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EU outlines shortcomings in UK data law

The European Commission has spelled out why it believes that the UK Data Protection Act does not correctly implement a third of the EU's data protection measures Read more

23 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Joint Use of Custody Transfer and Erasure Codes in DTN Space Networks: Benefits and <endeca_term>Shortcomings</endeca_term>

Joint Use of Custody Transfer and Erasure Codes in DTN Space Networks: Benefits and Shortcomings

...benefits coming from this integrated approach but also points out the possible shortcomings deriving from the saturation of the buffer implemented at the Bundle Protocol... Read more

1 June, 2010
Ten areas where Google+ scores a minus

Ten areas where Google+ scores a minus

Google+ may justifiably be the technology darling of the moment, but its shortcomings still deserve highlighting, says Jason Hiner Read more

21 July, 2011 by Jason Hiner
Ten ways Windows fails but Linux does not

Ten ways Windows fails but Linux does not

The Windows operating system suffers from a number of shortcomings that are baffling to Linux users, says Jack Wallen Read more

5 March, 2011 by Jack Wallen
Nokia N8

Nokia N8

...the company's best smartphones to date. However, it still has its shortcomings, as well as an expensive price tag Read more

14 October, 2010 by Bonnie Cha
Slotted PIFA With Edge Feed for Wireless Applications

Slotted PIFA With Edge Feed for Wireless Applications

In order to overcome the shortcoming of narrow bandwidth of conventional PIFA, a novel bandwidth enhancement approach is... Read more

1 March, 2012
Low Power Asynchronous Wrapper for Network on Chips With Dynamic Frequency Scaling and Power Cut Off

Low Power Asynchronous Wrapper for Network on Chips With Dynamic Frequency Scaling and Power Cut Off

Large power consumptions and frequency non-tunable are two shortcomings existing in conventional asynchronous wrapper of network on chips. This paper proposes... Read more

1 May, 2011
Reconfigurable Nodes for Future Networks

Reconfigurable Nodes for Future Networks

Future network architectures aim at solving the shortcomings of the traditional, static Internet architecture. In order to provide optimal service... Read more

27 January, 2011
The Identity Crisis Security, Privacy and Usability Issues in Identity Management

The Identity Crisis Security, Privacy and Usability Issues in Identity Management

...the current 'Identity crisis' caused by the substantial security, privacy and usability shortcomings encountered in existing systems for identity management. Some of these issues are... Read more

2 January, 2011
Design and Implementation of Vulnerability Scanning Distributed System

Design and Implementation of Vulnerability Scanning Distributed System

In this paper, the authors discussed the basic principle and the common shortcoming in the existing network vulnerability scanning systems. Based on these, distributed system... Read more

15 August, 2010
Relative Delay Estimator for SCTP-Based Concurrent Multipath Transfer

Relative Delay Estimator for SCTP-Based Concurrent Multipath Transfer

By identifying the shortcomings of using RTT to evaluate the quality of different paths in a... Read more

1 June, 2010
Top 10 Linux browsers: How I rate them

Top 10 Linux browsers: How I rate them

...isn't crash-prone nature, like Epiphany. For some users, its only shortcoming may be a lack of extensions, plug-ins and themes. But Midori... Read more

4 February, 2011 by Jack Wallen
SharePoint 2010: a sheep in wolf's clothing?

SharePoint 2010: a sheep in wolf's clothing?

...Microsoft addressing these issues to address some of SharePoint's more serious shortcomings. Inline editing environmentAuthoring usability improvements stem from SharePoint's shiny new inline... Read more

5 August, 2010 by Darren Guarnaccia

O2 expands free Wi-Fi into Costa

...no matter which mobile or broadband provider they are with, addressing the shortcomings of current public Wi-Fi offerings." BT provides its broadband subscribers with... Read more

4 May, 2012
Ten failings that will check the tablet's rise

Ten failings that will check the tablet's rise

...and using them? I think it's down to a number of shortcomings that are having a serious impact on adoption. 1. Better integration with... Read more

16 October, 2011 by Jack Wallen

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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...

2 minutes ago by SoapyTablet on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
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...

3 hours ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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

...... and PDP11s too

11 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...

12 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...

14 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...

15 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...

16 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...

16 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.

18 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...

19 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

20 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

21 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....

22 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...

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

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

24 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

24 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