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Judge bans Microsoft Word sales
A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m (£175m) for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i.
A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m (£175m) for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i.
The patent relates to the use of XML, a programming language that allows formatting of text and makes files readable across different programs.
XML is integral to Microsoft's flagship word processing software Word.
Texas district court judge Leonard Davis also filed an injunction preventing Microsoft from selling Word.
The row specifically relates to the use of Extensible Mark-up Language, or XML, documents.
You can read more about this story at the BBC News Website
Virgin Media to avoid unachievable speed claims
Virgin Media to avoid unachievable speed claims
Virgin Media are promising to avoid claims of unachievable speeds for its National Broadband product. This is the service that is available if you live in a non-cable broadband enabled area, and is provided using DSL over the phone line like most other broadband providers.
The new marketing for the national products will set out the speed as being "the fastest broadband we can give you" which is largely limited by the distance to the local telephone exchange. The cable broadband service, which it calls fibre optic broadband, will still be listed as providing an "up to" speed based on the product purchased as these are not affected in the same way as the technology limited ADSL based products.
Full story : here
NHS IT needs overhaul, say Tories
NHS IT needs overhaul, say Tories
The Conservatives have said they would create huge cost savings for the NHS by scrapping plans for a central database of patient records.
Their plans would include electronic medical notes being stored locally by GPs and hospitals and patients having online access to their medical records.
They also say NHS trusts would have more choice over new computer systems.
The government said patients were already benefiting from the progress that had been made in online records.
Speaking on Sunday Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said proposals to allow NHS patients access to their records online would give people "greater control over their own health care".
Every patient would have a username and password and IT firms such as Google or Microsoft could host the information.
Users could update their medical records with information like blood pressure and cholesterol levels, he added....
IT unemployment reaches highest level in five years
IT unemployment reaches highest level in five years
Demand for IT professionals falls and short-term recruitment prospects are bleak, says e-Skills report
Unemployment rates in IT reached a five-year high this year and demand for technology professionals has plummeted, according to the latest report by industry skills body e-Skills UK.
The proportion of IT staff out of work during the first three months of 2009 reached 4.8 per cent, the highest since the first quarter of 2004.
Demand for IT professionals has also continued to fall, according to the report, with the number of job ads for permanent staffers falling by 27 per cent, while advertised vacancies for contractors dropped by 32 per cent over the period.
IT strategy and planning professionals suffered the biggest impact, with a seven per cent quarterly decline in employment rates, but web authors and editors were the only occupational group that saw increased demand.
According to the...
The perennial Mars hoax e-mail
The perennial Mars hoax e-mail
Every August e-mails circulate which suggest we are about to have a close encounter with Mars. The e-mails are a hoax, but they say something about our fascination with the Red Planet.
The e-mail seems to promise something truly remarkable.
It often starts: "The Red Planet is about to be spectacular."
It ends with the screaming caps: "NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN."
The message tells of Mars being close to the earth on 27 August, close enough to be as big as the moon with the naked eye.
Sadly, in three weeks' time, on 27 August, Mars will be a long way away. But between then and now, astronomers will be bombarded with questions by curious punters about this close encounter.
"The e-mails and rumours go out every year but it isn't true. It's something we get asked in the planetarium a lot," says Dr Claire Bretherton, astronomy learning officer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich....
IT professionals urged to achieve chartered status to boost projects
IT professionals urged to achieve chartered status to boost projects
New study finds that properly qualified IT professionals are best placed to lead IT projects to success, thus saving money on rectifying mistakes at a later date
Employers in government and industry should put a greater importance on qualified IT professionals to lead and manage major IT projects, according to a significant report by three of the UKs most influential IT membership bodies.
The number of public sector IT projects that fail or generate huge overspends is an issue not just for government, but for the UK IT industry­ and private sector IT has also had its share of disasters.
Solving these high-profile problems could save the taxpayer billions of pounds. According to Engineering Values in IT, a new study from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the British Computer Society (BCS), such failings...
Critical Windows 7 bug risks derailing product launch
Critical Windows 7 bug risks derailing product launch
Oh boy! It appears that Microsofts glowing track record with Windows 7 is about to come to an abrupt and unceremonious end. According to various Web sources, the RTM build 7600.16385 includes a potentially fatal bug that, once triggered, could bring down the entire OS in a matter of seconds. The bug in question -- a massive memory leak involving the chkdsk.exe utility -- appears when you attempt to run the program against a secondary (that is, not the boot partition) hard disk using the "/r" (read and verify all file data) parameter. The problem affects both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and is classified as a "showstopper" in that it can cause the OS to crash (Blue Screen of Death) as it runs out of physical memory.
Full story at InfoWorld.com.
Mainframe skills - the new black ?
Mainframe skills - the new black ?
People possessing mainframe skills will be in high demand by key UK and European employers, says James O'Malley, Senior Director, Mainframe, CA. However, mainframes are changing and new skills are required.
Recent research into 180 organisations across six European countries has demonstrated that the mainframe, a technology platform over 45 years old, remains a lynchpin of enterprise computing. Distributed networks have been integrated with mainframes to handle today's high-demand, 24/7 availability IT requirements.
Whether it's a mobile phone call, visiting the cashpoint or printing bank statements for millions of customers, most large businesses wouldn't survive without their oldest but most reliable computing resource.
Mainframes are also a highly cost-efficient IT option for organisations that want to drive down costs in the current 'down economy'. Far from being a dying breed, IT staff who...
Wake up and smell the certification
Wake up and smell the certification
Individuals are increasingly aware of the value of certification, but smart employers should do too, says Matthew Poyiadgi, European VP of CompTIA. Those that do so do not run the risk of losing their best people as soon as the economic recovery begins.
The IT sector has traditionally been backward in certifying its people. Note that I specifically refer to certifying, not necessarily training. What individuals rather than companies are starting to realise is that training without certification never delivers value for money. The result is that people are no longer relying on their employer to validate their skills, but are taking matters into their own hands.
Full story : here
The top of Cisco Certificate: CCA(Cisco Certified Architect)
The top of Cisco Certificate: CCA(Cisco Certified Architect)
Cisco has released a new certification: CCA, the full name is Cisco Certified Architect, is a more advanced than the CCIE certification. CCA test conditions is very high, the examination fee of U.S. 15,000 to say the least, must have a CCIE or CCDE the title and 10 years relevant industry experience.
Blog: Here
Cisco's Page: Here
-Ken
Is this Cisco's version of the MCA from Microsoft? Well the title and cost of it would make it appear so...
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