England is catching up with Scotland and Wales in liberalising mobile phone use in hospitals, a mere five years after it was established that such use didn’t present a significant risk to medical equipment.…
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SanDisk has announced new netbook and USB thumb drive flash products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.…
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Comment Back in December 2007, a confident GlassHouse Technologies, sensing good prospects in its services and consulting area, filed for an IPO. In the spring of 2008, it entered a strategic partnership with Dell, made another acquisition - and then the recession happened. The company has started firing people as it cuts costs and drives towards profitability in the words of Curtis Preston, one of the world’s most influential bloggers about backup technologies and procedures. What is going on?…
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The rumor mill, being stoked by IBM employees talking on a pro-union web site, has it that Big Blue is getting ready to lay off up to 16,000 employees, or about four per cent of its 400,000-strong global workforce, thanks to the slowing of the economies in the United States and Western Europe.…
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Bogus profiles on social networking website LinkedIn are punting malware to the credulous and starstruck.…
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UK scientists have appealed for people to donate their brains to researchers facing a “dire” shortage of grey matter, the BBC reports.…
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US airline Continental says it will carry out “the first biofuel flight by a commercial carrier using algae as a fuel source” tomorrow. Previous airliner biofuel trials have used controversial “first-generation” feedstocks, seen as contributing to world hunger and deforestation, apart from a recent New Zealand test involving jatropha nuts.…
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Silicon Valley startup Xobni, which develops MS Outlook plug-ins, has raised a $7m series B round of funding led by network giant Cisco.…
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Google has leapfrogged Microsoft to reach third place in a blacklist of spam-friendly ISPs, compiled by anti-spam organisation Spamhaus.org.…
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All 43 police forces across England and Wales are now offering online crime maps showing offences broken down by area.…
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