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How to design phones for emerging markets

How to design phones for emerging markets

Frog Design's Jan Chipchase, a veteran of user experience design for mobile phones, met with ZDNet UK to discuss the challenges facing handset makers in places such as Uganda and Afghanistan Read more

9 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Europe's online gender divide slow to close

...2010. Nielsen//NetRatings European market analyst Tom Ewing is concerned that this gender divide reinforces the perception that the Web is a very male-dominated... Read more

24 June, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

Most techies would recommend IT career to offspring

...years old, while only 13 percent of respondents were female, reflecting the gender divide in IT. Female respondents were most likely to respect colleagues who... Read more

14 May, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Women quitting IT over lack of employer flexibility

The British Computer Society says 37,000 women left the IT industry between 2001 and 2007, mainly due to employer inflexibility towards career breaks Read more

17 November, 2008 by Tim Ferguson

Flexible working still frowned upon, say IT pros

Research claims half of IT workers believe the industry has not adapted to flexible working Read more

26 June, 2008 by Natasha Lomas
Jobs for the girls: Can tech turn a corner?

Jobs for the girls: Can tech turn a corner?

The lack of female workers in the tech industry is reportedly getting worse, but some people and organisations are determined to change the situation Read more

12 March, 2008 by Richard Thurston

EC aims to convince women IT isn't 'boring'

The European Commission is seeking to deflate geeky IT stereotypes to attract more women to jobs in the IT industry Read more

10 March, 2008 by Natasha Lomas
Ten things holding back tech

Ten things holding back tech

Ever get the feeling that we aren't quite yet where we want to be? Here are 10 factors that may be holding back the world's technological development Read more

27 November, 2007 by David Meyer

Timms: IT education key for a competitive UK

Competitiveness minister Stephen Timms has called for investment in IT education to plug the skills gap and help the UK compete globally Read more

19 October, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Female students lead in tech A-Levels

Girls achieved much greater success than boys in computing and ICT A-Level subjects this year, but they remain vastly outnumbered Read more

17 August, 2007 by Colin Barker

Gender divide amongst e-shoppers

...attitudes on the Internet -- conducted by Netpoll -- finds there is a clear gender divide when it comes to online shopping behaviour. A staggering six million... Read more

26 July, 2000 by Wendy McAuliffe
The <endeca_term>Gender Divide</endeca_term> 1.0

The Gender Divide 1.0

...balance of political, economic, and military power and has created a social Gender Divide that threatens to tear the world apart. Determined to close this... Read more

21 May, 2010

IT work is 'boring', say UK students

...IT career would be 'boring', claims careers charity Crac, adding that the gender divide will worsen Read more

23 June, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Men have a grand time shopping online

Latest research has identified an e-commerce gender divide, with men much more likely to be making big purchases online... Read more

7 November, 2003 by Graeme Wearden
IT's fatal lack of attraction

IT's fatal lack of attraction

...good of the IT industry have been wringing their hands about the gender divide. Like most engineering disciplines, the field is male-dominated: like most... Read more

27 November, 2006 by Leader

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Roberto_Store

Now On Sale, Unlocked iPhone 4S / Galaxy Note In Factory Box. Roberto-Techie(UK) ”Now on Sales” Smartphone, Android,Tablets,Gadget &...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

2 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

2 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

2 days ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everything
Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

2 days ago by Jason Burchell via Facebook on Music industry negotiating over 24-bit downloads
Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

2 days ago by Philip Charles Cohen via Facebook on PayPal takes phone-based payments to the high street
apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

2 days ago by apexwm on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
songmaster

SHleG: Do you remember building a clockwork scorpion kit (I'm pretty sure I have a photo of it somewhere) — I think it was called something like...

2 days ago by songmaster on Software with everything
Chris Wortman

Good I love Yahoo! Their search engine is getting better than Google as of late. I find more of what I want on the first page, and usually within...

2 days ago by Chris Wortman via Facebook on Linux Mint 13 ramps up for KDE release
PatrickG

openhgs has made the point for Windows 8 multiple monitors without realising it! With Windows 7 you have to switch the mouse and so your focus...

2 days ago by PatrickG on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
Leslie Satenstein

Mozilla has threatened to stop supporting Linux. I guess that UBUNTU is going with another browser. I indicated that if Mozilla stops supporting...

3 days ago by Leslie Satenstein via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
Andy Bolstridge

Much as I abhor Microsoft's licensing practices, this is almost certainly down to purchasing IT equipment via 3rd party consultants - you get the...

3 days ago by Andy Bolstridge via Facebook on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
Jack Schofield

@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
Jack Schofield

@Phil at Cloud4 What, Microsoft gets £1,200 per PC and £1,622 per server? Gosh, I'm amazed....

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
craigsc

You guys have no idea what is going on at Autonomy. Autonomy could have been a much more profitable organization. The sales operations at Autonomy...

3 days ago by craigsc on HP cuts 27,000 staff as Autonomy chief Lynch leaves