Provides the latest RSS feeds for Computer Services News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page industriesnews.net http://www.industriesnews.net/computer_services/&cid=404 en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 02:40:26 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:40:26 -0400 30 Not so much. FORTUNE -- Just as cash-strapped consumers in the developing world bypassed so-called landline phones in favor of mobile devices, so China's lower-income consumers are skipping physical stores in favor of e-commerce sites. ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214653150&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:44:13 -0400 CNN Money http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214653150 Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed into law a bill reauthorizing the state's popular back-to-school sales tax holiday. This year's sales tax holiday will take place from Aug. 2 to Aug. 4. Shoppers will not have to pay the state's 6 percent sales tax on clothes worth $75 or less or on school supplies worth $15 or less. But this year's tax holiday has a new twist. Those looking ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214652003&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:52:44 -0400 The Ledger http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214652003 Android tablet allegedly will sport a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom CloverTrail+ chip, industry sources familiar with the product told CNET. The plus sign means the CloverTrial chip packs a high-performance PowerVR SGX544 MP2 graphic processing unit from Imagination Technologies. Other specs include Android 4.2.2 and a 1,280 x 800 display. Samsung is expected to reveal the Galaxy Tab at Computex, ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214650124&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:17 -0400 Cnet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214650124 After a decade of double-digit growth, India's offshore IT outsourcing leaders must shift strategies if they want to continue to dominate in technology services as growth slows in a maturing market. Here are six things Indian outsourcers need to do to ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214648937&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:03:25 -0400 CIO http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214648937 (Credit: Apple) AT&T customers should be able to use any mobile video chat app before too much longer. Preloaded video-chat apps will work over AT&T's cellular network for all customers, regardless of device or data plan, by the end of 2013, according to a statement from AT&T. Customers with unlimited data and an LTE device should expect to be able to use video chat apps ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214644647&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:06:19 -0400 CNet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214644647 The purchase of WebHost XTC will help three Watertown business executives offer more e-commerce capabilities to customers of their respective companies. Three Watertown business owners have purchased a Las Vegas-based commerce hosting company and plan to add jobs locally, according to a Monday press release. Paul Dickey, owner of Accurate Pool & Spa Services in Watertown, along with Brian ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214643950&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:13:27 -0400 Business Journal http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214643950 A new study has been released suggesting that there is no need to worry about the fact that in every 4 children, one does not have access to the net at home. Robert W. Fairlie and Jonathan Robinson reported based on their research that owning a computer alone is not a determining factor in the short term that has a significant impact in the performance of a child in school. The study was based on ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214643558&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:41 -0400 Site Trail http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214643558 Justin's back from a sabbatical harvesting McNuggets and McSalad Shakers, Nintendo takes money from fan, a politician goes to Facebook school, and Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion exactly 5 years after CEO David Karp appeared on The ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214640996&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:51:29 -0400 CNet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214640996 May 2013 iAWFUL (';Internet Advocate’s Watchlist for Ugly Laws';) list rattles off eight types of proposals opposed by the group, many of which appear to be targeted because they may threaten the profit margins of the group’s constituent companies. Here are three specific instances where the most recent iAWFUL list puts corporate interests before consumer rights or ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214639646&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:44:07 -0400 ThinkProgress http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214639646 Has it really only been eight years since we first clapped eyes on the PlayStation 3? Oh wait -- yes it has, and we've spent several of those long, dark years desperately awaiting a glimpse of some exotic new gaming hardware from Sony. The test of endurance is almost at an end however, and there's now an awful lot we know about the ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214639568&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:27 -0400 CNet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214639568 Printic turns your iPhone photos into Polaroid-style prints , then delivers them to one or more recipients. It's a simple concept, done well. The app lets you choose photos from your Camera Roll, Facebook account, and/or Instagram account. Just tap to select the ones you want (the minimum order is three pictures), then move on to the editing process. Here you can crop, move, and/or scale ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214638190&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:31:33 -0400 CNet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214638190 (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Pintererest users who click on the pin of a tasty-looking meal may now discover a recipe to cook up the dish themselves. The scrapbooking social network today tweaked the power of certain pins to provide more details on the pinned item, courtesy of third-party Web sites. As described in the ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214637167&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:32 -0400 Cnet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214637167 (Credit: Sarah Tew and Christopher MacManus/CNET) Apple may be checking out displays for its much-rumored smartwatch. The company has reportedly been examining 1.5-inch OLED screens built by Ritek ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214636575&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:27:32 -0400 CNet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214636575 Samsung will demo a new LCD screen that would top similar displays in resolution and pixel density. Geared for notebooks, the 13.3-inch WQXGA+ LCD ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214635670&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:55 -0400 Cnet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214635670 Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg says he usually sees 400 to 600 blog post defections from Tumblr per hour. But that figure apparently skyrocketed after news of the deal surfaced ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214635671&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:54 -0400 Cnet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214635671 Along with its billion-dollar intent to purchase Tumblr, Yahoo finds a new home for official blog -- and tries to drive home the message that all will be ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214634378&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:24:33 -0400 CNet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214634378 (Credit: Ice Monkey) This is an update of a deal I wrote about a couple months ago. Until wireless charging hits the mainstream (with either Apple or Samsung leading the -- sorry -- charge), we're all slaves to cables. For example, I'm currently traveling with an older iPhone, a ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214634313&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:24:28 -0400 CNet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214634313 revenues per visitor of $57.60 during the first quarter , according to Asymco's Horace Dediu. The number of visitors rose by 7 percent from the prior year's first quarter. As such, the average revenue per Apple store reached $13 million for the quarter, the highest number ever for a non-holiday quarter, Dediu revealed. The average number of visitors per store hit 250,000 per quarter ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214633134&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:14:27 -0400 Cnet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214633134 The open-source operating system Sailfish is "Android app compliant." Jolla hasn't said so, but that suggests you'll be able to install standard Android apps on ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214632938&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:21:34 -0400 CNet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214632938 Visa Inc., one of the world's leading payment solutions providers, announced the launch of an in-depth study of the rapidly-growing e-commerce market across the Middle East and North Africa [MENA] ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214631822&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:30:14 -0400 AME Info http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214631822 the posts tagged "Yahoo." I tried to let my eyes waft at random in the hope of finding fair balance or at least something more than purple haze. The first thing I saw was a post from someone called "world-peace-not-war." I felt that here would be sanguine calm. Instead he wrote: "BooHoo! Yahoo Done Wrong. Yahoo Must Pay." This didn't seem terribly peacenik. ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214631641&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:23:39 -0400 CNet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214631641 (Credit: Microsoft) Much has changed in the video game landscape since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360 in 2005. Back then, Microsoft was a clear underdog, hoping to cut into the leads held by rival consoles from Nintendo and Sony. ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214626081&cid=404 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:36:44 -0400 Cnet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214626081 baffled even core developers for the virtual currency. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the person or group of people who came up with the original idea for the electronic cash system in 2008? After contributing thousands of lines of code and hundreds of posts on Bitcoin, Nakamoto sent a note to a developer in April 2011 saying that he had "moved on to other things." Later ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214620595&cid=404 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:52:58 -0400 CNet http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214620595