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News Carphone Warehouse's Oxford Street store advertises the Orange-flavoured iPhone Apple's iPhone 3G and 3G S went on sale on the Orange network yesterday, ending two years of mobile monogamy for Apple with O2 in the UK. [11 Nov 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment As career analyst and author Dan Pink pointed out at July's TED Global conference in Oxford, economists as far afield as MIT and the London School of Economics have shown increased financial rewards actually make people... [13 Oct 2009]
Apple breaks app-approval silence with rude dictionary 'no' explanation
News Ninjawords draws on Wiktionary.com for its definitions, Schiller said, meaning many more definitions are included than you would find in the Oxford dictionary. In an extremely rare move, an Apple executive has publicly... [07 Aug 2009]
Photos: Meet Blackwell's robo book publisher
Photo A number of publishers - including Hachette, Oxford University Press and Simon & Schuster - have signed up and several more are currently in the process of making their out-of-print books available. This is the Espresso... [27 May 2009]
Photos: The evolution of the PC
Photo The RML 380Z was released in 1978 and was the first machine by Oxford-based Research Machines. It may only be 44-years old but with its myriad switches and a chassis the size of a cupboard, the PDP-8 seems light years... [07 May 2009]
Are Men 'Cleverer' Than Women?: Deconstructing the Dogma of Female Intellectual Inferiority
White Paper This paper analyses discourses surrounding gender and the politics of Intelligence Quotient (IQ). It takes the position that the content of the news not always constitute factual account of the world but instead it imposes socio-economic... [01 May 2009]
South Manchester gets £500,000 high-speed fibre
News The next-gen broadband rollout will plug superfast broadband into 500 businesses and 1,000 homes in the Oxford Road area of the city. Once the Oxford Road corridor fibre rollout is complete there are... [25 Mar 2009]
Google's Street View gives UK its close up
News The full list of UK cities covered by the service includes: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich,... [20 Mar 2009]
Monitoring Your Network
White Paper This PowerPoint presentation explains how multiple security tools can be used to monitor a computer network. Covered tools include: WS_Ping_ProPack, XploiterStat Lite, Windows Event Viewer, Sophos Anti-Virus for NT, Sophos Anti-Virus... [16 Mar 2009]
CIO Job Report: Movers and shakers
News Nominet, the internet registry for dot-uk domain names, is advertising for a director of IT based in Oxford with a £100,000 salary. Let silicon.com keep you up to date with all the latest CIO job moves and changes with... [27 Jan 2009]
Broadband Britain: 'Forget fibre - let's plug UK's notspots'
News Speaking at the Oxford Media Convention last week, strategy and markets development partner for Ofcom, Peter Phillips, said wider availability should be the top broadband priority for the UK. The services that could be... [26 Jan 2009]
Visual Programming in BioBike, a Web-Based Biocomputing Environment
White Paper Within BioBike, a web-based biocomputing environment, the BBL language enables biologists to program novel genomic algorithms. To engage users without prior programming experience, the paper has implemented a visual programming... [09 Jan 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.12.08
Round-Up Here are a few examples of recent neologisms that may make a determined and confident march on the offices of the Oxford English Dictionary in search of recognition come the New Year. Technology has had a profound effect... [12 Dec 2008]
e-HTPX - HPC, Grid and Web-Portal Technologies in High Throughput Protein Crystallography
White Paper This paper presents details of work being carried out to increase throughput of protein crystallographic structure determination through the use of Grid enabled web-portal technologies, from which users can remotely plan and direct... [03 Dec 2008]
A Web/Grid Portal Implementation of BioSimGrid: A Biomolecular Simulation Database
White Paper The overall aim of the BioSimGrid project is to exploit the Grid infrastructure to enable comparative analysis of the distributed results of biomolecular simulations. In particular this paper presents the implementation of the current... [03 Dec 2008]
