Intel attempts to bluff it out as sales fall
Chip giant Intel (tick: CHIPZILLA) said tonight that its profits had only fallen by less than a percantage point for its Q3 earnings, flying in the face of facts.It reported that PC demand is rising,...
View ArticleDatabases: They’re good, they’re bad and they're ugly
As a guy who dabbled with databases last century, I was cheered to see young enthusiastic people today realising that they were all kind of re-inventing the wheel although the wheel will never be...
View ArticleNokia shoots itself in both pheet
Ailing phone company Nokia – now a subsidiary of Microsoft – appears to have looked in the mirror and seen a distorted image of reality after it launched a $500 tablet in Abu Dhabi.The tablet, named...
View ArticleShakespeare hits out at Intel, Microsoft
ACT ISCENE I. London. A street. Enter GLOUCESTER, solus distributor, UKGLOUCESTER Now is the Wintel of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of ARM;And all the cloud computing that lour'd upon...
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D-Link net cam covers all the angles
Want to keep an eye on your yard while you’re down at the Dog and Duck? D-Links wireless pan tilt network camera could be just the job for you.The DCS-5222L comes with an installation CD, a remote...
View ArticleSkype man says have fun, or shrivel up
A co-founder of Skype told an audience of luminaries and me that if you aren’t having fun with your start-up, the chances of success are slim.Estonian Jaan Tallin, speaking at the Silicon Valley comes...
View ArticleIntel has totally lost the plot
When newly hatched Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told analysts that Intel was moving into the foundry business, a thousand jaws in the semiconductor business must have dropped.The fact is that while...
View ArticleUSA: Road to healthcare paved with good intentions
I was in Greece some years ago, sat at the bottom of the Acropolis, minding my own business as I largely do when two grizzled old American geezers started talking about the “home of democracy”.One said...
View ArticleIT multinationals put in political oar
The world+dog knows that the following big companies lobby US politicians all the time and quite shamelessly push their own agenda irrespective of the views of individual people like the world+dog.AOL,...
View ArticleIntel, Microsoft have terrible annuses
"Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust." - TS Eliot, The Wasteland Yeah, I am quite aware the...
View ArticleIt's a bank holiday today!
TechEye won't be filing stories today. We'll be filing them tomorrow. It's a bank holiday and me and Nick Farrell need a bit of a break.
View ArticleWorld+dog fails on security front
A farcical situation arose in the UK on Monday this week when the National Crime Agency gave advice to people to wake up to security and referred them to its web site – which crashed under the...
View ArticleMagyar David takes on security Goliaths
Hungarian company Balabit said that an injection of $8 million series A funding from C5 Capital will help to boost its security profile internationally.The startup – formed in 2000 - has a suite of...
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