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Saturday, 16 May 2009 02:05
15,000 more jobs go at BT
The worst is still not over for the telecoms industry as BT announces another round of swathing job cuts.
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Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:36
Hey nerd, how much do you earn?
How much do you earn? If you are a London-based IT worker the news is not good.
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:22
TrustDefender highlights danger of updated Torpig rootkit and variants
Rootkits are the not-so-secret, yet increasingly sophisticated weapon
of online criminals targeting Windows users even before their computer
boots up, with the Mebroot / Sinowal / Torpig rootkit potentially the
worst of the bunch, completely invisible to traditional AV programs –
but not to TrustDefender.
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Friday, 09 January 2009 15:44
iPhone for sale, only $2.5 million plus change
How much did you pay for your iPhone 3G? Too much, I suspect is the most common reply. Now, as the credit crunch starts biting hard, one enterprising soul thought the time must be right to try and flog the world's most expensive iPhone.
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Thursday, 08 January 2009 19:59
20,000 jobs to go at Dell, IBM and Lenovo
The economic crisis has started to really take aim at the IT market, and the latest companies in the cross-hairs would appear to be Dell, IBM and Lenovo.
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Saturday, 20 December 2008 21:18
TrustDefender and the Trojan Vundo story
Even with anti-virus protection, this is the story of Vundo Trojan
infecting a protected computer anyway. A different anti-virus product
removed the Trojan, but it kept coming back, so here’s how the Trojan
was removed, and how TrustDefender would have kept that user protected
– despite being infected.
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:42
Chinese Linux hit by credit crunch
Linux has been doing pretty well in China, with recent year-on-year sales going through the roof. However, there can be no escaping the global economic crisis, not even for Chinese Linux.
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Friday, 05 December 2008 15:44
Server market takes a tumble
File under no surprise there then: the latest IDC EMEA Server Tracker figures, factory revenue in the EMEA server market has shown the biggest quarterly decline since 2005, and Western Europe is to blame.
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Friday, 28 November 2008 08:50
Quaking Quilty questions Singtel Optus $10 billion NBN 'œblack hole'
With many believing Telstra is set to win the National Broadband
Network (NBN) tender, come what may, Telstra’s David Quilty is going
out on an all-out attack on Singtel Optus, questioning its “$10 billion
funding hole” and labelling it a “sub-prime NBN bidder”.
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 16:49
17,500 jobs slashed at BT, Sun and Yahoo!
File under: this has been a bad week for technology workers. As the economy continues to squeeze technology companies, staff are set to get crunched by swathing job cuts at BT, Sun and Yahoo!
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Saturday, 11 October 2008 18:47
Stolen Australian credit cards going cheap
Six months ago you could buy stolen US credit card details from the online underground for the seemingly bargain basement price of USD $10 a pop. However, it appears that stolen Australian credit cards have now hit the real rock bottom and can be picked up for as little as just USD $1.50 a time...
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 16:34
Apple executives get millions in bonuses as stock tumbles
Not even Apple can escape the fallout from the global economic crisis, with it's shares tumbling this week. That hasn't stopped Apple's executive team reaping in more than 120 million dollars in bonuses though...
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 03:23
US Bailout Crisis: Microsoft and McCain mouth off, House website and tech stocks bomb
The US Stock Market has dive bombed following the failure of the proposed 700 billion dollar bailout bill at the hands of the House of Representatives. Tech stocks felt the pressure, as did the House website which appears to be crumbling under the strain. Thank goodness, here come Microsoft and Obama to save the day...
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 20:20
Sack us and we will leave with your data, say IT Admins
That seems to be the message coming from the latest Cyber-Ark survey of IT Administrators which reveals that 88 percent of them, if laid off tomorrow, would steal valuable and sensitive company data before they left.
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