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RSS affect in newsMet Office strikes data deal with HSBC
News The Met will be providing HSBC fund managers with climatic data and forecasting for 10, 25 and up to 50 years into the future to help them more accurately predict how weather systems will affect the economies of the world. [13 Oct 2008]
Credit crisis sees eBay slash 1,000 jobs
News The most significant layoffs in the company's history will affect about 1,000 employees and 600 temporary workers, across a variety of jobs and locations at eBay and PayPal, its online payments service. [07 Oct 2008]
Credit crisis sees eBay slash 1,000 jobs
News The most significant layoffs in the company's history will affect about 1,000 employees and 600 temporary workers, across a variety of jobs and locations at eBay and PayPal, its online payments service. [07 Oct 2008]
Chrome future, vintage PCs and credit crunch IT
News As banks across the world started shedding staff, silicon.com's Heath explored ways the global financial crisis could affect IT - from causing pain for FS divisions and hardware and software vendors, to expediting the... [03 Oct 2008]
HSBC job cuts to hit techies
News The cuts will affect the bank's global banking and markets operation. HSBC has confirmed IT workers will be hit by the 1,100 job cuts the bank announced on Friday, as fallout from the global credit crunch continues. [26 Sep 2008]
Belt-tightening causes online-shopping growth to stumble
News The figures, which come from the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, are due to a seasonal variation, according to the researchers, but there are definite signs the economic downturn is starting to affect online... [19 Sep 2008]
Fibre era fraught with roadblocks: EC
News As part of the mooted reforms, a number of important changes that could affect end users are being debated - including quicker mobile number porting; easier to understand tariffs and pricing; better data protection and... [04 Sep 2008]
Mozilla: Chrome won't kill our Google friendship
News How does this affect Mozilla? After Google's surprise entrance into the browser space with its release of Chrome, you'd expect Mozilla Corporation CEO John Lilly to be preparing for a few sleepless nights. [02 Sep 2008]
Google releases Android 1.0 SDK beta
News Google said in the release notes: "We know that these changes will affect many developers who have worked with the prior early looks at the SDK, and we are very sorry for the resulting inconvenience. Google on Monday... [19 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News The memory allocation, calculation, and parsing overflow vulnerabilities affect versions of Office including XP SP3 and 2003 SP3, according to Security Bulletin MS08-051. Microsoft has released six critical patches for... [13 Aug 2008]
Gov't spends £18m on comms surveillance
News The spokesperson also declined to comment on how Home Office proposals for a government-controlled centralised database of all citizen communications and internet usage, which caused protests from peers and civil liberties campaigners,... [07 Aug 2008]
IT chiefs brace for recession
News One CIO who has adapted his IT strategy to react to a recession was pessimistic about how the economy would affect spending. The prospect of the UK heading into a full blown recession is forcing some IT chiefs to... [04 Aug 2008]
Samsung storms second quarter results
News But despite its strong sales in the second quarter, Samsung executives told investors and analysts that it expects the worldwide economic slowdown to affect sales in the second half of the year. Samsung Electronics... [28 Jul 2008]
Broadband speed: ISPs accept 'code of practice'
News The actual line speed an individual customer achieves is likely to be much lower - as factors such as distance from the exchange and line quality affect the speed. Telecoms watchdog Ofcom has published a voluntary Code... [05 Jun 2008]
Mobile broadband ushers in Blue day
News Chinese markets now affect a lot of markets in the West. That perception could soon be about to shift, with the launch last month of a mobile information service from niche player Blue Systems. The company's CEO Sulim... [03 Jun 2008]
