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News But JSON, like XML, is a human-readable text format, rather than a binary format such as Protocol Buffers, a fact that reduces JSON's efficiency, Google said. Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data... [11 Jul 2008]
Facebook is "educational", says US uni
News Christine Greenhow, a learning technologies researcher from the University's College of Education and Human Development, said in a statement: "What we found was that students using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st... [23 Jun 2008]
Nasa hacker fights extradition
News Representing McKinnon will be his own barrister, David Pannick QC, and a barrister acting for human rights organisation Liberty, Edward Fitzgerald QC. Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into Nasa systems, is due to fight his... [13 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News The computer will also be used for research into astronomy, energy, human genome science and climate change, IBM said in a statement. Bijan Divari, IBM vice president for next-generation computer systems technology, said the way the computer was... [11 Jun 2008]
IBM gets chips to chill out in water
News To address that problem, the team has developed a cooling system consisting of micropipes of water as thin as a human hair that are interspersed between each chip layer. Scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in... [06 Jun 2008]
Want to progress in IT? Then be a business swot
News In an interview with silicon.com sister site ZDNet Asia, Charles Caldwell, Asia-Pacific human resource director, Citrix Systems, noted that if tech practitioners wanted to move up to senior roles they will need to "[understand] the business case... [02 Jun 2008]
£81m cost of botched gov't shared services
News Botched government plans to introduce shared services for human resources, payroll and finance could cost the Department for Transport (DfT) £81m by March 2015 - instead of the £57m saving that was originally intended. [23 May 2008]
Bradford & Bingley gets Oracle HR system
News The Oracle e-business suite, which includes the Human Capital Management, HR Self Service, Learning Management and Daily Business Intelligence applications, will support the processes needed to manage more than 3,000 staff across the UK. [20 May 2008]
'Noisy' anti-Phorm tool developed
News AntiPhormLite will automatically visit groups of websites, follow links and backtrack, in an effort to emulate human browsing behaviour, and feed Phorm with erroneous information, wrote the group. An electronic privacy advocacy group has launched a... [20 May 2008]
Real and virtual worlds combine in India
News Ever wanted to take a peek inside the human body? You open a door, pass through and close it behind you - nothing unusual except this door is nothing more than a hologram. This futuristic vision is almost here says Indian outsourcer Satyam as it... [25 Apr 2008]
China key to Indian IT growth
News AS Murthy, head of human resources for Satyam, highlighted the shortage of skills among the 300,000 Indian students who graduate in engineering each year, saying only 25 per cent of these are employable. [21 Apr 2008]
Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers
News One of the reports urged the European Commission and member states to avoid allowing measures that are in conflict with civil liberties, human rights and the principle of proportionality. People should not be criminalised for the file-sharing of... [14 Apr 2008]
Data breaches: Don't blame 'stupid' employees
News Ashenden claimed that although breaches such as HMRC had led to a new focus on IT security, based around improving processes and technology, the incidents were down to human factors. She also referenced a quote that claims hackers often pay more... [03 Apr 2008]
Bill Gates knocked off rich-list perch
News s brazen ways have caused something else to take a tumble - the drop in Microsoft shares has knocked Bill Gates off his perch atop Forbes' rich-list, ending his unbroken 13-year run as the world's richest human. [06 Mar 2008]
Scientists track bees with RFID
News Scientists hope to unlock the secrets of the insects' tiny brains - they have about 950,000 brain cells to a human's 100 billion - by examining how they make complex choices about which routes to fly between flowers. [28 Feb 2008]
