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RSS context in newsSemantic 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]
'Cool' new rival set to challenge Google?
News The would-be Google rival says its service goes beyond prevailing search techniques that focus on web links and audience traffic patterns and instead analyses the context of each page and the concepts behind each user search request. [28 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News It shouldn't be about museums of computers, it should be about understanding systems and computing in a social and business historical context. IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing heritage... [15 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News It's in some respects an old idea in a new context. The study of web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to lay the foundations for the future development of the world wide web. The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) is being... [14 Jul 2008]
EC pledges open standards support
News If voting in the standard-setting context is influenced less by the technical merits of the technology but rather by side agreements, inducements, package deals, reciprocal agreements, or commercial pressure.then these risk falling foul of the... [12 Jun 2008]
Cisco revamps mobility strategy
News The Context-Aware Software service relays location or environmental information to the engine, ranging from temperature in manufacturing environments to motion and pressure. The 3350 MSE will begin shipping in June - at the same time as the Context... [29 May 2008]
Smart phone battle: Qwerty vs touchscreen
News The touchscreen in this context represents the future, as it is linked to interacting with information in new ways. That view is backed by IT chiefs who say that, particularly for business users, the Qwerty keyboard on a smart phone or PDA is... [22 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News In the context of the education system, this can result in higher prices and a range of other unsatisfactory effects which have a negative impact on wider policy initiatives, including improving educational outcomes, facilitating home-school links... [14 May 2008]
Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'
News The company claimed many applications perform harmless actions that, in a security context, can appear to be malicious. David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft, was the group program manager in charge of designing User Account Control (UAC... [14 Apr 2008]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News Ertugrul said: "We're delighted to have a dialogue with FIPR but it has to be in the context of how today's online world actually works and how to improve it for the future. The company behind an ISP-based web advertising user-tracking system has... [11 Apr 2008]
Mozilla chief slams Apple's Safari-iTunes move
News Walls said the move by Apple to provide a semi-automated download of Safari as an add-on to a separate upgrade should be assessed with this in mind, as well as the ongoing context of proprietary-based PC computing. [25 Mar 2008]
Linux, Leopard and Vista: The ultimate hack contest
News The contest is being run by the organisers of the CanSecWest security conference as a repeat of 2007's PWN to Own context, where security researchers competed to win a MacBook Pro and $10,000. Security from A to Z [08 Feb 2008]
Microsoft bids $44.6bn for Yahoo!
News confirmed it has received an "unsolicited proposal from Microsoft to acquire the company" and its board of directors will "evaluate this proposal carefully in the context of Yahoo! Microsoft has tabled a $44.6bn bid for web giant Yahoo! [01 Feb 2008]
Virtual tech will 'kill the office'
News In an enterprise context, says Edholm, this would mean 'application transparency' - or "that all of a sudden, regardless of where I am, I can have the same applications whether I'm in a nomadic location or not". [31 Jan 2008]
Vodafone explores femtocell potential?
News Parkin-White added: "If there is a time to take a serious look at femtocells in the context of an overall evolving 3G architecture, that time is now. Vodafone is testing femtocell technology, which involves mini base stations being installed in... [28 Jan 2008]
