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News Mobile operators' growing investment in high speed 3.5G networks has laid the foundation for internet on the go - meaning that increasingly, what could be a frustratingly slow business, can now be fast enough to be useful. [04 Mar 2008]
Phone theft victims doubt crime-busting plan
News The bricks are in place and the foundation is laid. The government and the mobile phone operators today announced a commitment to help cut mobile phone street thefts which have contributed to an eight per cent rise in UK robbery. [28 Jul 2006]
UK police collar "violent jihad" website operator
News The name "Azzam" - which appears in the websites' domain names - apparently refers to Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, who died in 1989 and is widely considered to have laid the foundation for the militant Islamic fundamentalist movement with which Osama bin... [21 Jul 2006]
Heathrow's high-tech Terminal 5 prepares for take off
News But such a spot serves as the foundation for Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5 (T5). So far, along with building the bulk of the 400m-long main terminal (T5A), 7,000 on-site staff have diverted two rivers, bored 13.5km of tunnels and laid four... [20 Feb 2006]
UK online music hobbled by high prices
News The incompatibility war between Windows stores and devices and Apple's iPod and iTunes has attracted criticism from several quarters, including a report from digital campaign group the Electronic Frontier Foundation. [29 Sep 2005]
Gates shows off Windows Vista and Office 12
News For ecommerce and e-government.the foundation pieces have been laid," he said. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates claims the bold promises of ecommerce and e-government made in the early 1990s are finally ready to be made a reality with a new "wave" of... [13 Sep 2005]
Snooping fears ease as draconian rule dies a death
News Despite being opposed to crypto controls when unseating the Tories in 1997 the Labour party changed its tune once in power and succumbed to requests from the US to push once more to get such measures in place, according to Ross Anderson, chair of... [25 May 2005]
Sir Tim Berners-Lee gets cash for inventing web
News He is the first recipient of the €1m Millennium Technology Prize awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation, which is the world's largest science prize. The Finnish foundation was set up this year with funds from the Finnish government... [21 Jun 2004]
Bill Gates: on web services, Linux, security and more...
News Only web services give us a foundation for us to do that, so in a sense, a lot of the dreams of the '90s, like true ecommerce, had to wait for this industry standard infrastructure and the tools to be put in place. [20 Nov 2003]
UK file-swappers face two years in jail
News The EUCD is intended to aid copyright holders in cracking down on counterfeiting and piracy, but organisations such as UK think tank the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) argue that it is likely to tighten the grip of large... [08 Oct 2003]
AOL leaves Netscape with skeleton staff
News The changes have left only a skeleton crew to manage the transition of Netscape's browser development activities to a non-profit organisation called the Mozilla Foundation. The loose Mozilla.org group, which had overseen the open source development... [18 Jul 2003]
AOL cuts jobs in browser battle
News The layoffs come as the loose Mozilla.org group, which had overseen the open-source development efforts of the Mozilla browser, transforms itself into a nonprofit foundation. The foundation is funded in large part by a $2m (£1.25m) donation from... [16 Jul 2003]
HP to unveil nanotech breakthrough
News This molecular mesh could be sandwiched between layers of ordinary chip wires to act as a communications network or, eventually, used as the foundation for a complete microprocessor. In the company's vision, layers of molecular strands, laid down... [09 Sep 2002]
Anti-terrorist laws call for a record of all email and web use
News The foundation for the new legislation has already been laid in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act which came into law earlier this year. Internet service providers could be forced to retain email and web traffic data for up to 12 months as... [17 Oct 2001]
Creator of the 'bit' dies
News At a young age, Shannon published his work on the binary coding of information, and with it laid the foundation for modern computer science and information theory. Shannon first introduced the term 'bit' as the smallest unit of information in the... [28 Feb 2001]
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