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RSS limboLegal move leaves Oyster contract in limbo
News Cubic, a member of the TranSys consortium that runs London's Oyster smartcard public transport system, has been legally restrained by EDS, the other major member of the consortium, from taking over the running of the entire Oyster system. [14 Aug 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News The statement read: "UKUUG is disappointed that J Lloyd Jones appears to have overlooked UKUUG, stating that South Africa [and other countries] appealing had put OOXML into limbo. A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can... [23 Jun 2008]
Limbo: A Tuple Space Based Platform for Adaptive Mobile Applications
White Paper This paper argues that these paradigms are not well suited to operation in a mobile environment and instead propose a new platform called Limbo based on the tuple space communications paradigm. The design of Limbo is presented together with details... [03 Sep 2007]
Multimillion pound MOT computer system breaks down
News A multimillion pound IT system that computerised the UK's MOT testing programme suffered technical problems this week. The cause of the incident isn't yet known but it left some garage owners virtually unable to work. [28 Apr 2006]
Virtual red light district still in limbo
News The fate of the highly controversial dot-xxx internet domain will not be decided until "a future date", a representative of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (Icann), which oversees domain names, said on Friday. [19 Sep 2005]
Dixons IT outsourcing deal collapses
UK electronics retailer Dixons has pulled out of a plan to outsource its UK IT operations to India, creating chaos for hundreds of IT staff. Negotiations with LogicaCMA are believed to have collapsed last week after senior Dixons management found... [21 Jul 2005]
iTunes 'cybersquatting' row threatens Nominet authority
News The DTI's response has thrown Cohen's legal challenge into limbo. The authority of the UK's domain name registrar has been called into question after the owner of the domain name iTunes.co.uk investigated what rights the registrar had to make him... [27 May 2005]
Government IT stuck in post-election limbo
Whitehall is now busy adjusting itself to the post-election reshuffle, which promises to offer new leadership for public sector IT programmes. Ministerial responsibility for key areas such as the eGovernment Unit, the NHS IT programme, local e... [09 May 2005]
Minority Report: Tempting the 'iPod to Mac' switchers
Comment The operating system has come a long way since the public beta was released in late 2000, when early adopters endured a dual-boot limbo due to a distinct lack of third-party apps written for the new OS. [06 May 2005]
Offshore data protection law flounders
News Indian government promises of tighter laws to boost data privacy and intellectual property protection for western companies that have outsourced IT and call centre operations to the country are still in limbo - some seven years after first being... [03 May 2005]
Departure lounge limbo costing businesses dear
News Waiting in departure lounges for planes is not only a pain - it could be costing British business around £600m every year. Around 35 per cent of business travellers spend three to four hours every month waiting for flights and BT - which serves... [30 Mar 2005]
Dell, Microsoft tops at winning customer loyalty
News Among the vendors Walker ranked in its 'loyalty limbo and laggards' grouping were some big-name providers, including 3Com, Apple Computer, Computer Associates, EDS, Intel, McAfee, Nortel Networks, Novell, PeopleSoft, Symantec and Sun Microsystems. [20 Sep 2004]
A Descent into Limbo
White Paper Limbo is a new programming language, designed by Sean Dorward, Phil Winterbottom, and Rob Pike. Limbo borrows from, among other things, C (expression syntax and control flow), Pascal (declarations), Winterbottom's Alef (abstract data types and... [25 Feb 2004]
The Limbo Programming Language
White Paper Limbo is a programming language intended for applications running distributed systems on small computers. In its initial implementation for the Inferno operating system, object programs generated by the Limbo compiler run using an interpreter for a... [25 Feb 2004]
Program Development Under Inferno
White Paper Inferno provides a set of programs that, used in combination, provide a powerful development environment in which to write Limbo programs.limbo is the compiler for the Limbo language; there are versions that run inside and outside the Inferno... [25 Feb 2004]
