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3rd May 2007 Archive

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  • Symantec revenue hop can't stop profit flop

    Restructuring costs cramp company coffers

    Symantec closed fiscal 2007 with fourth quarter profit plummeting 49 per cent from the period a year earlier, but beating analyst expectations with a five per cent increase in revenue. The company posted net income of $60.9m in the quarter which ended in March, compared with $119m last year. Major increases in restructuring …

    Software & Security 3 May 2007, 00:21

  • Danes 'prove' sudden iBook death syndrome

    Danish turnover Apple

    The Consumer Complaints Board in Denmark claims to have evidence of a original design defect in the iBook G4 that has been hotly denied by Apple. Many iBook G4 customers complained that after about one year's use, the laptop acquired the nasty habit of powering down and greeting the users with a blank screen and a loud …

    PC Builder 3 May 2007, 00:43

  • Capgemini and HP gain ground in public sector marketplace

    Two winners in ICT supply battle

    Capgemini and Hewlett Packard have gained the most ground in the rankings of top suppliers to the public ICT market. New research from Kable shows that Capgemini rose from seventh to fourth place, while HP shot up from thirteenth to fifth place. BT, EDS and Fujitsu retained the first three positions, while IBM, Dell and …

    IT Channel 3 May 2007, 09:37

  • Northgate continues shopping spree

    Mangetout

    Payroll software giant Northgate has bought yet another firm, acquiring management consultancy Kendric Ash in a deal that could be worth up to £14.2m. Under the deal, Northgate will initially pay £9.2m for the firm, with a deferred payment of £500,000 to come later on, and a further payment of up to £4.5m once certain …

    IT Channel 3 May 2007, 10:29

  • Silly season starts early as IT goes strictly business

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    This week was awash with silly stories - UFOs over Guernsey, dogs defecating on eBay, police charging a stripagram for wearing a police uniform in the street (maybe he should have whipped it off there and then), people being duped into buying sheep thinking they were poodles - you name it, it was there. No wonder there was so …

    Channel Reg Weekly 3 May 2007, 11:14

  • Cigarette fire takes out Internet2

    Redundancy is so net 1.0

    The experimental Internet2 high-speed network was taken out on Wednesday by a fire started by a homeless man. A lit cigarette carelessly discarded on a mattress is blamed for starting a conflagration which knocked out services on Internet2 (Abilene Network) between Boston and New York after it burnt cables which run through the …

    PC Builder 3 May 2007, 11:45

  • Cash machines get a voice

    But it's in Swedish...

    Swedish bank SEB has introduced 400 talking cashpoints, pitched at customers with sight problems, dyslexia, and other issues. Pressing a button before inserting a cashcard activates the speech synthesis option. Services available with voice synthesis include cash withdrawal, account balance options, and mobile phone top-ups …

    PC Builder 3 May 2007, 13:03

  • Google says iApologise for iGoogle cockup (again)

    Data still AWOL

    Google has apologised for continuing hiccups in the relaunch of its personalised homepage service, which has left some users unable to access their data for a week. Google had claimed to have fixed the problems on Friday and restored settings, but a number of homepages remain lost in the ether. The troubles started last week …

    Software & Security 3 May 2007, 13:18

  • Sir Alan Sugar unveils East End supercomputer

    Amstrad boss on 'robot prisons', boozy pilots and BBC's 'different brain sets'

    Everyone's favourite shouty TV star, Sir Alan "you're fired!" Sugar unveiled a supercomputer at Queen Mary, University of London this morning. Sugar cajoles wannabe entrepreneurs on BBC1's The Apprentice and is founder of computer maker Amstrad. But the hat he wore today was the one of chairman at Viglen, the company that …

    Enterprise 3 May 2007, 14:41

  • Yahoo! puts! IM! online!

    Download-free zone

    Yahoo! is offering its instant messaging service without the need to download and install a separate application. The change allows people working for companies which stop staff downloading and installing applications to use the service. It will also make the service usable for people in internet cafes that don't already have …

    Software & Security 3 May 2007, 14:45

  • IBM claims self-assembling chip leap

    Steals idea from nature

    IBM's highly boffinated research division delivered today when the firm said it would be first to deploy self-assembly microchip nanotechnology on an industrial scale. The self-assembling material can be coaxed by a scaffold to form vacuum cavities, which improve electrical transmission by reducing transmission between …

    PC Builder 3 May 2007, 15:22

  • Rivals dismiss MS Forefront security push

    Business OneCare

    Microsoft released the final version of Forefront Client Security, its anti-malware software for enterprises, to manufacture on Wednesday. Security rivals were quick to suggest that the software will prove little better than the company's consumer anti-virus software, which performed disappointingly in independent tests earlier …

    Software & Security 3 May 2007, 15:40

  • Registrars victims of latest UK.gov IT fiasco

    IT modernisation abandons registrars at altar

    Half of the registries in England and Wales have been told to stop using a new computer system, following "performance difficulties", the Office of National Statistics (ONS) confirmed today. The ONS has not identified the source of the performance problem, according to spokesman, but he denied reports that the system had …

    IT Channel 3 May 2007, 18:12

  • Microsoft preps seven bulletins for Patch Tuesday

    Critical fixes for Windows, Office, Exchange and more

    Next week's Patch Tuesday from Microsoft will include updates fixing a host of critical vulnerabilities in products that include Windows, Office and Exchange. In all, Microsoft will release seven bulletins. They include: Two affecting Windows with the maximum severity rating being critical Three affecting Office with the …

    Software & Security 3 May 2007, 20:13

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