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Apple, RIM, ZTE Big Winners in Smartphone Market 2010
HELSINKI, Jan 28 (Reuters) – North American smartphone vendors Apple and RIM, along with low-cost Chinese producer ZTE , emerged as the biggest winners on the booming cellphone market in final quarter of 2010. Research firm IDC estimated the global handset market grew last quarter 18 percent from a year ago, while Strategy Analytics said…
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Tata Consultancy Declares Aggressive Hiring Plans
Switzerland Jan 28 (Reuters) – Tata Consultancy Services (BO:TCS), India’s top software services exporter, expects to hire as many or slightly less than the more than 50,000 employees it hired in 2010 this year as the race for talent heats up in India’s technology outsourcing business. In an interview with Reuters, TCS Chief Executive N.…
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An Antenna Fix
An Antenna Fix First and foremost, Apple must deliver a fix for its antenna. When the company launched the iPhone 4, it was revealed that when the smartphone was held in a “death grip,” users would lose signal quality. Apple tried to say that it was one of many companies experiencing the problem — and…
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Verizon Acquires Managed Infrastructure and Cloud Provider TerreMark Worldwide
Verizon has made no secret of its intentions to rely on cloud delivery to boost revenue tied to technology solutions. Yesterday, the telecommunications giant tendered a sweet $1.4 billion offer to Terremark Worldwide, a managed IT infrastructure and cloud service provider, with the aim to strengthen and "accelerate" its current cloud strategy. The deal, which…
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Microsoft Windows 7 Sales Fizzle, Kinect Strong
SEATTLE, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Sales of Microsoft Corp’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows software fell short of outsized expectations, rekindling fears that the spread of mobile gadgets will erode its main PC-focused business. Microsoft surprised Wall Street with a better-than-expected profit, helped by resurgent corporate spending after the belt-tightening of past years. But its shares stayed flat…
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VMware Launches Go Pro Cloud Service for Small Business
Virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions specialist VMware announced the general availability of Go Pro, a cloud service designed to enable small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) to consolidate, control, and secure their physical and virtual IT infrastructure. Go Pro is available by subscription for $29.95 per admin/month, and the company said later this they expect to…
