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Beijing Olympic diary: Producing results
Comment Friday was the first day of athletics and also the first day of cycling and we still had the swimming competition in the morning and in the afternoon. Last Friday was the busiest day and... [19 Aug 2008]
Self-assessment tax site crashes out on deadline day
News During the morning and early afternoon users trying to access the Self Assessment Online section of the HMRC website were confronted with the message "Online Service Temporarily Unavailable". An HMRC spokesman told... [31 Jan 2008]
iPhone hits US shelves
News An employee at the Apple store in downtown San Francisco said all of their iPhones were gone by early Sunday afternoon but he said he was expecting a shipment on Monday morning. But with the long lines expected last... [02 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.02.07
Round-Up That's right, after today's edition you are going to have to find something else to look forward to on a Friday afternoon.possibly checking the end of week accounts, signing the temps' timesheets or... [23 Feb 2007]
iSoft the target of takeover talks?
News On Friday, following IBA's announcement, they had risen to 49.5p in afternoon trading.iSoft was sub-contracted to supply Lorenzo as part of the NHS' National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Shares in iSoft,... [19 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: CES and business
Comment As regular readers will know, the Weekly Round-Up newsletter goes out every Friday afternoon. I've had a few people ask me why we'd sent a reporter to CES, given it is the Consumer Electronics Show. My... [12 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.12.06
Round-Up Despite his well-reported reputation as a visionary, it's almost certain he wasn't alluding to the future development of ultra-condensed, mega-capacity storage devices, but that’s exactly where the Round-Up's going with this long and... [15 Dec 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.11.06
Round-Up Now that's got your Friday afternoon off to a cheery start hasn't it? If you've got that Friday feeling why not check it out for yourself here. The UK is suffering a fraud epidemic it... [10 Nov 2006]
Fake airline boarding pass website shut down
News They first visited him on Friday afternoon with a request to take the site down but when he got online he found it had already been removed, he wrote. He wrote on Friday: "I have not... [31 Oct 2006]
Crack-a-Mac contest ends abruptly
News The challenge would last until Friday, he announced. The same statement also appeared on Schroeder's challenge website on Wednesday afternoon. A Mac OS X hacker challenge apparently got a systems... [09 Mar 2006]
The end of the affair: RIM cuts $612m BlackBerry deal
News The agreement involves a one-time payment to NTP, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said during a Friday afternoon conference call. RIM and NTP have agreed to settle the long-running patent dispute over the... [06 Mar 2006]
Has C&W won the Energis bidding war?
News C&W responded on Friday with a 'take it or leave it' statement claiming its deal would die at 17:00(BST) on Monday unless 75 per cent of Energis debt holders accepted it. However, by mid-afternoon on... [15 Aug 2005]
Time support site is shut down
News A website set up last week to act as a forum for ex-employees of Time and Tiny Computers, and as an unofficial helpdesk for customers of the company, closed down in mysterious circumstances on Monday afternoon. [02 Aug 2005]
Ex-Groove VP tries to block Microsoft takeover
News An ex-Groove Networks executive suffered a legal setback on Friday in his bid to block Microsoft's takeover of his former company. Mr Matthews' attempt to block the acquisition of Groove Networks by Microsoft by way of a... [04 Apr 2005]
3G operators: We'll hit coverage targets
News However, by Friday afternoon the item had only attracted a top bid of £7.50. Orange's 3G handsets went on sale in the UK on Friday. The UK's leading third-generation mobile operators are... [13 Dec 2004]
