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Photos: Galileo's phase two goes into orbit

Photo Photo credit: European Space Agency (ESA) The Giove-B satellite arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 13 March 2007 after being carried by this Antonov cargo plane. The second trial satellite (Giove-B) in the European Galileo...

Tags: trial, europe, sat nav, satellite

[29 Apr 2008]

Photos: Robots, lasers, action

Photo After it detects a selection has been made with the laser pointer, the robot moves two cameras to look at the laser spot and triangulate its position in three-dimensional space. You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two...

Tags: healthcare, laser, robotics

[10 Apr 2008]

Inverness Capital Connects With Efficiency: A Wireless Case Study

whitepaper When they arrived, they discovered the previous tenant had made a "Midnight run" from the space, destroying the IT infrastructure Inverness Capital thought was in place. When Inverness Capital moved into a new Toronto office suite, they thought...

Tags: infrastructure management

[04 Mar 2008]

RIM makes sweet plans for BlackBerry future

News RIM recently shipped its 20-millionth BlackBerry smart phone and the devices are ranked number one in the global PDA space - with 18.1 per cent market share in May 2007, according to figures from analyst house Gartner.

Tags: o2, iphone, rim, blackberry

[06 Nov 2007]

Post Office COO moves on

News He said: "It will be about playing in the venture capital space. When Francis arrived at the Post Office he instigated a five-year strategic plan to revamp the stores in 2006. The Post Office director of operations Ric Francis is leaving the...

Tags: post office, safeway, career, coo

[05 Nov 2007]

How to build an IT department

Comment So, I give people the space to think carefully about what kind of skill-set the business is likely to want in the next five to seven years. So I ended up with.per cent of the people that where there when I arrived.

Tags: redundancy, recruitment, graduate, unilever

[17 Oct 2007]

How to insure your IT

Comment Mark Greisiger, CEO of NetDiligence, which conducts IT risk assessment services on behalf of insurance companies, says: "The difficulty in this space is that people aren't willing to tell you truly if breaches occur, and if they occur, how much...

Tags: risk management, insurance

[17 Jul 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?

Comment A cable space that originally accommodated a few tens of calls could now deal with millions. But the most dramatic leap occurred when optical fibre arrived. Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi...

Tags: ngn

[02 May 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: My changing TV habits

Comment And looking at the storage space dedicated to DVDs I can see that I am going to have to get around to transferring the entire collection onto a server ASAP. But it wasn't long before colour (UHF) and 625 lines arrived.

Tags: tv, iptv

[30 Apr 2007]

Supporting Provenance in Service-Oriented Computing Using the Semantic Web Technologies

whitepaper The Web is evolving from a global information space to a collaborative problem solving environment in which services (resources) are dynamically discovered and composed into workflows for problem solving, and later disbanded.

Tags: database management, execution, solving, augmented

[20 Mar 2007]

Supporting Provenance in Service-Oriented Computing Using the Semantic Web Technologies

whitepaper The Web is evolving from a global information space to a collaborative problem solving environment in which services (resources) are dynamically discovered and composed into workflows for problem solving, and later disbanded.

Tags: database management, execution, solving, augmented

[20 Mar 2007]

India diary, day 1: Cyberbad on Sunday

Comment Still, the domestic terminal is so new I could still smell the paint, gleaming and futuristic like a space port. It's been eight hours since I touched down in India but it's only now that I feel like I've arrived.

Tags: bpo

[04 Mar 2007]

Editor's Blog: The big picture

Comment Today we wrote about how Cisco's offering in this space will stack up against HP's Halo service. But as an attendee was overheard saying out at Bedfont Lakes, when the adult industry gets in on the act, you know this type of thing has arrived.

Tags: cisco, hp

[24 Oct 2006]

Technology@Intel Magazine: July 2006

whitepaper Extending the energy-efficient development philosophy first delivered in the mobile Intel Pentium M processor, new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5100 - based servers provide a critical new resource for space- and performance-constrained data...

Tags: roi - tco, intel, core, efficiency

[01 Aug 2006]

Dan's China diary - day 12

Comment At the conference I do the usual speed dating introductions, getting as many contacts as possible in a short space of time without being rude. Since I've arrived in China I've heard so much entrepreneurial banter about raising rounds of investment.

Tags: china

[21 Jun 2006]

How China's universities fuel tech growth

Comment They are given tax breaks, free office space and business grants of up to around $12,000 per year. Ten years ago Cheng Peng arrived in Beijing to start an engineering degree at Tsinghua University - one of China's best technology academies.

Tags: china

[20 Jun 2006]

Dubai: The next big thing in outsourcing?

News On the positive side, space at DOZ is getting gobbled up. The first phase of the project, which involves 250,000 square feet of office space, is already sold out. Another 250,000 square feet of space that will open in the fourth quarter of 2006 is...

Tags: outsourcing, dubai, offshoring, outsourcing

[21 Nov 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Travelling ultra-light

Comment No pyjamas by the way - they take up an awful lot of space and are unnecessary. He arrived with two cases plus a huge computer case full of goodness knows what. We arrived at London Heathrow for a two-week trip, me with my small roll-on case which...

Tags: peter cochrane blog

[27 Sep 2005]

IBM speeds past HP to supercomputing supremacy

IBM speeds past HP to supercomputing supremacy

News Two new systems, ranked number four and number eight, are prototypes of Blue Gene/L, a system that uses vastly less space and power than its competitors. AMD's Opteron, which first arrived on the list six months ago, has made substantial inroads...

[21 Jun 2004]

India diary: Days seven and eight - Hot in 'Hi-Tec' Hyderabad

India diary: Days seven and eight - Hot in 'Hi-Tec' Hyderabad

Comment A high-tech worker walks beneath the towering space-age complexes in Hi-Tec City.In the afternoon, I return to the centre of Hyderabad for a meeting with the chairman of India's number four IT company Satyam, which passes the half-billion dollar...

Tags: outsourcing, hyderabad, offshoring, india

[18 Jun 2004]

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