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Wii, Xbox 360 shortages intentional, say analysts

News The industry-tracking NPD Group released its US retail sales data for January late on Thursday, and the numbers showed slumping hardware sales down 25 per cent year over year. On Friday, a number of analysts sent investor notes out explaining their...

Tags: demand, hardware, sales, wi fi

18 February 2008, 8:29

Half a million PSPs sold in first two days

News Sony released the first North American sales numbers for the PlayStation Portable on Thursday, saying 500,000 units of the handheld game player were snapped up in its first two days on the market. While short of the immediate sellout many had...

13 April 2005, 11:40

Firefox use booming in Europe

News According to numbers released by French Web metrics firm XiTi, Firefox accounted for 14.08 per cent of browsers used to access a large sample of Web sites that use its measurement software. The numbers produced by XiTi resemble data from a variety...

7 June 2005, 11:17

China to trump US in broadband subscribers

News China is on track to surpass the United States in numbers of broadband subscribers by 2007, according to new market research data. It should come as little surprise that China will soon pull ahead of the United States in terms of raw numbers of...

5 May 2005, 10:23

Digital-camera growth has peaked, study says

News While digital-camera sales continue to grow at rates most industries would love to see, the numbers haven't kept up with the torrid pace of a year ago, a new report says. Chute attributes the numbers to an expected industry slowdown.

5 August 2005, 10:23

ICANN gives the nod to .tel domain

News Telnic, which proposed .tel to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 2000, said the domain will give individuals and businesses a naming and navigation structure for the Internet communications space.

17 May 2006, 10:05

ICANN bosses slam Net-phone regulation

News Vinton Cerf, chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, told an Internet governance roundtable in Sydney, Australia, that in his personal opinion, it was easy to answer the question of how to regulate VoIP.

21 April 2005, 20:33

New Skype for Windows gets off the ground

News Users can also forward calls to up to three landline or mobile numbers for as little as 2 cents (about 1.1p) a minute, depending on the country, said Skype Chief Marketing Officer Saul Klein. The new Skype version is designed to make it easy for...

30 September 2005, 10:35

Most spam still comes from the US

News The company bases its numbers on a scan of all junk mail caught by its spam traps. The numbers do suggest, however, that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' prediction two years ago that the spam problem would be solved by now has not come true.

25 January 2006, 8:49

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, 9:38

Government loses 25 million child benefit records

News Details on the discs, which were only password protected, included names, addresses, dates of birth, National Insurance numbers and bank and building society account details. Committee, later said that the information the NAO requested had...

Tags: matter, details, loss, discs

21 November 2007, 8:56

Credit card breach exposes 40 million accounts

News In sheer numbers, this is probably one of the largest data security breaches," said James Van Dyke, principal analyst at Javelin Strategy & Research. Though credit card numbers were compromised, the cards themselves do not hold social security...

20 June 2005, 10:02

Porn and secrets: what's on your old hard drive?

News Data recovery specialist Disklabs recently bought 100 second-hand hard drives and 50 used memory cards and found documents such as CVs and accounting spreadsheets with names and mobile phone numbers. Even more worryingly, the company found credit...

16 September 2005, 10:05

Brits get on board with bundled services

News The shape of Europe's communications is changing in other ways too -- with greater numbers of homes now shunning fixed-lines altogether. According to the report: "The highest numbers of Greeks, Brits and Latvians as well as Turks indicate that...

1 May 2007, 10:40

'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, 9:55