Articles Posted on 14 August 2010
Cisco Shares Slide As CEO Warns Of "Unusual Uncertainty"
News Hardware
Cisco shares have declined on Thursday following an announcement from the company, warning of an upcoming slump in IT spending. In a conference call with analysts, Cisco CEO John Chambers said that consumers were showing signs of...
ITV Likely To Fight Apple Over TV Device
News Mobile & Telco
Apple is likely to face some serious legal wrangles with UK broadcaster ITV as rumours of a prospect of a change of name for the company's set top box from Apple TV to iTV emerged. Speaking to Pocket-lint's Stuart Miles, Mike...
IBM to spend $480 million on Unica
News Hardware
IBM said it inked a deal to buy Unica Corp. for about $480 million. Big Blue reckons Unica will expand its ability to help organisations "analyse and predict customer preferences and develop more targeted marketing...
Taleo Adds Former Sun CEO TO Board
News Hardware
Human resource software maker Taleo has announced the inclusion of former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz to its Board of Directors.The company said that Schwartz had joined the company's board following his stint as the...
O2 Adds iPhone 4 To PAYG Family
News Mobile & Telco
O2 will sell the iPhone 4 on PAYG, becoming the fourth mobile phone network after Orange, Vodafone and Tesco Mobile to do so; T-Mobile and 3 UK have yet to make any announcements in this direction. The phone will be sold for...
Four Scammers Released In Ticket Fraud Probe
News Hardware
Four people arrested for allegedly setting up a fake concert and sports ticket scam have been released on bail.According to The Independent, three men and one woman were arrested for setting up two websites, worldwidetickets.com...
Graphics cards are a great help to hackers
News Security
Graphics cards aren't that smart. But they are good at doing the same thing over and over again. This, researchers reckon, makes them good at 'brute force' password attacks, in which, if one password doesn't hack it, another is...
£60 640GB Seagate External Portable Drive
News Hardware
Hard drives have never been this cool! A stylish, trendy box, this Seagate external drive is not just a great storage unit but is also a lifestyle addition to your gadget collection. And as for the performance, its simple plug...
£340 HP G62-107SA Refurbished Laptop Core i3 2GB 250GB
News Hardware
The HP G62-107SA Refurbished Laptop is powered by an Intel Core i3-330M Processor that runs the Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium operating system. 2GB of RAM are installed, and a 250GB hard drive offers plenty of storage...
Dell Streak Gets "Unofficial" Android 2.1
News Mobile & Telco
Android 2.1 is now available for Dell Streak, the diminutive tablet smartphone, although you will have to download the leaked official firmware from an unofficial source. Modaco lists the Streak update as being build 6941, the...
HTC To Launch Desire HD On 15th Of September?
News Consumer
HTC has issued an invitation to a number of UK journalists asking them to come and see what HTC has dreamt up before adding that more details will follow. If ever there was a clue in the invitation it could be the smokes in the...
i3 Group Slams Wessex Water Over Scrapped Broadband Sewer deal
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The i3 Group, the outfit behind the Fibrecity Bournemouth project, has slammed the Wessex Water utility service for scrapping plans for installing a fibre-based wire network through Bournemouth sewers.The group said that the...
