events in news
RSS events in newsOlympics a non-starter for office workers
News With China seven hours ahead, many of the most prestigious events will take place during British working hours. In a separate survey, conducted by Monster, UK workers proved to be less enthusiastic to follow events in the office than other nations. [08 Aug 2008]
Met Office gets £33m supercomputer
News John Hirst, Met Office CEO, said in a statement: "In a world where the effect of extreme weather events is becoming more severe and the potential impact of global warming is becoming ever more apparent, the Met Office plays an increasingly vital... [04 Aug 2008]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News A Microsoft spokesman disputed Bostock's version of events, saying: "Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the vote... [04 Aug 2008]
First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News Several IT employers, including British Airways, BT, Ford, Fujitsu, IBM and Unilever actively support the degree - by providing input such as lectures, short courses or work placements, or attending networking events with students. [24 Jul 2008]
MySpace gets on board OpenID
News MySpace also added two new sites, movies community site Flixster and events tracking site Eventful, that will support the ability to transfer user information from their MySpace profiles. News Corp's MySpace social network will join the OpenID... [23 Jul 2008]
Mobile payments to hit $300bn by 2013
News According to the report - entitled Mobile Payment Markets: Digital & Physical Goods 2008 - 2013 - the ticketing segment will represent more than 40 per cent of the global transaction value by 2013, and will be driven by consumer usage on rail, air... [01 Jul 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News Events were a result of "an unfortunate catalogue of interlocking factors" and not malice, disregard for policy or procedure. The IPCC was looking into events leading up to the loss of data and considering whether any criminal conduct or... [26 Jun 2008]
RFID could disrupt medical devices, say researchers
News The Dutch scientists looked at both active (i.e.info transmitting) and passive (i.e.requiring a reader device) RFID systems and found 34 'incidents' were triggered out of 123 EMI tests - of which 22 were classed as hazardous, two as significant... [25 Jun 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News HMRC data blunder: Timeline of events Two government departments face enforcement action from the UK data protection watchdog for between them losing more than 25 million people's details. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is taking... [25 Jun 2008]
University ramps up network bandwidth for e-learning
News Lectures, live events and additional video and audio learning content can also be streamed over the network. City University in London has upgraded its data network to support high bandwidth e-learning technologies such as video podcasts of lectures. [23 Jun 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News All this year, the University of Manchester will be hosting a series of events to celebrate the birthday of Baby and the work of its inventors, Tom Kilburn and Freddie Williams. On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first... [20 Jun 2008]
Forecasting tech blows away stormy weather
News Sir Michael Pitt's interim report into the summer floods called for feasibility studies into these types of forecasting models to improve the UK's ability to anticipate such events. Paul Davies, Met Office extreme rainfall service manager, said in... [13 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Roadrunner's processing speed of one quadrillion calculations per second enables real-time simulations of events, said Divari. Divari said: "PS3s calculate the results of events in real time, for example, car collisions create dents. [11 Jun 2008]
Stock Exchange offers low latency feeds
News The Performance Channels service gives member firms using algorithmic trading models greater visibility of the spikes and events that occur during periods of high trading activity. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has agreed a deal for connectivity... [10 Jun 2008]
Ofcom: Digital dividend up for grabs to highest bidder
News According to the regulator, further proposals will soon appear to deal with issues such as local TV spectrum, and the "white space" spectrum that is needed for wireless microphones and other events-related usage. [09 Jun 2008]
