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Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP was already dumping 24,600 workers as part of that acquisition before announcing the extra cuts Tuesday. The announcement came in a conference call with analysts to discuss HP's fiscal second-quarter results. HP's profit dropped 17 percent to $1.72 billion, while sales fell 3 percent to $27.4 billion, in the latest period.

Last April and May a series of service attacks against Estonian government sites almost brought the small Baltic nation to a standstill. There was a belief that Russia was behind it all, in the wakeof Estonia removing a Soviet war memorial from its capital, and Nato was called in to investigate.   The real reason proved to be less sinister. The hackers were based in Estonia itself, and oneof them, Dmitri Galushkevich, was fined $1650 for… Read More

A new law has come into force in the UK that can virtually obliterate online and mobile privacy.   Under new provisions in Part III of the Regulation of Investigative Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), people who encrypt data must hand over the encryption key to police if they’re asked, or make the data intelligible.   That provision was in the original act, but at the time so little data was encrypted that it was never activated –… Read More

In a leaked internal memo, recently re-installed CEO Michael Dell indicated that his namesake computer company may be considering entering the traditional retail channel as a way to boslter its declining market share. According to Reuters, the memo reads in part: “The Direct Model has been a revolution, but is not a religion.” The memo did not state whether Dell would seek to sell computers through its own branded retail… Read More

New York State Attorney General's office has subpoenaed several major music companies as part of a preliminary investigation into whether digital music download services have engaged in illegal price-fixing activity. The attorney general's office is reportedly seeking information on the wholesale prices music labels charge digital download servers like Apple's iTunes, RealNetworks”s Rhapsody, the reformed Napster,… Read More

Quote from the CES Unveiled Part 2 article: “Welcome to part two of our 2005 CES coverage. In our part one coverage of this fantastic show, we featured products which fell into three basic categories: displays, media devices such as Media Center PC's and streaming media devices, and IPTV based products, not to mention a few products which simply stood out among others. Part two has a very strong showing of home audio products… Read More

It appears that the Voyager 4000 is not available to the general public (yet), but will be offered as part of a Cable company's set-top box product line. What caught our attention is that the Voyager 4000, although it is not designed to be attached to a home network, can in theory transfer HD-quality MPEG-2 video from its hard drive to any PC via its dual IEEE 1394 (FireWire) ports. But the not-so-nice folks at Pioneer have integrated… Read More

Quote from the article at The Tech Lounge: "This is the first of a three part series of editorial articles examining current digital photography hardware, as well as the author's views of what is to come. Keep in mind that as this is an editorial, it does contain some opinion and bias, but I have attempted to be as fair and objective as possible." Read part 1 here Read part 2 here

As part of its defense, Microsoft may call Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to testify, the company says.   Unless a last minute settlement is reached between the software vendor and lawyers representing Minnesota consumers, opening arguments in the case are scheduled to begin mid-week, Microsoft spokesperson Jim Desler says. The court has allotted three months for the trial, he says. Read the full story at PC World.

Quote from the review at ipKonfig: “NVIDIA's GeForce FX chipset has been, for the most part, well accepted in the gaming community, a fine achievement on NVIDIA's part. Its latest graphics processor introduces newer features for better game play. Using 0.13u process technology, the FX chipset provides significant speed increases. . . . This card in particular is very attractive, in part due to Chaintech's designers.… Read More