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News The European Commission's (EC) commissioner for information society and media, and ambassador against rip-off roaming charges, Viviane Reding, has set her sights on debunking geeky IT stereotypes which she believes are putting women off working in...
[07 Mar 2008]
News Founder of vzaar.com and chief geek [sic] Adrian Sevitz said in a statement: "In the busy Christmas period, innovative use of video could really help sites stand out from the competition, encourage trust amongst customers and maximise their profits.
[28 Nov 2007]
News The digital watches that use Microsoft's Smart Personal Object Technology have remained geek toys, and his dream of an all-new Windows file system based on SQL found itself on the cutting-room floor when Longhorn became Vista.
[19 Oct 2007]
News But O'Neill emphasised this doesn't mean technical knowledge and skills are any less important: "The challenge for us is not to throw out the geek with the bath-water. The skills needed for tech jobs are now much broader and more business focused...
[16 Oct 2007]
News They are never going to choose some silly piece of geek software. A European think tank's recent recommendation that computers should be sold without an OS - so called 'naked PCs' - in order to tackle Microsoft's dominant position and foster...
[02 Oct 2007]
News The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has called for an end to the "stupid" male geek culture that disregards the work of capable female engineers, and puts others off entering the profession.
[24 Sep 2007]
News Usually that means talking about networking standards and media servers but Scheinman's recommendations, instead, were a bit more pop culture than geek culture. Social networks are the best way for companies to understand the future of how content...
[03 May 2007]
News Elizabeth Sparrow, chairman of the BCS working party on offshoring, said: "The image of IT is still bad - it's the geek and the nerd. The UK software industry is struggling to deal with the rise of offshoring, a 'geeky' image and the country's IT...
[05 Jul 2006]
News Lower prices are seen as key to moving such gadgets beyond a geek status symbol. With the first Origami devices out the door, Microsoft is setting its sights on the next generation of tiny tablet PCs - products known within the company as...
[25 May 2006]
News A doctor has warned of a number of ailments connected to IT workers' "geek lifestyle". According to the doctor, the issue of attention span is likely to have a particular resonance with "the geek population" due to the prevalence of born multi...
[06 Apr 2006]
News IT training companies have this week reported increased demand in business-related courses from techies keen to avoid getting dogged with the 'geek' stereotype and ending their days in a dark basement office next to the server room.
[26 Jan 2006]
News Jonathan Buttriss, executive director at IT training firm Computeach, agreed that the age of the techie is waning: "It's not acceptable for techies to be a geek in the corner anymore. The hottest skill for IT professionals these days has nothing to...
[25 Jan 2006]
News As with attempts to run Linux on Microsoft's Xbox there have been concerted efforts in the geek community to modify the PSP. The first hackers to crack Sony's must-have gadget, the PSP, have created code that will kill the handheld console and...
[06 Oct 2005]
News In its promotion, Playboy called the iPod Photo this year's "must-have geek gadget". Playboy is offering its own special brand of holiday cheer to iPod Photo owners - free soft porn. The adult entertainment icon has posted a download called "iBod...
[20 Dec 2004]
News From the moment the latest annual poll struck home with the self-professed geek community, including a link on techie über-site Slashdot, the reader poll was always likely to be a two-horse race between Jobs (2nd in the official poll) and Torvalds...
[04 Nov 2004]
News Although studies in the past have revealed women simply aren't attracted to jobs in areas such as IT, which is perceived as suffering from a 'male geek' image crisis, Hewitt believes inherent sexism is actually a strong underlying factor in...
[26 Oct 2004]
News The 10-year-old technology was once the realm of geek chic but advances over the years have made it simpler to use. Start-up Skype announced on Wednesday that it has reached the one million mark for simultaneous users of its peer-to-peer telephone...
[21 Oct 2004]
News The story got picked up on a number of Mac sites and geek news portal Slashdot.org and within hours had gone truly stellar. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's outspoken CEO, has responded to fierce criticism of his recent comments about users of the Apple...
[05 Oct 2004]
News Hernandez's work was highlighted on geek site Slashdot.org where one commentator noted that Google's existing free blogging service, Blogger.com, already allows users to post entries using email. A Mexican programmer has figured out how to turn...
[08 Sep 2004]
News The situation is just as grim, from a geek's perspective, in Mexico, where the government is considered virulently anti-VoIP, and in Colombia, which all but outlawed VoIP in the late 1990s. Technology rebels in Latin America are finding a way...
[03 Aug 2004]
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