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Developers angry at lack of Nexus One SDK
News However, Google employee and Android framework engineer Diane Hackborn argued in a post to the forum that "for developers, the changes in 2.1 are really not that significant". Application coders have protested strongly at Google's failure to...
[January 8, 2010, 15:03]
Microsoft Research head awarded OBE
News Herbert [pictured], a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, has worked in the field of computer science for 35 years, conducting research into computer networking, operating systems and distributed computing.
[January 4, 2010, 16:39]
GSM crypto code cracked, says computer engineer
News A German computer engineer said on Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls. In an attempt to expose holes in the security of global wireless systems, 28-year-old Karsten Nohl cracked the 21...
[December 29, 2009, 8:21]
Castle Lay Siege
Downloads Help Wanted - Siege Engineer.In this entry level position with upward potential thou will man a 500 pound catapult and batter down five castles of those considered unsupportive of the regime.Thou will load the hopper with the appropriate shot...
[December 22, 2009, 0:28]
calQlator
Downloads Give this app to a friend, co-worker, engineer to have them do simple calculations. Prank your friends. Hilarity ensues when they realize that the results are slightly off. Before you know it everyone around you wants to do their own calculations...
[December 20, 2009, 19:19]
Bunyan
Downloads He was the brother of the Anglo-Catholic polemicist Richard Hurrell Froude and of William Froude, the engineer and naval architect.The son of R. Bunyan by James Anthony Froude'I was of a low and inconsiderable generation, my father's house being of...
[December 20, 2009, 18:08]
Smarter Systems Development: A System Engineering Trade Study to support Green Initiatives with Model Driven Development
White Papers But many of us don't know that you can analytically and objectively conduct your trade studies well before you engineer anything. Trade studies help us fully explore the design space to ensure that a proposed solution best meets conflicting...
[December 10, 2009, 23:00]
The Sun Java EE Also Rises
Blog Not to suggest that this wouldn’t have happened anyway, but Sun Microsystems senior staff engineer Roberto Chinnici blogged last week on the Java Community Process (JCP) exec committee’s decision for a go ahead on the release of the Java EE 6...
[December 8, 2009, 10:00]
Most central gov't positive about IT capabilities
News The cost of IT services across central government is broadly within the range expected and this is encouraging, although clearly some departments have work to do to re-engineer their IT, reduce their run and maintain costs whilst still delivering...
[December 8, 2009, 8:18]
Photos: Intel's Single-chip Cloud Computer
News When it was pointed out to a researcher that, if this was sold as a product, no customer would ever need to buy a new processor again, the engineer fell silent and then changed the subject. Other Intel labs in Bangalore and the US also contributed...
[December 2, 2009, 17:00]
Nasa motion tech simulates lunar landings
News Aerospace engineer Karl Bilimoria gave ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News, a tour of the interior of the cab. The Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) at Nasa Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, is the world's largest high-fidelity motion...
[November 30, 2009, 15:26]
HP engineers vote to strike
News A former HP engineer, who wished to remain anonymous, told ZDNet UK at the end of October that HP customers could be severely affected by a strike as there would be potential maintenance disruptions. HP engineers in the Unite union have voted to go...
[November 19, 2009, 15:43]
Webinar: Securing the Cloud Dec 10th, 2pm ET / 11am PT
White Papers Learn tips to engineer security solutions that'll help cloud computing realize its full potential Cloud computing promises to provide vast computing power, reliable off-site data storage, wide availability, all at lower maintenance and investment...
[November 19, 2009, 8:12]
FAST Search for SharePoint promises custom search without custom code
Blog Sort by relevance and the ranking differs based on the role and user profile of who’s searching; an engineer will get different documents in the first results and different people suggested as relevant experts.
[November 16, 2009, 7:51]
Legacy HPC SW Porting Effort and Schedule
Talkback For the sake of argument, suppose we have to re-engineer 1M SLOC to port our current code to the the next-generation HPC HW. Moreover, COCOMO predictes the time to re-engineer 1M SLOC is ~50 months, or essentially an entire HPC HW generation.
[November 16, 2009, 7:38]
VeriSign: Major internet security update by 2011
News VeriSign utilises a DNSSEC extension known as NSEC3, which is documented in RFC 5155 with a VeriSign Labs engineer as a co-author. VeriSign has said a significant outstanding internet security vulnerability will be closed by 2011, after delays...
[November 16, 2009, 4:00]
Google hints at impending Caffeine launch
News In a blog posting on Tuesday, Google principal engineer Matt Cutts said Google was ready to move to the next stage of the rollout by going live with Caffeine at one of its datacentres. Google says Caffeine, the next version of its search-engine...
[November 11, 2009, 12:37]
Google introduces 'Go' programming language
News We found some of those problems to be frustrating and decided that the only way to address them was linguistically," said Rob Pike, a principal software engineer working on Go. Google software luminaries such as Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe...
[November 11, 2009, 9:29]
Bye bye browser?
Blog Hiring people for the cutting edge isn’t easy - you can’t just grab an engineer with an index card in a newsagent’s window. On one side there’s Flash and Silverlight and the rich internet applications world, which is working on ways of taking the...
[November 6, 2009, 20:16]
Novell previews Pulse collaboration platform
News Google Wave, announced at the Google I/O Developer Conference in May, is an attempt to re-engineer internet communication, blending elements of email, instant messaging, social networking and workplace collaboration software into a single web...
[November 5, 2009, 14:48]
