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  • Vonage pays Sprint $80m to square patent dispute

    One down...

    Vonage is to pay $80m to Sprint to settle a infringement case over Voice over Packet (VOP) patents held by Sprint. Vonage is paying $35m for the past use of the technology, $40m for a full paid future license and $5m for prepayment of services. Last month, a Kansas jury found that Vonage had infringed six Sprint patents and …

    VoIP 9 Oct 2007, 00:32

  • BT home router wide open to hijackers

    Updated Authentication bypass exposes many customers

    If you rely on BT for high-speed internet or VoIP, there's a good chance a pair of UK-based researchers know how to enable a backdoor in your router that leaves you wide open to eavesdropping, caller spoofing and other nasty attacks. The vulnerability resides in the BT Home Hub, one of the UK's most popular home routers, …

    Broadband 9 Oct 2007, 00:34

  • Concern over gas guzzling software

    Code green

    When we wrote about the possibilities of green software back in July, the response from Register Developer readers was mainly positive. Thanks for going easy on us. One reader was actually inspired to kick-start his own green software initiative while the issue of green software drew significant comment outside of Reg Dev's …

    Software 9 Oct 2007, 01:47

  • Avnet now proud owner of Magirus enterprise biz

    If it's Tuesday, it must be Dubai

    Avnet, the US distie giant, yesterday completed the takeover of the enterprise IT division of Magirus, gaining itself an extra $500m-a-year-in annual revenues, 140 staffers in sales, marketing and purchasing, and five new European countries to play with. And Dubai. The acquisition, annnounced in July, gives Avnet's Technology …

    The Channel 9 Oct 2007, 02:07

  • Gateway and Packard Bell is done deal

    Subject to regulators, workers etc.

    Gateway, the US PC maker that is to be bought by Acer, the Taiwanese PC maker, is to buy Packard Bell, the (once Israeli, then Japanese, now) French PC maker that was going to be bought by Lenovo, the Chinese PC maker, which (according to rumours) had outbid Acer, which also wanted to buy Packard Bell. Got that? Good. Gateway …

    The Channel 9 Oct 2007, 04:29

  • Dell's new blade server takes M1000e moniker

    The 'e' is for lequed cooling

    Dell will release its new M1000e blade server chassis "in the next few weeks," according to information obtained by The Register. The Texas-based hardware maker has long threatened to reenter the blade server game with a more competitive product. And now we learn that it's already reaching out to customers with the M1000e – a …

    Servers 9 Oct 2007, 07:47

  • An unsatisfactory meal in County Antrim

    Stob Relishing the luxuries of business executive travel

    I say, "I could try ringing again." R, my boss, wipes the raindrops off his specs to look at me impatiently, and starts jabbing at his mobile phone. I sit down on our pile of laptops and computer gear. The Warm Welcome Hotel and Guest House, Ballylolly (seven bedrooms, three diamonds, three stars, and a lucky clover) is …

    Verity Stob 9 Oct 2007, 08:02

  • Facebookers abandon online privacy for virtual doo-doo

    When the s**t hits the social network

    Facebookers would rather pelt each other with virtual faeces than safeguard their personal information. At least, that's the word from Seth Goldstein, co-founder and CEO of Social Media, a company that enables virtual doo-doo tossing. Social Media recently introduced a Facebook application called Food Fight. Yes, Food Fight. …

    Applications 9 Oct 2007, 08:51

  • Pilot sacked for footie star on flightdeck shocker

    Airline savages Gulf war vet

    A former RAF pilot has been sacked for allowing Premiership leather worrier Robbie Savage "near the controls" of his aircraft in breach of anti-terrorism rules, the BBC reports. Pablo Mason, who flew 23 bombing missions over Iraq during Gulf War I, was flying a private Mytravel charter from Finland last October when he ill- …

    Bootnotes 9 Oct 2007, 08:56

  • McAfee ties up SafeBoot buy for $350m

    Encryption plus anti-malware to counter data loss worries

    McAfee has stumped up $350m to buy data encryption and access control vendor SafeBoot. The deal, announced Monday, allows McAfee to offer a broader range of end-point security products and services to its enterprise clients as well as offering enhanced mobile phone security products to handset manufacturers and telcos. …

