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News Fourteen per cent of employees admit to storing company material on their laptop's hard drives, nine per cent on personal devices not owned by their workplace, eight per cent use portable hard drives and seven per cent use mobile devices to keep... [13 Nov 2007]
Torex Retail looks to future
News For a privately owned company, Torex adopted an unusually open attitude about giving its customers access to financial data. He has used a Torex-owned POS product for nine years, even before it was acquired into the supplier's product set. [13 Nov 2007]
MySpace and Skype to get chatty
News MySpace and Skype are set to announce a tie-in that will see the eBay-owned telephony client providing voice chat services for the News Corp-owned social network's instant messaging client, MySpaceIM. [17 Oct 2007]
Gov't slammed for 'pro-Microsoft IT stance'
News He said of the Government Gateway: "Technically, the Government Gateway is owned by Microsoft" and said the government's policy "is, in part, in breach of European Union regulations" on competition. A Liberal Democrat MP has launched a stinging... [11 Oct 2007]
Microsoft and NHS team up on software design
News Central to the vision, Smokoff said, is the idea that the information would be owned by the individual. Inside a business, software with a good user interface can improve productivity. Inside a hospital, it can save lives. [10 Sep 2007]
BT drops below half share of fixed-line calls
News O2, which is owned by Spanish telco Telefonica, gained the largest number of subscribers in 2003 but it is only now that revenues have caught up. BT's share of fixed-line call volumes fell below 50 per cent for the first time last year, an annual... [24 Aug 2007]
Skype swats "massive" outage bug
News The VoIP company, which is owned by eBay, admitted that the majority of its users had been unable to access the service between last Thursday and Saturday. Skype has fixed a software bug that made the internet telephony service almost unusable for... [20 Aug 2007]
Microsoft seals $6bn aQuantive deal
News In the filing, aQuantive said its board has resigned, as planned, and that it has notified Nasdaq to delist its stock, with the shares now converted into the right to receive a cash payout of $66.50 per share from Microsoft.aQuantive is now a... [15 Aug 2007]
Judge throws out $1.5bn MP3 decision
News The new ruling holds that one of the patents in the case was not actually owned outright by Lucent and since Microsoft had a licence to that particular patent through its co-owner, it's off the hook. One of those patents, the judge ruled Friday... [07 Aug 2007]
Qualcomm ban hits 3G handset imports
News Qualcomm is running out of options as a trade ban goes into effect that will prohibit the import into the US of any 3G handset using Qualcomm chips that have been found to infringe on patents owned by rival Broadcom. [07 Aug 2007]
Mobile rail ticketing 'on track in Midlands by 2012'
News The London Midland rail franchise was won in June by Govia, which is 65 per cent owned by Go Ahead. UK public transport giant Go Ahead Group has pledged to have 50 per cent of journeys on its London Midland rail franchise bought through smartcard... [02 Aug 2007]
iPhone 'data-stealing' hack claimed
News Security researchers claim to have hacked the iPhone. The iPhone, Apple's first attempt at manufacturing a mobile phone, was launched to much hype in the US at the end of June. This is the first serious attempt to hack the device, although hackers... [24 Jul 2007]
SAP: Next-gen RFID will battle climate change
News Asked about the ongoing row between its wholly owned subsidiary TomorrowNow and rival software giant Oracle, Kagermann said Mark White - the man appointed as TomorrowNow's executive chairman in the wake of revelations of "inappropriate" downloads... [20 Jul 2007]
Yahoo! profits fall
News for the first time broke out the revenue it gets from ads on its owned and operated sites versus those on partner sites but said it would no longer provide the revenue from its top 200 advertisers. Yahoo! [18 Jul 2007]
'DIY' offshoring on the increase
News He said in the quarterly update: "We believe the slowing of growth in the global outsourcing market is driven by the fact that offshoring to a wholly owned captive operation, or tactical out-tasking of small, discrete processes, is currently... [12 Jul 2007]
