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Unbundling will bring cut-price broadband
News As soon as the local loop unbundles, access to BT's lines will be a fifth of the current price," he predicts. Local loop unbundling will slash DSL prices but BT is deliberately delaying it to maintain competitive advantage according to rival telco...
[April 12, 2000, 12:08]
PeopleSoft sets stage for March battle
News As only half of the eight seats on PeopleSoft's board are up for re-election, Oracle has proposed an expansion to nine directors and has proposed a fifth nominee for that spot. PeopleSoft set the stage for a tussle with Oracle for boardroom control...
[February 2, 2004, 9:05]
BT shares hit by Moody's 3G gloom
News The breakeven point is not likely to be reached before the fourth or fifth year of operation in even the most optimistic scenario," said the report. BT's (quote: BT) shares took a plunge on Wednesday after a report claimed that it could take many...
[April 12, 2001, 15:03]
Survey benchmarks UK earnings for tech workers
News The fourth- and fifth-best regions are the West Midlands (£78,500) and the north-west (£71,600). IT recruitment website The IT Job Board has published its 2009 salary survey which benchmarks the earning power of 16 job titles, from entry-level...
[August 3, 2009, 9:16]
Sober worm makes a comeback
News Sophos said that the worm was fifth most reported virus over the last 24 hours, closely followed by versions of Zafi and Netsky. Virus writers have resurrected the Sober worm with a new variant that is spreading quickly over the Internet, according...
[April 19, 2005, 17:20]
Lindows primes for public offering
News According to the filing, at least a fifth of the IPO proceeds would be used to repay Lindows founder Michael Robertson for the $10.4m that he has invested in the company. Embattled Linux software maker Lindows announced on Tuesday that it has filed...
[April 21, 2004, 9:00]
Survey: Web users ignore illegal content
News Out of those surveyed, over one-fifth of people surveyed would show other people unlawful Web sites they found -- unintentionally breaking the law -- and one in eight said they wouldn't bother to report it to anyone.
[May 17, 2004, 16:05]
UK techies happy to migrate for the right job
News Of those who said they would head offshore, almost a third said they would do so to further their career, with less than a fifth saying the current economic downturn would inspire them to leave the UK.
[December 10, 2008, 6:30]
Demand for IT staff is highest since 2001
News During the third quarter of last year, around one million IT staff were in work in the UK — slightly fewer than in the previous three quarters, but still the fifth-highest quarterly level in the past five years.
[January 9, 2008, 7:41]
Bill Gates keeps wealthiest crown
News Michael Dell and Oracle executive Larry Ellison, with their fortunes pegged at $18bn and $17bn, respectively, both beat out a handful of Wal-Mart heirs to take the fourth and fifth spots. Tech industry billionaires loomed large in Forbes' latest...
[September 26, 2005, 10:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It shows MS coming fifth in the computer industry, behind IBM, HP, Fujitsu and NEC: the score is basically the number of patents filed weighted by how many times previous patents from the same company have been cited 'in this year's batch'.
[May 27, 2005, 19:10]
Police hunt down IT forensics expertise
News The fourth covers analysis of analogue and digital recordings, and the fifth is for analysis of video equipment, including editing and creating compilations of CCTV and the examination of video equipment, such as camcorders.
[October 2, 2009, 8:16]
Microsoft: Don't sell PCs without operating systems
Talkback The fifth is the power that M$ hold enjoy and exploit almost unchallenged. There are a number of issues here. The first is M$'s outrageous business practices which, amongst other things, seek to disadvantage and destroy the 'opposition', primarily...
[April 6, 2006, 8:30]
Grey Army
Talkback In those days, if you didn't have an ID card, you were a fifth columnist and you got shot. I love the idea that the over 75s will leap at the chance to get their free ID card. In talking to people and campaigning against these things, it's that...
[July 3, 2009, 9:38]
HP's ProCurve targets Cisco
News HP claims that the 24-port and 48-port switches offer similar functionality to Cisco's Catalyst 3750G-16TD, a 16-port Gigabit Ethernet switch, for a fifth of the price. Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve networking division is taking aim at Cisco Systems...
[November 2, 2004, 7:29]
E-envoy calls for help bridging digital divide
News The socio-economic divide [when it comes to Internet access] is something we're worried about and would like to close," said Pinder tothe fifth annual ISPA (Internet Service Providers' Association) Parliamentary forum on Tuesday.
[January 18, 2001, 9:26]
British call-centre staff 'inferior' to Asian workers
News Currently HSBC has 1,500 workers under contract concentrated at a call-centre in Hyderbad, who are paid one-fifth of the UK rate. Call-centre staff in Britain can not match their counterparts in India, according to HSBC chief executive Sir Keith...
[August 6, 2002, 11:57]
IBM loses supercomputer crown
News NEC computers take third and fourth places, with a Cray machine in fifth. Supercomputer experts have released a more sophisticated ranking of the world's brawniest computers, and the new order has toppled IBM from the top spot.
[November 29, 2001, 8:42]
Buy, buy, buy - IBM picks up analytics firm
News The purchase of Alphablox, which is expected to be completed this month, represents the sixteenth acquisition by IBM's software division since 2001 and is the fifth buy meant to bolster IBM's DB2-branded data management products.
[July 14, 2004, 16:40]
Putting your brain on a microchip
News Artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, neural networks, the Fifth Generation project - they've all had big moments in the sun. To Jeff Hawkins, today's projects in cognitive computing take him back to the early days of mobile computing.
[May 12, 2006, 11:35]
