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Qualcomm Brews up an SDK for mobile OS
News It is intended to bridge the gap between web and mobile developers by providing a common set of Adobe developer tools, according to Steve Sprigg, senior vice president of engineering for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. [18 Nov 2008]
Bye bye BlackBerry, hello Moto in £1m deal
News Mobile workforce management company Cognito has inked a five-year, £1.16m contract with GSH Group that will see UK field service engineers at the mechanical and electrical engineering services company swap BlackBerrys... [12 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 boosts location based services
News Those issues - and how to handle them - was the subject of a discussion this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC). Windows 7 has a new programming interface designed to make it a whole lot easier... [10 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 aims for netbooks as well as PCs
News Senior vice president, Steven Sinofsky, said in a speech at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC): "A key part of Windows 7 is to enable a full spectrum of choices. Choice was the watchword in the Windows... [06 Nov 2008]
Fat lady sings for iPod head
News Fadell will be replaced by Mark Papermaster, a vice president at IBM, who will join Apple as senior vice president of devices, responsible for the company's iPod and iPhone hardware-engineering teams, Apple said. [05 Nov 2008]
Microsoft: Trojan threat is rising
News The changing landscape of vulnerabilities, with social engineering attacks plaguing PCs means companies should change their strategy for how they protect the corporate network, said Don Retallack, an analyst at... [04 Nov 2008]
Should your tech chief be a jack-of-all-trades?
News Rob Neil, IT director, Ashford Borough Council said: "I've moved from financial IT to engineering organisations, academia, product ordering and fulfilment then to the public sector. Industry experience is considered low... [27 Oct 2008]
Apple: 'Third biggest mobile maker'
News In addition, Apple has to recognise engineering and marketing costs associated with the sale of those iPhones in the quarter in which they occurred, not over the 24-month period. Apple's iPhone business "had become too... [22 Oct 2008]
Virtualisation: At risk from attack
News Ronnie Ng, Symantec's manager for systems engineering in Singapore and Indonesia, agreed with Titterington's assessment. Graham Titterington, principal analyst at Ovum, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet Asia in an email... [20 Oct 2008]
It's official: Windows 7, no longer a codename
News In a May interview, engineering chief Steven Sinofsky said it would use the same driver structure and underpinnings as Vista. For the first time in recent memory, Microsoft has chosen to stick with its codename for a... [14 Oct 2008]
Associated Newspapers' CIO quits
News He joined Associated Newspapers in 2005 from the Financial Times, where he was group IT director, and has been involved in a number of large business process and technology change programmes at the media group ranging from wholesale... [08 Oct 2008]
IBM follows Microsoft into the cloud
News Other services introduced on Monday include Lotus Sametime Unyte, for web conferences and document sharing; Rational Policy Tester OnDemand, which scans web content to deal with compliance issues; Rational AppScan OnDemand, which scans... [06 Oct 2008]
Google unleashes first open source browser
News Google VP of product management Sindar Pichai and engineering director Linus Upson said in a blog post: "We realised that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we... [02 Sep 2008]
Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Ready for release
News Dan Jones, a member of the product's engineering team, said: "We nailed it, and that just feels so good. Microsoft said yesterday it has finished work on SQL Server 2008, the latest version of its database software. [07 Aug 2008]
IBM floats $360m on cloud data centre
News Willy Chiu, a vice president in IBM's high-performance, on-demand solutions division, said: "Cloud computing is fundamentally about re-engineering the world's computing infrastructure, to enable.life-changing applications. [04 Aug 2008]
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