friday last week in news
Is tech hiring on freeze?
News In a meeting with reporters last week, chief executive Eric Schmidt supplied a big dose of caution about whether there might be effects from the broader economic issues. already under pressure from... [06 Oct 2008]
Nokia's touchscreen iPhone rival coming this week
News Nokia will unveil its first touchscreen phone this week in a direct challenge to Apple's successful iPhone, two industry sources told Reuters. LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics and several smaller handset vendors have... [29 Sep 2008]
Infosys pays £407m for UK SAP specialist
News The acquisition values Axon, which specialises in SAP consulting, at £6 per share - a 19.4 per cent premium on the company's price of £5.025 on the London Stock Exchange at the close of Friday last... [26 Aug 2008]
OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, claims researcher
News Another problem with OpenID was highlighted in a security advisory published last week, which quoted findings by Google researcher Ben Laurie, and Richard Clayton, of the Cambridge University Computer Labs. [14 Aug 2008]
Legal move leaves Oyster contract in limbo
News TfL announced last week it had terminated its contract with the Transys consortium, which consists of Cubic and EDS, citing "value for money" issues as a factor. Last... [14 Aug 2008]
IBM floats $360m on cloud data centre
News Last week, HP, Intel and Yahoo! The move, made public on Friday, is the latest in IBM's efforts to generate interest and funding for cloud computing, in which software runs not on PCs or... [04 Aug 2008]
Samsung storms second quarter results
News Samsung Electronics reported on Friday its second-quarter profits rocketed 51 per cent, due in large part to a surge in mobile phone sales. Last year, the company overtook Motorola as the number two... [28 Jul 2008]
Icann opens a can of worms
News Our clients didn't want the .eu domain name but they felt they had no choice," he told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk last week. However, a spokesperson for Nominet, the organisation that runs the... [30 Jun 2008]
SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys
News The companies announced last week that the first of SAP's software to make it onto the BlackBerry will be its customer relationship management (CRM) application, which will be generally available for... [06 May 2008]
Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers
News At the end of last week the parliament voted through two reports on the cultural industries. A spokesperson for the parliament told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that,... [14 Apr 2008]
Some to get Vista SP1 this week
News So it was a bit of a surprise when Microsoft said last week that it had finished Windows Vista Service Pack 1, but customers would have to wait until March to get it. Yesterday, Microsoft reversed course... [12 Feb 2008]
Confusion over Office streaming service
News Michala Wardell, head of anti-piracy at Microsoft UK, said on Friday last week: "Fasthosts is a valued Microsoft partner who we have a great relationship with. Earlier this... [11 Feb 2008]
Stolen MoD laptop contains 600,000 records
News Last week also saw other government blunders come to light, such as the loss of more than 4,000 patient details by primary care trusts in Stockport and Oldham. The MoD admitted the breach on... [21 Jan 2008]
German beats Colossus codecracking computer
News In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the National Museum of Computing last week, the cipher-breaking computer Colossus had to decode encrypted radio communications intercepted from Paderborn in... [19 Nov 2007]
Tech suppliers get ID card lowdown
News The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) staged a bidders' conference last week for companies to learn how the procurement process for the National Identity Scheme (NIS) will work and what kinds of... [17 Sep 2007]
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