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1. AOL will axe 2,500 jobs

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Volunteer or you're for the chop A third of the workforce at AOL will lose their jobs before the company spins off from Time Warner. The process will work like this, according to a memo written by CEO ...

2. Feds indict RBS WorldPay hackers

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... more than 2,100 ATMs in at least 280 cities worldwide, including cities in the United States, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan and Canada. The $9 million loss occurred within a span of ...

3. Motorola Droid snipes at iPhone's market share

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   100,000 units and counting Motorola has reportedly sold over 100,000 Droid phones during the device's first week on the market. According to Broadpoint AmTech analyst Mark McKechnie, Motorola is likely ...

4. Google gives away free wi-fi at 47 airports

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... airport wide free wi-fi indefinitely, as a result of the deal. Over 100 million people will travel through the 47 airports between now and January 15, 2010 - when the offer ends. Airports covered by ...

5. Nook put into shade by delays

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   Cross the eyes and dot the ts Heavy demand for the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader means some customers won't get their gizmos until December 11th. That's according to the Wall Street Journal. It said that ...

6. Ashmolean in Oxford re-opens this weekend

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   ... beautiful art, and some beautiful everything else. 39 new galleries have been added on to the original edifice. The refurb cost £61 million (~$100 million). It opens on Saturday the 7th of November. The ...

7. Adult Friend Finder: paedophiles are just one click away

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... engine marketing spend each year is about $100 million. Anyone can sign up to be an affiliate of AFF. Upon signing up and establishing the affiliate option, the affiliate is provided with a banner advertisement ...

8. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ...  22.9% -23.5% Total 43.3 100% 41.5 100%  ...

9. Apple brags as apps exceed 100,000 mark

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   A smug Apple has announced that over 100,000 applications are now available for download from the company's App Store. A smug Apple has announced that over 100,000 rather pointless applications are now ...

10. Mobile phone market shows signs of recovery

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ...  61.5 20.1% -3.9% Total 287.1 100% 305.4 100%  ...

11. Sony Ericsson touts sleek and sexy Aino phone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... up to 13hrs18, standby time: up to 380hrs18 (on GSM) Battery type : 3.6V, 1000 mAh, Lithium Polymer Audio formats supported: 3GP, AAC, MP4, M4A, MP3, AMR, AMR-WB, WAV, SMF, iMelody, XMF, WMA Auto Rotate ...

12. Wii don't want no Nintendo consoles

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... much. It made a net profit of 69.5 billion yen but it had said it was likely to make a profit of 100 billion yen for the period. The drop in profitability, however, may force prices down again - what ...

13. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    ...  "The TILE-Gx line, available with 16, 36, 64 and 100 cores, employs Tilera's unique architecture that scales well beyond the core count of traditional microprocessors," Tilera spokesperon Bob Doud told ...

14. Lenin's favorite car maker launches $1 million SUV

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... metal parts are made from rocket titanium and coated with white gold on former soviet space supplier factory. Jubileum 100 MONACO badges – similar to Trotsky car badge - are made from white gold, but of ...

15. Windows 7 launches in London hospital

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... – has decided to jump on the scrappage bandwagon. It will offer up to £100 if you trade in an old PC. DSGi's Jeremy Fennell didn't say whether or not the PC/laptop actually had to be working, however.Another ...

16. Sun to axe 3,000 jobs after Oracle delay

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... next few quarters. The CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison, estimates Sun Microsystems is currently losing around $100 million per month while the acquisition limbo continues.  ...

17. Finland promises broadband for all

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    ... is promising its people a guaranteed 1Mbps service by next July, rising to 100Mbps by the end of 2015. It's not as hard a task as it might be - 95 percent of the population already has internet access ...

18. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... deliver up to 25 percent "better performance" than previous processors. Sun also announced an enhanced SPARC memory controller, along with a new flash array known as the F5100. The array features up ...

19. Social Networking helps you dodge the law

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    And we thought we were cynics. Honestly, we're like babes in the wood compared to this lot.And we thought we were cynics. Honestly, we're like babes in the wood compared to this lot.At a round table on ...

20. Nanoradio takes on the giants: Forget Bluetooth!

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    One of the guys who invented Bluetooth spoke here at the Etre conference in Paris and claimed chips his company designed are ousting the top players in the industry.One of the guys who invented Bluetooth ...

21. WiMAX has failed, industry guru claims

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    Hermann Hauser, the man who span off ARM from Acorn and later CSR, said at a roundtable today here in Paris that WiMAX has failed.Hermann Hauser, the man who span off ARM from Acorn and later CSR, said ...

22. Startup goes head on against Kindle, Sony

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... to produce future devices that would support color e-ink.He said: "Reading is a 100 million market and we think is a big opportunity for providing an "Easy tech" solution. The E-reading design will be ...

23. Cisco expands management from 10 to 2,500 people

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    Mohsen Moazami, VP of Cisco's internet business solutions group, told the Etre conference today that it has devolved its management from 10 top stars 10 years ago to 2,500 to 3,000 people now.Mohsen Moazami, ...

24. School start up seeks money for German market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    Mentor presented its pitch to find two million Euro to launch in Germany to a bunch of VCs here at the Etre conference in Paris.Mentor presented its pitch to find two million Euro to launch in Germany ...

25. Amazon chops Kindle price again

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... $299 and launching a new reader compatible with global wireless networks. Kindle with US & International Wireless will enable readers to download content wirelessly in over 100 countries and territories. ...

26. IBM’s head is in the clouds

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... the rest of their organization and manage their calendar and contacts, using a shared corporate directory. IBM is at pains to remind us that more than half of the largest global 100 corporations use ...

