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You're still hired: Viglen bosses get to keep jobs for another year

Viglen's financial performance has improved, meaning chief exec Bordan Tkachuk and chairman Claude Littner will avoid Lord Sugar's fearsome finger - which is usually waved about when numbers are down or Apprentice wannabes get the boot.

Oracle: We WON grey market software and Solaris support case

Um, HOW much did they pay you in the settlement?
Paul Kunert, 19 Jun 14:45

AXE-WAVING BIKER GANG SMASHES into swanky Apple UK store

Pic Pair cuffed after helicopter chase sparked by Cupertino idiot-tax-avoiding raid
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Jasper Hamill, 19 Jun 12:56

BT boss QUITS telecoms giant for front-bench gov job

Prime Minister poaches CEO - Gavin Patterson to take his place
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Kelly Fiveash, 19 Jun 11:57

Ex-Systemax veep cuffed, charged with $230m fraud

Carl Fiorentino bailed for $1m over wire, mail and laundering scams
Paul Kunert, 19 Jun 11:24

PC makers REALLY need Windows 8.1 to walk on water - but guess what?

Upgrade is no 'miracle', sniffs IT analyst
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Paul Kunert, 19 Jun 08:59

Icahn doubles down on Dell offer with $14 per share buyback scheme

Confirms he's now Dell's largest private investor – short of Big Mike, that is
Iain Thomson, 19 Jun 00:10
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HP PCs 'n' printers boss steps down, replaced by Brit

HP has snatched the reins of its bogged-down global PC and printer biz from exec Todd Bradley, just a year after stitching the units together, as it struggles to compete in the mobile slablet world.
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Brit biz-gobbling comms giant Daisy Group splutters with indigestion

Biz broadband and comms giant Daisy Group has faced a challenging 12 months as its operating losses widened and organic growth stalled.

CLOUD TO SUCK UP ALL YOUR CASH: Govts around world slash IT spending

Survey: Bring your own device, because we sure as hell won't buy you one
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HPC server sales spike: Buyers get chops around juicy cheap flops

ISC 2013 Big Data-supercomputing mash up, coprocessors included
What the Tianhe-2 super should look like in its final home
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Quadrant Visual Solutions goes into liquidation

Quadrant Visual Solutions (QVS) has shut up shop after 25 years in business, having succumbed to the oldest business-killer of all: it ran out of cash.
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Microsoft lures buy-curious vixens, corduroys with a cheap fondle

Microsoft is slashing the price on its Windows 8-powered Surface RT tablets to slap the unwanted kit into students' palms.

G-Cloud overlord McDonagh gets CBE nod from Queen

'How long have you worked here? What do you do? Have a medal'
Paul Kunert, 18 Jun 09:34

Google Chromebooks now in over 6,600 stores

Major, worldwide retail push begins this summer
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Neil McAllister, 17 Jun 21:57

Icahn scratching head over BEEELLLIONS needed for Dell deal

Never mind how rich I am, you need HOW MUCH?!

Major Brit IT provider denies turning to fellow resellers after burning up lines of credit

Mutterings tell of another refinance for Azzurri
Paul Kunert, 17 Jun 13:41

Bone up on fresh EU privacy law - or end up in the clink, IT biz warned

McAfee Channel Summit Resellers no longer just flogging boxes - now they must offer legal advice
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HP sacks English employees to bag Scots gov jobs cash

My taxes went to Scotland and all I got was this lousy P45
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Paul Kunert, 17 Jun 09:29

SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix

Zombie lawsuit back and wants to suck the brains out of Linux
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Simon Sharwood, 17 Jun 00:48

Symantec sharpens axe as 1,700 awarded the Order of the Boot - report

Bennett follows through with middle-management cull promise
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John Leyden, 14 Jun 15:56
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Ex-Palm CEO Rubinstein wishes HP sale never happened

Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein is still proud of the work the ill-fated PDA maker did on its webOS smartphone platform, but when asked if he would have done anything differently there's still one thing that sticks in his craw.

Opinion

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Eddie Pacey

Does it do what it says on the tin? Credit insurance, that is
Funnel of cash. Credit: via SXC – http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Leonardini
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Dale Vile

Corporate decision-making's got nowt on non-techie MDs

Alexandre Mesguich

Cloud, virtualisation, mobile tech require fatter pipes

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