PC quarterly sales plummet, sharpest drop on record

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(Reuters) - Personal computer sales plunged 14 percent in the first three months of the year, the biggest decline in two decades of keeping records, as tablets continue to gain in popularity and buyers appear to be avoiding Microsoft Corp's new Windows 8 system, according to a leading tech tracking firm. The huge drop over a year ago, the steepest since International Data Corp started publishing sales numbers in 1994, mark a new milestone in the apparent decline of the age of the PC as … [Read more...]

ProfitBricks Shows It Can Take On AWS With 2.0 Infrastructure

ProfitBricks Shows It Can Take On AWS With 2.0 Infrastructure

The infrastructure-as-a-service-providers (IaaS) market is starting to exhibit a deeper diversity. Call it the “Cloud 2.0″ era if you will. ProfitBricks is one of these companies showing its muscle in this new arena with the announcement of the world’s largest instance size. These large instance sizes scale to 62 cores and 240GB of RAM and reflect how the company is trying to differentiate against reigning cloud giant AWS. ProfitBricks pairs these giant, flexible instances with pricing … [Read more...]

“Three Keys to Better Data-Driven Decisions: What You Should Know Right Now”

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Obama’s energy, environment picks face Senate grilling this week

U.S. President Barack Obama stands next to two new nominees for his staff in Washington

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's picks to lead energy and environmental policy face scrutiny this week as Senate panels try to tease out details of the administration's agenda, which had been maligned by Republicans and some Democrats during Obama's first four years. Both nominees are Massachusetts natives with Washington experience. Nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz, Obama's nominee for energy secretary, will appear before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on … [Read more...]

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Can’t Hold Us

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LAURA CHRISTIE – SUMMER TWIST (seventeen photos)

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Inspire Others (Twenty Five Photos)

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