Data has been around for many years it has seen transformations over the centuries from being stored on stones and paintings in caves to pen and paper, typewriters reovlutionizing the time to generate documents of data. In the last 3 years, the current incarnation of data has seen huge storage capacity boosts from relatively...
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Tags: Data, ERP, information, management, Storage
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Something tells me I missed an article or two, either that or Orange and T-Mobile opted to keep their merger quiet. A few people whom I talk to who usually are up to speed on the mobile phone industry even seem to have not caught on. The merger in May created a new company...
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Tags: 2G, 3G, Everything Everywhere, Mobile Network, Orange, Super network, T-Mobile, Wifi
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Sky has made a purchase from Virgin Media worth £160Million to get the Virgin TV services. How this has not lead to an OFT investigation of breach of competition rules I do not know. With the sale complete, Sky has managed to secure itself a major monopoly on pay for TV service. Sky have...
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Tags: Competition, Monopoly, OFT, Sky TV, Virgin Media
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The world of quantum physics has been involved in the world of security. However a security breach is possible. Researchers have spent probably a huge portion of their time experimenting on techniques to be able to publish a paper indicating a vulnerability in a Quantum Cryptographic system. They in essence have shown it is...
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Tags: Cryptography, Quantum, security
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X-Ray scanners at airports could soon be a thing of the past. The new system would look at the skeleton and be able to accurately identify people based on that. At as much as 50 meters away from the scanner also. In an ideal world, this could make getting through airport security much quicker....
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Tags: Airport, Scanner, security, Skeleton, terrorism, XRay
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AutoDesk has made a decision to return to supporting multiple platforms. In 1994 they dropped support for non Windows machines leaving many designers unable to get a hold of the industry leading software. However that has changed. The company has plans to release new versions for Apple based equipment. Apple Desktop and Laptop users...
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Tags: apple, autodesk, cad, ipad, iphone, ipod
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Oxford University Press, the publisher behind the Oxford English Dictionary has stated that no decisions have been made about the format of the 3rd Edition of the Dictionary, which has been worked on since 1989. However comments by the CEO unveil that there is doubts that the latest revision of the dictionary will never...
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Tags: Books, Dictionary, English, ipad, kindle, OED, Oxford, Printed
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Telsa Coil Style Bulb The tesla coil is designed to produce high voltage, high current, high frequency ac electricity. It doesn’t sound like something that is a good idea to microwave. Giant Electra Bulbs Next up on the list is the Giant Electra Bulb as the video shows, it makes an impressive amount of...
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The Commodore 64 which became the best selling computer ever built in the world is due to make a remarkable return to the shelves. The all in one enclosed computer system is being retrofitted by Commodore USA. Intel Atom 525 CPU 4GB DDR3 Memory 1TB Hard Drive Optional BluRay Drive The new PC64 as...
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Tags: C64, Commodore 64, PC64, rebrand
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In a green initiative by the mobile industry, ranking phones by how environmentally friendly they are, Apple has refused to participate. Many other phones have been ranked, with Sony Ericsson’s Elm ranking at position number 1. Several phones weigh in on joint second place. The survey requires that the manufacturer answer a set of...
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Tags: apple, Efficicency, Energy, Enviromentally, iphone, Mobile Phone
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