Google engineers have volunteered the company's VP8 video codec for an emerging standards project,called WebRTC,that could provide a real time communications protocol for the Web. "We believe that the WebRTC effort represents an ...
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SkyDrive seemed destined to be another Microsoft also-ran product.Although introduced long before the current wave of cloud-based synchronization and storage services,SkyDrive had a number of frustrating limits,and comprised two separately ...
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In order to improve the quality of LED lighting subsidies’ beneficiaries, China’s National Development and Reform Commission plans to restart the bidding for the SSL Lighting Product Subsidy. On July 25-26, the commission will ...
Sustainability consultancy ERM has used a combination of 1E's Nomad Enterprise software and Microsoft's ConfigMgr platform to distribute Windows 7 in a matter of hours. The company is rolling out Windows 7 and has been using the 1E ...
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The Wi-Fi Direct Services specification that the Wi-Fi Alliance plans to finish next year should help to extend the use of Wi-Fi Direct beyond proprietary implementations,the organization says. The emerging specification,in the early ...
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A block on file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is proving ineffective, according to data from a top UK internet service provider (ISP). In May, the UK High Court ruled that UK ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay site – but the 11% ...
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Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams ...
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Table of contents Public Wi-Fi hotspot dangers Security of 3G and 4G-based hotspots Network access requires careful management Educating users about security risks Network security controls and practices are among the most mature,but can ...
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Paul Calleja, director of the high performance computing service at the University of Cambridge, maintains that supercomputers should be accessible to as wide a range of businesses and academic researchers as possible. And that means one ...
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A demonstration house at BRE Global’s headquarters in Watford BRE Global has extended the BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) scheme to certify refurbishments and improvements to domestic buildings. The BREEAM Domestic ...
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A survey of software testing capabilities has revealed a dramatic increase in the number of organisations embedding testing into the software development process. The annual report from consultancy Experimentus measured organisations ...
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Transformation to a Green Economy through Green Buildings and Resource Efficient Cities:Key Messages from North America is a new report released by the U.S.Green Building Council(USGBC),the United Nations Environment Programme's Regional ...
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Movies,graphic novels and 17th century broadsides come under the spotlight in the latest issue of Varoom!,the award-winning,quarterly magazine which celebrates the cultural,political and social ideas in contemporary illustration from around ...
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Real Time Medical has unveiled its diagnostic imaging solutions at e-Health 2012 being held from 27- 30 May 2012. Diagnostic imaging software includes DiaShare, an intelligent rules-based core software platform, and QAIC, an quality ...
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Bright Food, the Chinese food group, was full of confidence this week about the prospects for UK cereal firm Weetabix, its first investment in Europe after missing out on companies including United Biscuits and Yoplait. Elsewhere, Orkla ...
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