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RSS customers in newsMicrosoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News Ballmer wrote: "In the weeks ahead, we'll launch a campaign to address any lingering doubts our customers may have about Windows Vista. And later this year, you'll see a more comprehensive effort to redefine the meaning and value of Windows for our... [24 Jul 2008]
ISPs join file sharing crackdown
News The agreement will see thousands of "informative" letters sent out by ISPs to customers identified as using their internet service illegally. UK internet service providers have joined forces with the UK record industry to crack down on illegal file... [24 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News He wrote: "Some customers are running mission-critical transactional deployments with over 3TB of data on open-source databases, while others are running very large workloads that support hundreds and thousands of concurrent users. [24 Jul 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News He said in a statement: "Over time we will be looking to expand our offering even further with more suppliers who are at the forefront of laptop technology, making it even easier for our customers to connect to the internet seamlessly, whether it... [23 Jul 2008]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News The OneTouch system enables customers to pay for goods worth less than £10 by touching their Barclaycard to a reader - avoiding the need to enter a PIN or sign for the transaction. Martin Townshend, operations director of Coffee Republic, said in a... [23 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News Flight bookings must be made in English and paid for with a credit card, although the company plans to widen this to other languages in the near future, and is planning to adapt the service for corporate customers. [23 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! profits dip - yet claims 'strong' Q2
News chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen said: "Despite a difficult economic environment, we posted solid results in line with the ranges we indicated in April.Our diverse advertiser base and compelling value proposition for our customers were key... [23 Jul 2008]
SAP: Time up for TomorrowNow
News SAP is now working with more than 225 customers currently using TomorrowNow to help them move back to Oracle support or other support options. Executive chairman of TomorrowNow, Mark White, said the company's goal is to help customers move to other... [22 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News Several recent high-profile cases have involved UK customers receiving bills for thousands of pounds after using their handsets to download television shows while on holiday in Europe - often called 'bill shock'. [22 Jul 2008]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News Bernadette Kenny, director general of personal tax at HMRC, said in a statement: "Ensuring that our customers are properly served by our PAYE services is of paramount importance to us but we will not go ahead with implementing the new system until... [21 Jul 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News The UK's third-largest bank said this week that it has distributed the card reader, made by Amsterdam-based Gemalto, to more than one million customers, and that none have been hit by fraud. Earlier this month Barclays offered all its online... [18 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News We will have to differentiate ourselves but we already know how to make our customers brand loyal. Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the year, a landmark milestone that analysts believe will make the... [18 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Kelly Kavanagh, principal analyst at Gartner, said in a statement: "The ability to provide massively scalable processing, storage and bandwidth inherent in cloud computing will require security controls and functions to be delivered to customers... [17 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry PDF flaw puts business networks at risk
News Until the company can issue a patch, RIM has warned customers to disable the BlackBerry Attachment Service, which allows BES to process PDF attachments for users to view on their BlackBerry devices. RIM is warning businesses to disable the function... [17 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News The EC says the 2.5 billion text messages sent every year by roaming customers cost in excess of 10 times more than domestic texts. Roaming charges have already drained the wallets of mobile customers too much, especially the 77 per cent of young... [16 Jul 2008]
