Archives for December, 2008
Livedrive’s livewire, high-living CEO
Pop storage idol
Livedrive’s Andrew Michael is not your average storage CEO.…
Oil software exec pleads guilty to hacking charges
Unauthorised drilling in a protected area
A top manager at a US software developer has avoided jail after pleading guilty to lifting password-protected files from the website of a business rival.…
Datacash tracks down the 3rd Man
If I offered you twenty thousand pounds £3.25m…
Payment service provider Datacash has offered £3.25m to buy UK-based credit card fraud experts the 3rd Man. The offer, announced Monday, represents 30p per share, a 18 per cent premium of 3rd Man’s trading price on 22 November.…
Home Office death list ’stops ID fraud’
I impersonate dead people
The Home Office today said its new weekly register of deaths mailout is “hastening the demise of a cruel type of identity fraud” by catching pension cheats who impersonate dead people.…
Lenovo preps dual-display Frankenlaptop
3,353,088 pixels, at your service
Word has leaked out that Lenovo plans to release the world’s first dual-display laptop at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES).…
Supermicro does micro server for SOHOs
Because you can’t have too many servers
Motherboard and server maker Supermicro is not a tier-one corporate-server supplier itself, but it does sell a lot of motherboards to tier-two players. Now wants to get a piece of the small-office/home-office (SOHO) market with a new single-socket mini-tower server.…
Wireless-power pioneers band together
Circle wagons against credit crunch
The Wireless Power Consortium has opened its doors in the hope of building standards for wirelessly recharging gadgets, and perhaps even getting some products into the market.…
Apple graphics partner gets Intel cash
Need a job? They’re hiring
The world economy may be in a tailspin and jobless rates worldwide may be rising to unprecedented heights, but there’s one happy company that’s raising cash and beefing up its staff size: Imagination Technologies.…
Visionman launches Nehalem Core i7 servers
Why wait for the Nehalem Xeons?
The single-socket server space has been a niche part of the server space, just as machines with more than four sockets has never been a particularly high volume part of the market.…
Dell restructuring puts 2,000 Limerick jobs under threat
Rhyme or reason?
Around 2,000 jobs are under threat at Dell’s Raheen, Limerick plant as the company reviews its operations.…
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