6,872 source-backed technology facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 67 of 69.
“But Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen described Mr Job's letter as a 'smokescreen' and said the decision had made it 'cumbersome' for developers who were forced to have 'two workflows'.”
“Adobe has said it will stop making the tools.”
“"We publish the specifications for Flash — meaning anyone can make their own Flash player," it reads.”
“"If the web fragments into closed systems, if companies put content and applications behind walls, some indeed may thrive - but their success will come at the expense of the very creativity and innovation that has made the internet a revol…”
“"In the end, we believe the question is really this: Who controls the world wide web? And we believe the answer is: nobody — and everybody, but certainly not a single company."”
“In response to the letter, an Apple spokesperson said that the firm also believes in 'open web standards' such as HTML5, the latest version of a programming language used to build web pages. 'Flash is not an open web standard like HTML. It…”
“In early April, Apple also clamped down on the tools that it allowed developers to use to create applications for the iPhone and iPad. By changing the terms of the licence that software developers must sign when writing code to run on Appl…”
“Mr Jobs described Adobe's software - used on many websites for video and animations - as a "closed system" and "100% proprietary". [...] Amongst other criticisms, he also said Flash performed poorly when used on touchscreen smartphones and…”
“No company - no matter how big or how creative - should dictate what you can create, how you create it, or what you can experience on the web.”
“The software - Creative Suite 5 -contained tools that automatically translate Flash code into programs that will run on Apple gadgets.”
“Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen described Mr Job's letter as a 'smokescreen' and said the decision had made it 'cumbersome' for developers who were forced to have 'two workflows'.”
“We publish the specifications for Flash — meaning anyone can make their own Flash player.”
“In early April, Apple also clamped down on the tools that it allowed developers to use to create applications for the iPhone and iPad.”
“Mr Jobs later justified the changes in his letter by saying that experience had shown that it could result in 'sub-standard ' applications.”
“Flash is not an open web standard like HTML. It is a proprietary Adobe product. Just ask the W3 consortium that controls web standards - they have chosen HTML5 as the open web standard to move forward with.”
“Up to 100,000 copies of Saving Private Ryan in Blu-ray format have been recalled because of an audio error.”
“Copies of Saving Private Ryan on Blu-ray without the fault are expected to be available by 18 May.”
“The problem has been blamed on Technicolor, the company which transfers films into the latest Blu-ray format.”
“to bring super-fast services to two-thirds of the UK.”
“were due to reach around 40% of the population by 2012.”
“A £1bn investment will see the project roll out to a further 20% of the population by 2015.”
“The first four million people will be connected by the end of the year.”
“The telco had previously committed to spend £1.5bn on its fibre network by 2012 but is now able to invest a further £1bn, said Ms Garfield.”
“She said of the 66% of the population who will have access to the fibre network, one quarter will have fibre to the home.”
“has had enquiries from 200 other villages keen to do the same thing.”
“That will have download speeds of 100 Mbps and uploads of 30 Mbps, she told BBC News.”
“This will offer download speeds of 40Mbps, said Ms Garfield.”
“BT is now ready to invest another £1bn in superfast broadband, said chief executive, Ian Livingston.”
“BT said the £1bn investment, on top of an already announced £1.5bn spend, would mean two thirds of UK homes would have access to super-fast broadband by 2015.”
“It said four million homes will have access to superfast broadband by the end of this year.”
“Entertainment Weekly said there would be no announcement at a 17 May autumn schedule presentation given by the show's makers Fox to advertisers.”
“Though the show remains TV's number one programme, the ratings are down, making the judges' panel a natural target," he said.”
“An online security company has suggested that 8,000 tickets for World Cup matches are currently being traded online, for prices of thousands of pounds.”
“BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, analysed the results of a survey of 35,000 people around the world.”
“Tyre sizes are restricted to 33 inches”
“Microsoft Office Web Apps will be available to more than 500 million people using free Windows Live services such as Hotmail, online storage Skydrive and Live Messenger.”
“Microsoft's free 25 Gigabyte online storage service”
“Microsoft dominates the office software space, with a market share of more than 94%, according to Gartner.”
“Microsoft has said that the suite will be offered free to its 400 million Windows Live users.”
“The software for PCs and phones was launched at an event in New York on 12 May.”
“Google Chrome OS will be released in the second half of 2010”
“Google Docs currently has a small (4%) but growing share of the market.”
“Business customers will be able to use it straight away, whilst home users in the UK will have to wait until 15 June to buy the full version.”
“43% of software in use worldwide is pirated, says the BSA”
“According to Victor Lim, a vice president at IDC, which carried out the research with the BSA, close to 60% of the 900 million pieces of software in use in the Asia Pacific region are unlicensed.”
