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The work may be of some help to programmers, and it could let nonprogrammers manipulate common types of files -- like word-processing documents and spreadsheets -- in ways that previously required familiarity with programming languages.
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Oligopoly: A market in which there are a limited number of providers providing the same service.
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Learning to program isn't for everyone, but people are increasingly saying it should be considered an integral element of digital literacy.
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Steve Ballmer wrote a 2,700-word memo to Microsoft employees on Thursday without answering an obvious question: who is in the pole position to become the next CEO? Several key engineering and business executives will get more important roles under the long-awaited overhaul of Microsoft's corporate organization announced Thursday-and perhaps, along ... (more)
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A spin-off of the personal search service Archify, Blippex aims to use DuckDuckGo-like private searching as an incentive for users to pass webpage engagement information to the service's developers.
10 hrs ago | GigaOM
Mission impossible? Getting Microsoft, famous for infighting, to behave like a grownup and get things done is the goal behind latest reorg.
10 hrs ago | Computing.co.uk
IBM has bought Israeli virtualisation management technology provider CSL International as it looks to bolster its portfolio of cloud technologies and services.
13 hrs ago | This Is London
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15 hrs ago | ComputerWorld
You could sum up most of the history of computing in one word: smaller. Each successive generation of computing devices has been tinier, more energy-efficient and more powerful than the previous one.
17 hrs ago | Get Reading
Former education secretary Lord Kenneth Baker visited Cisco when the company held a taster session for potential students of UTC Reading.
Wed Jul 10, 2013
The 19-year-old high school graduate is the youngest in the company's four-person Information Technologies department.
Real-time data that would be accessible from your geospatial software solution, for traffic, weather or satellite imagery, are one of those allusive promises that you keep hearing about but don't expect to happen any time soon.
ASICs were once the primary FPGA target. Time-to-market pressures and the rising costs of ASIC mask sets were balanced against the higher cost per gate of FPGAs.
Researchers at RENCI and North Carolina State University took home an award at the recent US Ignite Application Summit for demonstrating a prototype next-generation Internet application that monitors large power systems over a wide-area, high-performance communication network.
Since 1993, Jack Dongarra, distinguished prof. of computer science at the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, has led the ranking of the world's top 500 supercomputers.
Security experts warn that current advances in solving a complex problem could make a broad class of public-key crypto systems less secure Security researchers and hackers have always been good at borrowing ideas, refining them, and applying them to create practical attacks out of theoretical results.
"Winning top honors validates our leadership position in providing a software ADC that helps organizations with their application delivery strategy as they shift to virtualization and cloud computing," said Steve Dixon, senior vice president, Asia Pacific and Japan Sales at Riverbed.
Tue Jul 09, 2013
The whole idea of cloud computing is that it's supposed to provide the ability to spin up virtual resources quickly and easily.
Much commentary and reporting on Egypt's evolving crisis depicts these events as a relatively balanced conflict between protestors and supporters of toppled President Mohamed Mursi.
A U.S. government board focused on privacy and civil rights should push Congress to rein in the National Security Agency's mass collection of telephone records and Internet communications, privacy advocates said Tuesday.
