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Google reports strong earnings, stock jumps 7%

Google’s stock jumped more than 7 percent in the after-market hours on Thursday, after the company reported strong earnings results for the second quarter. Total income for the period ended June 30 was $3.93 billion, up 17 percent from $3.35 billion in the second quarter of 2014, Google announced Thursday. …

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Oculus acquires gesture-control firm

Facebook, owner of virtual reality gaming company Oculus, has inked a deal to buy gesture-control and computer-vision company Pebbles Interfaces. Facebook announced that it will add the Israel-based company, its technology and its team to its Oculus team. Pebbles, a five-year-old company, stated on its website that joining Oculus should …

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Microsoft exec: Forget the past

In a revival tent-like speech Wednesday, Microsoft’s chief operations officer Kevin Turner urged the company’s partners to forget the past — an allusion to the failure of its smartphone business to gain meaningful share — but defended the decision to keep making handsets. “It feels so good, ladies and gentlemen, …

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Amazon Prime sale busts Black Friday record

Online shoppers on Wednesday ordered more than 34 million items on Amazon Prime Day, making it a bigger sales day for the retailer than the biggest Black Friday in history. Prime customers ordered 398 items per second during Wednesday’s sale, which was held to mark the 20th birthday of Amazon.com. …

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New point-of-sale malware distributed by Andromeda botnet

Cybercriminals are casting increasingly wider nets in their search for new point-of-sale systems to infect. This appears to be the case with a new memory scraping malware program called GamaPoS that’s distributed by a botnet known as Andromeda. GamaPoS was recently discovered by security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro, …

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How a B2B company got its tech groove back

MSC Industrial Supply — one of the largest direct marketers and distributors of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations supplies — distributes 500,000-plus industrial products to more than 2,000 suppliers for over 300,000 customers.  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …

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Are Samsung shoppers really buying iPhones instead?

Switchers “iPhone 6 demand, as measured by consumer review analysis, jumped when customers waiting to purchase and apparently open to buying a Samsung, instead chose an Apple iPhone,” said John Feland, CEO and founder, Argus Insights discussing the release of the latest consumer survey. Apple has fought since its one …

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SAP gives SQL Anywhere a new IoT injection

SAP’s SQL Anywhere has long served as an embeddable database option for mobile devices, but the rise of the Internet of Things has opened up a new world of possibilities, and SAP has lost no time in polishing the technology for that purpose. On Wednesday, in fact, the enterprise software …

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See, somebody DOES read the manual!

Flashback a couple decades to the days when this pilot fish is a student working on an IT team at a local government office. “We developed an office management system for them and coded it up,” says fish. “However I had an evil sense of humor, and managed to get …

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EU hits Qualcomm with two antitrust probes

Qualcomm is under investigation by the European Union’s antitrust authority, which suspects the company of abusing its dominant position in the market for 3G and 4G chipsets used in smartphones and tablets. The European Commission has initiated proceedings against Qualcomm in two investigations, it said Thursday. The first concerns whether …

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Renewable energy boom will mean vastly cheaper electricity

Renewable energy, combined with prolific battery storage, will soon result in vastly cheaper electricity — and solar power that’s less expensive than what fossil fuel-based power plants can produce. Additionally, solar power with lithium-ion and flow-battery storage systems will make the combination of renewable energy so inexpensive that it will …

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Microsoft выпустила Bluetooth клавиатуру для мобильников

Корпорация Microsoft сегодня представила универсальную беспроводную клавиатуру, которая спроектирована для использования с мобильными устройствами такими как смартфоны и планшеты. Кроме того, что новая клавиатура-раскладушка поддерживает работу в системе Windows, она может работать на устройствах с iOS и Android, делая клавиатуру универсальной. Microsoft спроектировала клавиатуру чтобы она была мобильна, поэтому на корпусе присутствуют …

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