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HP’s new chairwoman Patricia Dunn has resigned, effective immediately, after her part in the corporate spying scandal that has dogged the company for weeks was revealed. Under orders from Ms Dunn, HP hired a team of private investigators to investigate the leaks of confidential corporate information to CNET News during 2005. The P.I.s have been […]
Shock News! Accounts are daring and exciting people … for those who have a stereo-typical image of Accountants being boring … Harold Rosenbaum Chartered Accountant Extreme Act 1 – Audit of Evil Act 2 – Depreciation to Death Act 3 – The Taxable Trap Act 4 – Ledger Lad Liquidation Act 5 – Damn, It’s […]
Despite being called a cynic and a liar when I wrote that after Google Inc became an ICANN registrar, it signified the impending end of hosted services, it sadly transpires that i was correct… The growth of GoogleMail (GMail) which has largely obliterated Yahoo and Hotmail as a free email service, has now been joined […]
1&1 Internet, Inc., the US subsidary of our friends United Internet A.G. announced 24/August/2006 that it will open a new data centre in Lenexa, Kansas City, Kansas, United States, during the 1st quarter 2007. Specifications Approximate cost $11,000,000 Staff 15 Size 55,000 sq.ft. facility Housing upto 40,000 servers Purpose to house the company’s U.S. and […]
ICANN finally announced that the Ã…land Islands country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .ax has now become operational. The announcement follows formal approval of the new ccTLD by the ICANN Board on the 9/June/2006 and addition of the .ax domain to the root zone shortly afterwards.
LINX (London INternet eXchange) today published the agenda for the next meeting being held 21/22 August 2006 at the Goodenough College, London … One particular item on the technical agenda caught my eye … Love, Hate, Peering and Transit – A Sordid Tale of Transit-Swapping,Leaking and Other Nefarious Deeds sounds gripping, so booked myself in […]
First in a (hopefully) recurring series of modern remakes of famous funnies
Othello Technology Systems Ltd acquires BeamHost London, 13th January 2006. Othello Technology Systems Ltd (www.OthelloTech.net), a leading UK provider of domain names, email/web hosting and online services to the for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), today announced that it has acquired BeamHost (BeamHost.co.uk) effective immediately from Coveria Ltd. The inclusion of BeamHost’s CPanel and VPS […]
There are several men sitting around in the changing room of a private health club after exercising. Suddenly a mobile on one of the benches rings. One of the men picks it up, and the following conversation ensues:
in response to the number of malware diallers people install …
Google Talk announcement forces Skype to OpenSource their API
Google jabber client aimed at msn/aim/skype users
Do something amazing – give the blood of a spammer …
Win the property of a convicted spammer …
Heavyweight showdown starts between google-earth and amazon-a9-world … gloves are off and no punches will be pulled.
Finally after months of testing various options – a decision on the ticketing service …
Longhorn gets renamed to Windows:Vista
