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News The Ribbit platform will allow these developers to design, test, deploy, and manage voice and communication features used on the web or within other applications. Ted Griggs, CEO of Ribbit, said in a statement: "Our... [18 Nov 2008]
Qualcomm Brews up an SDK for mobile OS
News The new SDK is designed to help developers design applications, widgets and custom user interfaces, Qualcomm said. Qualcomm on Monday introduced its software developer kit for its Brew Mobile Platform, a mobile-phone... [18 Nov 2008]
VMware gets into mobile virtualisation game
News The chipset design firm ARM is involved in the project, with ARM's vice president of marketing and processors, Eric Schorn, pointing to a "rapid and growing demand for virtualisation technologies from both the designers... [11 Nov 2008]
Betfair spins into financial trading
News We've got effectively a zero contention design. Phillips added: "We've chosen best of breed technologies - all the latest things and we're also looking a bit beyond that to 10GB Ethernet and to the use of iSCUSI instead... [10 Nov 2008]
The 10 projects at the heart of NHS IT
News The ones where there is bad political interference, where there is no user input into design or are doing things that users do not want, those are the ones that predictably fail," Cundy told silicon.com. [10 Nov 2008]
Teenagers told IT is a "dream job"
News The site hopes to improve teenagers' perception of the IT industry on the site by testimonials from project managers, designers and engineers living the dream at sites such as MySpace and creative design agency Milo. [07 Nov 2008]
400 million QR codes coming to Pepsi packs
News Harrods also deployed QR codes earlier this year to promote the shop's Design Icons exhibition. Thirsty UK consumers will be able to access games and other entertainment from their mobiles as Pepsi introduces QR codes to... [06 Nov 2008]
Android security hole gets patched up
News The researchers - Charlie Miller, Mark Daniel and Jake Honoroff of Independent Security Evaluators - called the Android web browser flaw serious, but Google said its severity was mitigated by Android's design, which... [03 Nov 2008]
IBM chip guru agrees to join Apple
News As an extremely well-respected figure in the world of chip design, Papermaster might also be stepping in to lead Apple's chip design efforts. Apple's acquisition of PA Semi earlier this year showed the... [31 Oct 2008]
Keyboard-free PCs and telepathic laptops? Intel, Asus open to ideas
News The site divides its focus into three "conversation groups", in which consumers work together to design netbooks, laptops and gaming laptops. Intel and Asus have launched WePC.com, a website that solicits ideas from... [30 Oct 2008]
Microsoft's cloud has an Azure tinge
News Amazon "established a base-level design pattern, architecture models, and business models that we'll all learn from", he said. Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the internet from inside... [28 Oct 2008]
Yahoo! breaks down its 'garden walls' and lets developers in
News s attempt to replace its present static design with one that's customisable, application-rich, socially connected, and woven into other parts of the internet. Yahoo! has already launched its new profiles site. [27 Oct 2008]
No e-voting for 2009 elections, pledges gov't
News Officially accredited election observers the Open Rights Group, who attended the May 2007 pilot, said in a report: "Inadequate attention was given to system design, systems access and audit trails. As the US gets ready... [24 Oct 2008]
Intel red-faced as admits own chip isn't up to the iPhone challenge
News But in a posting to Intel's Chip Shots blog Thursday afternoon, Anand Chandrasekher, the head of Intel's low-power efforts, admitted Intel's current low-power x86 processors don't even come close to matching the power consumption numbers... [24 Oct 2008]
Queen Mary Uni ditches Excel, makes student plans with IBM
News The implementation has completed its design phase and Burt expects the software to be tested and live by April 2009, so the university can use it to plan for the next influx of students the following autumn. [16 Oct 2008]
