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Betfair spins into financial trading
News The website currently only offers financial spread betting - and a high low betting game based on movements of the FTSE 100 - as it awaits authorisation from the FSA, expected in early 2009. As with Betfair, the business... [10 Nov 2008]
London Olympics fibre hub 'template for UK broadband'
News The London 2012 Olympic Games is set to turn the capital into a high-speed fibre network hub. The Olympic Park network and its links to 94 venues across the UK could become the template for a high-speed... [23 Oct 2008]
Yahoo! to slash 10 per cent of staff
News for a price that rose as high as $33 per share now looks even more notable given that Yahoo! also makes revenue from search ads, which many believe are more easily tied to actual performance measurements... [22 Oct 2008]
BlackBerry apps get their own online store
News Lazaridis pointed to an image of a box with the words Bandwidth, Capacity, Performance and Battery Life, written in each corner. If developers push too hard to achieve high broadband speeds, for... [22 Oct 2008]
Top 10 strategic techs for 2009
News Heterogeneous server systems are an emerging trend in high performance computing - to cope with the most demanding workloads - where previously a dedicated appliance may have been used. BI was the top... [15 Oct 2008]
IBM follows Microsoft into the cloud
News We are moving our clients, the industry and even IBM itself to have a mixture of data and applications that live in the data centre and in the cloud," said Willy Chiu, vice president of high performance... [06 Oct 2008]
T-Mobile backtracks on 1GB limit for Android
News The statement said: "Our goal, when the T-Mobile G1 becomes available in October, is to provide affordable, high-speed data service allowing customers to experience the full data capabilities of the device and our 3G... [25 Sep 2008]
Intel: Fresh air route to data centre cost slashing
News If subsequent investigation confirms these promising results, we anticipate using this approach in future, high-density data centres. However, Intel set out with the premise that, as servers are designed for optimal... [19 Sep 2008]
UK climbs IT competitiveness rankings
News The US remains the most competitive IT industry in the world for incubating high-tech start-ups and breeding technology innovation but the UK and a host of other nations are snapping at its heels, according to the... [17 Sep 2008]
HP laptop claims 24 hour battery life
News From October, customers will be able to purchase an HP EliteBook with the new Intel high-performance SSDs - which cost about six to 10 times more than standard hard drives - as HP is one of Intel's... [11 Sep 2008]
IBM blade slashes security threat
News According to Michael Anderson, head of America security services at Check Point, it has already shown accelerated performance of security applications. By combining IBM hardware with Check Point acceleration... [04 Sep 2008]
Beeb names website controller
News The new controller will also be accountable to the Beeb's independent regulator, the BBC Trust, for the performance of the website. Kumar was previously head of BBC HD where she oversaw the launch of the UK's first... [03 Sep 2008]
Google judges ad quality in real-time
News This way, AdWords will use the most accurate, specific and up-to-date performance information when determining whether an ad should be displayed. Instead of presenting them with the minimum bid required for each keyword,... [22 Aug 2008]
Social networking: Global phenomenon
News Earlier on Tuesday, performance firm Pingdom released numbers pulled from Google Insights for Search, showing that different social networks have very different levels of "interest" across the world. Photos: Shopping... [13 Aug 2008]
India: Low-cost, high-tech hub
News HP said in a statement: "These business PCs have a high-performance machine that has the ability to withstand harsh Indian working conditions and delivers productivity and efficiency consistently. Ravi... [06 Aug 2008]
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