Study reveals shutting off e-mails lowers stress A recently released study by researchers in California proves that employees who stopped checking their e-mail for five days enjoyed less stress and better focus. "We couldn´t see a discernible trend on days 1 and 2. But at day 5, the pattern started to become clear: People became […]
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Apple is probing deeper into the music industry with a new online radio service. Though there is no official word on this app or browser-based service, Wall Street Journal has reported that the Cupertino-based company is in talks with officials from record labels for rights to their tracks on the radio. The service is expected […]
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Tablets have improved substantially in video qualities with HD video support up to 1080p. Cameras have received reinforcements with full HD quality capturing, so has the screen resolution improved with Retina Displays and HD resolutions. What has been ignored is the audio. Dolby took a swing at the audio quality in slates and Amazon Kindle […]
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Infoblox missed on the estimates from analysts on Friday. The company issued an outlook report on the full fiscal 2013 and expected profits per share that were lower than what experts had gauged. Its shares were down 13 percent in the afternoon trading following the report. The company expects the estimated profits per share for […]
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Palo Alto Networks is slated to release the quarterly report on fiscal fourth quarter ended July 31 this week. The company went public in June and this will be its first public announcement of the financial report to the investors. The company is expected to show a profit, analysts say. The joint poll conducted by […]
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New ICS Update significantly improves HTC One X’s Battery Life Good news for all HTC users, especially One X users, and whoever received the latest Ice Cream Sandwich update recently in Pakistan as the biggest need of the moment, which was the extremely disappointing battery time, has been fixed and a major improvement can be […]
Google has purchased Virus Total, a service that provides Internet users a simple and convenient tool to detect viruses in files and web pages that use multiple companies in the world. "What started as a game, a simple challenge without any claim, eventually and end up resulting in the birth of a computer security company. Today, […]
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"We want to make money from the people who use our services, the purchasing of our products." Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, to justify the prices of their machines and the business strategy that, was quoted as saying. Amazon pulls prices and its strategy emphasizes that the device is not the end in itself but […]
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eBay owned PayPal stated Thursday that it is still waiting for a reply from Chinese central bank, People’s Bank of China, on the request filed for online payment services license in the country’s domestic market. According to the company, the application was filed a year earlier and is still in approval process. They say they […]
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Seagate Technology and Western Digital, the two major digital storage hard disc drive providers are facing entirely differing situations in the stock market. Seagate, the temporary market leader for a better part of 2012 saw a downward motion in its stock on Thursday while WD was up on the graph. The stock changed colour when […]
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Microsoft is expanding its human resource pool by a thousand more employees in China to increase the product services it offers in the region. Due to the briskly expanding consumer market in China, the Seattle-based company has decided to increase the workforce in research and development, and customer services. China is the fastest growing mobile […]
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Facebook is getting hit from every side of the park. After seeing its stock plummet gradually to less than 50 percent of the initial public offering price, it has now received bad news on its video application business. One of the major sources of income to the social network is ad sales from video apps. […]
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