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CNET.co.uk has 225 stories on numbers
eBay PC had 1 million bank customers' details
News The data is reported to include mobile phone numbers, bank account numbers, mothers' maiden names and signatures. One million bank customers' details have turned up on a second-hand PC sold over auction Web site eBay.
Tags: credit, credit card, graphic, removed
27 August 2008, 8:38
Ikea assembles pay as you go mobile
News The 9p call rates and 6p text rates apply at any day, time and to any network (except premium rate numbers), according to Ikea, which claims the offering is "at least 25 per cent cheaper than any other comparable pay as you go offer".
Tags: account, family, rate, credit
5 August 2008, 8:13
Sony Ericsson cuts 2,000 jobs as profits dive
News On Friday, the handset manufacturer announced a quarterly net profit of just £4.8m, down from £174.6m in the same quarter last year. Sony Ericsson is going to shed 2,000 jobs as a result, although this figure includes contractors and consultants.
Tags: ericsson, sales, ultra, sony ericsson
21 July 2008, 8:56
Mobile termination fees cost users £80bn
News Genna, chairman of ECTA, said in a statement: "Customers have for years faced excessive prices because of the very high termination rates being charged when they make calls to mobile numbers. The European telecoms regulator European Competitive
Tags: consumers, networks, rates, european
27 June 2008, 8:56
News.blog: Facebook surpasses MySpace traffic
News New numbers from metrics firm ComScore show that in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new front-runner: Facebook appears to have surpassed longtime rival MySpace in worldwide unique visitors for the first time.
Tags: visitors, myspace, facebook, silicon valley
24 June 2008, 8:56
iTunes sells 5 billionth tune
News The path to world domination is paved in round numbers, especially big ones like this: 5 billion. That's the number of songs that have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store, Apple said on Thursday.
Tags: songs, itunes, store, itunes store
20 June 2008, 9:20
'Boring' IT classes put off future careers
News But as numbers of computing students continue to drop off, the question is where is the talent going to come from? The reality is that the IT industry needs more computing graduates than are currently being produced just to keep up with current...
Tags: kids, industry, entry, study
18 June 2008, 8:55
Nintendo diverting 'Wii Fit' to Europe, analyst says
News Nintendo has not released figures as to how many copies of Wii Fit it have sold around the globe -- the only official numbers available show that it has sold 2 million in Japan. Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter told the LA Times...
Tags: console, stock, copies, europe
3 June 2008, 9:10
ID card scheme short on suppliers
News David Davis said: "Along with growing evidence of the risks and costs of ID cards, we have seen declining commercial interest, reflected in the dwindling numbers bidding for contracts. The government is facing calls to cancel its ID card scheme...
Tags: commercial, award, contract, scheme
27 May 2008, 8:35
Cracking open the Atari 2600
News Notice the slip of paper with numbers on it. CNET.co.uk's sister site TechRepublic runs a regular series called 'Cracking Open' in which it takes a look inside a variety of gadgets. Here, we look at the Atari 2600 Video Computer System.
Tags: credit, ports, output, channel
23 May 2008, 11:04
Apple cleaning up in high-end computer market
News These numbers don't include many sales -- such as corporate PCs that account for about half the market, and online-heavy sellers such as Dell -- but tend to illustrate trends in the US PC market over time.
Tags: cent, companies, category, sales
20 May 2008, 9:23
Sat-navs set to nag about speed limit
News He said: "Casualties are very much linked to speed, both numbers and severity of casualties.and going back to technology there is a definite role there to be played by having vehicles which actually keep to the speed limit.
Tags: map, drivers, road, london
16 May 2008, 9:40
Stolen computers 'phone home' to police
News This tracking technology has already proven itself useful for recovering large numbers of cars, its success rate is about 95 per cent, and we hope it will do the same for computers. Computers that 'phone home' after being stolen are guiding police...
Tags: tracking, computers, property, theft
15 April 2008, 8:49
News.blog: Does streaming boost music sales?
News Last.fm's numbers seem to confirm long-held beliefs of many that enabling people to sample full-length tracks is one way to spur demand. Free streaming music turns people on to new music and encourages them to buy, says social-networking site Last.fm.
Tags: unlimited, streaming, sales, plays
10 April 2008, 9:37
UK government failing to provide Web access for all
News Unfortunately, these statistics show that huge numbers of people on low incomes do not have Internet access, despite Tony Blair's pledge seven years ago to tackle the digital divide. It's several years since former Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged...
Tags: silicon, cent, children, universal
8 April 2008, 9:19
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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