Cisco lays off 6,500 workers, execs |
- Cisco lays off 6,500 workers, execs
- Amazon tackles soaring textbook prices
- Microsoft turns screws on bot herders with hefty reward
- Pacific Fibre signs up undersea cable supplier
- Cisco doubles Catalyst Ethernet ports to 60 watts of juicy juice
- Seagate ships slim, fast Pulsar XT SSD
- Adobe snarfs up electronic signature automator
- Apple plans to prune iPhone 3GS price
- Sparc T4 server chip slips into 2012
- Nokia reportedly readies mass price cuts
- Toshiba Tablet 2.0 struck with 'sleep of death' bug
- Dixons Retail boss pockets £1m in face of consumer meltdown
- <i>Atlantis</i> bids final farewell to space station
- Asda offloads affordable Archos fondleslabs
- UK dodgy-political-donor watch database canned
- Yates of the Yard quits Met over phone-hacking scandal
- SeaMicro pushes 'Atom smasher' to 768 cores in 10U box
- MPs round on plans to offshore gov IT work
- HTC loses prelim patent ruling to Apple, takes stock hit
- Everything Everywhere boss jacks it in
- CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment
- HP TouchPad 32GB WebOS tablet
- AMD says Xbox 720 graphics to be good as Avatar
- Ofcom ignores radio in annual report
- VeriSign to raise .com, .net prices
- Valve strengthens Steam setup
- Educating Verity the OU way
- Ion Audio iCade arcade-style iPad cabinet
- Tosh admits customer accounts pillaged
- Blighty's top cop quits over phone-hacking scandal
- NASA 'nauts wrap box-shifting duties at space station
- Azure: it's Windows but not as we know it
- SpaceShipOne designer produces hybrid flying car
- World's first turbine powered Batmobile hits roads
- Google: The one trick pony learns a second trick
- Is Anon ready for the social network?
- Google gets Punchd
- Fun and games in userland
- TPG swoops on cloud hosting firm
| Cisco lays off 6,500 workers, execs Posted: 18 Jul 2011 02:37 PM PDT And sells off another 5,000 to FoxconnNetworking giant Cisco Systems is going to get 11,500 employees smaller. After Wall Street closed today, Cisco said that it was going to cut 6,500 workers to get its costs more in line with its revenue streams, and added that it was selling off a set-top box manufacturing plant in Mexico with 5,000 employees to Chinese manufacturing Foxconn Technology Group.… |
| Amazon tackles soaring textbook prices Posted: 18 Jul 2011 01:58 PM PDT Kindle ebook rentals boost beer bucksAmazon is sending its Kindle ebook reader off to college, enrolling it in a program to help save students from the crushing burden of skyrocketing textbook prices.… |
| Microsoft turns screws on bot herders with hefty reward Posted: 18 Jul 2011 01:32 PM PDT $250,000 for arrest of notorious Rustock operatorsMicrosoft is offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those who controlled Rustock, a recently dismantled botnet that in its heyday was one of the biggest sources of illegal spam.… |
| Pacific Fibre signs up undersea cable supplier Posted: 18 Jul 2011 01:00 PM PDT TE SubCom cordage to link Sydney, Auckland, Los AngelesPacific Fibre has awarded TE SubCom, formerly Tyco Telecommunications, with the supply contract for its undersea cable system.… |
| Cisco doubles Catalyst Ethernet ports to 60 watts of juicy juice Posted: 18 Jul 2011 12:51 PM PDT More power to ya'Networking giant Cisco Systems has cranked up the amount of juice its Catalyst 4500E switches can pump out over Ethernet to 60 watts – another step toward its goal of making its switches the throbbing heart of the modern office.… |
| Seagate ships slim, fast Pulsar XT SSD Posted: 18 Jul 2011 11:20 AM PDT Slower, fatter version in the wingsSeagate is shipping its Pulsar XT.2 SSD with an SPC-1C benchmark rating, and has a second slower but higher capacity SSD coming soon.… |
| Adobe snarfs up electronic signature automator Posted: 18 Jul 2011 10:58 AM PDT EchoSign to bolster PDF inventor's online doc servicesAdobe Systems has acquired the online electronic-signature and signature-automation provider EchoSign.… |
| Apple plans to prune iPhone 3GS price Posted: 18 Jul 2011 09:34 AM PDT Budget oldie to tackle low-end Androids?The iPhone 3GS is set to drop in price this summer, as Apple attempts to broaden its share of the mobile market by offering a smartphone for folk on a budget.… |
| Sparc T4 server chip slips into 2012 Posted: 18 Jul 2011 09:22 AM PDT Oracle bestows beta on 'select' customers"Select" customers who use Sparc-based Solaris systems are being asked to participate in a beta program for Oracle's next-generation of Sparc T4 systems. Also, it appears that those Sparc T4 machines have slipped into 2012.… |
