Archive for the 'David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk' Category
Friday, August 29th, 2008
The software maker has been granted a US patent on “navigating paginated content in page-based increments.” Microsoft has been granted a patent on ‘Page Up’ and ‘Page Down’ keystrokes. The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008….
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David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Keyboards, Page, Microsoft, Patent, Hardware, Peripherals, Microsoft Corp. |
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
In a tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator passed its final test run before its full-fledged attempt on September 10. Pre-initiation testing of the Large Hadron Collider has now been completed, ahead of the particle accelerator’s official launch on September 10. …
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Beam, LHC, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, Particle, Tunnel, Leadership, Team Management, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, CERN, Management |
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales. A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all prisoners in England…
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Spokesperson, Data Loss, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Government Department, UK, Home Office, memory stick, Data, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Security, Worker, Flash Memory, Components, Government |
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
A researcher claims to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java and Nokia Series 40 handsets, and wants Sun or Nokia to pay him almost $30,000 for the details. A Polish security researcher has claimed to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java, but is demanding ?20,000 ($29,790) in…
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Nokia, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Java, Research Paper, Sun Microsystems, flaws, antivirus, malware, Security, Nokia Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Researcher, code, Mobile |
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Nokia predicts the first phones using the new Symbian Foundation platform will arrive in two years’ time, although its device chief says this is subject to “shades of grey.” The first devices using Symbian Foundation open source code for mobile devices will become available in 2010, Nokia has said….
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Nokia, Symbian Inc., Symbian, mobile OS, Open Handset Alliance, UIQ, cell phones, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Mobile, Consumer electronics, Cellular Phones, Open source, Handset, Personal Technology |
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Nokia is to buy out Symbian and set up a new open-source platform with Motorola, Sony Ericsson and NTT DoCoMo, forming a major rival to Google’s Android The mobile open-source world suddenly has a very major new player, after it emerged on Tuesday that the Symbian, Series…
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Symbian Inc., Nokia, Symbian, mobile OS, cell phones, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Nokia Corp., Open source, Platform, Mobile |
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
There are now over a billion PCs in active use, according to analyst firm Gartner, with the number predicted to double by 2014. There are now more than a billion PCs in active use worldwide, according to analyst house Gartner. On Gartner’s…
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Emerging Market, PCs, Gartner, Gartner Inc., David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, PC, Desktops, Hardware |
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The founder of Mozilla Europe claims Adobe and Microsoft’s rich-media tech threatens the open nature of the web but concedes they are currently necessary for multimedia content. Companies building websites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight, the founder of…
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HTML 5, Flash, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, rich media, Mozilla, Adobe, Mozilla Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Channel Management, Marketing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft, Silverlight, Microsoft Silverlight, Web |
