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Sonys Xperia Tablet Z goes up for preorder on O2
The Inquirer, and it looks like O2 got the memo today, having begun accepting preorders for the device. Unfortunately it's not as cheap as we were expecting, as
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Hacker claims successful attack on CNN
The Inquirerhas claimed to have mounted a successful attack against the CNN website. Reckz0r claimed to have extracted information from the US based 'news' company and posted four fake articles on its website. He made the announcement about the attack on Twitter, following that ...
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Yahoo irks users with major Flickr revamp
The InquirerYahoo has rolled out a number of updates to its Flickr photo service, including a cleaner home page with less clutter and full resolution images. It has built the renovation around a new photostream that offers an endless scrolling gallery so "it's easy to see what your friends are posting and what they're saying about your ...
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Sprint to listen to Dish offer
St. Louis Post-DispatchWireless company Sprint Nextel Corp. says it can now let Dish Network Corp. see its books and talk with Dish to see whether its competing offer to buy Sprint is better than its current deal with Japan's SoftBank.The companies said late Thursday that SoftBank had waived provisions of its deal with Sprint that will allow Sprint to talk with Dish.SoftBank currently has a $20.1 billion deal with ...
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IT firm iGate sacks boss Phaneesh Murthy over undisclosed relationship
Independant21 May 2013 IT outsourcing company iGate Corp said it had sacked its chief executive, Phaneesh Murthy, for not disclosing a relationship with a subordinate after investigating one of the industry's best-known executives for sexual ...
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Bits Blog Tumblr Founder Says Site to Stay ‘Independent’
International Herald TribuneSAN FRANCISCO -- Both Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, and David Karp, Tumblr's 26-year-old founder, reassured worried users on Monday that Yahoo’s deal to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion would allow the social networking site to operate as it is. "Marissa walked me through exactly what that would look like, what that could look like, and she showed me an opportunity ...
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Now robot takes drink order via smartphone
Times Of IndiaGoogle I/O Conference in San Francisco last week were invited to send a drink recipe via a smartphone application to a three-armed robot Makr Shakr. They could then interact with attendees having similar taste to collaboratively design the perfect drink via social media. MIT's Senseable City Lab wanted to see what happened when a lot of people take control of an industrial manufacturing ...
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How to increase your PCs speed
Times Of IndiaYour computer can slow down due to a number of reasons. One of them could be accumulation of unnecessary files in the disk. A simple way to speed up the computer is to periodically clean the disk. There are some files, ...
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Sacked iGate CEO calls it a case of extortion
Times Of Indiasexual harassment against him and said it's a case of extortion. "There is no merit to the sexual harassment claim. The charges are completely false. They have an easy way to collect money. It's the same lawyer and law firm who represented the other woman in 2002 (when Murthy was charged with similar allegations when he was ...
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Senate report Apple claims subsidiaries to avoid paying billions in taxes each year
InfoWorldApple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new report from a U.S. Senate subcommittee. Apple has set up a "complex web" of offshore entities to avoid paying taxes, with some subsidiaries set up in ...
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UPDATE 3-Vodafone keeps Verizon payout to make up for European slump
ReutersTue May 21, 2013 6:52am EDT * Biggest ever fall in organic service revenue * FY earnings down 3.1 percent, just beating market view * CEO refuses to comment on sale of Verizon stake * Will keep hold of latest Verizon payout * Shares flat By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Vodafone will reinvest a $3.2 billion dividend from its healthy U.S. arm to counter weakness in ...
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Consumer Reports names Samsungs Galaxy S4 the worlds best smartphone
The InquirerConsumer Reports has named Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone the top smartphone in the world, dethroning LG's Optimus G. Consumer Reports is an independent, non-profit organisation that tells subscribers what are the best products on the market, and the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone is the latest mobile device to pass the company's testing. It apparently passed with flying ...
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Syrian Electronic Army hacks the Telegraphs Twitter accounts
The InquirerThe SEA has made a name for itself by taking over news organisations' social media accounts and has trophies from the BBC, the Guardian and the Onion on its shelves. Most recently,
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Ubisoft releases Splinter Cell Blacklist cooperative play trailer
The Inquirergame series based on Tom Clancy adventure potboilers has been around since 2002, and this will be the sixth Ubisoft release. They are third person shoot and chokers and are supported by a Tom Clancy novel. The trailer popped up late yesterday, and Ubisoft's promotional blurb said, "Tom ...
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Amazon Google and Apple wont need to pay tax despite government threats
The Inquirerfor technology companies explaining their tax situations. The week started off with news that a £150m rural mobile contract had been awarded to Arqiva, the firm that in January came under the spotlight for alleged dodgy tax practices. On Tuesday, news broke of another government contract for Arqiva in the form of providing the infrastructure to support the rollout ...
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