California has terminated its contract with SAP in connection with a $371 million software system that was supposed to overhaul the state's payroll system but instead ended up mired in major delays and cost overruns. Some $254 million has ...
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The U.K.'s Financial Reporting Council has launched a probe into Autonomy's financial reporting over a period of more than two years prior to its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. Autonomy's reports from January 2009 to mid-2011 will be ...
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BlackBerry's Z10 went on sale today at the unsubsidized price of $999 for the first U.S. customers through wireless service provider Solavei and its retail partner GSM Nation. The online offer comes about five weeks before the expected ...
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Barbie's Malibu Dreamhouse is on the market for $25 million. Kind of. The price tag is for "entertainment purposes only" - a campaign to get fans talking on Facebook. She's packing up her fictional three-story pink palace to kick-start ...
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Western Digital, one of the few companies to offer a streaming-media player with a built-in hard drive (the WD TV Live Hub), is taking a different approach with its new entry-level model, the WD TV Play. Given its hockey-puck design, $70 ...
Whilst IKEA may be famed for its flat-pack furniture, Curtains Made Simple offer a great range of cotton fabrics from the Swedish retailer that make perfect soft furnishings for the home. Constantly staying on top of modern trends, IKEA ...
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The market continued its correction and pulled back to a low of 80.05 cents in March and 81.35 cent in May, but there were plenty of buyers waiting to buy on dips. Volume was heavy all week long due to the Goldman roll, but overall open ...
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Gaming chairs enhance your experience of a game through interactivity, audio features and even movement. Some of these chairs may not be exactly inexpensive, so keep that in mind. But then, for a gaming enthusiast a suitable chair can ...
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The all-new Volkswagen Beetle has arrived in Australia, launching exactly 60 years after the original ‘people’s car’ first landed on our shores in 1953. Dubbed the ’21st century Beetle’, the third-generation ...
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The special edition Aston Martin Vantage SP10 has been launched by the classic British marque, giving driving enthusiasts the very first opportunity to drive a manual version of the brand’s Aston Martin V8 Vantage S. A special ...
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The Audi A6 3.0 TDI Biturbo has arrived in Australia to become the country’s fastest diesel-powered vehicle. Audi’s latest A6 sedan variant employs a twin-turbo V6 diesel with 230kW of power and 650Nm of torque to race from ...
The Audi RS4 Avant has been released in Australia, marking the return of the company’s renowned performance wagon. Audi’s third-generation RS4 arrives five years after the last version was on sale. Sedan and cabriolet body ...
The Hyundai Elantra is another one of those small cars that is more mid-size when it comes to interior space and luggage capacity. Launched in Australia in June 2011, the fifth-generation Hyundai Elantra is the Korean carmaker’s ...
Controller John Chiang Following a spate of major delays and cost overruns, the U.S. state of California has terminated a contract with SAP that would have overhauled the state’s payroll system at a cost of $371 million. Some $254 ...
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The Government is to fund research into LED-based Gbit/s free-space optical networks. The heavyweight academic team includes the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford and St Andrews, and is lead by the University of Strathclyde. ...
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