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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up You've thrown them into an alien world and worse, they know they're being experimented on," warns one of the experts quoted, which makes remote working sound like an episode of the X-Files. Coughing and spluttering. [20 Nov 2009]
Does your business really need an office?
Comment He told me to expect some dissent: "You've thrown them into an alien world and worse, they know they're being experimented on. In this age of mobile working, should businesses consider ditching their offices? [17 Nov 2009]
Pharmaceutical Shifts Towards UHF RFID for Savings
White Paper The pharmaceutical industry in the United States dispensed more than $260 billion worth of prescription medications in 2008, and in the global marketplace the total is more than twice that amount. Distributing regulated pharmaceuticals... [12 Nov 2009]
Cancer, climate change or malaria: Donate your unused power to research
News The non-profit is a gateway to grid computing projects including Seti, the alien intelligence search project, and LHC@home, the grid-computing project to process data from the Large Hadron Collider. Chip company Intel... [05 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up There's a bit in the original Transformers movie (the Round-Up accidentally saw half of it recently on a plane before the gin and tonics kicked in) where some kind of space-alien doohickey is used to turn everyday... [03 Jul 2009]
Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
Photo Want to travel back in time to the Big Bang, unlock the secrets of the human genome or discover alien worlds? The hunt for alien planets is not just taking place at the far reaches of our galaxy but... [18 May 2009]
Photos: The power behind a 3D alien invasion
Photo Monsters and aliens will be leaping out of movie screens across the UK this weekend - courtesy of some serious processing power. Dreamworks Animation SKG 3D flick Monsters vs Aliens tapped into the power of HP workstations and servers to... [31 Mar 2009]
Alien hunting, Windows through the ages and Christmas gifts
Photo With Christmas just around the corner, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the hordes of people watching the horizon for signs of an otherworldly being are in fact watching for the arrival of Santa. Not so - it's aliens. [22 Dec 2008]
"We'll find ET within two dozen years," says Seti
News A senior Seti astronomer believes advances in computing power could enable the organisation to find extraterrestrial life as early as 2025. Speaking at an event held at Yahoo! s Brickhouse in San Francisco, Seth Shostak predicted: "We'll... [12 Nov 2008]
No pink slips in Bangalore - yet
Comment Although not entirely unknown, pink slips are still alien to India's culture where white-collar jobs are expected to come with a lifetime guarantee. But, says Saritha Rai, so far that's just not the case. [28 Oct 2008]
Naked CIO: Virtual worlds will disappear
Comment The reason is the same as with every other promising collaborative technology: technophobes (many of whom lurk in boardrooms) will never adopt this alien technology. Though intrigued by virtual worlds and social... [21 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment I can also remember listening to Dan Dare and Quatermass on the radio, followed by the first news reports of UFOs and alien abductions. Conceived in a traffic jam on Interstate 80, written the next day in a coffee shop... [28 Aug 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time to declare war on the business
Comment Or is it the rest of the business that has defined the IT organisation as something alien? Words that, should they appear in a reporter's copy, will result in that unlucky scribe taking responsibility for making tea for... [07 Aug 2008]
The Pure and Simple Logic of Building Extraordinary Tables
White Paper But one doesn't have to be a great philosopher, mathematician, or fictional alien to make this little marvel work for the user! Newton, D'Alembert, Kant, Einstein, Mr. Spock&any great logician would be awed by the... [16 Apr 2008]
Alien Crosstalk: Measuring in the Field Is Important - How Is It Done Today?
White Paper In this paper, the author provides the latest information on alien crosstalk field measurements and to begin to frame the discussion on why it is important, when one should consider alien crosstalk field... [12 Mar 2008]
