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Britain's £28m Xmas shopping lunchtime
News The researchers say Monday 8 December will be the biggest UK online shopping day before the holiday, notching up sales worth £320m, with over 40 per cent of sales made out of office hours. Get the latest retail... [12 Nov 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News Earlier this month, the Press Association reported an IT worker from Greater Manchester was landed with a bill of £31,500 after downloading some music and an episode of TV show Prison Break via a mobile broadband card... [16 Jul 2008]
Microsoft's coffers swell on Vista, Halo 3
News Healy said Microsoft sold 1.8 million Xbox 360 consoles in the quarter but declined to give a forecast for the holiday quarter, citing competitive concerns. Microsoft reported a strong jump in first quarter revenue... [26 Oct 2007]
'Roaming cuts could ruin your skiing holiday'
News The GSMA added it expects 20 per cent of roaming and 40 per cent of incoming calls to pre-paid phones will be provided at retail prices that don't cover third party costs. Conway added he believes the current proposed... [24 Apr 2007]
Apple profits surge on iPod sales boom
News Just over 21 million iPods were purchased during the quarter, compared with 14 million during the previous year's holiday season. The projection was for revenue of $6.4bn and profits per share of 78 cents. [18 Jan 2007]
iTunes sales row data over-hyped
News Our credit card transaction data shows a real drop between the January post-holiday peak and the rest of the year, but with the number of transactions we counted it's simply not possible to draw this... [14 Dec 2006]
PC energy waste to cost £8.6m over Christmas
News PCs are the worst energy wasters with the prediction half of them will be left on over the Christmas holiday, using 37.8 million kWh of energy. David Smith, marketing director at Canon UK, said the figures show that... [14 Dec 2006]
Xbox digs into Microsoft's coffers
News Microsoft said it sold 1.5 million Xbox consoles during the holiday quarter: 900,000 in North America; 500,000 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and 100,000 in Japan. Microsoft said... [27 Jan 2006]
CIO Jury: BlackBerrys interrupt IT bosses' Xmas dinner
News One of the great things about my local government career, unlike my previous one in banking, is that, although we operate throughout the holiday period, I have never yet found it necessary to work myself. [06 Dec 2005]
Merry e-Christmas on the way?
News Holiday ecommerce sales are expected to further accelerate this week because shoppers tend to spend more time online during the weekdays than they do on weekends, when they can leisurely stroll through malls... [29 Nov 2005]
Virus top 10: Holidaymakers cause malware tumble
News According to Carole Theriault, security consultant at Sophos, the drop isn't due to virus writers taking a holiday, rather, it's their would-be victims. Despite the fact that Netsky.P has increased its share of the most... [01 Sep 2005]
Office security takes a summer holiday
News With summer having finally arrived, UK workers are increasingly turning to their work computers to download and distribute holiday snaps from digital cameras, raising concerns about the impact this may... [17 Aug 2005]
iPod, Mac sales push Apple earnings past expectations
News During the prior quarter, which included the holiday selling season, Apple sold 4.5 million iPods and just over 1 million Macs. Spurred on by another quarter of strong Mac and iPod... [14 Apr 2005]
Virus top 10: Virus writers go back to the future
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos said: "I don't think the virus writers are on holiday - I think they're writing and releasing worms as normal, it's just that most of them aren't... [01 Mar 2005]
Virus Top 10: Zafi.D gives users an unhappy Christmas
News The most reported virus last month, according to antivirus firm Sophos, was Zafi.D, first spotted halfway through December and taking over 36 per cent of all virus reports. The viruses that have dogged computer users... [06 Jan 2005]
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