The British Airways(BA)network infrastructure is being simulated at its new testing centre using an emulation appliance from iTrinegy. BA's Skylab testing facility based in Waterside is using iTrinegy,to test the readiness of its ...
IDG News Service - The venture capitalist Vinod Khosla recently described Silicon Valley as a state of mind, rather than a geographical place. If that's the case, that state of mind can increasingly be found in San Francisco. Young tech ...
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IDG News Service - Bucking the corporate practice of buying instead of building internally, Google's corporate IT department will typically build management software itself, or adopt an open source software package, before investigating the ...
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IDG News Service - Faced with the challenge of overseeing the health of large caching systems, a Facebook engineer developed heat-map software to quickly pinpoint problems in the social network's data centers. The visualization monitoring ...
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December 19, 2012 - JSM Electrical offers a range of electrical services providing electrical, instrumentation, high voltage, and airport navigation and visual aid installations. Established in 1984, JSM Electrical has executed contracts ...
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IT experts from the Royal Signals were rewarded for their support and commitment to the service yesterday, during an event for "unsung heroes" at Mansion House. The soldiers were recognised for designing IT infrastructure for the field to ...
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Raspberry Pi Foundation co-founder Eben Upton has called on students and engineers to take responsibility for creating more open technology. Eben Upton painted the picture of a world where technology is accessible for all and highlighted ...
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In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor Cloudmark, poses a new challenge for ...
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New Team at GoldKey Tackles Enterprise Security Challenges with Custom-Designed Solutions GoldKey Security Corporation today announced the creation of a GoldKey Special Problems Team. The team was organized to assist enterprise customers ...
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Pay rates for software engineers are defying the downturn amid concerns that the UK faces a growing shortage of skilled programming professionals. Over a quarter of in-house software engineers have seen pay rises of 10%or more during the ...
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is set to begin a very busy weekend. The rover is slated to scoop up its first sample of Martian soil on Saturday, NASA reported. Curiosity on Wednesday came across a sandy area that NASA scientists decided ...
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Picture doing a software upgrade. Now picture doing it when the machine you're upgrading is sitting 156 million miles away. And now picture tweaking that software every day. That's what programmers and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
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The UK's Information Commissioner's Office is to re-open its investigation into the collection of Wi-Fi data by Google's Street View vehicles as they collected images for Google Maps. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)is ...
Speech of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General at the MOHR Conference, National Centre for Human Rights, Baghdad 19 December 2012. Minister for Human Rights, Engineer Shiya Al Sudaani, Excellencies, Ladies and ...
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Facebook opened an engineering centre in London today, its first outside the US. The London hub, launched by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, will focus on building Facebook mobile and platform products. "There are 7,000 ...
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