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Google pulls plug on Yahoo! ad deal
News The deal's demise is a new blow to the struggling internet pioneer, whose stock has plunged since Microsoft offered as much as $33 per share just months ago in an acquisition attempt. Today, those authorities expressed... [05 Nov 2008]
Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn
News After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the end of Firefox to the demise of Microsoft itself.silicon.com spoke... [02 Sep 2008]
Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
News After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the end of Firefox to the demise of Microsoft itself.silicon.com spoke... [02 Sep 2008]
Universities blamed for games industry skills crisis
News Many of the current crop of games industry employees learnt to create programs by getting creative with the home computers of the 1980s and 1990s - hardware such as the Atari ST and Sinclair Spectrum - so the rise of plug-and-play games... [19 Jun 2008]
e-Crime Crackdown: Timeline
News UK citizens and businesses have weathered unrelenting attacks from online phishers and hackers in recent years, while witnessing a gradual erosion of the ability of police forces to deal with everyday e-crime. [12 Mar 2008]
Police backs calls for e-crime unit
News The demise of the NHTCU means that UK Plcs today have nowhere to go to report everyday e-crime. Some of the biggest names in law enforcement, business and the IT industry have thrown their weight behind our e-Crime... [12 Mar 2008]
Cheques gone by 2018?
News This will even further hasten the demise of the cheque. A banking industry consultation on the future of payment mechanisms in the UK is calling for cheques to be completely phased out by 2018. The consultation document... [27 Nov 2007]
2010: UK dial-up's dying days
News This is in line with the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), which show the number of '2Mbps to 8Mbps' connections rising, while those of less than 2Mbps are falling.uSwitch added that dial-up's UK... [26 Nov 2007]
Downloads sound the end of cassettes
News Following the demise of the floppy disk, it looks like analogue tape is about to meet a similar fate: Currys has announced it will no longer be stocking cassettes. According to the electronics retailer, the growth of... [08 May 2007]
Dell axes its pocket PC
News The demise of the Axim was noted earlier by handheld enthusiast website MobilitySite. Dell has stopped selling its Axim line of pocket PCs and is not planning a new product in the category. A Dell spokeswoman said: "The... [10 Apr 2007]
'Kids and IT means chaos not creativity'
News Futurologist Peter Cochrane provoked a hot debate earlier this week with his keynote address at the silicon.com CIO Forum when he claimed young people are a disruptive force in business and will bring about the demise of... [28 Sep 2006]
CIO Forum: 'Young people will kill off the IT department'
News Young people are proving to be a disruptive force in the enterprise which will bring about the demise of the IT department as we know it today, according to technologist and futurist Peter Cochrane. Making his keynote at... [26 Sep 2006]
Will broadband in the sky take off?
News Uwe Lambrette, principal analyst at consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, said the demise of Connexion is no indicator of the overall health of the in-flight telephony market. And despite its rival's demise,... [23 Aug 2006]
Elonex goes under
News But while the crisis at Time sparked widespread acrimony, with MPs and others demanding an inquiry into the circumstances under which the assets of the company were removed immediately prior to its collapse, the apparent... [15 Jun 2006]
Taiwan fingered as spam hub
News The company attributed the spam rise to two factors: the demise of anti-spam efforts by Blue Security, and growing use by spammers of image-only emails to defeat filters. The majority of spam servers are physically... [12 Jun 2006]
