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RSS skyBerners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News Photos: The best of Google Sky Travel the galaxy without leaving your work station… click here for the best pics from Google Sky The study of web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to lay the foundations for the future... [14 Jul 2008]
Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors
Photo Desk space could be booked for two hours at a time - and there was also a boardroom and 'creative zone' up for grabs where office workers could indulge in a little 'blue sky thinking'.silicon.com reporters Natasha Lomas and Tim Ferguson went down... [08 Jul 2008]
Red Hat Helps Google Search the Web
White Paper Keeping track of the ever-expanding collection of information on the Web is like trying to count the stars in the sky. It's a challenge and it requires a heavy-duty solution. Google runs the world's largest search engine, handling more than 100... [03 Jul 2008]
Real Time Linux
White Paper Linux was originally written as a general purpose operating system without any consideration for real time applications. Recently Linux has become attractive to the real time community due to its low cost and open standards. [03 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, 3G iPhone, UK top CIO, Firefox 3, XP and more…
News Gates wasn't the only high-profile Microsoft departure, however, with Windows XP disappearing to the software store in the sky. This month silicon.com looked at the amazing career of Bill Gates as he stepped down after three decades of running... [02 Jul 2008]
Google gets map happy with Tele Atlas
News Photos: The best of Google Sky Travel the galaxy without leaving your work station… click here for the best pics from Google Sky Google and mapping company Tele Atlas have tied up a five-year deal to share mapping data across more than 200 countries. [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth [11 Jun 2008]
Business travellers demand more tech
News Business travellers are crying out for airplane wi-fi and the ability to carry out mobile payments. Just under half, 49 per cent, of the 3,000 jetsetters questioned by Barclaycard Business want airlines to provide wireless internet connections to... [02 Jun 2008]
Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo To get started, you can click on thumbnail images of your choice - including planets, moons and galaxies - and your telescope will automatically search the sky on your screen to find their location. Microsoft has released a free public beta of its... [19 May 2008]
Qualcomm snaps up spectrum for £8m
News In February Qualcomm announced the successful trial of its MediaFLO mobile video service with broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting. US technology giant Qualcomm has bought part of the UK radio spectrum for £8m. [16 May 2008]
Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… Sat-navs that warn drivers not to speed or can even slow the car automatically could be as little as a year away. Drivers in London would be first in line for the technology that pairs sat-nav GPS... [15 May 2008]
Microsoft users surf the skies from the web
News The program, which was developed by Microsoft's research arm, marries together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others. Roy Gould, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian... [14 May 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo! is worth but doesn't plan to pay "a dime above" that amount, according to The Wall Street Journal. [02 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News Photos: The best of Google Sky Travel the galaxy without leaving your work station… click here for the best pics from Google Sky The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards... [02 May 2008]
Microsoft board meets over Yahoo! - but no decisions
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… Microsoft's board met yesterday to discuss its stand-off with Yahoo! over its takeover bid but failed to reach a decision on what to do next, according to a Wall Street Journal report. [01 May 2008]
