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RSS smellKlez: The bad smell hanging round IT departments
Comment Giving voice to the feelings of any right-minded security expert, Graham Cluley of Sophos said: "Klez continues to hang around like a bad smell - those hit by it couldn't have updated their anti-virus protection in more... [31 Mar 2003]
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Evaluation Methodology for the 21st Century
White Paper The paper explores the consequences of their collective inattention to methodology on innovation, makes recommendations for addressing this problem in one domain, and provides guidelines for other domains. [02 Feb 2009]
"AOL" to be dropped like a bad smell?
News AOL Time Warner is considering dropping the "AOL" moniker from its corporate name, the company confirmed Monday. Members of AOL Time Warner's board of directors may consider the issue when they meet in September. [12 Aug 2003]
Cambridge start-ups prove UK's got innovation
News A button-sized sensor with a sense of smell, an 'iPod for movies', software that lets you type with your breath. They've used nanotechnology to create mini sensors that can 'smell' chemicals and could be... [18 Nov 2004]
Electronic nose finds favour at truffle festival
News Rudi Venerandi, proprietor of London's Alba truffle restaurant, commented: "Truffles change their smell with the season, and each local truffle smells different. Venerandi claimed truffle vendors outside Alba have... [08 Nov 1998]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment Did it smell? Together these structures helped clean up London and end the Great Stink, when the smell of untreated sewage brought the city to a standstill in 1858. We've abseiled down buildings, walked... [24 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.05.06
Round-Up Not only have they made their staff happier and done something about that upsetting smell in building atriums, they've also done a great deal to improve the image of IT. After all, the last thing anyone wants to see, or... [26 May 2006]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Wednesday
Comment I depart the auditorium to be greeted by a smell of fish. Sadly it doesn't smell that nice either. You can practically hear the panic: It'll all be over in but a handful of hours! Did we get the message... [14 Feb 2008]
Thinking about your holidays: Technology takes the pain away
Comment Flight and holiday website ebookers.com has come up with five possibilities for the future that will greatly change the travel industry, ranging from the humdrum (3G phone networks - which we will stick our necks out and say will... [29 Aug 2001]
Building Customer Trust and Company Profits at the Same Time
White Paper They smell manipulation in the air. Today's businesses have all the technology they need to treat different customers differently, and many are doing so. But customers often resist, don't they? Today's customers have... [12 May 2007]
PSP Hacks: Make a Battery Pack for Your PSP
White Paper Well, mini power surges aside, any voltage higher than five volts could very quickly, with a sizzle and a burnt smell, fry up the PlayStation Portable into a very handy PlayStation doorstop or paperweight. [17 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.09.08
Round-Up It's not clear whether the smell of stale urine, cigarette ends and cards advertising massage parlours are thrown in too. The Round-Up doesn't have much call to use public payphones nowadays, not being a heavy breather... [26 Sep 2008]
Roach robot to infiltrate insect societies?
News Called InsBot, for "insect-like robot", the mechanical bug mimics the insects' smell and movements to the point that the roaches have accepted it as their own. Insect "extermination" may soon involve mini robots that can... [25 Jul 2005]
Start-up of the month: Aleri - from classical music to banking analytics
Comment Sitting in the austere reception room of financial software start up Aleri one can't help but notice it has the hushed aura of a dentist's waiting room - minus the smell of disinfectant and copies of last year's gossip... [25 Jun 2002]
Can you "phish" out fraudulent emails?
News So you think you can smell a "phish" a mile off? Over the last 12 months, the phishing phenomenon has taken America by storm. A report published in May 2004 concluded that a staggering 57 million consumers in the US had... [03 Aug 2004]
