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Vodafone restores connections after theft outage

...of England after a major outage. Photo credit: varets on Flickr A break-in that occurred between 1am and 2am on Monday morning at a... Read more

28 February, 2011 by David Meyer

Motorola to spin off handset division on 4 January

...Motorola's long-awaited break-up has been dated to 4 January, when its handset unit will... Read more

1 December, 2010 by Larry Dignan

Sony PlayStation websites hit by log-in exploit

...allows hackers to change users' passwords with the data stolen during the break in to the service in April. The sign-in for the PlayStation... Read more

19 May, 2011 by Erica Ogg

WordPress firm Automattic suffers root-level hack

...has nearly 18 million hosted blogs. "Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers... Read more

14 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Vodafone break-in causes network outage

...is racing to fix a network outage that was caused by a break-in on Sunday night. Some Vodafone customers — the company has not... Read more

28 February, 2011
Google: 'At scale, everything <endeca_term>breaks</endeca_term>

Google: 'At scale, everything breaks

...developed compilers for Smalltalk and Java. According to Hölzle, "at scale, everything breaks", and Google must walk a tightrope between increasing the scaling of its... Read more

22 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Budget increases small business tax breaks

...zones' across England, with fewer planning rules, super-fast broadband and tax breaks for businesses. The government will create 11 zones in areas including London... Read more

23 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft: OnLive's Windows-for-iPad tool breaks rules

...OnLive's virtualised Windows 7 and Microsoft Office service for tablet users breaks Microsoft's licensing policies, the software giant has said. Microsoft says OnLive... Read more

9 March, 2012 by David Meyer

Banking Trojan breaks captcha to spread bot

The Cridex data-stealing Trojan is using spammer techniques to break captcha challenges to open webmail accounts and propagate itself, according to security... Read more

31 January, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Apple updates Mac OS X after DigiNotar break-in

...system, in a bid to mitigate the damage caused by the DigiNotar break-in. Security Update 2011-005 for the Snow Leopard and Lion versions... Read more

12 September, 2011

Apple iAd Gallery app breaks App Store rules

...Apple As pointed out by Business Insider, the free iAd Gallery app breaks the thirteenth item in Apple's functionality rules, which stipulates that "apps... Read more

7 April, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn
<endeca_term>Break</endeca_term> Time 2.1.2.1

Break Time 2.1.2.1

Break Time is a rest break reminder designed to prevent RSI (Repetitive Strain... Read more

24 January, 2011

Google breaks ground on Taiwan datacentre

Google has started building a $300m (£189m) datacentre in Changhua County, Taiwan, to support expansion of its services... Read more

4 April, 2012

Symantec blamed for Huawei alliance break-up

The US security firm chose to dissolve its joint venture with Chinese firm Huawei over fears it would stop it getting classified information from the US government about cyber-threats, according to a report Read more

27 March, 2012 by Ellyne Phneah

Tablets break through keyboard barrier, says Gartner

Is the tablet computer's lack of a keyboard a major barrier, or does it remove a barrier? Gartner thinks that the latter... Read more

10 October, 2011

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