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First 'smiley' found
News A Microsoft researcher has rediscovered what is believed to be the first known instance of a "smiley", the combination of characters used to signify a smile in email and bulletin board communications.
[September 13, 2002, 11:31]
Security firm gets rid of passwords
News The Cambridge security firm, Signify, which launches this week claims that only employing passwords to protect a computer network and individual terminals leaves a company vulnerable to computer criminals.
[October 18, 2000, 13:59]
EU patent decision postponed
Talkback The 'e' in MEP does not signify the same as a prefix i.e.eHome, eMac, E-Services. I don't think that MEP's will take E-mails too seriously, therfore writing a good old fashioned letter is best. How many can be bothered I don't 'know, it not like a...
[December 8, 2004, 19:05]
Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent
Talkback Well back in 1968 I did create a 'Smiley Face' badge, (I think my wife still has hers, carbon dating etc.to signify membership of a very small but passionate group called. Live Life to the Full'. Chris Dunne
[March 8, 2006, 18:03]
Web 2.0: what is it good for?
Blog The phrase "Web 2.0" doesn’t signify a significant leap in internet technologies; it’s just a tag used to describe websites where the content you read has been put their by website visitors and users, rather than website owners and publishers.
[July 18, 2008, 13:43]
ComActivity Enables Your Service Oriented Architecture
White Papers The effect will be huge as SOA signify the biggest change in enterprise computing since client/server arrived soon years ago. The business benefits to be gained by implementing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) are significant and proven.
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
Terminal 5 key to BA's tech-savvy future
News Paul Coby, chief information officer of British Airways, is confident that the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 will signify the coming of age of BA and the completion of its transformation from a company that has been accused in the past of playing...
[September 21, 2006, 16:35]
Gmail moves to next stage
News Google is giving more people the chance to sign up for Gmail, but insists the move does not signify an impending full-scale launch of the free email service, which has been in beta since it launched on April 1 last year.
[February 18, 2005, 13:00]
Microsoft: Windows 7 for servers to be minor release
News The move is surprising, given that in the past, Microsoft has used R2 monikers to signify a product with a few new features, as opposed to major changes to a product. Microsoft said on Monday that the server version of Windows 7 will not be a major...
[August 19, 2008, 8:47]
Intel at the margins
Leader As those lost margins signify, the days of rich pickings have gone and may not return. Intel's latest quarterly results show an alert company reacting to seismic change. It has decimated payroll: profits, accordingly, are up.
[July 19, 2007, 16:50]
Britney Spears wins 2000 search terms battle
News Search terms have come to signify the hottest people, places and things in pop culture. After leading the weekly and monthly charts of various Internet search engine lists all year, teen singing sensation Britney Spears ended 2000 as the most...
[January 4, 2001, 8:54]
Programmer turns Gmail into blogging tool
News Gallina uses Gmail messages as blog entries, and the email service's message star to signify the publish status. A Mexican programmer has figured out how to turn Google's Gmail service into a blog. Jonathan Hernandez posted a demo of his software...
[September 7, 2004, 15:05]
RE: Apple applies for handset-related patents
Talkback Sorry to pee on your bonfire but if you bothered to read the actual patent the camera is drawn in dotted lines "to signify that it is actually on the back of the unit" "Aside from the motion-detecting technology, the schematic drawings also show...
[April 17, 2009, 19:52]
well done IBM, well done Eclipse ... & to clarify
Talkback OK, this is not new, and IBM are far from leading the field in these endeavours, but it does signify that the bandwagon is being recognised as worthy of significant attention to the industry globally, as well as increasing the scope and scale of...
[May 12, 2007, 13:06]
Tarantella moves closer to Windows
News This will allow for faster, seamless integration with Windows systems, and could signify an impending launch of a Windows version of the software, which is currently only available on Unix and Linux operating systems.
[February 5, 2002, 15:46]
Data compression solution or impossible dream?
News If true, it would signify a huge leap forward in computer science, comparable to the invention of a water-powered engine for automakers or cold fusion for power companies. In a tiny office in West Palm Beach, Florida, a handful of clunky computers...
[February 19, 2002, 15:33]
The evolution of emoticons
News In a post to a university discussion group in September 1982, Fahlman proposed the crucial insight of using a colon-dash-parenthesis [:-)], viewed horizontally, to signify humour. William Shakespeare and Mark Twain may never have needed emoticons...
[March 12, 2004, 12:35]
Quotes of the Week, August 19-23
News It does not signify any scaling back. "It's a tad expensive, isn't it? AST's Steve Crawley on Compaq's TFT screen system. He put it in lots of newsgroups, suggesting it was a sexy program, so many users who got the virus were embarrassed and didn't...
[August 23, 1996, 14:59]
Notepad++!! Rocks!!
Blog In the latest incarnation, there is a faint yellow marker that signifies which lines have changed since the last save, and faint green lines to signify the previous changes since the document was opened.
[July 23, 2009, 10:27]
BT keeps riding the new wave
News However, Cansfield said that the "real story" of BT's financial future revolves around changes to be introduced by the end of the month that "will signify how BT is moving from the old world to the new".
[November 9, 2006, 12:08]
