Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE colleagues at the time called "the magic one" because its light, unlike ...
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Frank Modruson joined Accenture in 1987. He worked initially as an analyst on complex IT projects at customers. For the last ten years, he has been Accenture's CIO responsible for the outsourcing giant's own IT operation. Modruson says as ...
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CERN,home of the Large Hadron Collider(LHC),has seen a tenfold surge in candidates applying for hard-to-fill vacancies,after turning to social media. CERN,based in Geneva,says it has seen the number of applicants for typical jobs grow ...
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After having launched several manufacturing lines in China, LED manufactuerer e:lumix is about return to its roots in Augsburg (Germany): The company is preparing a new production facility in this town. Plus, it is expanding its R&D ...
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A parliamentary select committee has confirmed it is looking into Huawei's operations in the UK following controversy around the safety of using the firm's technology. The intelligence and security committee would not go into detail about ...
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Lenovo has become the world's top supplier of PCs, according to the latest market data from Gartner. Lenovo took the top spot for worldwide PC shipments for the first time in its history, with its global share increasing to 15.7%, putting ...
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Executive chairman of security firm RSA Art Coviello has hit back at rivals who have claimed to have snapped up some of RSA's customers since it was the victim of a cyber attack,describing the claims as"baloney". RSA,the security arm of ...
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Huawei today confirmed it was opening new headquarters in the Green Park area of Reading as it ramps up its investments in the UK. In September this year, the founder and CEO of the company, Ren Zhengfei, pledged 1.3bn to the UK arm of ...
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Computerworld - Research in Motion CIO Robin Bienfait's last name means "well done" in French. She's hoping those two words apply to BlackBerry 10 smartphones once they ship in the first quarter of 2013. "We're committed to our customers ...
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Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
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Windows 7's malware infection rate climbed by as much as 182% this year, Microsoft said today. But even with that dramatic increase, Windows 7 remained two to three times less likely to fall to hacker attack than the aged Windows XP. ...
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IDG News Service - A year-long investigation by a U.S. congressional committee has reportedly concluded that Chinese telecommunication equipment vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE pose a security threat to the nation, and the committee is ...
China's leading technology firms Huawei and ZTE pose a threat to national security,warns a draft report by a US Congress committee. The report by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence concludes that both companies should be ...
UK employers, across the IT sector, have come together to back a new skills framework from the National Skills Academy. Free for IT professionals to use, the online IT Professional Profile enables individuals to benchmark their skills ...
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European regulations for the gambling sector,launching new products and driving revenue growth as a recently floated public company put enormous pressure on the IT team at Betfair. But chief technology officer(CTO)Tony McAlister,in post ...
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