| Nokia reportedly readies mass price cuts Posted: 18 Jul 2011 08:42 AM PDT Cheap phones to pave way for WinPho?Nokia is readying a ten per cent price cut across its entire smartphone product line this September, it has been claimed.… |
| Toshiba Tablet 2.0 struck with 'sleep of death' bug Posted: 18 Jul 2011 08:36 AM PDT Some Thrive fail to wake upToshiba's second attempt at an Android tablet seems not to be living up to its name. Some Thrive units are ailing.… |
| Dixons Retail boss pockets £1m in face of consumer meltdown Posted: 18 Jul 2011 08:27 AM PDT Browett takes big pay cut but walks away with a smileDixons Retail chief exec John Browett trousered over £1m in rewards – down more than a third from his normal wages – during the most recent financial year, despite the group posting steep losses as it struggled to cope with the consumer meltdown.… |
| <i>Atlantis</i> bids final farewell to space station Posted: 18 Jul 2011 07:44 AM PDT Hatches closed as last shuttle mission draws to a closeThe crew of space shuttle Atlantis have said their farewells to the residents of the International Space Station, and closed the hatches between the shuttle and the orbiting outpost for the last time.… |
| Asda offloads affordable Archos fondleslabs Posted: 18 Jul 2011 07:08 AM PDT Tablets for budget shoppersSupermarket chain Asda is offering a low-cost tablet so folk on a shoestring can now pick up an 8in model for less than £100.… |
| UK dodgy-political-donor watch database canned Posted: 18 Jul 2011 07:01 AM PDT Like we need a list to find corruptionA New Labour database designed to ferret out corrupt contributions to political parties has been canned.… |
| Yates of the Yard quits Met over phone-hacking scandal Posted: 18 Jul 2011 06:38 AM PDT Last man out, leave your resignation on the deskScotland Yard's Assistant Commissioner John Yates quit his job with the Metropolitan Police this afternoon.… |
| SeaMicro pushes 'Atom smasher' to 768 cores in 10U box Posted: 18 Jul 2011 06:08 AM PDT A lot more bang for some more bucksThe drumbeat of system upgrades continues apace at microserver startup SeaMicro, with the company launching its third server node for its SM10000 "Atom smasher" in the past nine months.… |
| MPs round on plans to offshore gov IT work Posted: 18 Jul 2011 06:05 AM PDT DWP bods to move from being employees to customersMPs are cranking up the pressure on government to safeguard the jobs of up to 200 HP IT workers amid plans to outsource the positions to India.… |
| HTC loses prelim patent ruling to Apple, takes stock hit Posted: 18 Jul 2011 05:58 AM PDT Early goal for Jobs in patent battleHTC violated two patents held by Apple, the US International Trade Commission confirmed in a preliminary ruling late last week.… |
| Everything Everywhere boss jacks it in Posted: 18 Jul 2011 05:35 AM PDT Personal reasonsTom Alexander, the boss of Everything Everywhere, has left the company for personal reasons.… |
| CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment Posted: 18 Jul 2011 05:01 AM PDT What do these results mean? Not allowed to tell youThe chief of the world's leading physics lab at CERN in Geneva has prohibited scientists from drawing conclusions from a major experiment. The CLOUD ("Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets") experiment examines the role that energetic particles from deep space play in cloud formation. CLOUD uses CERN's proton synchrotron to examine nucleation.… |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2011 05:00 AM PDT Cross my Palm...Review What a difference a year makes. Had HP's TouchPad - which went on sale in the UK this past Friday - debuted 12 months ago, maybe even as few as seven, it would have stood tall alongside the competition.… |
| AMD says Xbox 720 graphics to be good as Avatar Posted: 18 Jul 2011 04:15 AM PDT Hardware is hardcore, exec hintsChip maker AMD has hinted that the Xbox 360's successor will be able to deliver computer graphics to match those in James Cameron's movie Avatar.… |
| Ofcom ignores radio in annual report Posted: 18 Jul 2011 04:13 AM PDT Here's our carbon footprint, though...Don't touch that dial: Ofcom's annual report devotes more space to diversity targets and the quango's own carbon emissions than it does to the state of British radio.… |