    Security 9 Oct 2007, 09:02

  • Capgemini wins five year LSC deal

    Takes over from Fujitsu and Xansa

    The Learning and Skills Council has named Capgemini UK as its main IT partner, in a deal which could be worth £245m over five years. Both parties expect to finalise the contract by mid November, with Capgemini starting to take over IT services from the LSC's two existing partners, Fujitsu and Xansa, in January 2008. The …

    The Channel 9 Oct 2007, 09:03

  • MPs slam employment agency IT

    Systems at Jobcentre Plus 'slow and problematic'

    Poor IT is hampering efficiency at Jobcentre Plus, according to a Commons report. A parliamentary watchdog has said staff at Jobcentre Plus are having to work with slow and problematic IT, which often does not have the basic functionality that would be expected in a modern office. The Commons Public Accounts Committee found …

    Management 9 Oct 2007, 09:07

  • Bloke buys supercar 'without proper consent from the wife'

    Failed to correctly interpret other half's opinion

    The married boy racers among you should take heed of the possible consequences of shelling out for a nice set of wheels without consulting the missus - something which the poor bloke flogging his Nissan Skyline GT-R evidently didn't do. The blurb is all pretty standard stuff - £29k for the Bayside Blue, 180+ MPH beast featuring …

    Bootnotes 9 Oct 2007, 09:08

  • AMD adjusts Athlon prices

    Some up, some down

    AMD has juggled the prices of its desktop processors, knocking up to 27.5 per cent of various CPUs, introducing some new, low-power ones, and upping what it charges for a number of other parts. Among the processors that are now cheaper than before are members of the dual-core Athlon 64 X2 line and the single-core Athlon 64 …

    Hardware 9 Oct 2007, 09:24

  • Astronomers witness birth of a mini-Earth

    Distant rocky planets emerging from the dust

    A long time ago, in a star system far, far away, an Earth-like planet is forming. It is actually only 424 light years away in a system known as HD 113766, outside the reach of your Oyster cards* but a mere stroll in astronomical terms. Artists' impression of the forming planet. Scientists using the Spitzer Space Telescope …

    Science 9 Oct 2007, 09:30

  • Zep promoter piles into eBay

    'Biggest rip-off merchants in the world', thunders Harvey Goldsmith

    Veteran promoter Harvey Goldsmith, who's handling Led Zeppelin's forthcoming renunion gig at London's O2 Arena, is a little hacked off with eBay after tickets for the show inevitably popped up on the world's favourite tat bazaar. According to the Guardian, Goldsmith slammed eBay as "the biggest rip-off merchants in the world" …

    Media 9 Oct 2007, 09:35

  • Rise of the f*cking machines: Arse Elektronika bumps uglies with Web 2.0

    NSFW Teledildonics to fill emptiness of modern geek-based life forms?

    "To learn how to make computers more human, we have to f*ck them." - Stefan Lutschinger, Arse Elektronika How could El Reg fail to cover a conference with presentations like Paging Dr. Moreau: "Humanimal" Porn in the Age of Xenotransplants and Genetic Chimera on the agenda - a conference set in a San Francisco dungeon porn …

    Bootnotes 9 Oct 2007, 09:42

  • Seagate admits Flash-fitted HDDs fall short of promised benefits

    BIOS, driver code to blame, apparently

    Seagate has admitted its first-generation hybrid hard drives - standard hard disks with an added Flash memory cache - are not providing the promised benefits, but it blamed the discrepancy on PC BIOS and device driver software. Seagate first discussed its Momentus 5400 PSD (Power-Saving Drive) line of 2.5in hybrid hard drives …

    Hardware 9 Oct 2007, 09:48

  • LogicaCMG finds itself a CEO at BT

    Shares jump

    Andy Green is to become CEO of LogicaCMG, having been enticed away from BT after 21 years with the UK's incumbent telco. Shares in LogicaCMG jumped almost seven per cent on the announcement. Green joined BT in 1986 when the world of telecommunications was a very different place - the company had only just been privatised, …

    The Channel 9 Oct 2007, 09:48

  • Samsung shows SIM-squared mobile

    One handset, two SIM cards

    Keeping your work and private calls separate without carrying two handsets around could soon be a real possibility. Samsung yesterday unveiled its DuoS D880 handset, which allows owners to use two SIM cards in a single phone. Samsung's DuoS D880: two SIM card slots Users are able to switch between SIM cards without …

