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  • HP promotes former Lenovo and Acer man to lead PC business

    HP has replaced the head of its PC and printing business with Dion Weisler, a former Lenovo and Acer executive. HP's PC and printer business had been overseen by Todd Bradley, who led the firm as it overtook Dell and fought off Acer at a time when the PC business was much more healthy than it is today. Bradley has now been shunted into a new role that will see him work alongside CEO Meg ...

  • BT CEO steps down amid line rental price hike row

    . Livingstone revealed the news on Tuesday, announcing that he will leave BT for a government role as trade and investment minister. He will be replaced by Gavin Patterson, BT promptly revealed, who has served as the CEO of BT Retail and as a BT board member since 2008. Livingstone said in a statement, "I am honoured to have been asked by the Prime Minister to take on the role of Minister ...

  • How to uninstall McAfee antivirus by John McAfee

    John McAfee has poked some fun at the eponymous product that shares his name in a wild Youtube video. The video is called "How to uninstall McAfee antivirus" and contains drug references, money burning, partially dressed women, and the blogger on the lam himself. Its just under five minutes long and it is something of a blast. The video is billed as a comedy and commenting is ...

  • Bits Blog Privacy Officials Worldwide Press Google About Glass

    a letter sent by eight members of Congress in May raising similar questions about Glass and privacy.';We would be very interested in hearing about the privacy implications of this new product and the steps you are taking to ensure that, as you move forward with Google Glass, individuals' privacy rights are respected around the world,'; the officials wrote.Glass, which is not yet ...

  • Tool Kit Home 3-D Printers to Make Things You Need or Just Like

    You may have seen some odd-shaped plastic trinkets on someone's desk or heard about the first shots fired a few weeks ago from a 3-D printed gun. With every new 3-D printed object, the world seems to be getting closer to a future where we can "print out" objects like furniture, clothing, human tissue and even ...


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Speed 2: Cruise Control

Don't let the movie poster fool you. Even though Sandra Bullock takes top billing and her face is most prominently displayed on the advertisements for "Speed 2: Cruise Control," she spends most of the movie taking a back seat to Jason Patric's action hero, Willem Dafoe's mugging villain, and director Jan De Bont's confusing action and bigger-than-life special effects. Bullock, who has a sly and wo ... ...

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  • Bharti Airtel slashes 2G data rates by 90

    Airtel slashed data usage charges by 90 per cent for pre-paid subscribers in Punjab and Haryana, a day after Vodafone lowered data charges by 80 per cent for its pre-paid and post-paid customers in three circles. Airtel said that the Volume Based Charges (VBC) on its recharge vouchers for 2G data usage of three denominations have been reduced to 1 paisa per 10 KB from 10 paisa per 10 KB making ...

  • Alcatel-Lucent announces cost cutting shares rise

    Michel Combes , the company's new chief executive, will also include more than a billion euros of unspecified asset sales and 2 billion euros in debt re-financing by 2015, followed by a further 2 billion in debt reduction that could include issuing new shares. Alcatel shares jumped more than 7 percent to a new year high in early trade. "This plan goes in the right direction, but I ...

  • Dell buyout Icahn seeks $16 billion stock buyback

    Dell founder Michael Dell's effort to take the struggling computer maker private. Icahn, now the company's second-largest shareholder after buying 72 million shares from fellow activist investor Southeastern Asset Management, wants the company to buy back up to 1.1 billion Dell shares at $14 apiece to boost shareholders' return on their investment. The price of the buyback would ...

  • Microsoft Qualcomm to team up on next round of Surface RTs -- report

    (Credit: CNET) Microsoft and Qualcomm will work together on the next generation of Surface RT devices, a new report claims. Microsoft will use Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor in some versions of its Surface ...

  • Siri speaks louder than Google to most voice-control users

    Both Apple and Google's voice-control technologies get high satisfaction ratings from half or more users, but Siri has an adoption edge for many ...

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