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Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Among the scientists to put their name to the letter are professor Bill Roscoe, director of Oxford University's computing laboratory, professor Jean Bacon at the University of Cambridge computer laboratory and professor Ian Sommerville, professor... [24 Jul 2008]
Get a Lively life, with Google avatars
News Niniane Wang, Google's engineering manager for the project, said: "It's integrated with the internet. Second Life requires users to download and install a separate "client" software package that taps into the online world. [09 Jul 2008]
Universities blamed for games industry skills crisis
News They've taught themselves, they've been on courses that aren't necessarily video game courses - they may be maths or engineering or more general purpose software engineering. The games expert said the difference is that previously people would have... [19 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News Chair of telecommunications engineering at the University of Ulster, professor Gerard Parr, told silicon.com: "We really have a huge responsibility in terms of local economic development. Software giant SAP has its only UK research facility in the... [02 Jun 2008]
Google lays out mobile future
News Speaking in London, Google's engineering site director, Ann Mai Chang, said: "We're focusing the majority of our development on web based applications. Dave Burke, technical lead and manager for mobile engineering at Google, explained how the team... [13 May 2008]
India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs
News Key factors in the choice of location will be local access to science and engineering graduates and government tax breaks. And when I say education facilities I don't mean arts colleges I mean science and engineering colleges. [20 Mar 2008]
UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis
News Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based Wipro, said poor maths education from primary school onwards is one of the fundamental causes of the shortage of science and engineering graduates in Western countries. [18 Mar 2008]
Apple TV suffers a setback
News Jobs said the company considers software engineering a quality issue, not a quantity issue where problems can be solved by throwing bodies at a project. But the statement also said the new Apple TV software update, which allows users to rent high... [31 Jan 2008]
Apple unveils 'world's thinnest notebook'
News Jobs said: "Intel invested a lot of engineering to create this for us. News First iPhone Trojan reported iPhone 'mugging fear' unfounded, say police SAP backs iPhone with new software release iPhone too pricey for... [16 Jan 2008]
UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
News The procurement was managed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council on behalf of UK Research Councils with some of the money coming from the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills. [15 Jan 2008]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News Robot chatters are just one type of social-engineering attack that uses trickery rather than a software flaw to access victim's valuable information. PC Tools senior malware analyst, Sergei Shevchenko, said in a statement: "As a tool that can be... [10 Dec 2007]
Google to unveil mobile software suite
News Google has the engineering talent to make a concerted push into this area while keeping rivals such as Microsoft at bay, and it has enough resources to force the industry to take it seriously, despite its relative lack of experience in the market. [05 Nov 2007]
Skills Survey 2007: Industry falling out of love with IT grads
News Someone who has put the 'quick adaptor' theory into practice is Louis Rose, who did a Computer Systems and Software Engineering degree and then a Master of Engineering at York. We teach it from the ground up," which means right from the fundamental... [01 Oct 2007]
Novell in the pink after bedding Gates
News Steve Harris, senior sales director for open source at Novell, said: "This [sales increase] is public endorsement that our joint engineering efforts are already paying dividends to customers operating in a mixed environment, which, by the way, is... [01 Oct 2007]
AMD makes friends in the Linux community
News ATI already supplies proprietary graphics drivers for Linux but that approach comes with engineering and support problems, and the company decided it's time to fund work to create an open source option as well. [07 Sep 2007]
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