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Tech Reality Check: Time to Get Back to Fundamentals

Is the internet bubble and the lofty share prices (often without lofty earnings) handicapping down to earth businesses and pressuring otherwise solid companies into making short term decisions in an a...

29 Aug 2008
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Have eBay lost the plot?

I like eBay. I've bought things on it and sold them too - quite obscure things - and every time I've dealt with genuine, friendly people. When buying I've picked up a bargain - and when selling I've g...

28 Aug 2008
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Ebay is shooting itself in the foot and bleeding to death.

The daughter of a friend has an Ebay account. Yes I know, but she was selling a few of grandads unwanted treasures. As a student she works part time and is saving for an o/s trip. In Ebay's payment pr...

28 Aug 2008
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Council tax data found on eBay computer

It has emerged that personal information belonging to thousand's of council tax payers has been found on a computer that was sold on eBay for just £6.99. According to a Daily Mail report, thousands o...

27 Aug 2008
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SocGen in global hiring spree

Despite incurring massive losses from the credit crunch and its rogue trading scandal, French banking group Société Générale is bucking industry trends by launching a campaign to recruit around 20,000...

27 Aug 2008
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It's a computer disposal minefield out there...

As shocking as the security blunder reported in yesterday's Daily Telegraph was, organisations would do well not to dismiss it as a one-off blunder. Studies conducted by BT and the University of Glam

27 Aug 2008
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Lloyds halts cheeky password protest

UK tabloid The Sun is reporting the story of a disgruntled Lloyds TSB customer who changed his phone and Web banking password to 'Lloyds is Pants', only for a member of staff at the high street bank ...

27 Aug 2008
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Space station laptops get infected

NASA are busily downplaying news that laptops aboard the International Space Station were infected with a worm which steals user details for online games. It's not clear how the infection occurred but...

27 Aug 2008
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Outsourcing innovation - myth or a matter of time?

The debate over whether innovation in outsourcing can truly exist seems interminable. At the same time as commentators debate about what innovation really is, suppliers continue to jostle for a place

26 Aug 2008
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More science at school

In order to give young people more science and technology knowledge and boost the UK’s skills in this area, the CBI is calling for a change in how students take science GCSEs. At the moment the majori...

26 Aug 2008
Women in Technology
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The world of fake spyware and bogus virus scanners

Just read a fascinating article which examines in some detail how a particularly sneaky bit of malware can fool the unwary Windows user into parting with their credit card details. The malware poses a...

26 Aug 2008
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Fake Sumo wrestler helps HSBC shoot itself in the foot

HSBC stands accused of 'cultural insensitivity' after dressing up an overweight white man to look like a sumo wrestler and running it on ads across the UK. Complaints have come in that it looks like t...

26 Aug 2008
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