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Photos: What gadgets were the Victorians using?
Photo Collins demonstrates a set of manual nose hair clippers. The British Library in London is playing host to an exhibition of gadgets and technology from the Victorian era and early 20th century. The collection belongs to collector and author Maurice... [14 Aug 2008]
Intrusion Detection Evasion: How Attackers Get Past the Burglar Alarm
White Paper With techniques like obfuscation, fragmentation, Denial of Service, and application hijacking the attacker can pass traffic under the nose of IDS to prevent their detection. The purpose of this paper is to show methods that attackers can use to... [10 Jul 2008]
Will Lithium-Ion Batteries Power the New Millennium?
White Paper Both chemistries fought nose to nose, each claiming better performance and smaller sizes. For many years, the Nickel Cadmium (NiCd) was the only suitable battery for portable applications such as wireless communications and mobile computing. [03 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, 3G iPhone, UK top CIO, Firefox 3, XP and more…
News But it seems they should count themselves lucky to have any graduates at all, as a growing number of schoolchildren are turning their nose up at IT, saying they find it boring. This month silicon.com looked at the amazing career of Bill Gates as he... [02 Jul 2008]
Estimation of Firewall Loads Due to Soft Soil Impact
White Paper All nose-down impacts are of interest, but those into soft soil represent the critical condition because of the potentially large longitudinal forces associated with the momentum transfer of the displaced soil. [30 Jun 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment When I was at the conference of Indian tech body Nasscom earlier this year I was stunned by the sheer number of countries that had gone to Mumbai, attempting to pinch business from under the nose of the Indians. [03 Jun 2008]
Cabin Crew: 'Doors to Automatic and Cross Check'
White Paper For most it's not the fear of literally nose diving but metaphorically their business taking a nose dive. One factor is for sure - if one loses his or her grip, distributes unmanageable, non-traceable changes to operating practices, where... [11 Mar 2008]
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study Betfair has developed a new core betting engine that can process staggering volumes of bets per second and significantly reduce the cost of each transaction. Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20... [15 Nov 2007]
Leader: Who's setting tech's agenda this year?
Leader Zuckerberg continues a trend that has - by a nose - seen a new face top the poll for each of the eight years silicon.com has run this project. Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away with this year's top Agenda Setter... [15 Oct 2007]
Leader: How and why?
AS Analysis Zuckerberg continues a trend that has - by a nose - seen a new face top the poll for each of the eight years silicon.com has run this project. Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away with this year's top Agenda Setter... [12 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.09.07
Round-Up Probably the former, by a nose. Not content with shafting Microsoft in a landmark ruling last week over the company's anti-competitive behaviour, the EC is now rubbing salt in the wounds by giving due consideration to a report by an influential... [28 Sep 2007]
Facebook banned by half of employers
News Half of businesses are restricting employees' access to social networking site Facebook, due to concerns about productivity and security. According to research by security company Sophos, 43 per cent of workers polled said their employer blocks... [21 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.04.07
Round-Up One panicked mobile user is reported as saying: "As soon as you answer your phone blood comes out of your mouth, nose and ears and you die. Windows XP! When do we want it? NOW! A few years back Microsoft could have only dreamed of such levels of... [27 Apr 2007]
Cambridge speedy software brings out the stars
Case Study Lewis said the current database would "just turn its nose up and die if I asked it to do this search" but WX2 managed it in 29 seconds. Cambridge University is speeding up astronomical discoveries by using analytical software to help trawl through... [16 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.03.07
Round-Up However, later on this evening, Red Nose Day will culminate in a huge telethon which will no doubt be the usual priceless mix of BBC news readers doing song and dance routines and well, BBC news readers doing song and dance routines. [16 Mar 2007]
