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Facebook side-steps Google data policy with workaround

...list of friends — and the corresponding contact information. Google has made data portability a key portion of its manifesto, while Facebook is not sure that... Read more

10 November, 2010 by Tom Krazit

Facebook lets users download data, create groups

...step in the right direction but did not amount to proper data portability. "What matters is that while they now allow more access to your... Read more

7 October, 2010 by David Meyer
Mobile Number <endeca_term>Portability</endeca_term>: Challenges and Solutions

Mobile Number Portability: Challenges and Solutions

Increasing numbers of countries require mobile telephone networks to offer Mobile Number Portability (MNP). The term MNP allows customers who wish to switch mobile operator... Read more

17 May, 2011
Meta-Model for Global Software Development to Support <endeca_term>Portability</endeca_term> and Interoperability in Global Software Development

Meta-Model for Global Software Development to Support Portability and Interoperability in Global Software Development

...GSD projects. As such, very often GSD projects have to cope with portability and interoperability problems. To address these problems, the authors propose to apply... Read more

19 October, 2011
Red Hat PaaS: Bringing Open Choice & Application <endeca_term>Portability</endeca_term> to the Cloud

Red Hat PaaS: Bringing Open Choice & Application Portability to the Cloud

...waste and shelfware, accelerate the creation of new applications, and maximize ongoing portability and flexibility Read more

28 September, 2010
Model-Based Testing Without a Model: Assessing <endeca_term>Portability</endeca_term> in the Seattle Testbed

Model-Based Testing Without a Model: Assessing Portability in the Seattle Testbed

...heterogeneity, there has been a lack of research into quantifying and improving portability of a programming environment. The authors have constructed a distributed testbed called... Read more

16 August, 2010
Encapsulating Software Platform Logic by Aspect-Oriented Programming: A Case Study in Using Aspects for Language <endeca_term>Portability</endeca_term>

Encapsulating Software Platform Logic by Aspect-Oriented Programming: A Case Study in Using Aspects for Language Portability

...APIs, based on the runtime system of the software platform, introducing additional portability concerns Read more

25 June, 2010
eCopy and the Health Insurance <endeca_term>Portability</endeca_term> and Accountability Act (HIPAA

eCopy and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA

...use of Internet technologies in all aspects of healthcare, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law in 1996. As its... Read more

24 June, 2010
Local Number <endeca_term>Portability</endeca_term> (LNP

Local Number Portability (LNP

Workmethod's client, a fast-growing VOIP company, was facing challenges managing its LNP processes. LNP process involved... Read more

1 January, 2011
A Comparative Study of Application <endeca_term>Portability</endeca_term> With Virtualization Softwares

A Comparative Study of Application Portability With Virtualization Softwares

Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing... Read more

1 December, 2010
Towards Efficiency and <endeca_term>Portability</endeca_term>: Programming With the BSP Model

Towards Efficiency and Portability: Programming With the BSP Model

The Bulk-Synchronous Parallel (BSP) model was proposed by Valiant as a model for general-purpose parallel computation.... Read more

7 August, 2010
Lenovo ThinkPad W520

Lenovo ThinkPad W520

...a fast 15.6in. notebook with a high-quality display whose limited portability isn't helped by a brick-like AC adapter. If you do... Read more

27 May, 2011 by Sandra Vogel

Cloud migration must wait, says telecoms' chief

...said. For more on this ZDNet UK selected story, see Cloud data portability years off: Telstra on ZDNet Australia Read more

5 August, 2010 by Mahesh Sharma
Exploring Attributes for Selecting VoIP Service in Korea

Exploring Attributes for Selecting VoIP Service in Korea

...of VoIP users is expected to rapidly increase after introducing VoIP number portability on October 31, 2008. The total number already gone beyond 2 million... Read more

1 January, 2012
Laptops and Handhelds

Laptops and Handhelds

Portability was becoming a big issue in the early 90's. In this... Read more

1 January, 2012

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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...

42 minutes ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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

...... and PDP11s too

8 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...

9 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...

11 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
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...

13 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...

13 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
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...

14 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

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

16 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...

16 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

17 hours 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

18 hours 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....

19 hours 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...

20 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

21 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

21 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

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

1 day ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

1 day ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
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...

1 day ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
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...

2 days ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry