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Piczo jumps on board with Comic Relief

News Comic Relief has teamed up with social-networking site Piczo to get users more involved in Red Nose Day. The campaign, asks users to 'step up to the plate' to think up fundraising ideas and promote Red Nose Day via the social-networking site.

8 March 2007, 9:42

Brits get on board with bundled services

News Over the past few years, telcos have been remodelling themselves as converged communications companies -- and it seems consumers are beginning to bite with more and more of us buying bundled services, particularly in the UK.

1 May 2007, 9:40

News.blog: Yahoo and activist Icahn reach settlement

News Yahoo has reached a settlement with activist investor Carl Icahn, who will join the Internet company's board. Icahn, who had proposed his own slate of board members, was agitating for the company to reach a deal to sell all or part of the company...

Tags: sale, yahoo, board, continue

22 July 2008, 8:32

News.blog: Shirt short circuits at security

News Once, again, Boston has been subjected to a bomb scare concerning an odd circuit board. Simpson was wearing a black sweatshirt that had a circuit board with wires, green LED lights and a nine-volt battery attached to it.

24 September 2007, 9:54

CA confirms Kumar's replacement

News Computer Associates International on Monday named board member Kenneth Cron as interim chief executive and announced that it had prematurely booked $2.2bn (£1.2bn) in revenue during 2000 and 2001. Lewis Ranieri, who became board chairman last week...

27 April 2004, 8:15

HP doubles up Itanium processors

News HP showed off a board at its ENSA@Work customer event in Munich on Tuesday that packs two Madison Itanium2 cores onto a single processor board. The mx2 board means that HP's high-end servers will now be able to accommodate up to 128 processors.

5 May 2004, 13:10

Reports: Disney close to buying Pixar

News Walt Disney Co.s board of directors has given its approval to make an offer to buy Pixar Animation Studios, the independent studio responsible for hits such as Toy Story and The Incredibles, according to published reports.

24 January 2006, 9:38

ESRB to investigate 'San Andreas' sex minigames

News Following a verbal lashing from a California state assemblyman, the US Entertainment Software Ratings Board has said it's launching an investigation into Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to determine if sexually explicit content is hidden in the game...

11 July 2005, 8:48

News.blog: Pulitzer prize progresses

News The Pulitzer Prize board on Wednesday gave the green light to allow newspapers to submit online entries for all 14 journalism categories for the Pulitzer Prizes. The board believes it has taken a significant step in recognition of the widening role...

8 December 2005, 9:32

NTL to buy Virgin Mobile deal this week?

News According to reports, Virgin Mobile's board is now ready to accept a revised £900m offer for the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). The board rejected an earlier offer for the operator at 323p per share.

21 February 2006, 9:13

Trains to hook up to satellite broadband

News Ofcom on Tuesday made available a new type of spectrum licence that could allow train operators such as GNER to upgrade their on-board wireless services to two-way satellite links, similar to those already in use on aeroplanes and ships.

13 September 2006, 9:58

Take-Two rejects EA buyout bid

News Take-Two's board of directors rejected the proposal, leading Electronic In addition to undervaluing key elements of our business, EA's proposal fails to recognise the value we are building through our ongoing turnaround efforts, which will further...

Tags: sports, value, publisher, theft

25 February 2008, 8:36

eBay halts plans for live pet auctions

News The online auction company posted a notice on its discussion board on Friday asking members to weigh in on the plan. The notice has touched off a virtual uproar on the discussion board, with more than 2,800 responses.

20 December 2005, 9:24

Yahoo passes on Microsoft offer

News The announcement had largely been expected, as reports emerged over the weekend such a decision had been made by Yahoo's board of directors. Yahoo's board of directors has carefully reviewed Microsoft's unsolicited proposal with Yahoo's management...

Tags: board, proxy, oracle, cash

11 February 2008, 15:52

Blair 'Bullied' in House of Commons

News Vaz addressed Tony Blair in the House of Commons, stating: "Last Thursday the British Board of Film Classification gave a 15 certificate to a videogame formerly called Bully. Hoon replied by rightly pointing out that since the game had not been...

19 October 2006, 10:15