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Passwords are here to stay: get used to it

...to see, once more, a vendor of two-factor authentication call the end of the line for passwords as a security mechanism. We've been... Read more

21 May, 2012
Collaboration Facilitates Better Packaging Machinery and Production

Collaboration Facilitates Better Packaging Machinery and Production

...and implements packaging machines as well as complete lines for secondary and end-of-the-line packaging. The company is especially adept at implementing turnkey... Read more

1 September, 2010

Nokia introduces Asha for emerging markets

...and will support microSD cards up to 32GB. Moving to the lower end of the line-up, the Asha 200 and 201 will launch at... Read more

26 October, 2011

Quantum computing: Could your computer collapse into a black hole?

...it seem like a plausible conjecture that quantum computing is just the end of the line. It is an amazing thing that you can do... Read more

24 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Quantum computing: Beyond computing's final frontier

...it's a plausible hypothesis than quantum computing is really just the end of the line. Yes, you could use black holes or you could... Read more

24 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

After silicon: What will power computing for the next 10 years and beyond?

...become unreliable. With the current silicon-based transistors heading for the atomic end of the line, new techniques and technologies will be needed to underpin... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Photos: How BT's FTTH fibre broadband gets inside your home

...Here's the optical network termination point - the end of the line for Openreach's fibre and the box where customers... Read more

1 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Companies face £2m fine for silent calls

...a recorded message, rather than to a human being at the other end of the line," said Brennan. "That is part of the business model... Read more

16 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner
A look back at Nasa's first comms satellite

A look back at Nasa's first comms satellite

...at a Bell Telephone Laboratories facility in Holmdel, New Jersey. (The other end of the line was a NASA facility in Goldstone, California.) Built in... Read more

18 August, 2010 by Jonathan Skillings

iPhone 4 vs BlackBerry Bold: Which is the better work mobile?

...ended yet I can still hear my friend speaking on the other end of the line. But at the risk of sounding as if I... Read more

28 July, 2010 by Natasha Lomas
Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space Ep 5 1.0

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space Ep 5 1.0

...Sam & Max fight free from Satans grasp, or have they reached the end of the line?* Designed & written with Steve Purcell, creator of the Sam... Read more

19 April, 2012
Linear Josephus Problem 1.0

Linear Josephus Problem 1.0

...left to right, removing every rth player. Change the direction at the end of the line and again remove every rth player.Programming:Masnaori FukuiIcon... Read more

4 March, 2012
NumberScramble 1.0

NumberScramble 1.0

...a new line, you can only add tiles to the beginning or end of the line.You can remove an incomplete line at any stage... Read more

25 February, 2012
Jot! Whiteboard 2.6

Jot! Whiteboard 2.6

...and wanted to draw out an idea for someone on the other end of the line? Now you can.Our new Live Sharing feature allows... Read more

11 February, 2012
Jot! Whiteboard Free 2.6

Jot! Whiteboard Free 2.6

...and wanted to draw out an idea for someone on the other end of the line? Now you can.Our new Live Sharing feature allows... Read more

11 February, 2012

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