Sony to cut 10,000 jobs in quest for profitability

Sony to cut 10,000 jobs in quest for profitability


Sony to cut 10,000 jobs in quest for profitability

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 01:19 PM PDT

Top execs asked to hand back bonuses

Sony is planning a major restructuring, with around 10,000 jobs – about 6 per cent of the company's global workforce – expected to get the chop after a press conference this Thursday.…

Red Hat clustered storage goes beta

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 01:15 PM PDT

A veritable Gluster... well, you know

The first iteration of the Gluster clustered file system that is going through the Red Hat annealing process is coming closer to market with the launch of a the first beta of the tool since Shadowman acquired Gluster last October.…

'Unibody' iPhone 5 said to debut in October

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 11:39 AM PDT

Today's arrivals from the long and winding rumor road

Apple's next iPhone will be released in October, not June, and it will have a unibody construction similar to that of the MacBook Pro – that is, if you believe the latest crop of rumors.…

AOL sells Microsoft 800+ patents for over $1bn

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 10:42 AM PDT

Fading company's 'Kodak moment'

AOL has confirmed that it is selling Microsoft a bundle of over 800 pieces of its patent portfolio for $1.056bn, and will be licensing its remaining intellectual property to Redmond and others.…

Facebook to acquire Instagram for $1bn

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 10:35 AM PDT

'Don't worry,' Zuckerberg says, 'we won't assimilate them'

Facebook has announced that it will acquire photo-sharing service Instagram in a $1bn cash-and-stock deal.…

Amazon's S3 object count kisses 1 trillion

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 09:50 AM PDT

Buying Bezos by slice

It started out so small, a mere 200,000 objects, with the 2006 launch of the Simple Storage Service (S3) object storage companion to the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) compute cloud. Six years later, and Amazon's infrastructure cloud is getting ready to handily bust through 1 trillion objects under management.…

Intel engineer turned chip spy pleads guilty

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 09:30 AM PDT

The roadmap to jail

A former Intel engineer who worked on the company's Itanium processors for servers and who is accused of stealing documents relating to future processor designs and chip fabrication processes has pleaded guilty to the charges.…

The 10 baddest IT pros

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 06:41 AM PDT

BOFHs who got caught

In 2008 a survey of 300 sysadmins by Cyber-Ark grabbed a lot of press coverage when a whopping 88 per cent of respondents said they would steal company information if fired.…

WTF is... UltraViolet

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Cloud Nine or Hurt Locker?

'Don't break the internet': How an idiot's slogan stole your privacy...

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 03:00 AM PDT

... and how to get it back

Special Report  "I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority that if you type 'Google' into Google, you can break the Internet. So please, no one try it, even for a joke. It's not a laughing matter. You can break the Internet" - Jen, The IT Crowd

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