Wednesday, February 4, 2015

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Sony stumbling away from doom

Posted: 04 Feb 2015 02:25 AM PST

doom_sprite_wallpaper_by_bobspfhorever78-d6lij4oElectronics giant Sony appears to be pulling out of its  death spiral.

The consumer electronics firm said on Wednesday preliminary results showed that operating profit had doubled to $1.52 billion in the October-December quarter, while sales rose 6 percent.

This was well ahead of what the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street expected and they rushed from their expensive loos screaming “buy, buy, buy.”

To be fair, the company is not home and hosed yet.   more»

Comodo teams up with British partner VCW

Posted: 04 Feb 2015 01:47 AM PST

lizardCertificate Authority and Internet Security outfit Comodo has signed a deal up with UK distributor VCW Security.

VCW Security now offers a range of Comodo's endpoint security products including Endpoint Security Manager, Anti-Spam Gateway, UTM (Unified Threat Management) and Mobile Device Management (MDM). more»

ARM shows off new mobile chip

Posted: 04 Feb 2015 01:46 AM PST

arm-wrestlingBritish chip designer ARM Holdings unveiled a new processor aimed at better computing performance and beefed-up graphics for smartphones and tablets.

We will not see the new Cortex-A72 processor hit the streets until next year but it is being touted as saving ARM's bacon. more»

Samsung kicked in India

Posted: 04 Feb 2015 01:45 AM PST

India_flagSamsung is being pushed out of its key Indian market by a local budget smartphone maker Micromax.

Micromax has become the leading supplier in India’s booming smartphone market for the first time in the fourth quarter.

According to beancounters at research firm Canalys, New Delhi based Micromax accounted for 22 percent of smartphone sales in India in the October-December quarter, ahead of Samsung’s 20 percent. more»

IBM is still planning huge lay-offs

Posted: 04 Feb 2015 01:44 AM PST

A not so mobile X86 PCDespite denials from IBM that it is laying off more than 110,000 IBM employees, the hack who revealed the story for Forbes is standing by it.

Rober Cringely ran a story that 110,000 IBM employees laid off and the ever shrinking Big Blue said it would be more like 8,000.  more»

Authentication market value to soar

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 08:37 AM PST

Screen Shot 2015-02-03 at 16.35.17By the end of this year, mobile multi-factor authentication software and services will be worth $1.6 billion by the end of this year. The reason is that user names and passwords to identify people aren't secure enough, according to ABI Research. more»

UCL claims optical fibre breakthrough

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 07:04 AM PST

Jeremy Bentham auto icon at University College London - Wikimedia CommonsResearchers at University College London (UCL) claim to have discovered a new method of processing fibre optic signals. And that, they say, could double the distance of data travelling error free through transatlantic cables. Signals right now need to be boosted which can be difficult if the cables are 20,000 leagues beneath the sea. more»

Cisco makes bold wearable claims

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:44 AM PST

ciscologoNetworking giant Cisco believes that by the 2019 there will be half a billion people using wearable devices. Cisco said that 2.8 million wearables shipped last year and by 2019 there will be 16.4 million of us wearing gadgets of one sort or another. more»

China internet users number 649 million

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:33 AM PST

chinaflagThere are now 649 million Chinese people with internet access, according to a government report. And, significantly, a large percentage of those people use smartphones or mobile phones to access the net. At the end of 2012, there were only 564 million people able to access the web, said the China Internet Network Information Centre. more»

Lenovo pips Amazon at the tablet game

Posted: 03 Feb 2015 06:20 AM PST

cheap-tabletsApple continued to be the market leader for tablets in 2014 but it, in common with other vendors, showed a drop in sales. A report from Trendforce said that the tablet industry has no reached the maturity point with shipments globally totalling 192 million units. more»

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