Website harvests business card information

Visitors to China should be careful about whom they hand their business cards to, after a website posted information from two million cards without the owners' consent, garnering five million visits a month as a result. Mingpian.com provides phone numbers and email addresses for free, according to the Xinhua news agency [via Reuters]. ...more

Tiscali reaps new subscriber revenues

Tiscali has announced its third quarter results, with revenues up nearly a third to €168.9 million, mainly due to new subscribers to its broadband services, it claimed. The broadband provider added 160,000 new customers in the quarter. ...more

Hewlett-Packard to buy management consultancy

Hewlett-Packard is in talks with accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to buy its consultancy arm for ?14 billion. The PwC has been looking to sell its consultancy business after conflicts with US regulators last year. The Securities and Exchange Commission has been pressing for the top five accountants to sell off their consultancy arms. ...more

Western Digital expands its frontier to the notebook market

Western Digital is to enter the notebook hard drive fray to expand its market. The company, best known for its desktop disk drives for the likes of Dell and Microsoft's Xbox console, is looking to the boom in notebook sales to expand its market. Western Digital yesterday announced its WD Scorpio 2. ...more

Google Gmail inspires MSN Hotmail upgrade

Microsoft has announced a 'major upgrade' to its MSN Hotmail email service, with a huge increase in storage capacity and enhanced virus filtering. From early July Hotmail users' inboxes will grow from 2MB to 250MB and the maximum permitted size for attachments will become 10MB. They will also get MSN Calendar software. ...more