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News Slow to pick up on some things, the dictionary is not immune to faddishness, publishing a two-page appendix of text message abbreviations, which will surely seem as dated in ten years time as Sanskrit or cave paintings. [12 Jul 2001]
It's the sonnet wot won it: SMS poets announced
News The top prize was scooped by Hetty Hughes, with a brief lament describing the damage her text messaging habit was doing to her language skills.silicon.com's choice only came third, a moving meditation on mistaken identity from Charlotte Fortune... [04 May 2001]
Hackers expose flaw in aging IBM ecommerce software
News The security flaw affects code that was written using the IBM script language, Net.Data. During tests with the hacker software which was published on the internet, the administrator passwords for a handful of internet shops were able to be changed... [12 Mar 2001]
The silicon.com Yearly Round-Up
Comment This one won it (I don't understand all of it, which is why I want a phone to practice on and learn this new language).txtin iz messin, mi headn'me englis, try2rite essays, they all come out txtis.gran not plsed w/letters shes getn, swears... [14 Feb 2001]
XML: Cultural problems holding back a killer technology?
Comment Last year XML - eXtensible Mark-up Language - entered the technology mainstream. Guy Gurden, VP at investment bank JP Morgan, chairs a working group designed to progress fpML (Financial Products Mark-up Language) for the derivatives trading market. [05 Jan 2001]
The silicon.com Christmas Nativity Part I
Comment Our early work on IP protocols and the mark-up language known as hyper-text will not be wasted. An infant lies in a manger, surrounded by assorted animals and some straw. His mum and dad look on in awe. [18 Dec 2000]
WAP phones 'open to viruses'
News Hypponen added: "Once the functionality in WAP phones increases with updated protocols, such as WAP 1.2, the wireless mark up language scripts can be attacked easily. Security experts fear the recent Timofonica virus, which sent SMS text message... [12 Jun 2000]
CA brings missing children database to UK
News Previously, they relied on text-only descriptions, often in only one language. The first international database of missing children has finally been extended to the UK with the launch of missingkids.co.uk. [14 Mar 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Java skills in demand, Corel's future with Inprise, and how to make the Web more relevant
Comment It's official: according to a survey by Bloor Research of over 40,000 job adverts in January, Java has taken the top slot in development language skills, with 36.8 per cent of all programming job adverts in our sample now specifying the language. [14 Feb 2000]
Text book learning: Can teachers cope with the IT burden?
Comment The fund's critics use stronger language. Forget borrowed laptops - teachers in the UK now have access to a £230m fund which should make sure they know how to use them, and are proficient enough to pass that knowledge on to their pupils. [29 Apr 1999]
Vodafone offers secret love messages
News The UK mobile communications company has also identified a new language amongst users of the service: R U 3 2 NITE, WAN2 C U L8R and WOT U DOIN L8R are examples of the language used to keep messages concise. [04 Feb 1999]
Lucent and Unisys encourage developers to get talkative
News Unisys will contribute its Natural Language Speech Assistant (NLSA) Speech Assistant Toolkit. The two companies will sell a combined package to speech application developers, which includes Lucent's text-to-speech (TTS) and automatic speech... [01 Dec 1998]
Bookshop picks up IT award for service to deaf customers
News The system allows users to telephone the bookshop and order products by sign language. The Forest Bookshop, located in the Forest of Dean, won the Compaq Effective IT Award after making its catalogue available over the Web and making it easier for... [27 Nov 1998]
Japanese developers launch e-translator
News Developers at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Tokyo are developing a system to enable Internet users from all 185 UN member countries to converse with each other in their native language on the Web. [25 Nov 1998]
Uni-verse breaks language barriers with translation software
News The company claims multilingual conversations over a text-based Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server are routed via the Windows-based software and translated into the chosen language in a fraction of a second. [20 Nov 1998]
