outlook, confirms more than 2 million Lumia phones sold
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Nokia on Wednesday lowered its outlook for the first quarter of 2012, noting that performance from its devices and services division will have a greater negative impact on its quarter than previously expected. ”Our disappointing Devices & Services first quarter 2012 financial results and outlook for the second quarter 2012...
DMGT snaps up Jobrapido to build digital recruitment business
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The market for job classified ads may be gloomy at present, but Mail Online publisher DMGT is buying further in to it, by acquiring the Jobrapido recruitment site for up to €30 million (£24.6 million, $39 million. DMGT already owned the Jobsite, OilCareers and Broadbean recruitment sites, alongside several property...
Qualcomm’s plan to win the battle for the digital home
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Qualcomm Atheros announced a software solution that adds DLNA, in-home media shifting and Internet content streaming to routers, set-top boxes and other types of gateway devices at the Computex trade show in Taiwan Tuesday. The Java-based solution, dubbed Skifta Engine, is the company’s next step to take on Apple and...
HP Cuts 27K Employees, Looks to Cloud and Data Analytics for Growth
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Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett Packard, is building a leaner, more focused company. Photo: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty ImagesHewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman announced the layoff of 27,000 employees Wednesday, or 8 percent of the company’s workforce. The painful move is part of Whitman’s strategy to refocus the hardware and software...
Supercomputer maker Cray forms YarcData, a new unit to capitalize on ‘big data’
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One of the tech buzzwords du jour right now is “Big Data,” the idea of companies mining ever-increasing data sets to glean insightful information. That’s an arena where supercomputers can have an especially powerful role, in part because the machines are built to crunch complex numbers used in everything from...
Exclusive: Hewlett-Packard To Combine Printer and PC Groups
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Hewlett-Packard will today announce a sweeping reorganization that will move its Imaging and Printing Group, once the jewel in the IT giants crown, under its PC-making Personal Systems Group, sources familiar with the matter tell AllThingsD. Under the plan Vyomesh “VJ” Joshi, long the executive vice president in charge of...
YouSendIt CEO Ivan Koon To Step Down As The Company Looks For New Funding
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We’ve learned that Ivan Koon, the CEO of cloud collaboration company YouSendIt, will be stepping down from the company. We’ve confirmed this with YouSendIt. A replacement has not been named, and Koon, who has been at YouSendIt for six years, will be leaving the company. For background, YouSendIt was one...
Nokia Warns on Q1, Q2 Earnings Amid Rough Transition
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Nokia on Tuesday warned that last quarter’s smartphone earnings will be lower than expected and said that the current quarter’s business should be only about where things were in the first quarter. “Our disappointing Devices & Services first quarter 2012 financial results and outlook for the second quarter 2012 illustrates...
Ovi Share to be discontinued
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TweetGLOBAL – We have made the decision to discontinue the Ovi Share service as of May 30, 2012. Naturally, we are committed to helping you download all of your content and make the experience as seamless as possible. If you are an Ovi Share user, you will have until...
AT&T sells off Yellow Pages business unit for $950m
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In this age of Google and always-connected smartphones, the Yellow Pages phone books feel like a positively obsolete tool (not to mention a tremendous waste of paper and other resources). That hasn't stopped AT&T from selling its Yellow Pages business unit to privity equity firm Cerberus Capital Management for...
New merger takes display market leader Samsung Display to 39,000 staff and 7 facilities worldwide
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Samsung has put the finishing touches to a move to bolster its newly spun-out LED business Samsung Displays, after the firm confirmed that it had completed a merger between the three-month old entity and its Samsung Mobile Display and S-LCD corporations. Already the deal to spin off the business unit April...
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