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News The main tool for this research, he added, could be the Allen Telescope Array, a project funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and run by the UC Berkeley radio astronomy lab (RAL) and Seti. A senior Seti astronomer... [12 Nov 2008]
No compliance or cost blues for Turquoise comms
News Multilateral trading facility Turquoise is aiming for cost savings with the implementation of a Cisco unified communications (UC) network. The network, supplied by integrator Fabric Technologies, will by used by the... [22 Oct 2008]
Nortel CEO: 'Hyperconnectivity' the big opportunity
News But a revival is taking place based on still strong spending on R&D; a well-documented partnership with Microsoft for unified communications (UC); and some notable contract wins, such as at the Department for Work and... [20 Sep 2007]
Second Lifers on their best behaviour?
News Jaron Lanier, scholar-in-residence at UC Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, said at the Always On technology conference: "Character rancour is much different on blogs, Twitter, (etc)… It can get very... [02 Aug 2007]
Snatched laptop puts 40,000 at risk of ID fraud
News In 2005, UC Berkeley warned more than 98,000 people that the theft of a laptop from its graduate school admissions office exposed their personal information. About 40,000 US Chicago Public Schools (CPS) employees are at... [10 Apr 2007]
Fresh data leak scare at US university
News In 2005, UC Berkeley warned more than 98,000 people that the theft of a laptop from its graduate school admissions office exposed their personal information. A possible computer security breach at the University of... [05 Apr 2007]
One terabyte hard drives coming soon from Hitachi
News As a reference, the print collection in the US Library of Congress comes to about 10 terabytes of information, according to the How Much Information study from UC Berkeley. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has... [05 Jan 2007]
Google book-scanning bid gets new buddy
News Google has added another partner to its controversial library-book scanning project - the University of California (UC), which is also working with a team led by the Internet Archive, Microsoft and Yahoo! [09 Aug 2006]
Unified messaging and comms get boost from IP
News Despite a slow start, unified messaging (UM) and unified communications (UC) will grow strongly over the next few years, driven on by organisations moving to IP for their voice and data communications needs. [25 Apr 2006]
Mobiles encroach on credit cards with DoCoMo deal
News Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo has bought an 18 per cent stake in card issuer UC Card. Mizhuo Bank, owner of UC Card, will transfer the stake to DoCoMo from the middle of this month for ¥1bn. Mizhuo... [07 Mar 2006]
University to open centre for search research
News UC Berkeley, birthplace of early search highflier Inktomi and the school where Google CEO Eric Schmidt got his computer science doctoral degree, is bringing together roughly 20 faculty members from various departments to... [16 Aug 2005]
Stolen laptop puts 98,000 at risk of ID theft
News However, UC Berkeley is urging affected individuals to consider putting a fraud alert out at credit reporting agencies. The incident is the second recent loss of sensitive information at UC Berkeley.... [30 Mar 2005]
Microsoft wins reprieve in browser patent case
News Microsoft said that, on the contrary, the company had won on the most important points, particularly its claim that UC's patent was predated by similar technology by artist and software engineer Perry Pei-Yuan Wei. [03 Mar 2005]
Gates to fund GM bugs
News Jay Keasling, a UC Berkeley professor and a pioneer in the synthetic-biology field, says these techniques can also be used in toxic cleanup or to neutralise poisons such as sarin. For this project, UC... [14 Dec 2004]
Experimental Net floated
News Our goal is to provide a playing field for people to try their ideas on," said Dave Culler, a UC Berkeley professor and manager of Intel's research "lablet" associated with the university. Industrial and academic... [24 Jun 2003]
