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RSS friendThe Weekly Round-Up: 06.07.07
Round-Up Two weeks ago I spent over eight hours unravelling the mess left behind after a friend had complied with the instructions from the Orange technical help desk. Wimbledon will probably be concluding sometime this side of Christmas and large parts of... [06 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.08.07
Round-Up The staff go feral, demanding the IT manager gives them back access to their friend lists before they stick his head on a sharpened pole. The official reason is because it's costing the business lots of money but really it's because their friend... [24 Aug 2007]
Former HP CEO dies at 64
News Dean Morton, former HP chief operating officer and a long-time friend of Platt, was planning to attend Platt's party when he received a call last night from the former CEO's wife, he said. He was 64. Since 2003, Platt had served as lead director at... [12 Sep 2005]
Serialisation: eBoys - Part 3 - The eBay IPO
Comment When a friend called her, Matusich already had done the arithmetic. The third excerpt from eBoys, the inside story of Benchmark, looks at the VC firm's biggest success, e-tailer eBay, and the almost unbelievable story of its first day as a public... [10 Apr 2002]
Oracle CEO touts rough and ready ware
Comment Anyway, some of this talk smacks of our old friend ERP. He thinks users ought to opt for software which enables them to get their business processes online quickly - even if that means their systems aren't perfect. [14 Feb 2001]
Yahoo! takes two-pronged approach to digital music
News Musicmatch's technology itself, such as its recently added ability to let a listener share songs with a friend, was likely also a factor in the deal. is planning to launch its own online music service later this year, despite its $160m purchase of... [20 Sep 2004]
Corporate Voodoo: Extract 2 - Vodafone's secret weapons
Comment While he said "I am not a ruthless shark," at a press conference in Dusseldorf, launching the hostile bid for Mannesmann, one friend recently remarked that "he never does anything that isn't calculated. [09 May 2001]
Save our telcos, says Brussels
News In a white paper published today, the EC proposes a range of terms to relive the burden on Europe's struggling telecoms companies, which have already spent some E140bn (£88.50bn) on third generation mobile phone licences. [20 Mar 2001]
Leader: Should you ban Facebook?
Leader The rise and rise of social networking phenomenon Facebook has put the spotlight on how businesses should monitor and respond to staff use of such sites during the working day. It's just a fad," maybe a common response to putting in a social... [31 Aug 2007]
My first computer: The ZX Spectrum
News This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series of articles. We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. Ah, remember the 80s. [11 Jan 2005]
Technologies That Time Forgot: The ZX Spectrum
News This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our Technologies That Time Forgot series of articles. We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. Ah, remember the 80s. [14 Jan 2002]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.11.03
Round-Up Morrissey once sung "stop me, stop me, oh stop me, stop me if you think that you've heard this one before". And the Round-Up knows how the quiff-topped miserablist felt, because this week the Round-Up has been feeling some pretty serious déjà vu... [21 Nov 2003]
FriendsReunited: coming to a telly near you
News FriendsReunited, the connection service for ex-school chums, is teaming up with Ginger Productions to make a pilot TV show for VH1. The show will follow a group of old school friends as they meet up to wax nostalgic for their school days. [22 Nov 2001]
Nokia and Ericsson do double take
News Two of telecoms' biggest names have released their financial results - but are predicting two different futures for their industry. Device manufacturer Nokia and telecoms equipment both posted healthy year-on-year sales growth for the second... [22 Jul 2005]
Dell settles storage scuffle with EMC
News Dell and EMC have announced a multi-billion dollar alliance today, calling an end to their head-to-head storage battle. The agreement will see the two companies co-branding EMC's midrange Clariion storage systems aimed at Dell's enterprise customers. [22 Oct 2001]