27. How Smart are Twitter's Investors?

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    Opinion Twitter is all the rage. And while it's great fun, is it really worth $1 billion, which is what the Wall Street Journal pegs it at after a $100 million investment led by T. Rowe Price and Insight ...

28. Twitter adds $100 million to social networking war chest

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    ... the company had raised approximately $100 million at a valuation of $1 billion. It should be noted that a number of additional companies have previously invested in Twitter, such as Benchmark, Union ...

29. AT&T invests in Intel snooping technology

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    ... the support with its Tech Support 360 service, which AT&T claims 100,000 businesses have deployed. AT&T will launch the service in the first half of 2010, the companies said. The problem for many ...

30. Internet child porn increasing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    ... the UN investigator on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. She estimated that between 10,000 and 100,000 children are victims, AP reports. "The number of images showing serious ...

31. Google bolsters OCR capabilities with reCAPTCHA acquisition

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    ... - protects over 100,000 websites from spam and fraud by providing CAPTCHAs gleaned from printed texts. San Francisco, Calif. Google has bolstered its optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities ...

32. Oracle and Sun showcase 'world's fastest' database machine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ...  Intel Xeon (Nehalem) processors 600 GB SAS Disks at 6 Gigabits/second DDR3 memory 72 Gigabytes (memory) per database server 40 Gigabits/second InfiniBand Raw disk capacity of 100 TB (SAS) or 336 TB (SATA) ...

33. Apple retires 40GB TV model, lowers 160GB version to $229

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    Club Cupertino has slashed the price of its 160GB Apple TV by $100. The unit - which stores up to 200 hours of video - is now available for $229. San Francisco, Calif. Club Cupertino has slashed the ...

34. August game sales caught in downward spiral

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 11 September 2009

    ... come flying out of the gates and combined could drive over $100 million in revenue in the USA, representing almost 13 pecent of expected sales," explained Divnich. "October will likely be in the flat ...

35. AMD showcases Eyefinity multi-display technology

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... 100,000 channel partners." Bergman explained that PCs loaded with Eyefinity technology would "expand" game and virtual world environments to the "largest ever experienced." He noted that AMD was working ...

36. World's quietest room opens for business

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 08 September 2009

    ... vibration nanoscience laboratories that are anchored to the rock below. Because of the size of the materials involved - between one and 100 nanometers - complete stillness is essential to an experiment's ...

37. EMC keeps lead in falling storage market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 04 September 2009

    ...  $400 8.9% -8.1% Others $1,380 33.5% $1,751 34.7% -21.2% All $4,121 100% $5,044 100% -18.3% (Vendors, worldwide external disk ...

38. iPod grifter sentenced to 13 months

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 26 August 2009

    A federal court has convicted and sentenced a Michigan man to 13 months in prison for stealing 9,000 iPods from Club Cupertino. According to the Associated Press, Nicholas Woodhams was also ordered to ...

39. UK police admit CCTV cameras are useless

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    It takes 1,000 CCTV cameras to solve a single crime, Britain's biggest police force, London's Metropolitan Police, has admitted. London, England - It takes 1,000 CCTV cameras to solve a single crime, ...

40. Where do you want to go today? How about jail?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 23 August 2009

    ... two years and fined 100,000 Yuan. State prosecutors said that the gang had offered free downloads of the operating system, making money from advertising and that more than ten million people had downloaded ...

41. P2P pirate ruling constitutional

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... first attacks the defendant’s reliance on the famous BMW v. Gore case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down a jury’s punitive damages award, finding that at 100 times actual damages the verdict ...

42. Tom Tom releases iPhone application

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Sunday, 16 August 2009

    GPS firm Tom Tom said it has released a $100 application for the iPhone 3G and 3GS so you can find your way round the malls of the USA and the wild wastes of Canada.GPS firm Tom Tom said it has released ...

43. NASA think-tank should reopen, says NRC

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... would dish out grants of up to $100,000 for one-year initial programs, or up to $500,000 for really innovative research. The NRC says, however, that a new agency should focus more closely on projects that ...

44. Scientists get a million Linux kernels to run at once

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    ... cyber attack.” “The sheer size of the Internet makes it very difficult to understand in even a limited way,” said Minnich. It has been estimated that the team will need to run 100 million CPUs by 2018 ...

45. Firefox now officially past 1 billion downloads

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 31 July 2009

    ... crossed the 1 billion download mark earlier today, hitting an important milestone for Mozilla. We remember that Firefox 1.0 was launched in November of 2004 and hit 100 million downloads less than a year ...

46. Life may have developed in cometary oceans

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 30 July 2009

    ... "These calculations, which are more exhaustive than any done before, leave little doubt that a large fraction of the 100 billion comets in our solar system did indeed have liquid interiors in the past. ...

47. Microhoo is not just about traffic. It’s about data. Period.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 30 July 2009

    ... has one key advantage over Google: Range of topic areas. Yahoo operates a much broader topic range of web sites than Google. Yahoo runs well over 100 websites and service, including Flickr, del.icio.us, ...

48. New Ferrari F458 a waste of money

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    ... obscenely expensive to service and painted red. So it has a 4.5 liter V8 producing 570 horsepower, will top 200 mph and do 0-60 in 3.4 seconds. You could buy 100 used motorcycles for the same price ...

49. Malaria vaccine ready for human trials

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 28 July 2009

    ... 100 per cent protection against malaria infection. He said it was hoped the vaccine would produce similar results in humans. "Although two genes have been deleted the parasite is still alive and able to ...

50. AMD eats into Nvidia, Intel graphics market share

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ...  100% 74.87 100% 31.3% The company cautions that things won't return to the normal seasonal pattern until the ...