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Sky Comes Down To Earth For Mobile TV Tests
News We're not conducting a commercial test," Jeff Brown, Qualcomm's director of international business, told ZDNet UK, "but checking the technical feasibility of running the MediaFLO system in the UK. We’re using FFA, form factor accurate, models of...
[May 10, 2006, 10:45]
OOXML Expert: ODF Flaws Remain
News Alex Brown, a major contributor to the progress of the ODF's Microsoft-backed rival, OOXML, within the international standards process, carried out a "smoke test" last week, which he said showed the OpenOffice open-source application suite does...
[May 6, 2008, 17:18]
OOXML Expert: ODF Standard Is Broken
News Even using a mended schema, Brown found in a "smoke test" that OpenOffice still does not produce valid standard documents: "This is to be expected and is a mirror case of what was found for Microsoft Office 2007.
[May 2, 2008, 15:47]
'Smoke Test' Or 'Smoke Screen'?
Talkback If asked to apply his 'smoke test' to ODF 1.0 with the correct variables, Brown's response may tell whether his 'smoke test' was designed for objectivity or as a 'smoke screen'. The issue of ODF adherence to ISO raised by Alex Brown is different in...
[May 6, 2008, 9:39]
IBM Hopes To Eclipse Software Rivals
News The company on Monday released a new version of its integration software, which allows companies to link dissimilar business software to share information; announced plans to ship new content management software that allows businesses to house a...
[June 10, 2002, 14:09]
Will Your PC Keep Pace With Vista?
Talkback Yet another type of test for the harware vendors to get around by having special registers to cache and make that test seem faster. It is like the old "Brown fox jumps over the laxy dog" benchmark tests of the 1990's.
[March 23, 2006, 14:44]
Preparing For And Taking The PMP Certification Exam
White Papers In this on-demand seminar, Global Knowledge subject matter expert, Gloria Brown, discusses PMP Certification Exam requirements and exam preparation and test taking tips. PMP training can be difficult, especially when it comes to knowing the right...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
The Cigarette Papers Online
White Papers The online version provides direct links to the Brown and Williamson documents previously published by the Library and enables full text searching on any word in the text. The publication is an experiment to test the value of publishing the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Microsoft Office 2007 Fails OOXML Conformance Test
News In future, Brown hopes to repeat the test to see if the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, conforms with the ISO version of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) document standard — ISO/IEC 26300.
[April 21, 2008, 8:55]
Using UML To Understand Lojban
White Papers James Cooke Brown began developing in 1955, and development work has continued since then, led by hundreds of workers and supporters. Lojban differs in structure from other languages in major ways and was developed as a test vehicle for scientists...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
AudioTest
Downloads Uniform distribution white noise, pink noise, brown noise, and Gaussian distribution white noise Frequency: fixed, linear sweep, and logarithmic sweep Level: fixed, linear sweep, and logarithmic sweep Phase shift: 180 degrees Sample rates: 11.025k...
[July 11, 2006, 8:16]
HP: Hacking Techniques Help Security
News We use hacking techniques to gain access to the system, but once we have control we make the system safe," said Richard Brown, threat management department manager, HP Labs. We don't unleash a worm — we don't use worm-propagation techniques," Brown...
[July 4, 2006, 17:25]
Olympics Fuels Demand For IT Contractors
News Matthew Brown, managing director of giant group, said in a statement: "Programming skills are required during the design phase of Olympics projects. Software engineers will build computer models and run simulations to stress-test every structural...
[July 26, 2007, 17:19]
Users Find Hole In Their PocketPC Upgrades
News Derek Brown, Microsoft's mobility evangelist for the Mobile Devices Division, said that these two applications may never appear. Microsoft's Brown admitted that the company has not been clear even internally about whether Messenger and TSC would be...
[December 10, 2001, 16:20]
Partners Frustrated By Microsoft Launch Delays
News Improved server security features, reduced costs of operation and the addition of Hyper-V to deliver virtualisation on the server will be the main drivers for Windows Server 2008 adoption," according to Darren Brown, data-centre lead at Avanade UK.
[February 27, 2008, 12:29]
Government Earmarks £1.2bn For E-Borders
News Despite still being in its test phase, e-Borders has so far screened 29 million passengers and issued 13,000 alerts which have resulted in more than 1,000 arrests, according to the Home Office. Speaking to the House of Commons on 25 July, Prime...
[August 3, 2007, 8:37]
Credit Squeeze Hits Tech Contractors
News But Giant Group's managing director, Matthew Brown, expects the number of IT contractors in the sector to bounce back once the financial markets have recovered. The turmoil in the credit market may actually provide opportunities for contractors in...
[November 1, 2007, 8:52]
Mission Impossible System Destroys Itself Rather Than Reveal Secrets
News The machine will work with storage area networks, network-attached storage, Fibre Channel and, according to Decru's marketing director, Kevin Brown, "with just about any file or storage system" and can encrypt data as it is moved in or out of...
[November 15, 2005, 9:00]
OSI Version?
Talkback "In future, Brown hopes to repeat the test to see if the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, conforms with the Open Source Initiative (OSI) version of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) document standard — ISO/IEC 26300.
[April 21, 2008, 19:29]
Google's Gbuy Launch Imminent
News But Derek Brown, an analyst at Pacific Growth Equities, cites other reasons why the data may prove valuable to Google. And that, as a result, may prompt the Internet titan to deliver targeted ads to those users, Brown said.
[June 13, 2006, 16:10]
