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UK phishing scams up by 1,471 per cent

News The number of phishing scams in the UK has escalated by 1,471 per cent in the last 12 months, the latest fraud figures from the UK payments association APACS have revealed. And this had contributed to an overall hike of 55 per cent in all...

8 November 2006, 11:27

Firefox 'passes 20 per cent market share' in Europe

News The Mozilla Firefox browser has achieved a market share of more than 20 per cent in Europe, according to the latest figures released by French Web metrics firm XiTi. It found that the open-source browser is used by 38, 36 and 30 per cent of users...

18 January 2006, 9:16

'Gears' hikes XBL use by 80 per cent

News According to Sandvine Incorporated, a network traffic tracker, 80 per cent more users were drawn to Xbox Live since Gears of War's first week of release last month. Since the game went on sale in the US on 7 November, the rate of uptake of Xbox...

6 December 2006, 9:38

Ofcom deregulates 70 per cent of UK broadband

News Ofcom has announced the deregulation of almost 70 per cent of the UK wholesale broadband market. The plan, which received approval at the European level in February, will see competition-boosting regulatory restrictions lifted in areas of the UK...

Tags: broadband, retail, market, supply

27 May 2008, 9:24

PlayStation 3 sales increase 178 per cent

News October, there was a 178 per cent increase in sales of the console over the previous week, according to Chart Track, the official UK game industry sales tracking body. Eighty-nine per cent of purchasers opted for some form of 60GB model, since this...

Tags: sales, model, cent, playstation

17 October 2007, 10:32

Internet ad revenue climbs by 26 per cent

News As of June, advertisers had spent $5.8bn to place ads online this year, a 26 per cent increase compared with the first six months of 2004, according to a new report. Spending on search-related ads reached $2.3bn, a 27 per cent increase compared...

27 September 2005, 11:05

Analyst: iPhone makes 50 per cent profit

News It is hard to imagine anyone else getting 50 per cent margins for long. Other manufacturers of high-end multimedia phones manage about a 20 per cent margin. Apple will have plenty of room to cut retail prices on the iPhone, if a report from iSuppli...

19 January 2007, 10:46

Dell to cut PC power by 25 per cent

News Dell has committed to improving the energy efficiency of its desktops and laptops, and says that by 2010 they will consume 25 per cent less energy than today. The company said it will do this by continuing to integrate what it calls energy-smart...

Tags: technologies, dell, energy, roi

19 May 2008, 10:19

News.blog: Porn less than 5 per cent of the Web

News Pornography pages grew by 18 per cent last year, but pages accessed on the Web overall grew by 36 per cent. As a result, the overall share of porn in 2005 declined from 5.5 per cent of all pages flipped online to 4.5 per cent.

14 March 2006, 10:19

Spam attacks at 70 per cent

News According to Symantec's latest monthly spam report, spam accounted for 70 per cent of all email in September, which is one per cent higher than the month before.However, PDF spam, which saw a surge in August, dipped last month.

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9 October 2007, 10:08

UK 'active gamers' up to 37 per cent

News In the UK specifically, the research found 37 per cent of the general population aged between 18 and 49 enjoyed playing games and would call themselves 'active gamers' in that they were currently regularly playing games on a console, handheld or PC.

Tags: cent, playing, europe, gamers

29 May 2008, 10:11

News.blog: Only 1 per cent of Web pages have porn?

News It became famous in part because of one key figure: 83.5 per cent of images on Usenet discussion groups were pornographic. Now a new study, performed by a statistician commissioned by the US Justice Department, is reporting a starkly different...

15 November 2006, 10:15

AMD ups ante against Intel with new factory

News For years, AMD has dreamed of nabbing 30 per cent of the market share for PC microprocessors. We can get to 30 per cent market share from Chartered and Fab 36," Ostrander said. The 30 per cent mark has been a white whale for the company for years.

14 October 2005, 11:12

AMD back in the roaring 20s

News AMD has claimed its highest market-share position against Intel in years, cracking the elusive 20 per cent barrier, CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com has learned. AMD now accounts for 21.4 per cent of all desktop, laptop and server processors using...

25 January 2006, 9:27

3 leads the field for 3G coverage

News The mobile operator 3 has announced that its third-generation services now cover 90 per cent of the UK population, giving it a comfortable lead on its rivals. The closest competitor to 3 in terms of 3G coverage is Orange, which covers 85 per cent...

6 February 2007, 8:45