He suggested that in their "desperation" to retain the seat, the Lib Dems had been contacting some households as many as eight times and this was proving counter-productive.
HP, Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ), International Business Machines (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) are desperate to counter their customers' anger and loss of faith by proving they can make computing cheaper and more efficient.