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Wolfram Alpha expands with go-anywhere widgets

...Wolfram Alpha has launched an in-browser widget builder that lets users design, share... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Jack Clark

Opera updates Next and Speed Dial features

...the Opera browser's Speed Dial feature launched in Opera 11.50 alpha on Tuesday, along with Opera Next, which includes a mechanism that makes... Read more

4 May, 2011 by Seth Rosenblatt
DEC's 40 years of innovation

DEC's 40 years of innovation

...combination of ARM's low-power processor architecture and elements of the Alpha's high-performance design. The chimera was surprisingly successful, finding its way... Read more

12 February, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Cern scientists trap antimatter

...antimatter atoms, which were anti-hydrogen, will allow scientists from Cern's Alpha experiment to study the antiparticles, Cern told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. "This... Read more

18 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Gov.uk public service portal goes live in beta

...of the design and coding work we've been doing since the alpha, putting some of those ideas into practise at a significant scale," Bracken... Read more

2 February, 2012 by Staff Writers

Cern physicists trap antimatter for 16 minutes

...to better study the vulnerable particles. Physicists at Cern working on the Alpha experiment have trapped antimatter atoms for 1,000 seconds, or 16 minutes... Read more

6 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Endeavour launches with particle physics payload

...Once in orbit, Endeavour will deploy its payload, the 7.5-ton Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). Using a massive magnet to bend the trajectories of... Read more

17 May, 2011 by William Harwood

Photos: Prototype portal lifts lid on future of public services

Cabinet Office reveals alpha.gov.uk vision for a single government website domain... An alpha prototype... Read more

11 May, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

BlackBerry Dev Alpha: First Take

...first look at BlackBerry 10, in the shape of the BlackBerry Dev Alpha. Opening the Dev Alpha's box We sat down with RIM's... Read more

1 May, 2012
<endeca_term>Alpha</endeca_term> Five 11.0

Alpha Five 11.0

Alpha Five has established itself as a leader in easy and rapid application... Read more

28 March, 2012

UK government tests radical new alpha.gov.uk site

...concept" for a single UK government public service site. The site at alpha.gov.uk was developed in response to the Race Online 2012 challenge... Read more

11 May, 2011

Natty Narwhal alpha release

...various flavours of Linux unless I have to ;). But the Natty Narwhal alpha release is different, as it will become Ubuntu 11.04, and much... Read more

7 December, 2010

Alpha version of jQuery reaches out to mobile browsers

...The alpha version of jQuery Mobile will be released in two weeks, according to... Read more

6 October, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Mozilla releases Fennec alpha for Android

...the Linux-based Android platform. In a Friday blogpost, Mozilla said the alpha version was now available for Android and for the N900, the only... Read more

27 August, 2010
Quantitative Strategies for Achieving <endeca_term>Alpha</endeca_term> by Tortoriello 3.0.3

Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha by Tortoriello 3.0.3

...an investment strategy, is the holy grail of the investment world. Achieve alpha, and you've beaten the market on a risk-adjusted basis. Quantitative... Read more

9 July, 2010

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Iain Sutherland

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SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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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

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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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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Paul Smyth

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

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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...

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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

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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...

3 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...

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