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Google Android phones make debut
2008-02-19 00:15:00
The first mobile phones to be loaded with Google ’s Android software for mobile phones have gone on show. About a dozen companies such as ARM, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm showed off prototype handsets at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The free software system was launched in November 2007 and is being developed by ...
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Future directions in computing
2008-02-19 00:13:00
Silicon electronics are a staple of the computing industry, but researchers are now exploring other techniques to deliver powerful computers. Quantum computers are able to tackle complex problems A quantum computer is a theoretical device that would make use of the properties of quantum mechanics, the realm of physics that ...
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Whistle-blower site taken offline
2008-02-19 00:12:00
A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US. Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says. The case was brought by a Swiss bank after “several hundred” documents were posted ...
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Toshiba climbs on ?HD DVD exit?
2008-02-19 00:08:00
Shares in Toshiba have gained more than 5% as speculation intensified that the electronics giant is set to scrap its high definition DVD format, HD DVD. The firm said it was reviewing its business strategies, but added it had made no decision over HD DVD’s future. The format has suffered from the defection of ...
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3 Internet Providers in Deal for Tailored Ads
2008-02-18 23:58:00
LONDON ? For years, Internet service providers have watched with envy as the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft sliced up the online advertising pie. Selling Internet access has been a good business, but selling Web advertising has been an even more lucrative one. Now, three Internet providers in Britain have teamed up to try to ...
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Technology Can Be a Blessing for Bored Workers
2008-02-18 23:54:00
Unlike sewing clothes, mining coal or forging steel, it was blessedly quiet. And thus cigar workers, whether in Chicago or Havana, were the first ones in their time who managed to introduce that vital commodity ? distraction ? onto the work floor. Using their own wages, and backed by a powerful union, they paid for ...
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EBay to ban negative seller views
2008-02-09 00:35:00
Online auction site eBay has said it plans to overhaul its feedback system and will ban sellers from leaving negative comments about buyers. The feedback system is central to eBay’s online auction experience EBay said problems were occurring, and slowing down trade, when buyers left negative comments about sellers who then retaliated with their own views. From May, those selling on eBay will not be able to leave unfavourable or neutral messages about buyers. The move, which will affect users worldwide, has angered many sellers. Seller s say it will leave them unprotected. ‘Open forum’ The feedback forum was introduced by Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar in February 1996. In a message then, he said: “By creating an open market that encourages honest dealings, I hope to make it easier to conduct business with strangers over the net. “Now, we have an open forum. Use it. Make your complaints in the open. “Better yet, give your prais...
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Nokia takes second bite at gaming
2008-02-09 00:33:00
Mobile giant Nokia has begun a second assault on handheld gaming, with the launch of the N-Gage platform. The company has shifted its approach, from focusing on a dedicated games system to titles which can be played on a range of Nokia devices. At launch, only owners of the N81 can use the service but the firm plans to roll it out to other N-series phones. N-Gage has the support of developers such as EA, Gameloft and Vivendi, who are making titles for the platform. Nokia first launched its N-Gage handset in 2003, designed to compete with the highly-successful Nintendo GameBoy. But the device was criticised for its design and poor sales led to the phone being quickly overhauled with new versions, including the QD.     Nokia persevered with the device, in different incarnations, and had sold more than two million so-called game decks by August 2007. Last year the firm said it was concentrating on N-Gage as a platform for titles, ra...
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Robot glider harvests ocean heat
2008-02-09 00:29:00
A sea-going robotic glider that harvests heat energy from the ocean has been tested by US scientists. The yellow, torpedo-shaped machine has been combing the depths of seas around the Caribbean since December 2007. The team which developed the autonomous vehicle say it has covered “thousands of kilometres” during the tests. The team believe the glider - which needs no batteries - could undertake oceanographic surveys for up to six months at a time. “We are tapping a virtually unlimited energy source for propulsion,” said Dave Fratantoni of the Wood’s Hole Ocean ographic Institute (WHOi). But Steve McPhail, an expert in autonomous underwater vehicles at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton, said the machine would not totally do away with batteries. “You still need to provide power for the sensors, for the data-logging system and for the satellite communications system to get the data back,” he said. As a result, the ve...
