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Archive for January, 2009

» Nortel files for bankruptcy as shares plummet 76 per cent

As the country falls further into a pit of economic despair, America’s leading manufacturer of telephone equipment, Nortel Networks Corporation has declared itself bankrupt, filing for bankruptcy only one day before an interest payment of $107 million was due to be paid.
The move comes after shares in the corporation dropped by 76 per cent and [...]

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» Paris Hilton’s website suffers with Trojan troubles

It seems as though Paris Hilton has been attacked – not in the streets, not in her home, not in her car, but through her website.  Paris Hilton’s website has been infected with a virus which prompted users of the site to install a mysterious ‘update’.  Whether the user then decided to install the update [...]

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» Seagate CEO Watkins replaced by Luczo

Seagate, the computer storage manufacturers, have had a pretty rough December and due to that are now facing a cut in employees.  So it doesn’t really come as much surprise that the CEO of the company is being replaced and the chairman of the company is being rushed in to replace him.
The now former CEO [...]

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» AMD prepares the “fastest graphics supercomputer ever”

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are preparing themselves to release what they are calling the “fastest graphics supercomputer ever” they have announced.  It is the AMD Fusion Render Cloud, capable of bringing the user a powerful enough system to allow you to render high definition graphics in 3 dimensions, in a way that has never been [...]

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» Time Warner suffer a loss for 2008

Time Warner have had to cut their forecast profit for 2008, largely due to the fact that the company has been forced to cut the value of their cable, magazine publishing and AOL businesses by $25 billion.  The cut in profit forecasts is the first time in the last six years that Time Warner has [...]

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» Barclays cut 400 IT jobs claiming the roles were “unclear”

Barclays have decided that they need to offload some of the IT jobs that they are deeming unnecessary.  Barclays are cutting 400 IT jobs as they claim the roles of the employees are unclear.  The move came after a review of the bank’s operations.
The bank released a statement on the subject, claiming, “Barclays continually reviews [...]

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» Picasa for Mac released with the hopes of squashing iPhoto

Why not start 2009 off with a brand new, helpful software to slap onto your Mac.  Well that’s what Google is hoping you will be doing today as they have launched a Mac version of their Picasa.  The software is a tool that allows its users to easily organise their pictures and share the pictures [...]

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» NASA rovers still going after 5 years

NASA is passing round the champagne and not in an attempt to say goodbye to Woolworths but instead they are celebrating because they have remained a presence on the Red Planet, Mars, for a full five years.
NASA originally sent a robot in 2004, called Spirit, to the planet which was later joined by its brother, [...]

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» The world braces as Microsoft get ready to sack up to 17 per cent of their employees

It seems as though Microsoft is getting ready to let go of around 15,000 jobs around the world.  The job cuts would be the first that the highly popular company would have made since the company’s creation 32 years ago.
Microsoft currently employs around 91,000 people around the world, however, news is circling the world that [...]

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» Gmail push Chrome & Firefox instead of IE

Google have jumped into attack mode as they have started pushing the likes of their home grown Chrome browser and the Mozilla made Firefox instead of the popular Internet Explorer as Google have slammed the browser for being just too darn slow.
If you are attempting to combine Internet Explorer with Gmail then you are in [...]

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