UK retainer communications firm Inmarsat has announced a $1.2bn £752m investment in next generation satellite network services. The primary investment is a absorb take in with aerospace company Boeing for the manufacture of three 702HP Ka-belt satellites. The constellation formed by the three Inmarsat-5 satellites elect enable Inmarsat to offer global coverage, and unparalleled bandwidth [...]
Inmarsat announces 752m advanced satellite service…
Service helps banks weigh up fraud odds
Credit card fraud rates are up to 14 times higher overseas than they are in the UK, according to financial trade body the Association for Payment Clearing Services, which also said that overseas fraud reached £610m on UK-issued plastic cards alone in 2008. To date, banks have simply blocked cards used in suspected frauds, then [...]
Kates party gatecrashed by 60 000 web users…
A screen grab from the original Kates Party Facebook event. Notorious party boy Corey Worthington appeared to have met his match after more than 60,000 Facebook users invited themselves to fellow Australian Kate Millers birthday party. But the joke may in fact be on the gatecrashers as the entire meme and Miller herself has now [...]
Can anyone share their personal experience as an a…
Im not looking for opinions. Im considering joining, so please only post if you are a member or have been a member of GRN. thank you. im not sure on this company, however i have checked out several companies like this on the better business bureau and all have negative files EXCEPT this one company [...]
Twitter says its all nick cleggs fault in ironic s…
On Twitter, everything is Nick Cleggs fault at least today, ironically Its all Nick Cleggs fault. That fake tan that went wrong, Samantha Camerons pregnancy, that ladder in your tights Twitter would appear, if one were to take it at face value, to have decided that the Liberal Democrat leader is the source of many [...]
Family first candidate wendy francis stands by gay…
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Many unhappy returns ato computers misfire…
ATO computer system now the font is too small Photo Karl Hilzinger Over budget and misfiring, the Australian Taxation Offices new computer system has another problem the font is too small. The computer system has been blamed for delaying the processing of hundreds of thousands of tax returns, and for sending out 140,000 returns this [...]
Ibm endorses firefox as in-house browser
Mozilla Firefox gaining set in corporate IT environments.? Technology giant IBM wants its workers about the world to use free, open-source Mozilla Firefox as their window into the internet. “Any employee who is not it being so that using Firefox will be strongly encouraged to use it as their default browser,” IBM executive Bob Sutor [...]
Russian spies get support on networking site…
MOSCOW, RUSSIA Patriotic, anti-American messages beset the pages of two alleged Russian spies on Russias rejoin to Facebook, a reminder of historic suspicions and resentments that receive survived the end of the Cold War. “Russia will never resign you!” is the repeated message on the pages of Mikhail Semenko and Anna Chapman, arrested in the [...]
Ec announces 780m strategic ict research fund…
The European Commission is calling for research proposals in areas including future internet technologies, robotics, smart and embedded ICT systems, photonics, ICT energy efficiency, and health. The appointment was made at Europes largest ICT research and innovation adventure ICT 2010 – Digitally Driven, and is backed by grants excellence €780m. The grant awards state that [...]