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SCO lays off staff to boost balance sheet

News The SCO Group laid off a "small" number of employees late last week as part of an effort to make its Unix products group profitable, the company said on Tuesday. Spokesman Blake Stowell declined to say how many were cut but said the layoff affected...

5 May 2004, 8:05

Mobile banking introduced by HSBC

News The service will initially allow customers to make balance enquiries and receive mini-statements as well as top up pay-as-you-go mobile phones. They will then be charged a set amount each time they use a particular service -- 20p for balance...

5 October 2006, 10:11

Google slammed for Chinese censorship

News In deciding how best to approach the Chinese -- or any -- market, we must balance our commitments to satisfy the interest of users, expand access to information, and respond to local conditions. Google will not initially offer Gmail or Blogger in...

25 January 2006, 9:02

News.blog: Get on your feet with 'Wii Fit'

News The game will offer 40 different activities, ranging from aerobics to balance, to help keep you physically fit. Surprisingly, Wii Fit centres on not Wiimote, but an entirely new controller, the Wii Balance Board.

12 July 2007, 8:56

'Finance-phobic' consumers open to fraud

News The research found only one in five of us check our bank balance once a month, with 16 per cent afraid to check up on their own finances. The same number said they know more about celebrities or sport than their own bank balance.Adults aged between...

Tags: consumers, cent, check, account

23 November 2007, 8:42

Nikon's photo encryption reported broken

News He warned that Adobe could not fully support the Nikon files in its Camera Raw software -- by decrypting the encoded white balance information -- for fear of violating the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

25 April 2005, 13:54

Legal costs depress Microsoft's bottom line

News The company had cautioned that the balance would drop in the most recent quarter as it began phasing out an older Upgrade Advantage licence program. Microsoft said its cash and short-term investment balance rose to $56.4bn, up from nearly $53bn in...

23 April 2004, 7:40

Miyamoto: Creativity is the essence of game design

News The Wii remote became the key example of balance in that, he said, it demonstrates it's possible to meet the needs of both hardware and software innovation. The next element of his vision was 'balance'.

9 March 2007, 10:24

How to get girls to play games

News Women.bring as much intelligence and as much production excellence as anyone else, and I think women must work really hard to get into the industry because it does provide balance. I think women have a greater expectation of balance," Fellbaum said.

28 October 2005, 10:48

Worms create rough ride for Symantec

News If Symantec begins to see a drop in its consumer business, then that could start to balance out the scales with its enterprise segment. But most companies prefer to achieve that balance through growth in their business units, rather than through a...

27 April 2004, 14:20

'Wii Fit' gets UK pricing

News Wii Balance Board, which acts as a controller for the game and also calculates a person's body mass index. Wii Fit features four different exercise types: aerobics, muscle conditioning, yoga and balance activities.

Tags: balance, board, released, europe

28 February 2008, 8:51

News.blog: NASA 'earbots' keep robots well balanced

News A team of NASA scientists has developed 'earbots', devices modelled on the cochlea, a section of the inner ear that uses clusters of sensory cell receptors and nerve fibres to help humans maintain a sense of balance.

3 October 2006, 9:26

News.blog: The man-sized rolling robot

News Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, a well-known hub for breakthroughs in robotics, said on Wednesday that they've built a new type of mobile robot that can balance and move in any direction on a ball, instead of with mechanical legs or...

10 August 2006, 8:55

BT trials motion-sensing tech for laptops

News The BT Balance technology has been developed at the company's research and venturing labs at Adastral Park in Ipswich and is currently being field tested. Oliver likened BT Balance to the Etch A Sketch toy.

30 April 2007, 9:03

GyroBike kids to flywheel round the block

News When a child begins to go off balance and fall over, the gyroscope corrects the path of the bike and props it back up. They prevent a bike from falling over, but don't teach kids about balance. GyroBike wants to eliminate the wipeout.

28 April 2006, 9:54