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RSS forms in newsGoogle digs deep for geothermal energy
News Google is investing $10m in "enhanced" geothermal systems - essentially technology for tapping underground heat - which it says is one of most promising forms of renewable energy. Through its philanthropic arm Google.org, the internet giant will... [20 Aug 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The study found the market is led by MySQL - bought by Sun in February for $1bn, more than the total size of the market - with other popular choices including Ingres, Oracle-owned BerkeleyDB, PostgreSQL, which forms the basis for commercial... [24 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster. The tool, which has been in use for several years at... [11 Jul 2008]
Super scanners at UK airports
News A spokeswoman for BAA said: "An enhancement of security areas forms part of BAA's £6.2bn capital investment programme over the next five years. High tech security scanners that can slash queues are now in place at the UK's seven major airports. [09 Jul 2008]
Get a Lively life, with Google avatars
News Integration with the internet takes several forms. Google has unveiled an online 3D social arena called Lively, the internet giant's take on Second Life. Second Life requires users to download and install a separate "client" software package that... [09 Jul 2008]
IBM puts money on solar power
News Guha said the goal of the partnership was to create a process for making the cells cheaply enough that they reach "grid parity", the level in which solar power is competitive with traditional forms of electricity generation. [16 Jun 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News NPIA CIO Richard Earland said in a statement: "Lantern forms part of a wider programme to help reduce bureaucracy in the police service and increase visibility of police officers to the public. Click on the links below to find out everything you'll... [11 Jun 2008]
Bradford & Bingley gets Oracle HR system
News The [need for] completion of paper-based forms that need to be found, completed and despatched to HR each time is eradicated. Mortgage and savings specialist Bradford & Bingley has implemented an Oracle staff management system to streamline HR... [20 May 2008]
Multiple network access becoming mobile norm
News The analyst points to an impressive array of radio access techs already in play - from cellular in its various forms, to 3G and HSPA data networks, to video broadcast techs such as DVB-H, to short-range connectivity techs such as Bluetooth, along... [02 May 2008]
Google bots are crawling in a new way
News In a blog post last week, Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy of Google's crawling and indexing team said the company has begun an experiment in which its indexing software experimentally enters text in website forms to see what previously... [16 Apr 2008]
Open source to go mainstream, says Gartner
News According to the Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, "by 2012, more than 90 per cent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms". In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner... [07 Apr 2008]
UK Plc calls for national police e-crime force
News He said: "The government must invest more money in education in order to help the public protect themselves against high tech criminals and crucially, bring back a well resourced, highly skilled centralised unit for the investigation of all forms... [14 Mar 2008]
Tech to cut red tape and leave police to police
News Scrap lengthy forms used to record stop and account - police will instead use Airwave police radio to record encounters. A shake-up of UK law enforcement promises to use technology to deal out more swift and efficient justice. [08 Feb 2008]
Nokia to buy Trolltech and keep it on the Qt
News Qt forms the basis of many well-known desktop applications, such as Google Earth, Opera and Skype. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… A is for Antivirus B is for Bluetooth [28 Jan 2008]
Top 10 financial services stories of the year
News The thing about cash is that it changes hands instantly, while other forms of payment can take a bit longer. As the year draws to a close, the UK's financial organisations are struggling to fend off economic downturn. [17 Dec 2007]