| VeriSign to raise .com, .net prices Posted: 18 Jul 2011 03:52 AM PDT 57 billion lookups a day don't come for freeVeriSign has announced plans to raise the price of .com and .net domain names again.… |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2011 03:38 AM PDT System of a downloadValve has announced an update to its Steam games shop which promises to make the download system "better, stronger and faster".… |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT 'The skin of my C++ custard remained unruffled'Stob I think I mentioned that I was doing an Open University PGDip course in software development. (For those not familiar with the institution, the Open University has rightly been described as a sort of mental gym. You join with great enthusiasm; then, after three months, having attended just twice, you can drop out and ask for the balance of your subscription back.)… |
| Ion Audio iCade arcade-style iPad cabinet Posted: 18 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT I game therefore iPadGeek Treat of the Week Let's get the negative out of the way right from the start: the iCade is a bit on the crap side.… |
| Tosh admits customer accounts pillaged Posted: 18 Jul 2011 02:51 AM PDT Everything but credit card details snaffledToshiba says that unidentified hackers have stolen customer records belonging to 7,500 of its customers.… |
| Blighty's top cop quits over phone-hacking scandal Posted: 18 Jul 2011 02:44 AM PDT 'Severe discomfort' as Rebekah Brooks cuffed by policeThe phone-hacking scandal enveloping Rupert Murdoch's media empire and the Metropolitan police intensified yesterday when Scotland Yard arrested ex-News International boss Rebekah Brooks and the head of the Metropolitan Police - Britain's most senior policeman - resigned after it was revealed he had hired a News of the World executive as a PR consultant.… |
| NASA 'nauts wrap box-shifting duties at space station Posted: 18 Jul 2011 02:29 AM PDT Raffaello module ready for return to EarthThe combined crews of space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station's Expedition 28 have wrapped the unloading of the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module.… |
| Azure: it's Windows but not as we know it Posted: 18 Jul 2011 02:24 AM PDT Moving an application to the cloudIf Microsoft Azure is just Windows in the cloud, is it easy to move a Windows application from your servers to Azure?… |
| SpaceShipOne designer produces hybrid flying car Posted: 18 Jul 2011 02:11 AM PDT Famous engineer Burt Rutan's swan songBurt Rutan, the famous engineer behind the Ansari X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne and many other amazing aircraft, has produced a hybrid-electric aeroplane which can also be driven on roads as his final design before retirement.… |
| World's first turbine powered Batmobile hits roads Posted: 18 Jul 2011 01:53 AM PDT Bang. Pow. Boom ting!When it comes to customisation, some people really push the |
| Google: The one trick pony learns a second trick Posted: 17 Jul 2011 08:40 PM PDT It sells ads. And it clones other people's productsOpen...and Shut Google has a nasty habit of cannibalizing others' businesses based on its own seemingly unassailable lead in search and online advertising. The problem is that each time this involves giving away free software and services to undermine competitors at the expense of growing its own. Or can Google make a business from giving competitors fits?… |
| Is Anon ready for the social network? Posted: 17 Jul 2011 07:00 PM PDT Rules without tyranny is harder than it seemsThe story so far is that Anonymous – or someone associated with Anonymous, or someone cynically riding on the back of Anonymous, who knows? – has set up a site that will offer some kind of social network.… |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2011 06:00 PM PDT $10m for compsci graduatesPunchd, a loyalty service on mobile phones, was acquired by Google last week for a speculated US$10 million. The start-up is expected to beef up Google Wallet, the search engine's mobile commerce offering.… |
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| TPG swoops on cloud hosting firm Posted: 17 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT Makes generous bid for IntraPowerTPG Telecom, the Australian ISP, is to buy cloud hosting outfit IntraPower for $12.8m, well above market price.… |
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