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Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the…
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Five reasons Chrome will take over the world

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the…
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Apple iPhone ad banned

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad for the iPhone which promised users access to “all parts of the Internet” on their Apple device. The Advertising Standards Authority ASA has banned an ad for the iPhone which promised users access to “all parts of the Internet” on their…
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BlackBerry rumor mill takes a page from Apple

Friday, August 15th, 2008

For the past few months, writers have been churning out rumors about several new flavors of BlackBerry. Is RIM using careful leaks to beat Apple at its own rumor-fueling game? If you thought iPhone nano rumors were hard to avoid, consider the myriad BlackBerry incarnations haunting cyberspace. …
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‘Star Trek’ communicators free up doctors’ time

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has saved the equivalent of 4,000 emergency department staff hours per year with an internal Star Trek-style wireless voice communicator. Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has saved the equivalent of 4,000 emergency department staff hours per year with an internal Star Trek-style…
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The curse of the BlackBerry

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Creating an epidemic of BlackBerry dependency may serve short-term business interests. But the trouble is one day the addicts might just fight back. Although he’s supposed to be on holiday, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown admits his BlackBerry will remain on as he wanders pensively along the North Sea…
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Ten hard drive disasters

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard…
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10 hard drive disasters

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard…
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10 things we’d change on the iPhone 3G

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

There’s plenty that’s great about the new iPhone, says silicon.com’s Natasha Lomas. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few things for Apple to think about for the next time round. The 3G iPhone has finally arrived–a year and a half after CEO Steve Jobs first confirmed…
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RIM’s Lazaridis on why Qwerty’s still working

Friday, May 16th, 2008

RIM’s co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements…
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Indian techies snubbing US jobs to stay home

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Graduates from India’s tech institutes say their home country is fast catching up with the United States for the range and quality of career prospects. Indian tech graduates are increasingly turning their back on western countries in favor of finding work at home. Graduates from the…
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Recession fears squeeze tech budgets

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Tech budgets are starting to feel the heat on the back of the credit crunch crisis and fears of a recession according to a jury of CIOs. A near crash in the global markets last week caused economic panic and heightened fears the UK and other economies are heading…
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Business execs snub Facebook

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Social networking Web site Facebook is being snubbed by a jury of CIOs because of the increasing number of “silly applications” and lack of business use. Just one of the 12 IT executives in silicon.com’s weekly CIO Jury IT user poll said they use Facebook for networking or business-related…
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