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  • HP sees profits fall 32 percent as Lenovos profits rise 84 percent

    HP reported a 32 percent drop in second quarter fiscal 2013 profits to $1.1bn, while rival PC maker Lenovo saw its profits rise 84 percent to $124m. HP's position as the largest PC maker has been under threat for some time from Lenovo and the two firms released contrasting quarterly financials. HP saw its revenues and profits fall by 10 percent to $27.6bn and 32 percent to $1.1bn, ...

  • Crimes against design Gallerys bad taste exhibition

    Hamburg will be showcasing some of the most questionable items ever to be created in its exhibition 'Evil Things: An Encyclopaedia of Bad Taste'.The idea for the exhibition was conceived by the Museum der Dinge (Museum of Things) in Berlin and uses art historian, Gustav E. Pazaurek's system to categorise bad taste.Pazaurek devised his classification system for bad taste over a ...

  • Gadgetwise Blog Tip of the Week Touring the Library of Congress Digital Collections

    Gadgetwise is a blog about everything related to buying and using tech products. From figuring out which gadget to buy and how to get the best deal on it to configuring it once it’s out of the box, Gadgetwise offers a mix of information, analysis and opinion to help you get the most out of your personal ...

  • Intl data protection forum focuses on cybercrime

    An international data protection forum that started in Vladivostok Thursday will focus on cybercrime and other computer issues.Other topics to be discussed at the Positive Hack Days Vladivostok forum include the safety of mission-critical information systems, government and corporate security in the era of WikiLeaks, cyber war and cyber espionage.The forum gathered 1,500 people, including ...

  • Panel clears cold fusion device

    has released a paper confirming that a device made by a secretive Italian might be cold fusion. The paper, penned by a team of independent scientists, has yet to receive a peer review, but appears to suggest that Andrea Rossi's cold fusion device might be the business. The cold fusion device being tested has roughly 10,000 times the energy density and 1,000 times the power density of ...


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Payback

About the only mean thing Mel Gibson doesn't do to prove his badness in "Payback" is steal candy from a baby. In the first five minutes alone, he brusquely pushes apart a loving couple holding hands, steals money from a homeless Vietnam veteran, stiffs a waitress on her tip, snatches a businessman's wallet, and proceeds to use the driver's license to take money from the man's bank account and the ... ...

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  • HP starts to improve

    HP to turn the outfit around is starting to work. The maker of expensive printer ink raised its 2013 earnings outlook after quarterly results beat low expectations. Analysts believe that Whitman's turnaround plan helped offset falling PC sales by boosting enterprise computing services. It was not all good news, in fact, if the company had not been in Dire Straits playing back up for Mark ...

  • Paul Allen cuts an album

    Microsoft Paul Allen has not done a lot with his life. He has been a philanthropist, inventor, investor, cancer survivor and author. Yesterday he tweeted that he is going to become a recording artist and put out an album. Allen shared ...

  • Lenovo reports record shipments market share

    it off again. Although most PC peddlers are in the red, the company reported record PC shipments, annual sales, global market share and annual pre-tax income. In its fiscal fourth quarter, ending 31 March, Lenovo reported sales of $34 billion, up 15 percent year-on-year, as well as a record full-year pre tax income of $801 million, up 38 percent over the previous year. Better yet, ...

  • Top 10 cloud tools

    Cloud vendors are delivering boatloads of new tools to help enterprise IT build, buy, manage, monitor, tweak and track cloud services. These tools are designed to help IT execs free up their budgets and their staff so both can be used towards more strategic, line of business projects. [BUT ARE THEY ...

  • Google X acquires kite-power start-up Makani

    Makani Power, a start-up building power-generating cable-tethered flying wings , and is incorporating the technology within its Google X "moonshots" division. "We look forward to working with our new colleagues at Google[x] to make airborne wind a cost-effective reality," the company said on ...

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