    Phones 9 Oct 2007, 09:57

  • 3UK still haemorrhaging money

    Though loss slowing thanks to interest-free loans

    Last year's losses at the 3G operator were down to £840.7m, according to the Financial Times, but most of that is because its owner, Hutchison Whampoa, is waiving interest payments on loans. In 2005 the company lost £600m more - £1.4bn, so things are improving, but in that year the firm also paid £320.2m in interest payments, …

    Broadband 9 Oct 2007, 09:59

  • Sony to cut Japanese PS3 prices

    Unveils 40GB model there too

    Sony has followed its announcement of a European 40GB PlayStation 3 by saying it will cut the prices of its 20GB and 60GB PS3s in Japan, a move that will pave the way for the introduction of the 40GB model there. The price cuts will take place on 17 October, Sony said, and see the 20GB PS3 fall from ¥49,980 to ¥44,980 ($426/£ …

    Games 9 Oct 2007, 10:13

  • Online casinos hit by bot armies

    Don't bet against money laundering robots

    Botnets are fulfilling law enforcement fears that online casinos could prove fertile ground for money laundering, according to a recent, little-noticed report by risk compliance firm Fortent. Some are engaging in variations of an old casino scam, in which preprogrammed-to-lose bots transfer dirty money - obtained through stolen …

    Security 9 Oct 2007, 10:15

  • C2000 shakes up management team

    Goes after better salesman patter

    Computer 2000 (C2000) has rejigged its management team by making a number of key changes. The firm said yesterday that its head of peripherals Kevin Wragg had been moved into a business unit operations role. He will be responsible for overseeing staff training and induction at the firm. Meanwhile Fiona Cooke, who has been …

    The Channel 9 Oct 2007, 10:20

  • T-Mobile data service collapses

    Feeling left out by robust network

    T-Mobile joined the ranks of proper mobile operators with its own inadequately-explained network outage - losing data connectivity across its network for around four hours yesterday morning. The outage left BlackBerry users, among others, disconnected and reliant on actually calling people up and speaking to them in order to …

    Broadband 9 Oct 2007, 10:33

  • .Asia domains are go

    And after the gold rush?

    The new .asia domain registry opens for business today, triggering the familiar landgrab by brand owners. Carpet baggers will have to wait for their chance to hoover up potentially valuable names. DotAsia is available only to governments, trademark owners, and official bodies until the end of February. It'll then give everyone …

    Applications 9 Oct 2007, 11:01

  • Content delivery firm trials novel authentication method

    Getting in with Phil's mom?

    US-based content delivery network Cachefly has developed an innovative authentication method that reassures us that the spirit of BOFH reaches across the Atlantic. Normally, users login to the service by visiting cachefly.com/admin, which takes you to a conventional login page. A rather different interface is presented if …

    Security 9 Oct 2007, 11:21

  • RM readies Linux sub-laptop... for £169

    Updated Asus eePC reborn as MiniBook

    UK PC company RM - formerly Research Machines, 1980s school-computer buffs - is to bring Asus' tiny Eee PC, launched last June, to these shores - for a mere 169 quid. RM's MiniBook: cheap enough for the kids to break with impunity... The laptop will be branded the RM Asus MiniBook. The 890g, 22.5 x 16.5 x 2.1-3.5cm unit is …

    Hardware 9 Oct 2007, 12:07

  • Vulture goes awol from Scottish rescue centre

    Search on for African white-backed escapee

    An African white-backed vulture decided last Saturday that he didn't much like his digs at Aberdeenshire's, ahem, 2wit 2woo rescue centre and showed staff a clean pair of claws during a feeding session. According to the BBC, "Wee Man" hasn't been seen since, and staff fear for the wellbeing of the bird. The beastie, who boasts …

    Science 9 Oct 2007, 12:09

  • Google cranks 'relevant' video-placing contraption

    YouTube ads for all

    While it can't seem to get round to its promise to fire up a brilliant algorithm for removing copyrighted videos, Google has developed another way of making money for itself from YouTube. Websites in the US AdSense network can allow Google to pump them with context-sensitive YouTube clips and adverts. The clips will appear …

