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iPhone 4 demo turns awkward as Wi-Fi fails

iPhone 4 demo turns awkward as Wi-Fi fails

The Wi-Fi connection at the Worldwide Developers Conference becomes an unlikely star of chief executive Steve Jobs's keynote speech Read more

8 June, 2010 by Staff

ACTA likely to fail, European Commission admits

The European Commission has admitted for the first time that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, will... Read more

4 May, 2012

ID cards: Why they were destined to fail

...defunct venture. The ID cards project was in many ways destined to fail. Not long after it was proposed by then Home Secretary David Blunkett... Read more

8 June, 2010 by Nick Heath
<endeca_term>FAIL</endeca_term> Maker 2.2.4

FAIL Maker 2.2.4

...with your iPhone. (Or 2nd gen iPod touch.)Who doesn't see FAIL every day? The next time you see FAIL, point it out following... Read more

5 August, 2011

Internal private clouds doomed to fail

...instead, says Forrester... Internal private clouds developed by businesses are likely to fail, according to a report from Forrester Research. Most enterprises lack the expertise... Read more

17 February, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Apple, Google and others fail to derail hiring suit

Apple, Google, Adobe and three other companies have failed in a bid to fend off a US antitrust suit, in which they are... Read more

20 April, 2012

Nokia earnings fail to shine despite Lumia

Nokia has reported a loss of more than €1bn in the fourth quarter, but said it is now on track to establishing itself as a top-performing Windows Phone manufacturer, thanks to the Lumia range Read more

26 January, 2012 by Ben Woods

A Knights fail: Why Jony Ive isnâ??t the most deserving person in the

Every New Year and Queens Birthday I look through the honours for a few names I think should have received a letter from... Read more

2 January, 2012

Juniper fail seen as culprit in site outages

Several reports of core dumps by Juniper Networks routers have lead to suspicions that a BGP update bug is behind site... Read more

7 November, 2011

NHS IT will fail to deliver care records, says NAO

The ailing NPfIT cannot reach its target of delivering electronic care records for every patient in the UK and the work so far does not represent value for money, according to a National Audit Office report Read more

18 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Cyber espionage: Firms fail to take threat seriously

Cyber spies pose major threat but businesses are ill prepared, says Ovum... Read more

9 March, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Without Steve Jobs, Apple will fail

Steve Jobs taking his second medical leave of absence from Apple -- announced yesterday via an email -- led to a... Read more

18 January, 2011

T-Mobile: how massive do you like your fail

Telephone companies have long had a reputation for corporate stupidity and rancid greed. Mobile phone network operators... Read more

12 January, 2011

Turing papers fail to make reserve price

A set of Alan Turing's papers failed to sell at auction at Christie's on Tuesday, meaning there is still a chance they... Read more

23 November, 2010

Microsoft didn't fail to deliver iPad, Intel did

I'm going to disagree with one key point in Ina Fried's thoughtful piece on why Apple came out with the iPad instead of... Read more

23 June, 2010

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Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

16 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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