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RSS it degreesMan cooks ThinkPad at 180 degrees - and it survives
News Unknowingly his wife then came home and heated the oven to 180 degrees Celsius before realising her mistake. IBM is boasting of the hardiness of its ThinkPad notebook range after it discovered that one customer's machine survived being cooked at... [23 Jul 2002]
Kids shunning tech degrees
News The UK's technology industry is under threat as fewer people choose IT-related degrees and careers. The uptake of IT-related degrees has almost halved within four years from 27,000 in 2001 to 14,700 in 2005, according to research from e-skills UK. [05 Apr 2007]
Young targeted by "Revitalise IT" scheme
News e-skills UK has launched an initiative designed to address the falling numbers of students taking IT-related degrees. The first of these - "Ambition" - will aim to change attitudes towards technology-related degrees and careers.e-skills UK... [19 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Six degrees and super nodes
Comment The idea that everyone on the planet is connected by 'six degrees of separation' is nothing new, but it may be incomplete. So it is feasible that four degrees of separation has been established within this community and five (or six) might be the... [26 Aug 2004]
Training up for the business of IT
Comment Fortunately, more business degrees are offering IT courses that include the principles of software development. They claimed computing degrees don't offer the practical experience an IT professional needs - especially when it comes to development... [07 Feb 1999]
CIO Jury: Keeping IT cool in the heatwave
News With UK temperatures expected to hit 39 degrees centigrade (more than 100F) this week, half of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they have either had to put in place extra air-conditioning equipment or take special measures to... [19 Jul 2006]
IT must pull together to battle skills shortage: Gov CIO
News And government statistics show only three out of 10 graduates with IT-related degrees go into the profession. There's a growing number of people with the right degrees but the wrong skills for particular parts of the IT sector," he said. [21 May 2007]
Tech degrees 'not important for employers'
News Price said the figures demonstrate that ICT-related degrees should "evolve to reflect the broader range of capabilities required to be successful in modern careers in IT and telecoms". She also claimed the statistics highlight the need for... [28 Feb 2007]
Leader: Why we don't need more techies
Leader Some people point to the declining numbers of students applying for IT, computer science and engineering degrees at university and say more needs to be done to attract people to these courses - but that isn't necessarily the right approach. [02 Aug 2006]
Intel unveils Florence, the double-jointed tablet PC
News Convertibles allow a person to rotate the screen 180 degrees and fold it back down to create a writing tablet. This transformation is achieved by folding back the screen - rotating it backward nearly 360 degrees - so that its cover touches the... [13 May 2003]
Leader: The wider lesson of 'insecurity'
Leader Typically when it comes to security, technical people take a very binary view - there are no degrees of security, there is simply secure and insecure. But what businesses and more pragmatic thinkers are realising is that there are indeed degrees of... [05 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Unbelievably resilient technology
Comment And should you get your phone submerged in fresh water, stick it straight in the oven at 30 to 40 degrees for half an hour. Phone, keys and pedometer were placed into the oven at 40 degrees centigrade, whilst paper money and receipts were carefully... [05 May 2005]
India diary: Day four - First impressions of Bangalore
Comment I step out of the air-conditioned airport at 10.30am into 30 degrees of heat - with the local paper saying it is expected to hit 38 degrees later on. Articles and commentary on IT offshoring and BPO in India and elsewhere will be appearing on... [01 Jun 2004]
US computers get hot under the collar
News However, IT directors across the East Coast will breathe a sigh of relief at weather forecasts predict steady temperatures of 80/90 degrees for the rest of the week. Engineers voicing their concerns online blamed the electricity outages on... [09 Jul 1999]
Leader: When is spam not spam?
Leader Companies may choose to take liberties with phrases such as existing business relationships or when exactly a person opted in but the recipient will always know, or at least be able to work out just how many degrees of separation there are between... [14 Mar 2005]