    Applications 9 Oct 2007, 12:12

  • Manhunt 2 banned by UK censor - again

    Heads won't roll

    The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has once again refused to grant controversial videogame Manhunt 2 a release certificate in the UK, effectively banning the title. Manhunt 2: no axe please, we're British Manhunt 2 was originally refused a classification by the BBFC back in June, preventing the game from being …

    Games 9 Oct 2007, 12:16

  • US study says Taser cattleprod guns are safe

    Do tase me, bro, if you are so inclined

    American medical researchers have concluded that Tasers, the controversial cattleprod-launching stun weapons, are broadly safe to use. The study, funded by the US Justice Department, analysed almost 1,000 cases where American plods meted out electric enforcement, and found that 99.7 per cent of the sufferers were unharmed or …

    Law 9 Oct 2007, 12:19

  • US nanotech boffins track evanescent light

    By following the Poynting vector, of course

    Researchers in the States have found a way of predicting how evanescent light waves might behave. The breakthrough could clear the way for a new generation of nanoscale optical devices, including solar thermal energy technologies. When things get very small, nanoscale small, the rules all change and almost every assumption …

    Science 9 Oct 2007, 12:21

  • Buckle up. The Developer Highway Code's at the start line

    Purchase a Microsoft Developer title and sit back for the ride

    Code development can be crucial to the success or otherwise of projects. Forget to add that security checking feature halfway through your system and the whole process is open to vulnerabilities you don't even want to contemplate. The team at Microsoft has done a bit of developing in its time and has drawn up a few guidelines …

    Developer 9 Oct 2007, 12:21

  • Sun to blame for yin-yang Moon's dark side

    Paging Pink Floyd

    The fearsome heat of the Sun is being blamed for the strange yin-yang appearance of Saturn's moon Iapetus. Even at an average distance of roughly 1.5 billion kilometres from the sun, Iapetus is being gradually toasted on one side. False colour image of Iapetus' bright leading edge. Credit: NASA NASA says its infrared …

    Science 9 Oct 2007, 12:53

  • Florida man faces trial for feeding homeless

    Defies Orlando ban on nosh for dossers

    A Florida man who deliberately defied an Orlando ordinance which prohibits feeding the city's homeless will become the first person to face trial for the offence when he's hauled before a judge and jury. According to wftv.com, 22-year-old Eric Montanez was in April this year caught on video camera providing nourishment to a …

    Bootnotes 9 Oct 2007, 12:55

  • Online gambling law regs revealed

    Unfinished business for late law

    The US Treasury Department (DoT), in consultation with the Department of Justice, last week finally released proposed regulations for enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). The UIGEA wreaked havoc on the internet gambling industry when it was passed last October, and the proposed regulations are …

    Law 9 Oct 2007, 13:08

  • Currency launched to cover the cosmos

    In space, everyone can hear you spend

    Scientists have come up with a new currency to be used by inter-planetary travellers. The Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination, or Quid, is made from a polymer used in non-stick pans and is designed to withstand the stresses of space travel. The Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination, or Quid. Bearing a striking …

    Science 9 Oct 2007, 13:20

  • Nissan builds twirly-cab sideways electric pod-car

    Includes Teletubbian dashboard boncebot for added road rage capacity

    Enormous Far-Eastern car firm Nissan has come out with some radical(ish) new ideas to tackle the leading cause of violent premature death in rich countries - which is car accidents (just in case you were thinking terrorism, crime, drugs, music piracy, malware or something). The crafty Japanese engineers also have plans for …

    Science 9 Oct 2007, 13:54

  • Hard disk innovators get physics Nobel

    Giant Magnetoresistance - real world nanotech

    The 2007 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to the nanotech boffins behind our ever shrinking hard disks, Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg. The pair were honoured for the "discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance", a breakthrough which allowed hard disks to be super-downsized. Both men made the breakthrough, independently, in …

    Science 9 Oct 2007, 14:18

  • Cambodian cops cuff killer cow

    Bovine traffic menace coralled

    Cambodian cops have detained a cow responsible for six traffic deaths, the Sun reports. The white bovine, standing at five feet, kicked off its tally by forcing a truck off the road on the outskirts of Phnom Penh earlier this year. The driver swerved to avoid the beast, and the resulting crash killed five and injured several …

    Science 9 Oct 2007, 14:32

  • Samsung S85 eight-megapixel digital camera

    Review The Peoples' Choice?

