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Open Source Project Aims To Map The World
News The OpenStreetMap (OSM) mapping data is collected by volunteers using GPS devices to record their movements as they drive, cycle or walk along all the roads in a particular area. Recent areas that have been mapped by volunteers include the Isle of...
[November 14, 2006, 7:52]
ID Card-based Criminal Record Checks Get Thumbs Up
News The volunteers piloted two potential online services developed by the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) which could be used to authenticate the identities of and information supplied by job applicants.
[October 2, 2007, 8:58]
New Type Of Encryption Cracked
News Cracking it took a formidable combined effort from 195 volunteers in 20 different countries across the globe and took no less the 40 days of solid computation by 740 separate computers. Harley also not only paid tribute to the volunteers involved...
[September 30, 1999, 7:00]
London Olympics To Develop Local Tech Talent
News The Olympic Games IT is delivered by the official technology supplier, Atos Origin, with a team of around 3,500 people — 80 percent of whom are volunteers. Because it is a high-risk environment, the Olympics IT volunteers are usually people with a...
[October 15, 2007, 14:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Take the story that an ad-hoc network of volunteers are busy decoding some old and uncracked Kriegsmarine Enigma messages from U-boats in But that doesn't matter: it's within the capability of enthusiasts to write some client code to attack the...
[March 3, 2006, 17:00]
Mozilla Plans Thank You Surprise As Firefox Growth Continues
News Now, with the unsolicited help of an Adobe Illustrator engineer, the group has surmounted those problems and submitted the ad to the Times for what volunteers expect will be a pre-Christmas run date.
[December 15, 2004, 7:35]
The Hunt For ET Via The Net Begins...
News About 12,000 people have been testing the software, and nearly 400,000 have signed up as volunteers. If even half of the 400,000 volunteers from 96 countries actually download and use the software, that would make SETI@home the world's largest...
[May 14, 1999, 14:35]
UK Computer Museum Faces Closure
News Founded in 2003, the museum relies on donations and the hard work of volunteers to keep intact a collection of some 2,000 computers, including landmark British systems such as the Acorn Electron and the Sinclair Spectrum, and 2,500 software packages.
[April 1, 2008, 13:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Many hospital radio stations have as much, if not more, IT infrastructure than the smaller commercial stations -- and rely on computers to play out specially prepared pre-recorded music and programmes during the 20 hours a day that the volunteers...
[November 5, 2004, 17:03]
UK Scientists Take First Steps Towards Leukaemia Vaccination
News The Anthony Nolan Trust was founded in 1974 as the first Register of volunteers willing to donate bone marrow in circumstances where a match cannot be found within a patient's family. If you want to get involved, the Trust runs various fund raising...
[December 23, 2002, 16:12]
Human Traits Make Robots Likeable
News The group asked volunteers to work with an animated computer character which had the linguistic capabilities of a one-year old child, the report said. The report said the character would in return hum sounds which mimicked the volunteers' speech in...
[May 30, 2003, 9:33]
Removing Comments At Experts-Exchange Part 3
Blog There are greedy experts only interested in scoring points and having the benefit of the cleanup effort of the volunteers, but doing no cleanup effort at all. Obviously the moderators don't respect the freedom of speech and are trying to keep their...
[June 28, 2008, 10:03]
Wanted: Web Geeks With Social Consciences
News The AIR California teams, which are still being assembled from Silicon Valley companies and individual volunteers, will attend a four-hour tutorial on the emerging niche of accessible Web design. The rally, which has already attracted hundreds of...
[August 13, 2002, 8:50]
What Ballmer Really Thinks About Open Source
Blog As seekers after the slippery eel of truth, ask yourself this: is Ballmer deliberately muddying the waters by conflating open source with unpaid volunteers, or does he really believe that to the case?
[January 19, 2007, 9:08]
Exclusive: Bigots Abuse Online Game Sites
News It would not confirm whether any of the volunteers worked on UK servers. It claims to have between five and fifteen Sysops, but admits they are all volunteers. Most companies will not employ a Sysop: they're usually volunteers.
[February 11, 2000, 10:47]
European Net Registrars Boycott ICANN
News Since some root server operators are volunteers, the registries want to ensure the systems continue to operate even if the volunteers decide to give up their positions. ICANN, however, said the stability of root servers can only be achieved through...
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
Firefox Beats Million-download Deadline
News Decrem said the next few days would bring new initiatives that would deploy Spread Firefox volunteers to market Firefox to a broader audience. There, more than 7,500 volunteers have signed up since Tuesday's launch, and more than a million and a...
[September 21, 2004, 8:00]
Bletchley Park
Talkback But it is all being done by volunteers. I recently called to deposit some computers in the museum. It seems the Science Museum dont want to know. The leases for the Museum and "Bletchley Park" are different .
[May 20, 2008, 9:43]
Vienna Red Cross Gives The Green Light For Balanced Scorecard
White Papers With around 700 full-time professional staff and almost as many volunteers, the Vienna Red Cross provides the population of Vienna with a wide range of health and social services. The vehicles operated by the Vienna Red Cross in their emergency and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Landmark Transformation: The GSM Association Reinvents Itself As A Commercially Focused Global Trade Association
White Papers The GSMA’s governance was centered on technology issues, while the work of the GSMA was carried out by working groups of volunteers from the GSMA’s member companies. Furthermore, the GSMA did not have the processes and organization to effectively...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