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Malicious programs hit new high
2008-02-09 00:28:00
The number of malicious programs found online has reached an unprecedented high, say security firms. Reports vary but some estimates suggest there were five times as many variants of malicious programs in circulation in 2007 compared to 2006. Security company Panda Software said it was getting more than 3,000 novel samples of so called malware every day. Criminals pump out variants to fool anti-virus programs that work, in part, by spotting common characteristics. Threat landscape Security software testing organisation AV Test reported that it saw 5.49 million unique samples of malicious software in 2007 - five times more than the 972,606 it saw in 2006. AV Test reached its total by analysing malicious programs and generating a digital fingerprint for each unique sample. The organisation said the different ways malware can be packaged will mean some duplication in its figures, but the broad trend showed a steep rise. The organisation uses the samples to test security progr...
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Password pain looks set to ease
2008-02-09 00:27:00
Using your favourite websites and services could soon mean memorising far fewer passwords. Tech giants Microsoft, IBM, Google and Yahoo have joined the board of the Open ID Foundation which aims to streamline login systems across the web. The Foundation wants to bring about a system that could mean one ID acts as a guarantor of a person’s identity across all the sites they have signed up for. Already more than 10,000 websites have adopted the Open ID approach. Password pain At the moment, using a new web service typically means registering, laboriously entering personal details and thinking up another login name and password. Open ID aims to remove some of the need to keep creating new login names and passwords by adopting the approach used by a your computer when it looks up a site name you type into an browser address bar. The Open ID approach revolves around an already established web identity that people nominate as their core identifier. When this identity is us...
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Net speed record smashed
2008-02-09 00:25:00
Scientists have set a new internet speed record by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across 10,978 kilometres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Amsterdam in Holland, in less than one minute The future of computing is super fast Using a quantity of data equivalent to two feature-length DVD-quality movies, the transfer was accomplished at an average speed of more than 923 megabits per second, or more than 3,500 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. Les Cottrel, of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (Slac) Computer Services, said: “By exploring the edges of internet technologies’ performance envelope, we will bring high-speed data transfer to practical everyday applications.” He added that potential uses included: “Doctors at multiple sites sharing and discussing a patient’s cardio-angiographs to diagnose and plan treatment; or disaster recovery experts sharing information across the globe in near real-time t...
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Parsing RSS 2.0 Feeds in ActionScript 3
2008-02-09 00:20:00
One of the ActionScript libraries that I use most is the as3syndicationlib. This is an opensource library originally developed by Christian Cantrell, and open sourced by Adobe. The library provides code for parsing RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and ATOM data feeds. It also provides a generic interface for parsing feeds when you do not know the format of the feeds. Below is a simple example of how to use the library to parse an RSS 2.0 feed. The example is written in Flex 3 and ActionScript 3, although I have separated the code to make it easy to also use it within Flash CS3. In order to compile and run the code below, you need to download the SWC (or source code) for the as3syndicationlib and corelib libraries (as3syndicationlib requires corelib to compile). RSSExample.mxml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute"> <mx:Script source="RSSExampleClass.as" /> <mx:TextArea left="20" top="10" bottom="4...
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Web service
2008-02-08 23:53:00
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   Web services architecture A Web service (also Web Service ) is defined by the W3C as “a software system designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a network.” Web services are frequently just Web APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services. The W3C Web service definition encompasses many different systems, but in common usage the term refers to clients and servers that communicate using XML messages that follow the SOAP standard. Common in both the field and the terminology is the assumption that there is also a machine readable description of the operations supported by the server written in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The latter is not a requirement of a SOAP endpoint, but it is a prerequisite for automated client-side code generation in the mainstream Java and .NET SOAP frameworks. Some industry o...

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
2008-01-27 00:28:00
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol , or LDAP, is an application protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP. A directory is a set of objects with similar attributes organized in a logical and hierarchical manner. The most common example is the telephone directory, which consists of a series of names ...
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Open LDAP configuration
2008-01-06 02:40:00
Cyrus IMAP configuration imapd.conf The imapd.conf file should reside in /etc/. It is a rather simple file. The following is a standard imapd.conf where the imap user files and mailboxes are under /var/. The admins entry is the real important one. You must have a corresponding user in the LDAP database for the admins. The admins entry ...
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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
2008-01-05 00:47:00
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Lightweight Directory Access Proto col , or LDAP (IPA: [??l dæp]), is an application protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP.[1] A directory is a set of objects with similar attributes organized in a logical and hierarchical manner. The most common example is the telephone directory, which consists of a ...