“the letter represented Google's "full response" to the concerns raised by ten privacy commissioners from around the world, including the UK, Canada and France.”
“We do not get everything 100% right - that is why we acted so quickly on Google Buzz”
“Respecting privacy is a part of every Googler's job”
“It called on Google to collect and process the minimum amount of personal information required for a service, to be clear about how it would be used and to ensure that privacy settings were default and easy to use.”
“"Ten years ago we said it would happen far in the future," said Mr Pawlick.”
“IPv6 tracking services suggest that less than 1% of the net's top one million websites run IPv6.”
“the joint capacity of the two Streams should reach 118bn cubic metres of gas a year”
“Twitter has fixed a major bug that saw many users of the service appear to lose all of their followers and friends.”
“Twitter allows users to post messages - known as tweets - up to 140 characters long.”
“Twitter has exploded in popularity since 2007, when it was launched, and now has more than 100 million users.”
“The flaw only worked on the website and not through third-party software used to access the service, such as Tweetdeck.”
“A Turkish man known as bilo31 originally posted details of the so-called 'follow bug'.”
“He explained on a Turkish website that he has little knowledge of computer programming, and had stumbled on the flaw by accident.”
“The new bug allowed many people to force celebrities, such as Lady Gaga, to follow them by simply typing 'accept @ladygaga'.”
“"We identified and resolved a bug that permitted a user to 'force' other users to follow them," the site said in a blog post.”
“Twitter quickly closed the loophole but was forced to temporarily reset many accounts as it cleaned up the damage.”
“It could have easily allowed spammers to insert messages into thousands of accounts.”
“The exploit - now fixed - exploited the site's privacy settings and allowed users to eavesdrop on their friends' live chats and see their pending friend requests.”
“won him his first Bafta 34 years ago.”
“won the Bafta for playing Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant in 1976.”
“Julie Walters, David Mitchell, Harry Hill, Sophie Okonedo and Miranda Hart have two nominations each.”
“They are the 13th and 14th nominations for Walters at the TV Baftas.”
“She has two best actress nominations for her performances in Mo - in which she played former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam, and A Short Stay in Switzerland.”
“her first TV nomination for BBC Four's Enid”
“Rebecca Hall for Red Riding 1974”
“Hill has won the entertainment performance Bafta two years running”
“Harry Hill has been nominated for entertainment performance for his TV Burp show for the third year running”
“first-time nominee Michael McIntyre”
“In his second nomination, David Mitchell's That Mitchell and Webb Look”
“Coronation Street returns after two years without a nomination”
“The Bill, now in its final series”
“Five Minutes in Heaven”
“One Born Every Minute”
“It is estimated that for every landmine found, 150 false alarms have to investigated - a time-consuming and risky exercise.”
“Minehound produces only 20 false alarms for each mine found thanks to its combination of ground penetrating radar and metal detector.”
“Inmarsat is also on the shortlist for the award for its creation of the Broadband Global Area Network service that offers broadband speeds of 500kbps and simultaneous voice anywhere in the world.”
“His firm also has an eight-person 'integrity' team, which is part of a bigger anti-money laundering team.”
“It featured one of the world's first escalators in 1898.”
“Apple has announced that its iPad tablet computer will go on sale in nine countries outside the US on 28 May.”
“The consumer gadget was launched in the US domestic market on 3 April.”
“Customers will be able to pre-order the device in the different markets from 10 May.”
“On 4 May, Intel unveiled the family of chips it hopes will be used in tablet computers that will go on sale towards the end of the year.”
“Many other companies, including Dell, Nokia and Toshiba, are planning to release tablet computers in 2010.”
“The report added that 'A central process must be implemented to ensure that sufficiently secure and transparent e-voting solutions that have been tested and approved can be selected by local authorities.'”
“The tests involved a robot arm weighing 14kg and a 1.1m reach that was equipped with a variety of bladed household tools including a steak knife, kitchen knife, scissors and screwdriver.”
“Striking, stabbing and puncturing tests with the safety system turned off were performed on the silicone and pig leg.”
“Injuries were significantly reduced when the prototype collision detection system developed by the trio was switched on. This system uses torque sensors to spot when it has hit a different substance and halts movement.”
“The results of the study were presented at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, held in Alaska in early May.”
“Three researchers from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German aerospace agency wanted to carry out the tests because they envisage a future in which robots will start to become domestic helpers.”
“The tech-based Nasdaq index said it was scrutinising trades made between 2pm and 3pm.”
“More than 20 countries have requested approval for international domains from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).”
“it's been a very big day for Icann, more so for the three Arabic countries that were the first to be introduced”
“three Egyptian companies were the first to receive registrar licences for the '.masr' domain, written in Arabic.”
“since it was invented 40 years ago”
“Over half the internet users around the world don't use a Latin-based script as their native language,”
