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RSS gates in newsManchester Airport begins biometric ID trial
News Manchester Airport has begun a six-month trial of biometric face recognition technology that will scan passengers and use automatic gates in an attempt to tighten border security and speed up immigration checks. [20 Aug 2008]
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages Canonical, the company that sponsors the Linux-based operating system Ubuntu, has joined the Linux Foundation. Ubuntu community members had already been participating in... [20 Aug 2008]
Tech spend to top $3.4tr
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages Despite a shaky global economic market, worldwide IT spending will pass the $3.4tr mark this year, up eight per cent from last year, according to analyst Gartner. [19 Aug 2008]
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages The International Organization for Standardization has thrown out four appeals against its ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. [19 Aug 2008]
Linux Foundation releases developer guide
News Photos: Bill Gates through the ages Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments The Linux Foundation has released a guide for developers who wish to contribute Linux code. A guide to the kernel development process aims to encourage participation by new... [18 Aug 2008]
Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge
News As software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose "an interesting software challenge", said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Recounting a short history of software development, Gates said innovations in natural interaction technology are making... [14 Aug 2008]
EDS legal move leaves Oyster contract hanging
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages 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... [14 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages Microsoft has released six critical patches for August's 'Patch Tuesday', including a fix for six vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. [13 Aug 2008]
Social networking: Global phenomenon
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages The latest statistics from ComScore show social networking sites such as Facebook are growing rapidly across the globe, even as that growth slows down in the US where they... [13 Aug 2008]
Does an MBA lead the way to career success?
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages Journalist Philip Delves Broughton ditched his job as the Daily Telegraph's Paris bureau chief to attend Harvard to discover what an MBA from the institution would do for him. [12 Aug 2008]
Europe's art needs cash to land at digital fingertips
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages European Commission plans to put Europe's works of art at the fingertips of web users could be up and running by the end of the year - if EU member states are willing to commit... [12 Aug 2008]
Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Ready for release
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages Microsoft said yesterday it has finished work on SQL Server 2008, the latest version of its database software. The software maker said in a statement it has reached the "release... [07 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's Midori not ready for tasting?
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages Microsoft is pursuing a different type of operating system, which goes by the name of Midori - and it's not the next version of Windows. [06 Aug 2008]
Google ups Search Appliance index
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages Google has expanded the capacity of its Search Appliance and made other improvements to the customised server that lets people search their company's documents. [06 Aug 2008]
Time Warner to split AOL in two?
News Photos: Top 5 Bill Gates moments Photos: Bill Gates through the ages Time Warner has taken a step closer to splitting up AOL's business, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Time Warner is expected to announce this week that it has completed... [05 Aug 2008]
