Facebook hires ex-Google VP Sheryl Sandberg
March 11, 2008
Facebook has announced the appointment of Sheryl Sandberg as chief operating officer starting 24 March..
Sandberg has spent the past six years at Google, where she served as vice president of global online sales and operations managing the online sales channels for AdWords and AdSense.
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Boffins promise inkjet-built solar panels
March 11, 2008
Researchers at Konarka Technologies have demonstrated a new method of manufacturing solar cells using highly efficient inkjet printing techniques..
The process can help make ‘organic bulk hetero-junction’ solar cells with inkjet printing, providing a much cheaper method of producing large quantities of solar panels.
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Sex drives lose out to Flash drives
March 11, 2008
A survey of over 1,400 Britons suggests that technology is playing an increasing role in bedrooms across the country..
Around one in three people answer phone calls or send SMS and emails in bed, and around 20 percent take a laptop to bed to check on internet sites.
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German police raid stands at CeBIT
March 11, 2008
German police have raided stands at CeBIT, the world’s largest computer exhibition..
Over 180 officers raided 51 stands as the exhibition was preparing to close, claiming that they were checking out allegations of copyright infringement.
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Siemens unifies comms around software
March 4, 2008
Enterprise communications vendor Siemens has re-jigged its comms applications portfolio with the launch of its OpenScape Unified Communications (UC) Server, a software package that will underpin its real-time communication suite.
PHP optimised for Windows Server 2008
March 4, 2008
Want to run a Coppermine photo gallery on a Windows 2008 Server? In the past, that’s meant that the popular PHP application for photo galleries would run more poorly than on a Linux or Unix server, for which PHP had been optimised..
