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Media storage company Front Porch Digital has been acquired by Oracle

Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Front Porch Digital, a provider of technology for migrating, managing and monetizing large-scale media content. The financial terms of the transaction were not...

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Microsoft is preparing to mass-produce massive touch-screens

Microsoft is full of surprises these days. Two years after it bought large-touchscreen company Perceptive Pixel (PPI), it will start to productize the technology under the Microsoft brand. Steven Elop,...

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Europe wants to start using its 700MHz band for mobile broadband

Europe’s 700MHz band should be freed for mobile broadband by 2020, a report to the European Commission recommends. The extra spectrum is needed to meet increasing demand for video on...

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Telstra’s Whispir Conversation Platform is getting ready to go global

Telstra’s Whispir Conversation Platform is set to go global from the end of month, with the communications company aiming replicate its service delivery to Australian enterprise and government customers on...

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HP has recalled millions of notebook charging cables due to a fire hazard

Hewlett-Packard has issued a voluntary recall on more than six million notebook power cables because they may pose a risk of a fire and burn hazard to customers. Specifically, around...

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Google is getting into cloud-based visual effects with its Zync acquisition

Google announced on Tuesday that it has acquired cloud-based visual effects company Zync, which provided the rendering technology behind the movies Star Trek Into Darkness and Looper. Zync will be...

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Australian telecom company M2 has reported over a billion in reveue

M2 Group, which owns broadband companies including Dodo and iPrimus, has reported $67.1 million in net profits with annual revenue levels breaking through the billion dollar mark. The Melbourne-based company...

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Pivotal is bringing it cloud services to mobile

Add Pivotal to the list of tech players adding mobile services to its development platform. Last week, the company announced Pivotal CF Mobile Services, which aims to enable developers to...

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Production of the iPhone 6 has been delayed due to issues with the display

Suppliers to Apple are scrambling to get enough screens ready for the new iPhone 6 smartphone as the need to redesign a key component disrupted panel production ahead of next...

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T-Mobile is offering a free year of LTE to people who leave other carriers

After an unsuccessful union with Sprint, T-Mobile is going after its former suitor’s customers, as well as its other competitors’ subcribers in the wireless world. Today, the magenta-colored carrier announced...

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Oracle is enhancing the social cloud with Social Station

Today's enterprise must meet the technology standards of today's consumer. According to a recent IDG Enterprise report, enterprises that invest in consumerized, easy-to-use technologies experience a 56 percent increase in...

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ZTE has is bringing its unlocked Nubia 5S Mini to the United States

ZTE's smartphones rarely make it to the United States. When they do, they're usually devoid of their original names, being sold as cheap own-brand smartphones by smaller carriers. That isn't...

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