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BlackBerry, HTC, Acer Smartphones Debut Ahead of MWC

Before the crush of media attention surrounding the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) convention in Barcelona, Spain (Feb. 25-28), smartphone manufacturers are looking to get a jump on some of their major handset releases of 2...read more

Big Data 2013 Predictions: IBM, Oracle Acquisitions, Maturing Projects

As the year kicks off, global organizations face the most prominent IT and business challenge: big data. The focus for IT will be to provide scalable, high-performance analytics at the lowest cost, as busines...read more

HTC One With BlinkFeed Is a Feature- and Media-Rich Smartphone

HTC's countdown clock timed out Feb. 19, and at a New York City event, which was streamed live to a venue in London, the smartphone maker introduced the One. Not to be confused with the One X, the One is the smartpho...read more

Windows 8: Top Devices From HP, Dell, Samsung, Others for 2013

The 2013 Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices present a go-anywhere look with clean lines and inventive features that meet the customer's demands for constant connectivity, mobility and flexibility. This year's collect...read more

BlackBerry 10, Z10, Apps Tailor-Made for the Enterprise

Prior to the launch of BlackBerry 10 at the end of January, BlackBerry launched a series of "Portathons," events that were designed to get Android developers to port their applications to the new operating system. That effor...read more

In-Memory Databases Driving Big Data Efficiency: 10 Reasons Why

With a clear trend upward in big data workloads in all vertical segments, enterprises are searching for the most efficient ways to manage the processing, storage and retrieval of data in both batches and in real t...read more

SkyDrive, Windows 8 Ease Cloud Data Storage Synchronization

SkyDrive is the latest version of Windows Live Folders, which is a cloud-based storage system from Microsoft. But this newest version has been completely revamped, both with an update to the user interface to look more...read more

Mars Rover Drills Into the Martian Surface

NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This marks the first time any robot has drilled into a r...read more

Surface Pro Is Most Unrepairable Tablet to Date: iFixit

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has sworn that there's nothing Apple does that Microsoft won't do, too—no stone that Microsoft will leave unturned, as it seeks to challenge Apple in all it does. With the Surface Pro, howe...read more

Microsoft and Big Data: Survey Shows Top 11 Trends

The explosion of mobile devices, apps, the cloud and the Internet has ushered in the era of big data—a collection of data so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using traditional database management or...read more

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