Tag: fire

Hardware

HP settles burning battery case

By Liam Tung | Jan 25, 2012 | Comment Now

Pays $405,000, denies any wrongdoing.

Hardware

Dell kills 7-inch Streak tablet

By Liam Tung | Dec 7, 2011 | Comment Now

Vapourised by Fire.

Hardware

Will Windows 8 miss the tablet train?

By Liam Tung | Nov 30, 2011 | Comment Now

Not like the days of Netscape.

Hardware

HP's TouchPad shipments second to iPad

By Liam Tung | Nov 23, 2011 | Comment Now

All for the cost of a $1.6 billion write-off.

Hardware

Amazon Fire gets mixed reviews but developers keen

By Liam Tung | Nov 15, 2011 | Comment Now

Sins forgiven by price.

Hardware

British cops nab teens over Sony riot fire

Aug 12, 2011 | Comment Now

Millions of discs torched.

Hardware

Sony facility burns in London riots

Aug 9, 2011 | Comment Now

Reports: Huge fire in optical media facility.

Networking

LimeWire to pay record labels US$105m

By Jonathan Stempel | May 14, 2011 | Comment Now

Long-running lawsuit ends.

Telco/ISP

Telstra best placed to exploit NBN fire sale

By Ry Crozier | Mar 31, 2011 | 8 Comments

Propped up by $9b NBN Co injection.

Networking

Tokyo Fire system routed by LAN cable mishap

Jan 10, 2011 | 2 Comments

Two ends plugged into same router.

Telco/ISP

Conroy absorbs Senate fire on NBN Co plan

By Ry Crozier | Nov 22, 2010 | 3 Comments

Is 29 pages a day too much?

Hardware

Garmin recalls fire-prone GPS

By Liam Tung | Aug 26, 2010 | Comment Now

Australian warning.

Networking

Auckland Sky Tower fire takes out NZ comms

By Juha Saarinen | Aug 24, 2010 | 1 Comment

Kiwi voice and data hub interrupted by blaze.

Telco/ISP

Triple Zero callers to get recorded announcements

By Liz Tay | Jun 22, 2010 | Comment Now

Protocol to provide information in large-scale emergencies.

Storage

Opinion: My holiday tip - backup your data now

Dec 14, 2009 | 3 Comments

iTnews editor Brett Winterford laments lost data.

Telco/ISP

Perth iX data centre in fire scare

By Ben Grubb | Nov 3, 2009 | Comment Now

Manual shutdown after smoke detected in data hall.

Networking

Diesel generators save the day at Brisbane data centre fire

By Brett Winterford | Aug 29, 2009 | Comment Now

Customer kit stays connected.

Security

HMRC under fire over site security

By Tom Young | Jan 29, 2009 | Comment Now

The UK HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) agency is facing fresh criticism over its security policies after users complained that its tax self-assessment web site reveals their ...

Software

Just how harmless is Yahoo Fire Eagle?

By Rosalie Marshall | Aug 18, 2008 | Comment Now

The launch of Fire Eagle may appear a harmless new addition to a growing group of interactive web applications but the consequence of a widespread take-up of the application ...

Software

Yahoo gets into place with Fire Eagle

By Iain Thomson | Aug 14, 2008 | Comment Now

Yahoo has officially launched a new service, dubbed Fire Eagle, that lets internet users identify their physical location automatically..

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