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Who has contributed most to UK technology?
News Nominees may have created an important technology or been an essential contributor to the debates around technology; they could be a champion of those who use technology, or may have contributed to policy in the technology arena over the past 12...
[July 8, 2004, 16:30]
OLPC's Negroponte: Intel 'contributed nothing'
News Instead, over the entire six months it was a member of the board, Intel contributed nothing to OLPC. Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has hit out at Intel's decision to leave the $100 laptop project, accusing the...
[January 8, 2008, 7:13]
The patent nuclear weapon
Talkback IBM happens to own the copyright on the code they developed and contributed to Linux. Please note that IBM has granted permission to use the relevant patents to open source community when they contributed code to Linux in the past.
[October 1, 2003, 2:58]
Web keeps Kosovo broadcast alive
News NATO and U.S.officials said the shutdown of the station contributed to the decision to begin the first military action against a sovereign NATO country in the organisation's 50-year history. Reuters contributed to this report
[March 25, 1999, 8:26]
Open-source programmer rebuts charge
News A programmer has rebutted an accusation that he contributed proprietary software to an open-source project called Mambo, while his accuser has moderated his legal threats. Also, he said the specific code written for Furthermore was not what he...
[September 21, 2004, 8:35]
Online sales boost Tesco
News Tesco's push into telecoms and the continued success of its online shopping operation Tesco.com have contributed to bumper half year results for the retailer. While a group-wide 'Step-Change' efficiency savings programme contributed to the good...
[September 22, 2004, 8:00]
Scoot.com denies takeover rumours
News UK online directory service Scoot.com has denied it is in takeover talks with France's Vivendi, throwing cold water on a rumour that has contributed to a surge in dot-com shares this week. Reuters contributed to this report.
[September 6, 2000, 7:50]
EBay denies any blame for Glastonbury fiasco
News Online auction company eBay has denied any responsibility for the changes to the ticket sales procedure for this year's Glastonbury festival, which organisers have admitted contributed to the poor performance of the event's online ticket sales...
[April 2, 2004, 14:55]
Travelto Florence
Downloads It features street level, enlargeable offline map applied with locate me function, city Information, travel tips from top creditable sources, contributed by experts, travelers and locals, and photos contributed by locals and travelers.
[August 24, 2009, 11:49]
Travelto Edinburgh
Downloads It features a street level, zoom able offline map applied with locate me function, city information, travel tips from top creditable sources, contributed by experts, travelers and locals, and photos contributed by locals and travelers.
[August 25, 2009, 13:30]
Time's up for secret surfing
News The Emeryville, Calif.based company, which launched its free service last year, said the high cost of bandwidth and a lack of ad-related profits contributed to the closure. Several problems contributed to the shutdown, including a bankruptcy filing...
[November 20, 2001, 12:23]
Worm 'did not cause' US blackout
News The 14 August blackout hit three days after the worm started spreading, leading many to speculate that the quickly propagating program caused or contributed to the cascading failures that ultimately darkened New York, Toronto, Detroit and other...
[April 6, 2004, 9:05]
Inside the Linux arcana
Talkback I don't remember whether it was the hearing in December or February, but the lawyer representing SCO stated that Sun and HP were not guilty of violating their license agreements, even though SCO had not compared the Linux code to the source for...
[March 19, 2004, 14:41]
Queen's University to found anti-cybercrime centre
News The funding has been contributed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Technology Strategy Board, who contributed £6.95m and £2.5m respectively. Queen's University Belfast has landed £25m to set up a new centre to combat...
[November 24, 2008, 10:41]
Sony Ericsson issues stark profit warning
News In addition, certain component shortages for popular mid-priced phones have contributed to modest unit sales growth in the first quarter. Sony Ericsson also said that increasing research and development costs had contributed to its revised forecast.
[March 19, 2008, 13:39]
NEC to recall nearly 300 Transmeta-based notebooks
News Rumors of the recall likely contributed to a slide in the company's stock Wednesday. News.com's Ian Fried contributed to this report. NEC will recall close to 300 notebooks containing Transmeta's Crusoe processor because of a manufacturing flaw...
[November 30, 2000, 10:25]
Corel closes the curtain on open source
News Corel also contributed to open-source projects such as Wine, a Windows emulator for Linux, and printing software. CNET News.com's Joe Wilcox contributed to this report. Corel has announced it is officially shutting down its open-source software...
[February 18, 2002, 14:37]
Firefox ad published in Europe
News in large letters across the top, and has more information about Firefox, before listing the names of the 2,403 people who contributed. One problem was that the campaign in the US started earlier, so a lot of people from Germany had already...
[December 3, 2004, 12:40]
SpamAssassin 3.0 adopts Apache licence
News But making the licence change illustrated a difficulty of that broad collaboration: Project leaders had to secure the permission from all programmers who had contributed to SpamAssassin. We hope this will result in the much wider proliferation of...
[September 23, 2004, 8:55]
Distributed computing gets top marks
News But none of those efforts has contributed to publishable scientific results, Pande said. News.com's Stephen Shankland contributed to this report. Scientists at Stanford University have demonstrated tangible proof that scientific experiments can be...
[October 23, 2002, 13:58]
