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RSS scale in newsCourts to save millions with streamlined tech
News It is able to scale up from individual courts or forces to provide an overview of regional performance, allowing different forces to learn from best practice elsewhere in the country. Courts and police forces could save tens of millions of pounds... [17 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News As nice as XML is, it isn't going to be efficient enough for this scale," he wrote. 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... [11 Jul 2008]
Artificial Intelligence - alive and kicking
News You use people's innate intelligence and ability, you connect them up on planetary scale and you've got a new kind of assisted intelligence. Artificial intelligence technology (AI) is being used all around us but don't expect any philosophical... [10 Jul 2008]
Privacy concerns over Google Street View
News Horvath wrote to Davies: "As with all such systems operating at this scale our blurring technology is not perfect - we occasionally miss a face or licence plate, for example, if they are partially covered, or at a difficult angle. [09 Jul 2008]
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News Last month the ICO disclosed it has had 138 reports of data breaches since last November - but Smith added he thought the scale of private sector breaches was far greater than reported. Smith told a Westminster eForum meeting on information... [03 Jul 2008]
Email: The tip of the cloud iceberg?
News With the consumer mail platforms serving millions of users Cain said there is a clear opportunity to transfer these economies of scale to enterprises. The use of internet hosted email services - such as Microsoft's Hotmail and Google Mail - will... [03 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Companies that used to use large-scale, x86-based multi-processor systems are now "buying larger systems to achieve economies of scale", Rasit said. Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm... [02 Jul 2008]
Microsoft unveils licensing plan for business
News The additional option runs counter to the trend at Microsoft, which has been working to scale back the number of different licensing plans. Microsoft has said it is adding a new licensing option, this one dubbed Select Plus and targeted largely at... [01 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! has a reshuffle at the top
News Decker said: "We have planned these changes deliberately over the past several months to clarify responsibilities and to capitalise on the scale advantages while allowing for fine-tuning to meet local market needs. [27 Jun 2008]
RIM quarter profits up
News Balsillie said: "To support the anticipated growth in the second half, we have been investing and expanding in a number of areas to ensure that we can scale to meet the opportunity ahead of us. RIM posted a profit outlook yesterday that fell short... [26 Jun 2008]
RFID could disrupt medical devices, say researchers
News The Dutch scientists looked at both active (i.e.info transmitting) and passive (i.e.requiring a reader device) RFID systems and found 34 'incidents' were triggered out of 123 EMI tests - of which 22 were classed as hazardous, two as significant... [25 Jun 2008]
MI5 seeking changeable techies
News The UK's security intelligence agency is looking to recruit enthusiastic IT architects to work in Central London with experience in "IT solutions design" for large-scale organisations - and who are keen to work on business change programmes. [23 Jun 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News The Small-Scale Experimental Machine, as Baby was officially named, successfully executed its first program on 21 June, 1948. On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first stored-program, electronic, digital computer flickered... [20 Jun 2008]
HP shakes up printing division
News The three new groups will focus on consumers and small businesses, large enterprises and graphics that cater to large-scale printing of billboards, signs and professional photography, the NYT reported. [19 Jun 2008]
Forecasting tech blows away stormy weather
News The improved forecasting models include the Short Term Ensemble Prediction System - which uses radar data to predict the location of extreme rainfall several hours before it occurs, the Met Office Global and Regional Ensemble Prediction System and... [13 Jun 2008]
