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Berners-Lee challenges 'stupid' male geek culture
News The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has called for an end to the "stupid" male geek culture that disregards the work of capable female engineers, and puts others off entering the profession.
[September 21, 2007, 15:47]
Mobile Field Service Automation Generates Efficient Operations and Substantial Cost Savings
White Papers To increase efficiency and decrease costs for its field service engineers the company wanted to modernise its paper-based system by taking advantage of advancing mobile technology. Capgemini developed a system of field service automation that...
[December 4, 2007, 5:44]
Sun sets up open-source Solaris project
News Through the initiative, Sun engineers, partners and other programmers will be able to contribute to the development of the Unix operating system. Sun is now in the process of preparing for the project, which some Solaris engineers call Open Source...
[September 14, 2004, 11:05]
Logitech Webcams
Blog As a result of my QuickCam Software write-up, I've had a couple of exchanges with the Guru from the Logitech User Forum, and one of the Logitech software engineers. Continue to use the old driver with the newer camera, and you are missing out on...
[August 25, 2008, 10:03]
Experts argue over Netscape 6.0
News The browser has been developed by Netscape engineers, in conjunction with the open source developers who are part of the open-source Mozilla.org project. O'Reilly author Flanagan claimed: "In a number of cases, Mozilla engineers have fixed...
[November 8, 2000, 8:23]
Virtualization Reference Guide
White Papers As early as the 1960s, engineers at IBM developed a way to partition large mainframes into separate "virtual" machines, essentially carving up the mainframe's resources to make them available for specific workloads.
[July 23, 2009, 1:19]
The future is very, very small, say Intel
News Enhancing silicon in this manner will allow engineers to develop chips made using the 22-nanometer process (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter), which should begin in 2011 or 2012. Chip manufacturers will continue to follow the evolutionary path...
[October 25, 2004, 16:55]
Zurich in North American Anticipates U.S.$25 Million Gain With SQL Server 2005 Solution
White Papers Zurich includes 600 risk engineers who inspect sites and recommend changes to help minimize their customers' risk of loss. The risk engineers had been using a workflow based solution, but the organization needed a solution that would store data on...
[May 22, 2007, 1:00]
A Year Ago: The future of chip design
News A blazingly fast chip, a colorized plastic display, and a six million-pixel image sensor will take center stage at an upcoming gathering of engineers touting the latest ideas from their research labs.
[October 13, 2000, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' San Francisco IDF Diary
Blog Away from the organised activities, most fun is to be had watching the antics of thousands of engineers free to act without restraint among their own kind. This is so esoteric and unsexy to non-engineers that I doubt I'll ever have reason to write...
[March 4, 2002, 8:59]
Custom Industrial Controllers Outperform PLCs
White Papers Industrial designer engineers, factory automation engineers, or industrial controls developers may take advantage of generalized solutions for their particular needs. Programmable Logic Controllers, PLCs, are used extensively for industrial control...
[September 5, 2009, 1:22]
Motivation in Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review
White Papers The majority of studies find Software Engineers form a distinguishable occupational group. Results indicate that Software Engineers are likely to be motivated according to: their 'characteristics' (e.g.their need for variety); internal 'controls...
[January 2, 2009, 0:00]
IT jobs market set to grow
News Top of the wanted list are business analysts, network specialists, analyst programmers, software engineers and database specialists, according to the government. Database administrators can earn up to £53k, while software engineers and business...
[April 23, 2002, 11:27]
MacCVS Pro
Downloads Its Finder-like interface with drag and drop capability is designed to be intuitive for non-technical users, and its features such as true CVS Log and Status commands are designed to be useful for professional software engineers.
[September 18, 1999, 8:00]
Netscape security flaw revealed
News Reliable Software Technologies, a Sterling, Virginia, software-security company, said Tuesday that two RST engineers needed just eight hours to duplicate the mathematical algorithm Netscape Mail uses to scramble users' passwords.
[December 15, 1999, 14:06]
Riverbed Steelhead Appliances and Steelhead Mobile Accelerate Consulting Firm
White Papers As a consulting and engineering firm focused on high-quality service, JEO uses technology to make sure its engineers, architects, and planners have the best possible resources needed to complete their projects.
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
New IBM unit switches on electronics
News Its engineers will focus on creating complex chips for entire systems based on IBM's intellectual property, products and services. The company has quietly shifted more than 700 design engineers worldwide into the new unit and plans to increase that...
[October 7, 2002, 16:53]
China: Bursting with brainpower
News There is no denying, however, that Chinese engineers cost far less than their American counterparts. While many technology giants are expanding manufacturing plants in China, a significant number of multinationals are increasingly combing the...
[July 11, 2002, 7:57]
The ups and downs of life with Linus
Talkback Even engineers screw up too, in reference to "secret" patches that Linus makes and is undocumented. But what I do know is that engineers like Alan are not infallible either. Both developers(project managers) and engineers(bug fixers) are...
[March 2, 2005, 6:52]
Y2K deja vu set to cripple Unix program
News Software maker PTC, a specialist in product lifecycle management applications for engineers and product designers, has rekindled memories of the Year 2000 bug, or Y2K, as it scrambles to patch a glitch that will render most of its products...
[December 22, 2003, 7:55]
