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News Adverts will appear on buses and on the London Underground as the UK security service seeks to raise its profile as an employer, especially for staff not traditionally associated with the service, such as IT professionals and mechanics, according... [15 May 2007]
Vista unravels the Da Vinci codex
News Codex Arundel, one of the British Library's greatest treasures, and Codex Leicester, which is owned by Bill Gates, are compilations of the notes, diagrams and sketches da Vinci made on subjects ranging from mechanics and engineering to optics and... [30 Jan 2007]
Delayed national MOT database finally completed
News Training garage mechanics to use the new system was one issue but Fiddes said that it now typically only takes someone two weeks to get up to speed on it. The MOT computerisation project, which aims to take a million illegal and dangerous cars off... [07 Apr 2006]
Software glitch stalls Toyota's hybrid
News When drivers bring in their cars, mechanics will examine the car and reprogram the electronic control module if necessary. In some cases, mechanics may also apply a dielectric grease to a connector on the transaxlen - a unit that combines a... [17 Oct 2005]
University offers spam and spyware writing course
News Rather than hiding ourselves away from this stuff and mystifying it - which can actually make it more appealing - we need to understand the mechanics in order to protect ourselves. The controversial computer science department at the University of... [08 Feb 2005]
Who's a silly boy then?
News At a keynote address here at the Oracle OpenWorld show, McNealy made fun of a picture supposedly from the magazine "Popular Mechanics" showing how people in 1954 envisioned the home computer. Sun CEO taken in by Photoshop [09 Dec 2004]
Sun goes for "hundreds of millions" of Linux desktops
News He again proclaimed Java had beaten .Net in the web services 'battle', saying Sun beats Microsoft in every area except "virus delivery" and claimed Sun will deliver complete systems to customers instead of "400 mechanics with car parts" like IBM. [04 Dec 2003]
Computer prices will crash: McNealy
News If cars were as complicated and custom-built as today's computing gear, there would be vastly more mechanics, car painters, tow truck drivers, car designers and other support workers needed to deal with the chaos and unpredictability, he said. [17 Sep 2003]
Premiership websites: The good the bad and the ugly revealed
News According to Eric Nataf, European marketing director at Keynote, using transaction agents was the only way to measure all sites, using the same mechanics. In association with web monitoring firm Keynote, silicon.com last season revealed that the... [10 Sep 2002]
'Negligent' IT departments cost companies dear
News There is an unwillingness to enter into the mechanics of quality. IT departments are incurring huge costs for their companies by not properly testing business critical systems before they are unleashed on users. [19 Mar 2002]
Fujitsu sues Samsung
News Fujitsu Media Devices is suing Samsung Electro-Mechanics in the US, alleging its rival has infringed mobile phone component patents. The Fujitsu unit is seeking damages and an injunction against Samsung importing and selling the parts in question. [28 Nov 2001]
Haynes manuals go online for web wise grease monkeys
News Haynes, famous for helping thousands of amateur mechanics identify their sump from their dipstick with its manuals, is preparing to offer users an online helping hand. The publisher has signed a deal with Business Systems Group (BSG) to enable its... [18 Sep 2001]
Top IT gaffes... take two
News Popular Mechanics - 1949 True to form that's exactly what you did. So for the second time this week, we present 'the things they wish they hadn't said'. The revised Top 10 in reverse order: Editor, business books, Prentice Hall - 1957 [22 Jun 2001]
Linus hits back at Microsoft 'slurs'
News He's not only famous for having basically set the foundations for classical mechanics (and the original theory of gravitation, which is what most people remember, along with the apple tree story), but he is also famous for how he acknowledged the... [04 May 2001]
Fancy growing a tree on your office?
News Balancing the office to bring back more human contact and exchanges is just as important as the mechanics of a workspace for a happy working environment. Linda Barker, a designer on BBC1's Changing Rooms, has put together her "Top Ten Tips" for... [12 Jul 2000]
