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• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 11:55

  Black Hat Coverage; Gov 2.0 Summit Preview

  Black Hat Coverage; Gov 2.0 Summit Preview

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 11:48

  Inside Facebook's Open Source Infrastructure

  How does Facebook deliver social networking to 500 million people? It takes a whole lot of storage and some open source goodness.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 11:48

  The 5 Developer Certifications You'll Wish You Had in 2015

  Predicting which IT certifications will be valuable in the future is never easy, but these five certs show promise for tomorrow.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 11:48

  Criteria Queries in JPA 2.0 and Hibernate: The APIs Have It

  Developer-friendly query languages and API sets are the heart of criteria queries features in JPA 2.0 and Hibernate.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 11:48

  The Android Mobile Development Platform: A Reference Guide

  Here's everything you need to know to begin developing applications on the Android platform.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 11:48

  Will the New Perl Development Kit Bring Developers to the New Perl?

  Perl 5.12 has been out since April, and now new tools are coming to market to help developers make use of the open source language. Will it matter? Is anyone actually using Perl 5.12 yet?

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 11:48

  London Stock Exchange CTO Robin Paine leaves

  Robin Paine is leaving the role of CTO at the London Stock Exchange after five years in the post.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 11:00

  Microsoft Launches Office For Mac 2011 Video

  The marketing video highlights user interface enhancements, including a new ribbon that presents users with the commonly used controls, the template gallery and email improvements.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 11:00

  Facebook Launches Q&A Service

  Facebook Questions, launched in a limited beta, allows crowdsourcing of answers to questions on any topic from the 500 million users of the social network.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 11:00

  Panasonic Announces 3D Camera Lens, Camcorder

  The interchangeable lens is actually two small lenses that transmit slightly different viewpoints of a subject to the camera's image sensor.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 10:55

  Essential CIO guide for turning to consultancy

  A career in consulting may seem attractive to IT leaders who have been made redundant or are looking for a new challenge, but there are many factors to consider before taking the plunge.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 10:36

  IBM: The Analytics Revolution

  Optimizing, Reporting and Analytics to Make Actionable Intelligence Pervasive - Business Intelligence Solutions

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 10:17

  IBM: Business analytics and optimization for the intelligent enterprise

  Based on our survey of 225 business leaders worldwide, we found that enterprises are operating with bigger blind spots and that they are making important decisions without access to the right information.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 10:08

  Cardiff University invests £1m in infrastructure upgrade

  Cardiff University has invested £1m in its IT network as part of an ongoing upgrade to its infrastructure.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 10:08

  IBM: The Journey Along an Information-Led Transformation

  Discovering a new kind of intelligence

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 10:02

  Whitepaper: Success in an era of unprecedented volatility

  Sensing patterns to make smarter decisions. Successful organisations will be the ones that see the value in information and realise this value. Ones which spot patterns and anomalies and act on them. Ones which look forward not back to defi..

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 10:00

  BPA Concern At Wal-Mart, Whole Foods And Others

  Environmental group finds alarming amounts of endocrine disruptor bisphenol-A on sales receipts.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 10:00

  Virtualization As An Expansion Strategy

  A law firm uses the technology to improve computing services delivered long distance.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 10:00

  A Flying Car To Debut In 2011

  A company called Terrafugia is expected to start selling ''The Transition'' late next year. Price: $194,000.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 09:45

  LG says Android tablet due out in Q4

  LG Electronics plans to launch its first tablet device in the fourth quarter, running Google's Android mobile software, it said Thursday.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 09:44

  Fujitsu addresses government's 20% cut challenge

  Roger Gilbert took over as CEO of Fujitsu UK & Ireland in April 2009. Since then the parent company has largely merged its UK operations with Fujitsu Telecommunications, bought out German electrical engineering firm Siemens's share of Fujit..

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 09:30

  IBM invests in infrastructure sensing and analysis tech

  IBM will develop technology to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure in a new laboratory it is opening with Carnegie Mellon University.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 09:15

  Nintendo records a loss as DS sales plummet

  Nintendo reported a net loss for the April to June quarter as the strong Japanese yen and weak demand for its products hurt earnings.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 09:10

  Black Hat 2010: Open source tool finds web applications

  Security firm Qualys has launched an open source, web-application fingerprinting engine to identify application and plug-in versions.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 08:48

  Blackberry faces ban in India

  Research In Motion's Blackberry service may be banned in India if the company does not resolve government concerns over security.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 08:45

  TSMC sales, profit hit all-time highs in second quarter

  Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported its best quarterly net profit and sales ever in the second quarter, and predicted the third quarter will be even better.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 08:42

  CSA launches security certification for cloud computing

  The Cloud Security Alliance has unveiled the industry's first user certification programme for secure cloud computing.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 08:35

  Who will win the 3D TV war?

