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Wikipedia racks up 1 million articles
News Collaborative online encyclopedia may have had a tough 2005, but it now has more than a million articles in English to share.
Tags: Web sites
Short Take: ASTI opens new offices in India, Taiwan
News Sesdaq-listed ASTI Holdings Ltd, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer, has opened two new subsidiaries in India and Taiwan.
IBM snags US$1 billion Bank of Scotland contract
News Bank of Scotland said it will pay IBM US$1 billion to run its computer network as Scotland's No. 2 bank tries to cut costs and lessen the time needed to complete electronic transactions.
Sun Microsystems shuts down Scottish manufacturing
News Over 100 jobs will go as the company shuts down the manufacturing arm of its plant in Linlithgow.
Tags: Components, Business applications, Manufacturing, Workforce, Sun Microsystems Inc., Scotland, job, U.K., information technology, Components
HP plans 5,700 job cuts in Europe, Mid East and Africa
News The hardware giant says thousands of employee positions will be terminated in Europe, Middle East and Africa over the next two years.
Tags: Layoffs, Hewlett-Packard Co., Spokesperson, Europe, layoff, Server, Germany, Scotland, job, revenue
Google files patent for wave-powered floating data center
News A recently unearthed Google patent applications sketches a comprehensive system for a floating data center powered by wave motions and cooled by the sea's water.
Tags: Data centers, Patents, Patent, Google Inc., theory, Scotland, financial, U.S., Larry Dignan, data center
HP announces Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab
News The company's facility will investigate 'green' concepts including swapping out copper for fibre within PCs and making advertising hoardings from electronic paper.
Tags: Green IT, Data centers, Monitors and displays, Cost control, Hewlett-Packard Co., Geothermal Energy, public sector, Scotland, HP Labs, U.S.
Sun confirms 1,300 layoffs
News Company sheds 1,300 people from the main US workforce with a target of a total of 6,000 jobs set to be lost.
Tags: Layoffs, Workforce, organizational change, Sun Microsystems Inc., layoff, job loss, Worker, Scotland, job, Layoffs
Apple sued over iPhone screen tech
News Picsel Technologies alleges patent infringement for technology found in iPhone and iPod Touch that lets people fluidly zoom and pan sites, documents and images, according to reports.
Tags: Smart phones, Patents, Apple Inc., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Sharp Corp., Glasgow, Picsel Research, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Scotland
Scottish academia target cancer with 'light saber'
News A novel method out of Scotland, capable of firing a laser beam accurate enough to puncture a hole in an individual cell, could be used to treat cancer in the near future.
Tags: R&D, Cell, Star Wars, Fiber, optical fiber, laser, Scotland, News.com, researcher, patient
Future air-fueled battery could store 10 times more power
News Researchers see promise in new battery technology using air as a fuel and say it could provide 10 times more power for electric cars, mobile phones and laptops.
Tags: Green IT, Consumer Technology, Battery, Cell, electric car, Oxygen, lithium-ion, Scotland, chemicals, researcher
Scottish govt forms data privacy group
News To calm public fears about local authorities' handling of sensitive data, the Scottish government has formed a privacy and security scrutiny group.
Tags: Privacy, Government, Security, Mobile, IT Security, Privacy, Environment, phone, public sector, payment
Sun goes for virtualization x-factor
News Sun Microsystems has launched an open source virtualization platform for servers under the banner xVM Server.
Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Open source, Virtual Desktop, operating system, Sun Microsystems Inc., Edinburgh, Silicon.com, Scotland, Linux
Best Western details hack of German hotel
News Hotel chain admits systems in a Berlin hotel were compromised but claims only 10 customers have been affected, not the 8 million cited in a newspaper report.
Tags: Security, Hacking, Hotel, antivirus, Internet Connection, software, Symantec Corp., Germany, Scotland, network
T-Mobile investigates possible security breach
News An anonymous poster sends a message to the mailing list Full Disclosure claiming to have stolen T-Mobile customer and confidential company information.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Data security, Network security, Security Management, Security, disc, Social Security, phone, customer information, T-Mobile
