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Features and Case Studies
In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority. The CIO of Government defence contractor BAE Systems talks about moving the company to an insourcing solution.
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Screen time
In 2007, 29% of Canadian adults were classified as frequent television viewers, and 15% as frequent leisure-time computer users. Recent immigrants were less likely than people born in Canada to be frequent television viewers, but more likely to be frequent computer users.
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Your chance to shine in The Sun
Place your gradphotos online and you could win a laptop with a wireless printer or an MP3 video player. Submit your stories, photos, tributes and memories at VancouverSun.com/grad2008.
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Job vacancy: ICT Technician
(Ref: DG/IT) An ICT technician is required for a September start to support all aspects of ICT in Deptford Green. The school has over 400 networked computers across three sites, with a wide range of peripheral devices and other ICT media hardware and software.
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Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel
If you compare the capital cost of a Wintel server and desktop architecture using Dell gear with 22" screens to that of a redundant SPARC/Sun Ray system with 24" screens, the Sun system comes in about $200,000 cheaper for 1,000 users. by Paul Murphy
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 10th Jan 2006 23:44 UTC, submitted by Derek Newhall
After 2 years of examination the U.S Patent and Trademark Office has reversed its two earlier unofficial decisions and decided that Microsoft's File Allocation Table file system constitutes a "novel and non-obvious" system enabling it to be patented.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Dec 2005 20:16 UTC
"Of all the myths that have grown up around open source software, perhaps the most pervasive is Eric Raymond's aphorism that 'Many eyes make bugs shallow', suggesting that if lots of people can view a program's source code, they will find and fix its errors more quickly than commercial products whose code is jealously guarded.
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Linked by Flatline on Thu 12th Apr 2007 17:55 UTC
A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept program that hackers could use to exploit Windows Vista digital rights management processes to hide malware.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 10th Oct 2006 08:52 UTC
Many of us use the terms "programmer" and "developer" interchangeably.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Oct 2006 14:12 UTC
Recent high-profile security problems with Internet Explorer have done little to dent its market share - or maybe not, according to conflicting reports on web browser use . Web analytics firm OneStat.com reckons that IE's global usage share is 85.85 per cent, an increase of 2.8 per cent since July 2006. Mozilla Firefox's open source browser claims second place with a share of 11.49 per cent, a ...
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Microsoft said to eye partners for new Yahoo bid
Microsoft Corp. has approached other media companies about a joint bid for Yahoo Inc., according to a published report on Wednesday.
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Scam reveals security breach
Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record.
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Batelco delivering breaking local news in Arabic on Batelco '0' Portal
Batelco has announced the launch of new content available on its mobile portal Batelco 'O' portal for Arabic speaking customers.
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Monster founder hones in on deaths
Fourteen years ago, Jeff Taylor helped set off a tectonic shift in recruitment advertising by founding Monster.com, one of the first online companies to challenge a big profit source of newspapers.
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Varsity Freshman Detained For Candid Photos
HAIKOU, July 2 (Bernama) -- A freshman at a south China university has been detained for taking candid photos of female students and posting them on the Internet, police said on Wednesday.
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It's like night and day at the plate for Delgado
ST. LOUIS - Carlos Delgado was studying video yesterday on a laptop, diligently jotting down notes in his personal diary as teammates went about their business around him in the clubhouse. It's been part of Delgado's routine throughout his 14-year career and presumably a key to his success as one of the more feared hitters of his generation.
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Forbidden Siren : Blood Curse en images
Sony Computer Entertainment diffuse quelques nouvelles images de Forbidden Siren : Blood Curse sur PlayStation 3 dans le magazine japonais Famitsu.
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Quick Money Sunflashes
IN TOMORROW'S PAPER:
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New protection for growing Mac threats
Despite the old adage that Mac computers are impervious to security threats, a throng of recent attacks over the past couple of years have made it necessary for Mac users to protect themselves.
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Microsoft bundling bungling turns India to Linux
The vole's attempt to force students in India's state of Tamil Nadu to buy Microsoft Office has backfired and they'll be getting laptops running Linux instead of Windows.
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Chip fab is no small fry
Intel's newly inaugurated Fab 28 may be the place where the firm’s smallest 45nm chips are produced, but there is nothing very small about the fab itself.
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IBM introduces BI for mainframe
Following the European Union’s ratification of IBM's purchase of Cognos in January, the firm has now combined Cognos’ latest business intelligence (BI) system with its mainframe System z.
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Microsoft developer returns to the fold
Sergey Solyanik, a developer who left Microsoft for Google, but has since returned to the Redmond fold, has revealed the motivations behind his move in an extraordinary blog post.
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802.11n shipments increase 'dramatically'
Shipments of consumer 802.11n Wi-Fi access points are expected to see a dramatic increase over the next five years, rising from six million this year to 88 million in 2013..
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Microsoft said to eye partners for new Yahoo bid
Microsoft Corp. has approached other media companies about a joint bid for Yahoo Inc., according to a published report on Wednesday.
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