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Contribute, contract; endorse? Technology reputations

Technology companies need to be careful about who and what they're seen to support. Lie down with dogs, goes the saying,... Read more

16 May, 2012

IT cuts contribute to £500m Whitehall savings

£1bn of tech projects under spending spotlight Read more

17 December, 2010 by Nick Heath

European cloud project plots OpenStack move

...first version of its cloud software, and is now deciding whether to contribute its code to OpenStack or develop its own 'European' cloud software platform... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

Cern taps home PCs for virtual atom smashing

...launched a virtual atom-smasher for home computers, which allows people to contribute to fundamental physics research from the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC@home... Read more

9 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

IEEE body launches cloud standard push

The IEEE Standards Association has launched two working groups to contribute to cloud computing standards. Cloud technologies need to be interoperable to allow... Read more

5 April, 2011

5 reasons why he still contributes to Debian after 12 years

...excellent blog post by Raphael Hertzog entitled "5 reasons why I still contribute to Debian after 12 years". For me, it's inspiring to see... Read more

27 October, 2010

Yahoo makes Hadoop team independent

...commercial distribution of the data analytics framework, as well as continuing to contribute open-source code Read more

29 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Wakefield postman wins Cyber Security Challenge

...the information security talent contest, while the government has said it will contribute £18,000 to the next challenge from a £650m cybercrime pot Read more

7 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Perceived Gender Classification From Face Images

Perceived Gender Classification From Face Images

Perceiving human faces and modeling the distinctive features of human faces that contribute most towards face recognition are some of the challenges faced by computer... Read more

1 February, 2012
A Simple Binary Image Similarity Matching Method Based on Exact Pixel Matching

A Simple Binary Image Similarity Matching Method Based on Exact Pixel Matching

Similarity matching between binary images has a lot to contribute to the image processing community. In this paper, the authors propose a... Read more

1 January, 2012
A Comparative Study of Incentive Mechanisms Used in Peer-To-Peer System

A Comparative Study of Incentive Mechanisms Used in Peer-To-Peer System

...tells how to encourage nodes in a peer-to-peer system to contribute their resources. A peer avoids contributing resources to the p2p system because... Read more

24 December, 2011
Metaphor: Elucidate the System Architecture in XP

Metaphor: Elucidate the System Architecture in XP

...of XP as proposed by Kent Beck. The Metaphor is intended to contribute to the XP value of communication. Metaphor can be described as a... Read more

7 December, 2011
Bilateral and Multilateral Exchanges for Peer-Assisted Content Distribution

Bilateral and Multilateral Exchanges for Peer-Assisted Content Distribution

...of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol and its variants are incentivized to contribute their upload capacity in a bilateral manner: Downloading is possible in return... Read more

1 October, 2011
Tailored Concepts for Software Integrity Protection in Mobile Networks

Tailored Concepts for Software Integrity Protection in Mobile Networks

...presents research results on SW security for network elements. The authors' investigations contribute to the ongoing ASMONIA project, which is focusing on collaborative approaches and... Read more

15 September, 2011
Healthcare Information at Risk - Encryption is Not a Panacea

Healthcare Information at Risk - Encryption is Not a Panacea

Moving to electronic patient records will greatly contribute to improving the quality and reducing the cost of patient care. However... Read more

30 August, 2011

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

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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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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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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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@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

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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.

3 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...

3 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

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