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Photos: MIT lab throws open its doors

Photos: MIT lab throws open its doors

MIT's Media Lab has given visitors an inside look at its pioneering work in robotics, gestural interfaces and other fields of emerging tech Read more

30 April, 2012 by Martin LaMonica

Why the Google-Motorola deal is good/bad news

...billion all-cash acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the mobile arm of the pioneering phone maker, will prompt all the other Android phone suppliers to assess... Read more

15 August, 2011

Photos: Rebirth of trailblazing Edsac computer

National Museum of Computing to host rebuild of pioneering UK computer... The UK's first fully operational general-purpose computer is... Read more

14 January, 2011 by Nick Heath

Waitrose offers Christmas app via QR code

Waitrose is pioneering the use of QR codes in a television advert that allows smartphone... Read more

26 November, 2010
Colossus Mk 2

Colossus Mk 2

...computing device is five times faster and simpler to operate than its pioneering predecessor Read more

1 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Virgin to trial super-fast broadband via electricity poles

From August, the small village of Crumlin in Wales will host a pioneering trial of super-fast broadband delivered via existing commercial aerial electricity infrastructure... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Ben Woods
A Survey of Linear Network Coding and Network Error Correction Code Constructions and Algorithms

A Survey of Linear Network Coding and Network Error Correction Code Constructions and Algorithms

Network coding was introduced by Ahlswede et al. in a pioneering work in 2000. This paradigm encompasses coding and retransmission of messages at... Read more

16 May, 2011
10-year Experience of Internet Traffic Monitoring With Tstat

10-year Experience of Internet Traffic Monitoring With Tstat

...has always played a key role in understanding telecommunication networks since the pioneering time of the Internet. Today, monitoring traffic has become a key element... Read more

20 January, 2011

Turing & His Times: centenary videos now online

...Museum in Paderborn, Germany, on 26 May, covered Konrad Zuse and his pioneering computers, and compared Turing and Zuse. (The associated video, below, is in... Read more

28 May, 2012

Acorn pioneers honoured by US computing award

...were given the Computer History Museum Fellow awards on Saturday for their pioneering work at Acorn on the BBC Micro, which served as an entry... Read more

30 April, 2012
Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

...worked was the Manchester "Baby" from 1948. By this criterion, out go pioneering machines such as that of John Atanasoff ("the first electronic digital computer... Read more

3 March, 2012 by S Barry Cooper

GCHQ releases two Turing papers

...are delighted to release these papers showing more of Alan Turing’s pioneering research during his time at Bletchley Park," said a GCHQ spokesperson. "It... Read more

19 April, 2012

Apple's Ive knighted alongside graphene pioneers

...to science. The two have already won the Nobel Prize for their pioneering work in the field of graphene research. Graphene, an atom-thick carbon... Read more

2 January, 2012
Robots bake, fly and kick at US labs

Robots bake, fly and kick at US labs

...pushing forward the boundaries of robotics.One example of the lab's pioneering work is the Willow Garage PR2 robot, which can be programmed to... Read more

26 December, 2011 by Martin LaMonica
LEO computer marks 60th anniversary

LEO computer marks 60th anniversary

...and Oliver Standingford, to the US on a fact-finding mission (the pioneering computing advances made in the UK by code-breakers such as Alan... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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SoapyTablet

'Cut Price' Data Roaming? The price has been cut, but it is certainly not 'cut price' in the sense of the phrase, and nowhere near local EU data...

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apexwm

BrownieBoy: "Such crashes are normally down to the OS and/or a rogue application, which could be fixed by re-imaging. Everybody knows how Windows...

1 hour ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Thomas Gellhaus

I've just started using it too, and like you I feel that Fedora is a fine GNOME 3 showcase distribution. I am torn, though, because I checked out...

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pjc158

Why is it that Newzealand has the guts to stand up to the USA and ask to see the evidence and we don't!

2 hours ago by pjc158 on Judge orders US to share MegaUpload evidence
Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

15 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

16 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

17 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

20 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

23 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

24 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

1 day ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

1 day ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

1 day ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC