Petrol Crisis: OPEC Web site defaced
News The international price of petrol has resulted in British protests that have left three quarters of the UK's petrol stations dry. I think I speak for everyone out there [the entire planet], when I say you guys need to get your collective asses in...
[September 13, 2000, 9:01]
Remote Surveillance of Vapour Recovery System for Fuel Dispensers
White Papers Malte Products AB has developed a wireless system for remote surveillance of fuel handling information for petrol stations. The system runs the applications for Price signs and Tank Inventory. The new system provides a high flexibility by the means...
[April 24, 2007, 1:00]
Another MS Sponsored Story ?
Talkback Your Ford car will run on ESSO petrol this week and BP next week, there is no porting costs, or retraining involved. The price is set at a level such that the market is just beginning to howl with pain.
[November 6, 2008, 13:57]
Mobile Payment: Potential and reality for Nigeria
Blog Comment You’d need to carry enough to meet the daily costs of petrol, shopping and rent. The poor don’t have the same bills to pay but they do have vets bills, seed to buy, petrol for their fishing boats and loans to microfinance institutions.
[January 15, 2009, 14:25]
Microsoft: The existence of alternatives changes everything
Talkback Why is the price of petrol rising at the highest rate in your (limited) history? The comment by Smithy illustrates the problem we in Europe have with Americans! The "we are always right" and "you WILL do it our way" attitudes are not the way to win...
[April 16, 2004, 14:10]
Don’t Ride The ‘Doom & Gloom’ Bandwagon
Blog Most things at the moment suck - like the price of food and petrol - but let’s not jump on the ‘doom and gloom’ bandwagon of despair, for all that will do will drag us down. Forget all the doom mongering about the credit crunch and turn these...
[August 7, 2008, 12:03]
UK Wi-Fi operators to lay down their swords?
News At the last count, T-Mobile had 500 hot spots in locations such as Starbucks coffee shops and Texaco petrol stations. Our focus is to get the scale operators working together," Clark said, in an interview in which he also talked about BT's Wi-Fi...
[July 27, 2004, 17:40]
Adobe's price isn't right
Leader Alienating your users by crass exploitation is just filling the fire buckets with petrol. Our price tag of £2,313 for the Master Collection translates to $4,583 — a figure we'd dearly love to see the company try and foist on its home market instead...
[June 7, 2007, 15:43]
Fordtelematics drives Mondeo man out of trouble
News One of the options offered by 'fordtelematics' system, is the "in-car personal assistant" button that puts you through to an operator who will instantly pin-point the location of your car and guide you to a petrol station or wherever you need to go.
[March 22, 2002, 17:58]
NZ bank joins ranks of Linux converts
News On top of that they would have to replace every single PC in two to three thousand petrol stations around Europe because the machines in the field could not run NT. Linux clusters allow you to take old Pentium II or Pentium III PCs and get...
[April 22, 2002, 11:14]
Google gets set for spectrum race
News Owning the spectrum would give Google an advantage in local advertising, which is tailor-made for mobile use as people look for nearby restaurants or petrol stations. Google executives say their aim is to bring the PC style of internet openness to...
[December 4, 2007, 15:08]
Lawsuit opens new can of worms for Microsoft
Talkback One wonders how governments in Europe, and the States, can allow such products, that begin the production cycle with freedom, to be so restrictively and punitively controlled at the point of sale -(Would you buy a car if you were told that the...
[October 7, 2003, 14:35]