    Remember the days when even an entry-level digital camera cost the proverbial arm and a leg? Nowadays, low-price doesn’t have to mean low performance or even low in features. If you’re looking for a decent digital camera today, you can pick up a fairly well-specified model for a little over £100. Let’s face it: not everyone …

    Hardware 9 Oct 2007, 14:40

  • Nanny agency hacking suspect cuffed

    Cor Blimey, Mary Poppins

    Scotland Yard arrested a nanny agency worker over suspected hacking offences on Monday. The unnamed woman allegedly rifled through emails in AOL accounts maintained by her former employer, Nannies Incorporated, while working for a competitor agency. The woman was arrested following an investigation by officers at the …

    Security 9 Oct 2007, 14:59

  • Amazon punts anal beads to UK kiddies

    NSFW Spiderman watch search outrage

    We're very much obliged to reader Phillip Young for alerting us that Amazon UK is peddling anal sex toys to any wide-eyed kiddie looking to strap on a Spiderman watch: What's even more repulsive than the fact that a highly reputable etailer seems bent on corrupting Britain's innocent children is that the single "mmmm nice 'I …

    Bootnotes 9 Oct 2007, 15:03

  • Vodafone gets fixed in Spain and Italy

    Buys up broadband-supplier Tele2

    Vodafone has splashed out £537m on Tele2 in Italy and Spain, reaffiring the firm's commitment to quad-play and giving it three million new fixed-line customers with over 600,000 using broadband. Tele2 Italy brings 2.6 million customers into the Vodafone family, 400,000 of those using broadband, while Tele2 Spain brings just …

    Broadband 9 Oct 2007, 15:08

  • BT launches Home Hub backdoor investigation

    Two million exposed?

    BT's security pros are probing the alleged hole in its Home Hub firmware, which resarchers claim can gift hijackers with full admin rights to the wireless router. The vulnerability was reported yesterday on the GNUCitizen blog. By luring one of the UK's two million Home Hub owners to a malicious website it's possible to steal …

    Broadband 9 Oct 2007, 15:31

  • UK.gov to cut corporation tax, plug private equity

    Brown Darling hunts loopholes

    Alistair Darling cut corporation tax and promised to overhaul capital gains and inheritance tax as he made his first pre-budget report since taking over as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Darling stepped into Gordon Brown’s sensible shoes just as the world economy started to get all wobbly, with a global credit crunch coinciding …

    Management 9 Oct 2007, 15:41

  • Zend predicts Java and PHP oneness

    Zend PHP 07 Big Eclipse unity

    Lately, Zend Technologies has worked to put PHP in the enterprise by optimizing its tools for Oracle and IBM databases and middleware. Today, Zend makes its latest move on the enterprise, by throwing open early code for an up-coming PHP suite based on Eclipse. Zend thinks this will let it integrate with other Eclipse-based Java …

    Applications 9 Oct 2007, 16:02

  • Microsoft and Zend juice PHP for Windows

    Zend PHP 07 Apache challenge?

    Zend Technologies, the industry's PHP steward, today delivers the first fruits of its collaboration with Microsoft while expanding the companies' relationship. The open source scripting specialist will open its PHP Conference and Expo today announcing the release of FastCGI for Microsoft's IIS in Windows Server 2003 and the …

    Software 9 Oct 2007, 16:02

  • Indian police academy hosts phishing site

    Keystone khaki cops

    Hackers were able to use a Police Academy in India to host a phishing site. Weak server security at the SVP National Police Academy in Hyderabad led to the Khaki cops becoming the unwitting hosts of a fake Bank of America phishing site. The slip-up, worthy of the inept cadets played by Steve Guttenberg and company in the long …

    Security 9 Oct 2007, 16:06

  • Australia to get 1,000 megawatt wind farm

    Power for 400,000 homes

    Australia has commissioned the construction of a giant wind farm said to be capable of powering 400,000 homes. The project will see some 500 turbines being installed in New South Wales, near the town of Broken Hill, and will have a capacity of up to 1,000 megawatts. We at El Reg are just pleased to hear that the Aussies are …

    Science 9 Oct 2007, 16:11

  • Sun ships Niagara II servers

    High-throughput chip launched in two racks and a blade

    Sun Microsystems is primed to ship the first servers running its UltraSPARC T2 processor, aka Niagara II. The roll-out consists of a pair of rack-mounted systems and a blade server based on the new chip, which sports eight cores and eight threads per core. The single-rack T5120 and double-rack T5520 have a single socket …

