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Prize delivery
Talkback As for your prize, we send the contact details of winners to the sponsor for them to send it out. Hello Won2winit, I'm sorry that you didn't get a reply to your emails. I'll check what happened there.
[April 21, 2009, 12:21]
Bluetooth pioneers land engineering prize
News They will receive the prize, plus a gold medal for CSR, from Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace on 6 June. Five engineers at a UK wireless chipmaker are sharing £50,000 after scooping one of the UK's biggest prizes for...
[June 3, 2005, 17:10]
£35,000 prize to crack 'PitBull'
News A computer security firm announced Monday a $50,000 (about £35,000) prize to the first person who can crack its system protection package. A prize will be awarded to the first team to solve each task, and the money goes to whoever is first to...
[January 16, 2001, 9:14]
HP recycling prize in the bag
Blog Reuters is reporting that HP has been awarded a green prize by Wal-Mart (hardly the most environmentally friendly of companies but anyway) for packaging a notebook in a recyclable bag rather than the usual four-inch think cardboard.
[September 3, 2008, 9:17]
European ICT prize finalists announced
News The finalists for the European ICT prize have been announced, with each hoping to grab a stake of €700,000 in prize money. Germany spawned the greatest number of finalists with seven companies up for the prize, followed by France with four...
[February 20, 2007, 8:06]
Local authorities battle for £10m e-city prize
News Ideas being considered for the competition include: doctors examining patients remotely through the use of video cameras in the patient's home; children collaborating on homework remotely via the Web; online access to real-time local crime reports...
[April 1, 2005, 16:15]
Prize-winning Response of the Week
News We're going to offer a prize to the best response to a news story we receive each week. Just e-mail us with your comment and name and we''ll do the rest. This week the booty goes to Alan Patil for his comments on Gateway dealing Office 97 upgrades...
[January 10, 1997, 17:15]
Cash prize offered for DIY Wi-Fi kit
News Previous prize winners include the designer of a Wi-Fi clock that retrieves news, weather and email from the web and a "Wi-Aquarium" — a remotely controlled fish tank. Lantronix has launched a competition to find the world's best Wi-Fi-enabled...
[August 7, 2007, 10:16]
Genome pioneer wins inventor prize
News Leroy Hood, a pioneer of the project that mapped out the complete set of human genes, was awarded the $500,000 (about £320,000) Lemelson-MIT Prize on Thursday for inventing "four instruments that have unlocked much of the mystery of human biology".
[April 25, 2003, 7:54]
Stupid Security prize relaunched
Talkback Anyway, I personally welcome this idea of Stupid Security prize, at least it will be a good laugh in this serious security world. In reply to the previous comment "In defense of security professionals", I partly agree with you.
[September 1, 2006, 9:57]
Berners-Lee wins €1m prize
News He is the first recipient of the €1m Millennium Technology Prize awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation, which is the world's largest science prize. The cash and the prize trophy were presented by the president of Finland, Ms Tarja...
[June 21, 2004, 16:10]
Bluetooth pioneers land engineering prize
Talkback I hope the champagne is flowing. A company I had worked for won this award two years ago. Not one penny was spent celebrating with any of the workers (not a single glass). They've since moved their engineering to India.
[June 3, 2005, 19:44]
Stupid Security prize relaunched
Talkback I am with 99% of readers who don't know what egregious means.
[August 25, 2006, 11:35]
EMC woos Eclipse developers with cash prize
News EMC announced the integration of Eclipse development tools in Documentum — the first major upgrade since 2002 — and is offering a $100,000 (£49,289) prize for the best application. The storage vendor is promising a more open development platform...
[July 31, 2007, 8:19]
Tech visionary gets inventor prize
News In short order, the peripatetic inventor learned he was $500,000 richer, the recipient of the Lemelson-MIT prize. The prize, which was presented to Kurzweil on Wednesday in Washington DC, recognises his 35-year track record inventing technologies...
[April 26, 2001, 8:53]
Maths prize could revolutionise encryption
News A £3.6m mathematics competition announced Wednesday could spark a revolution in computer security and online privacy experts believe. The competition is sponsored by the Clay Mathematics Institute in the US and was revealed at the Millennium...
[May 26, 2000, 12:31]
Stupid Security prize relaunched
Talkback In defense of security professionals Some security measures may seem stupid to the public or to those who don't understand security. However to someone who eats, sleeps and breathes security there are reasons that just everyone may not understand...
[August 25, 2006, 15:04]
Oxford University Press wins oldest HP-UX prize
News As recognition of its support for HP-UX, HP has awarded OUP a prize of an entry-class Integrity server, a licence for HP-UX 11i v3, installation and a three-year "Support plus 24" care pack from HP. The longest-running HP-UX server in the UK has...
[September 19, 2007, 15:48]
Lindows offers prize money for Linux apps
News The company plans to give a "Clicky" award and, more importantly, prize money, to the top three applications in six categories: audio/MP3, business/finance, games, home/education, Internet, and multimedia/design.
[July 12, 2002, 10:28]
Programmers should prize security over creativity - report
News Certification for programmers, better education and even new laws are needed to improve software security, stated a report published on Thursday by a coalition of corporate security experts, academic researchers and government agencies.
[April 2, 2004, 8:35]
