A handful of people who bid in the disastrous C-Block PCS auction in 1996 plan to participate in the upcoming 700MHz contest, despite warning signs indicating the potential for similar troubles.
U.S. officials applauded the outcome of this week's NETmundial conference on Internet governance while downplaying its strong language on surveillance and disagreements on net neutrality.
Yahoo has acquired SkyPhrase, a natural language processing startup, in a move that could improve Yahoo's ability to make sense of user queries and commands across any number of Yahoo products.
Microsoft Monday said it was working with a set of partners to create a standard modeling language designed to help corporations better manage their infrastructure.
Malware experts from Kaspersky Lab have asked the programming community for help identifying the programming language, compiler or framework that was used to write an important part of the Duqu Trojan, in the hope that it could reveal clues about who created it or why.
Ten major IT vendors including Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. on Monday released a draft of a new specification, the service modeling language, which they claim will make it easier for customers to manage their heterogenous systems.
Amazon Web Services now offers a hosted version of the R programming language, providing an easy way for individuals and organizations to start and test their big-data-styled analysis projects.
As the chief open-source officer at Sun, Simon Phipps has been busy in recent months with various open-source initiatives. The company released OpenSolaris, the open-source version of its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, last year, and more recently unveiled plans to make its Java programming language open-source. In an interview with Computerworld, Phipps last week talked about Sun's upcoming open-source strategy and about what he called the incorrect view that Sun isn't fully committed to open-source so
The RSA Conference 2004 is up and running in San Francisco this week, and at the show can be seen several fresh approaches to security problems. Most exciting is Application Vulnerability Description Language, which over the last year has emerged as a standard way for security companies to define vulnerabilities and share information about them. It gets everyone on the same page about security holes, and this show is its time to shine.
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Wacom has grand designs for a new graphical language that, it says, will allow input and sharing of writing movements across multiple platforms, with or without one of its trademark digital styluses.
Just days after Microsoft warned its customers about the release of code that can exploit a hole in its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) library, new code that claims to exploit another recently disclosed hole surfaced on a French language Web site.
Job hopping for bigger pay or a better IT job title was a common practice in the boom economy, but executive recruiters are now looking for C-level executives who are committed to the growth of an organization. That's according to the results of a survey from NETSHARE, a subscription-based executive job site for senior executives earning $100,000 or more.
Bhutan, a country of 700,000 inhabitants that sits between China and India, now has its own Debian-based operating system in the national language, Dzongkha.
Microsoft has tied up with the government of the Indian state of Orissa to support computing in the local Oriya language, under a program called Project Bhasha. Bhasha is the Oriya word for language.
As you’ve probably heard, the 700MHz auction is over, netting a record $19 billion. And the winners are (surprise, surprise) Verizon and AT&T, which cleaned up the C-block, spending $16 billion between them.
We'll continue today with our brief historical review on factors that have contributed to the evolution of unified communications and collaboration, picking up where we left off last time when we discussed how carriers first chose to use Voice over IP in the PSTN -- focusing on how the IP PBX came into being.
Continuing our mini-series, today we will discuss unified messaging, unified communications and the importance of presence as contributors to the evolution of unified communications and collaboration.
Today we'll continue our mini-series on the evolution of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) with a discussion on how video became part of the equation. As with other components of UC&C, the road to telepresence and other video-over-IP solutions was crafted with several building blocks.
Today we'll add the fifth dimension to our brief historical review as we discuss how fixed mobile convergence (FMC) has become integral to unified communications and collaboration (UC&C). First, we must start with a definition for FMC beginning with what it is not: FMC is not the substitution of a mobile phone service for a wired desktop phone. Rather, FMC incorporates mobile devices and mobile networks into the UC&C ecosystem -- providing collaborative applications equally well on a wired desktop station
Today, we'll wrap up our summer series on the evolutionary history behind unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) with a quick topical recap, some analysis of what brought each of the five elements into the UC&C portfolio, and a brief look at what we expect to be the most dynamic factors affecting UC&C in the coming year.
Little did Netscape's Lou Montulli know, when he sat down in June 1994 to create a way for a server to keep track of a user's visits, that his invention would become one of the most despised objects in the Web-based services world.