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RSS concept in newsGoogle's lobby site ups US "white space" debate
News The debate is coming to a head as the FCC finishes field tests of proof-of-concept devices used to detect and avoid spectrum already in use. On the other side, Google and the technology community say these are simply proof of concept devices and... [19 Aug 2008]
Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge
News Touching briefly on cloud computing - a concept Microsoft prefers to call "software plus services" - Gates said it will lead to service providers coming to market with "lots of [computing] capacity and storage, and at low cost". [14 Aug 2008]
Semantic web breaking out of the lab
News Semantic web - a concept championed by 'father of the web' Tim Berners-Lee - is the development of a world wide web where the context of information and services is defined to make web content more searchable and useful. [11 Aug 2008]
Techies swap BlackBerrys for the beach
News That's excluding the five per cent of stressed out and overworked tech workers for who the whole idea of a holiday was a foreign concept. silicon.com readers say they will have no problem putting down their BlackBerrys and getting on with the... [25 Jul 2008]
UK officials going snoop crazy
News But a separate report by the chief surveillance commissioner, Sir Christopher Rose, criticises techniques used by local authorities for misunderstanding the concept of proportionality. Officials made more than 500,000 requests to snoop on private... [23 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News Speaking at the same event, independent telecoms consultant Ewan Sutherland said the concept of a megabyte was "meaningless" to users in any case, because data overheads would mean that even those who are aware of such technical terms would be... [22 Jul 2008]
Mobile Ubuntu invites developers to build
News A mobile internet device (MID) - a concept Intel is aggressively promoting - is a mobile device that is larger and more like a normal computer than, for example, an Apple iPhone, but smaller than an ultra-portable PC. [26 Jun 2008]
Ultra fat pipes to squeeze through Dundee's sewers
News Dundee has been selected as the first Scottish 'Fibrecity' - meaning 100Mbps-plus broadband connectivity will be speeding out of fibre-optic-stuffed sewers and into every home, business and organisation in the city as soon as next year. [18 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Roadrunner is built on the same concept. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second - twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, Blue Gene. [11 Jun 2008]
Credit crunch not hitting IT spend
News However, according to Gartner, the concept of bringing outsourced services back in-house is one that goes in and out of favour. The IT services market is set to shrug off any talk of recession, Gartner will tell a conference next month. [21 May 2008]
National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year
News A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said: "A proof-of-concept model is being developed and will be tested from the summer, for six months, with aim to identify what information is not being compared currently and join up information that... [28 Apr 2008]
Intel registers second-gen Classmate
News The new design is based around Intel's Netbook concept of $250-$350 wireless laptops, added Ibrahim, with the company being committed to further developments. Intel has launched its second-generation Classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in... [04 Apr 2008]
IBM's latest Lotus targets mobile mash-ups
News What is crucial now is that the concept-to-delivery stage is completed in a robust and reliable way if this type of software development is to graduate from comparatively simple social networking to full-blown usage in business. [26 Mar 2008]
Mobile working goes mainstream
News It's not any more a matter of testing or trying mobile technologies - it's not any more appropriate to deploy islands of mobility mostly as proof of concept that this technology may be beneficial to an organisation. [25 Mar 2008]
UK businesses testing the water with SOA
News The remainder are either at a proof of concept stage or are merely planning projects. Almost half of UK businesses are looking at implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) technology as they develop their IT infrastructure. [20 Mar 2008]
