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Inside Microsoft’s R&D outpost in Serbia

The employees at Microsoft’s research centre in Serbia are celebrating its 10th anniversary but it’s a fair bet that, unless you’re Serbian, you didn’t know that one of the world’s largest software companies has a significant presence there. I spoke by phone to Dragan Tomic, principal group manager of the Microsoft Development Center Serbia, about the work done in this country of seven million people at the nexus of central and south-eastern Europe. First, I ask him, why Serbia? The Serbs gave us the genius of Nikola Tesla (and modern…

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Home Healthcare Provider Chooses BES12 by BlackBerry to Enable More Efficient Communications

BlackBerry Limited , a global leader in mobile communications, announced today that CarePartners has chosen CellTrak’s VisitManage solution, running on BlackBerry 10 smartphones and managed by BES12: a multi-OS EMM solution by BlackBerry, to mobilize their home care providers. CarePartners is a home care nursing agency that provides personal support services, rehabilitation services, and nursing care to over 70,000 patients each year. CarePartners issued BlackBerry 10 smartphones provisioned with CellTrak’s VisitManager mobile healthcare management application to over 4,000 employees in their mobile workforce. VisitManager enables CarePartners’ home care providers to…

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BlackBerry Passport Wins Best of the Best Red Dot Award 2015!

  Right from the first look, the BlackBerry Passport design has been turning heads. From enthusiastic media and user reviews to various awards earned, it’s clear the BlackBerry Passport has made a huge impact with its unique form factor. Late last month, the BlackBerry Passport proved its design excellence in the most important competition for product design, Red Dot Product Design 2015. The Red Dot: Best of the Best is awarded for innovative design and is the highest individual award in the Red Dot Award: Product Design category. Only the…

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Government could save £24 billion by being more digitally aware, it is claimed

The UK could save billions of pounds a year through smarter use of technology. That’s according to Policy Exchange’s Digital Manifesto Graphic by Kevin Black /mustang news The think-tank claims increasing the use of technology within government could save about £24 billion per year.It’s not just about cost-savings, however, the organisation is urging political parties to place technology at the forefront of their economic thinking, citing improved business performance as a result.According to the manifesto, written by Eddie Copeland, Sarah Fink and Cameron Scot, governments should not ignore the potential of…

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Oracle adds analytics capabilities to Hadoop

Firm lets users analyse geospatial data, and do it inside Hadoop or NoSQL Oracle is adding new analytics capabilities to Hadoop and NoSQL databases, as it aims to help people struggling to make sense of huge datasets. Its latest set of tools, labelled Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph, targets a wider variety of datasets than the company’s older solutions in this space, while cutting back on any need to move data around. Instead, users can process data inside Hadoop while running the tool, saving time and money on analytics…

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BlackBerry Acquiring WatchDox to Bolster Mobile Content Security and Enterprise Collaboration

BlackBerry Limited, a global leader in mobile communications, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire WatchDox Ltd. to further enhance BlackBerry’s best-in-class mobile security and give enterprises unmatched control over their files even after data leaves the corporate network. WatchDox’s technology will be offered as a value-added service that complements BlackBerry’s Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) portfolio, and will be available with BES12, a multi-OS EMM solution. Waterloo, Ontario – Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.…

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Western European HCP Market: Encouraging First Quarter for 2015, in Line with IDC’s Forecast

 According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market increased 2.6% in unit terms compared with the same period a year ago, with positive growth for both inkjet and laser segments in line with IDC’s forecast. This gave a 1Q15 market figure of 5.49 million units — an increase of 138,621 units. Revenues also increased, by an impressive 8.4%, as more high-speed laser MFPs and business inkjets shipped.  Photo: CNET.com LONDON / PRAGUE, May 19, 2015 —This positive first quarter follows an overall…

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TV Gets Personal: Mobile Video to Account for 20% of Total Viewing by 2025

New TDG Report Examines Shifting Viewer Behavior Impacting the Future of Mobile Video  Photo credit: Tablet-News.com According to new research from TDG, mobile video viewing on smartphones and tablets will experience strong growth over the next decade (2015-2025), taking share from both legacy TV and PC-based broadband video viewing. By 2025, mobile video will account for more than 20% of total video viewing minutes among US consumers (including legacy TV). This is only one of many insights featured in TDG’s latest report, TV Gets Personal — Trends in Mobile Video Viewing,…

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Commercial Tablet and 2-in-1 Expansion Accelerates in Western Europe, Says IDC

According to figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), the overall tablet market in Western Europe remained challenged in 1Q15, declining 10.5% year over year with total shipments totaling 8.5 million units. The contraction, however, was mainly the result of sluggish consumer demand as the expansion of tablets in the commercial space accelerates with volumes increasing 51.3% from the same period last year.  Photo: TechAdvisor LONDON /PRAGUE, May 18, 2015 —In terms of product category, the share of 2-in-1s, albeit growing, remains in single-digit territory at 5.9%. Nevertheless, the popularity of…

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Your house is now your computer

Sensors embedded in household objects allow you to control lights, locks and surf the web There is no longer an offline world​​ ​For 30 and 40-somethings, going online meant hearing weird sounds from the speakers of a desktop computer. Many spent nights awake, surfing the web on those hours when no one else in the household demanded to talk on the phone. In the “good ol’ days” of 1980s and 1990s, you needed a landline and a computer to access the internet and there was a clear distinction between what…

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