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Archive for 2008

Gartner: CDs are dead, long live downloads

Gartner says the music business needs to accept that the CD business is dying a death, and concentrate fully online. Full published article at: Read More »

M&S and Tesco slide in top 30 online ranking

A second annual online customer satisfaction survey has revealed the likes of pureplays Amazon and Play.com as winners, alongside several big name losers. Full published article at: Read More »

Smartphone threats get “serious” in 2009

As mobile handsets become more popular, the more PC-like the security problems will become. Full published article at: Read More »

Christmas Day e-shopping set to top £100 million

Festive e-commerce records look set to continue to tumble as IMRG predicts more shoppers will rush online for Christmas Day bargains. Full published article at: Read More »

Work begins to fix ripped internet cables in Mediterranean

A ship's anchor sliced the underwater cables last week, taking down internet and telephone service. Full published article at: Read More »

Nokia makes internet services easier to access

The world's leading mobile phone supplier looks to jump-start its internet busiess. Full published article at: Read More »

Investment firm slips $100m into Palm’s stocking

Or glove... or something... Palm is getting the greatest gift of all this holiday season. No, not family, friendship, and goodwill towards men – $100m.… Full published article at: Read More »

Transit agency to work with hackers who found vulns

First gagged, now recruited A New England transit agency has vowed to work with three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates whom it had previously sued when they discovered serious flaws in the agency's electronic payment systems.… Full published article at: Read More »

Supermicro does micro server for SOHOs

Because you can't have too many servers Motherboard and server maker Supermicro is not a tier-one corporate-server supplier itself, but it does sell a lot of motherboards to tier-two players. Now wants to get a piece of the small-office/home-office (SOHO) market with a new single-socket mini-tower server.… Full published article at: Read More »

Review 2008: Top 10 telecoms stories

Dave Bailey, Computing, Tuesday 23 December 2008 at 02:00:00 The telecoms sector has, like many others, felt the impact of credit crunch. Nevertheless, some large infrastructure projects are still on the drawing board – including a proposed UK-wide fibre network rollout. BT may invest in superfast broadband BT unveils plans to invest £1.5bn to provide fibre connections to 10m homes by 2012 – providing it received appropriate support from the regulator, Ofcom Government should not subsidise next-gen broadband The Caio Report, commissioned by the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform concluded a...Read More »

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