  Some of the biggest names in Japan's technology industry report earnings later today and the likes of Panasonic and Sony are betting on 3D to drive sales of new TVs, DVD players and camcorders.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 08:28

  Sony raises full-year profit forecasts

  The Japanese electronics and entertainment group lifts its annual forecast and beats expectations, as improved demand and aggressive cost cuts countered the impact of a stronger yen

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 08:15

  Zynga gets $150M from Japan's Softbank

  Zynga, the online gaming company best known for its Farmville Facebook game, has received a US$150 million investment from Japanese Internet company Softbank.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 08:15

  Sony back to profit on Bravia, Vaio, PS3 strength

  Sony returned to profitability in the second quarter, helped by strong sales of key products, prompting it to raise its profit outlook for the full year on Thursday.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 08:04

  Government launches website of UK legislation

  The government has launched a website to provide public access to UK legislation dating back to 1267.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 07:50

  Kindle Cost Cut to $139 as Price War Begins

  Amazon.com, the maker of the Kindle e-reader, is introducing two new smaller, lighter versions with high-contrast screens and crisper text.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 06:50

  Apache Pivot: Is this the Future of Java RIA?

  The Apache Software Foundation Blog recently began running a new feature entitled "The ASF Asks", intended to hep raise awareness of some of the Foundation's many projects. A couple of weeks ago, the blog highlighted the Pivot project in an..

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 06:42

  Kent Beck's Test Driven Development Screencasts

  Following the recommendations of Corey Haines, Michael Guterl, James Martin and James Sugrue

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 06:34

  Life in the Time of Java 7

  I’m currently in the process of implementing Seph, and I’ve reached an inflection point. This point is the last responsible moment to choose what I will target with my language. Seph will definitely be a JVM language, but after that there i..

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 06:31

  Testing REST Web Services With JPA and Spring

  REST Web Services can be particularly difficult to test, with the need for networking, a web container, multiple threads and transaction management creating extra complexity beyond your standard unit test. In this article I demonstrate patt..

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 06:24

  Eclipse SDK 4.0: The Journey of a New Platform

  Today is a very exciting and important day for the Eclipse community.  The Eclipse Platform project has released Eclipse SDK 4.0, the next generation of the Eclipse platform.  For technical perspective on the release I point you to Mike Wil..

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 06:21

  Video Technology Added at New Meadowlands Stadium

  With the New Meadowlands Stadium set to give fans free applications, enhanced video and the ability to compete against other fans, is the live game no longer enough?

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 06:20

  Congress Is Rethinking Its Ban on Internet Gambling

  Under pressure to find new revenue sources, Congress is reconsidering legalizing, and taxing, Internet gambling.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 06:00

  Advertising: Fox Uses Previews to Give ‘Lone Star’ Wide Exposure

  A new television series will be seen by Vanity Fair readers, cruise line passengers, hotel guests and iPad owners before its network premiere.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 05:21

  Monitoring Elderly Parents

  New technologies can help adult children keep track of their aging parents.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 05:20

  App Smart: Seeing the World Through Phone Apps Like Goggles and Layar

  The apps work best when analyzing bar codes, labels and other inanimate objects that are easily found in images on the Web.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 05:20

  Learning a Language From an Expert on the Web

  The Internet is changing the way many people learn languages. Books, tapes and CDs are being replaced by e-mail, video chats and social networks.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 05:12

  Pizza Lovers Suffer Data Breach From Hell

  netbuzz writes "Some 230,000 New Zealanders have been informed that their personal information has apparently fallen into the hands of hackers who compromised the network of a locally famous food chain, Hell Pizza. The company says it suspe..

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 05:01

  State of the Art: Nuance Tweaks Its Dictation Software, Wringing Out Errors

  The company Nuance offers a new version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, proving that even near-monopolies like to tinker with their products.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 04:18

  Corning’s Income Soars 49% on Strong Glass Sales

  Strong sales of its glass for flat-panel televisions, computers and mobile devices helped profit rise 49 percent in the second quarter.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 04:18

  Sprint Nextel Reports Gain in Subscribers

  Despite the overall gain in customers, the wireless phone provider posted a quarterly loss because of tax issues.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 04:06

  Telefónica Wins Full Control of Brazil Phone Venture

  The $9.75 billion deal should end a dispute between Telefónica and Portugal Telecom over their joint cellphone operation in Brazil.

• Thursday, 29-July-2010 | 04:00

  Amazon offers new look UK Kindle

  Online retailer Amazon launches its popular Kindle e-reader into the UK market for the first time, with a new look and more books.

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