    Servers 9 Oct 2007, 18:12

  • Qinetiq touts 'Transformer-like' mobility-scooter killbot

    Robots in disguise... as slightly different robots

    UK deathboffinry spinoff firm Qinetiq says it plans to deploy Transformers combatbots in the Wars On Stuff. In a release today, the company invites the world to admire MAARS™ (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System). MAARS is made by Qinetiq's recent American acquisition, Foster-Miller, who are perhaps most famous for their …

    Science 9 Oct 2007, 18:36

  • Please ignore the start-up stealing the OS from Microsoft

    DeviceVM's splash with Splashtop

    Sometimes the world changes – again – and hardly anyone notices. As a case in point, we bring you DeviceVM. This week the Silicon Valley start-up began touting Splashtop – a type of instant-on software package for helping users route around slow operating system boot times. With Splashtop, you hit the power button and gain …

    Hardware 9 Oct 2007, 20:22

  • Teradata does the grand refresh

    No plans to operationalize HP

    It's time to get operationalizing*. So went the call from Teradata as it revealed Version 12 of the Teradata Database and Version 6 of Relationship Manager. Both products, along with some new software tools and services, push Teradata closer to complementing its strength in "strategic intelligence" with fresh work on " …

    Servers 9 Oct 2007, 20:29

  • Admins accuse Microsoft of Draconian Hotmail cap

    'Only 10 recipients at a time, please'

    Life can be tough when you're one of the globe's biggest email providers. Just ask Hotmail. Users get upset enough when come-ons for Viagra slip through the cracks of the Microsoft-owned service. But there's just as much hell to pay when its war on spam snuffs out legitimate emails. In May, we reported on a proprietary …

    Security 9 Oct 2007, 21:15

  • Dell cuts 250 tech support jobs in Nashville

    On the road to 8,000

    Dell is waving goodbye to 250 tech support workers at its Nashville, Tennessee operations, the company said today. The layoffs are the fruits of the "Dell 2.0" restructuring strategy, which will eliminate 10 per cent of its worldwide workforce (more than 8,000 jobs) over the next year. Dell announced the workforce decimation …

    The Channel 9 Oct 2007, 21:16

  • Supreme Court denies cert in el-Masri rendition case

    Mistaken identity case tossed on mistaken case law

    The Supreme Court today declined certiorari in the case of El Masri v. United States, effectively endorsing the Cheney administration's notorious extraordinary rendition program. The case had been dismissed at both the district court level and the appellate level based on the administration's invocation of the state secrets …

    Law 9 Oct 2007, 21:17

  • Ballmer: All open source dev should happen on Windows

    'And Google reads your email'

    While in Britain last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took a swipe at just about everything - from one of the world's largest Linux vendors to a social networking company he may end up buying. He insisted that Red Hat violates MS patents. He compared Facebook to GeoCities. He even accused Google of reading your email. At …

    Software 9 Oct 2007, 21:32

  • Google acquires Twitter rival

    Appeals to your vanity

    Google has acquired Jaiku, a Finnish company that lets you bombard your closest friends with an endless stream of self-serving mini-messages. Think of it as Twitter with a different but equally-annoying name. "Technology has made staying in touch with your friends and family both easier and harder: living a fast-paced, on-the- …

    Broadband 9 Oct 2007, 22:39

  • Supremes wave through HP class action

    1.7 million individuals ready to queue up

    The US Supreme Court has declined to dismiss a class-action lawsuit against Compaq for selling defective floppy disks. HP, which bought Compaq in 2002, had argued a lower court decision wrongly certified a nationwide class of plaintiffs. The lawsuit was originally filed in 2003 by Oklahoma residents Stephen and Beverly Grider …

    The Channel 9 Oct 2007, 23:13

  • Princess Fiorina goes on the box with Fox

    When Carly met Rupee

    Two years after being shown the door at HP, Carly Fiorina will join a financial news television channel that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is launching next week. The former HP CEO and chairman will serve as a commentator for the Fox Business Network, according to a press release. It didn't say how often Fiorina would appear or …

    Media 9 Oct 2007, 23:39