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* Posts by xbit

9 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Aug 2014

Apple's latest financials are still pretty decent even though iPhone sales are slowing

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Re: Hey Tim...

There's a 3.5mm to Lightning adapter bundled with every iPhone so I don't see your problem. Unless your headphones cable being two inches longer is a deal breaker to you?

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Even Microsoft's lost interest in Windows Phone: Skype and Yammer apps killed

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"Microsoft’s advice for effected users [both of them, LOL - Ed]"

Tut, tut. Your editor has the time to make jokes not but enough time to correct poor grammar.

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British government to ink deal for yet another immigration database

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Accenture: The Alan Pardew of large government IT projects.

Constantly fails to deliver and yet is inexplicably given chance after chance at the job.

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Former Nokia boss Stephen Elop scores gig as chief innovator for Australia's top telco

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Re: ROFL

Do you really think that Nokia shareholders were happy with his performance? Nokia's share price collapsed by 80% under his tenure.

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7 million Apple Watches just buried the competition – Canalys

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Re: Now this IS interesting

TAG hasn't been a serious premium watch manufacturer for about ten years. What they make today is mostly junk.

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Seagate births 8TB triplets and a 2TB mobile nipper

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I'm getting a kick out of these replies as only last night I had replace a dead 3TB Seagate drive. Its 'twin' died last year too. Thank God for backups.

Never again though.

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BOOM! Stephen Elop shuffled out of Microsoft door

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Re: Nokia were already screwed..

Fatally undermined? You don't send a company-wide e-mail of that level and not expect to leak.

Unless you're completely incompetent.

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Satya Nadella's $84.3m pay packet: Did he use the 'female superpower' to get it?

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Re: Really?

You must be new here. I can't think of a time when The Register hasn't stuck the boot into Microsoft.

I doubt that a "militant feminist group" has stormed the news room.

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No Apple fanbois here: Man United BANS iPads from Old Trafford

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Re: Understandable

I've got a season ticket to a Premier League side. I've NEVER seen someone film a game through an iPad. All you get the occasional tourist taking photos.

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