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ID scheme treads the high street for fingerprints
News The only way they could have done that is in an interrogation centre, with some official scrutinising documentation, then walking you over to the scanner to take your prints. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith will invite... [06 Nov 2008]
Financial advisors digitise docs to please FSA
News The scanners will also enable the company to manage documentation centrally through a bespoke system. The decision to digitise the company's paperwork was in part driven by FSA regulation requiring all... [01 Sep 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News He estimated the system is at least an order of magnitude faster than XML, while other Google documentation said Protocol Buffers can be parsed 20 to 100 times faster. Google has open sourced an internal development tool... [11 Jul 2008]
OOXML row continues
News The UKUUG is also folding in many other complaints about Office Open XML, such as unresolved patent issues and a lack of completion in the specification's documentation, and is calling for the High Court of Justice to... [02 May 2008]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News And Microsoft's internal documentation group pretty obviously didn't have time to make it a good document when someone in the political side of Microsoft decided to dump it on Ecma. The developer of XML and a former... [21 Apr 2008]
OOXML standard: ISO calls for end to 'personal attacks'
News Many observers had been against that standardisation, pointing out that the OpenDocument Format (ODF) already existed as an ISO standard, and arguing OOXML's documentation contained too many unanswered technical problems... [15 Apr 2008]
Don't forget to secure your BlackBerry, companies told
News And the good news is the documentation support for that is readily available on our website. Companies are being warned to make sure they correctly configure BlackBerrys - or risk weakening their IT security. [10 Mar 2008]
Microsoft to embrace open-source and says won't sue
News Specifically, Microsoft said it will publish the documentation for the application programming interfaces and communications protocols in its "high-volume products". Microsoft has announced changes in its business... [22 Feb 2008]
Mergers and acquisitions leave IT out in the cold
News More than half (54 per cent) of the CIOs surveyed said poor documentation of systems, a lack of metadata, diverse and uncontrolled data sources and poor data quality were significant problems during a merger. [04 Dec 2007]
Microsoft details Vista search tweaks
News The second, to be posted to Microsoft's developer site, is a documentation of the company's search protocols to allow other software makers to take advantage of the shifts. The software behemoth added: "Throughout this... [13 Sep 2007]
Microsoft to open Canadian development centre
News Gellos said: "It does help us address that challenge we have in the US of hiring very qualified people, many of whom are graduating from schools in the US but who cannot acquire the necessary documentation to work in the... [06 Jul 2007]
NetSuite announces flotation plan
News On-demand CRM and ERP vendor NetSuite has formalised its plans to IPO, filing documentation with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today. The announcement follows two years of speculation during which the... [02 Jul 2007]
Dell surrenders on bloatware stance
News Other mandatory software will include Acrobat Reader so users can view essential system documentation, and Google tools. Dell has relented on the issue of "bloatware" - the often unwanted programs that come pre-installed... [25 Jun 2007]
Linux fans demand more from Dell
News Dell's EMEA director of client marketing, Eric Greffier, said in May that Dell would offer the rest of the world Linux PCs some way behind the US due to driver certification issues and the logistical difficulties posed by translating... [19 Jun 2007]
Gates targeting "the next five billion" PC users
News The $3 price includes the software licence, while back-up discs and documentation will cost extra. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost bundle of Office and Windows, one of... [19 Apr 2007]
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