8,158 source-backed technology facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 81 of 82.
“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,”
“Icann said it had received 21 requests for IDNs in 11 different languages, including Chinese, Russian, Tamil and Thai.”
“"All three are Arabic script domains, and will enable domain names written fully right-to-left," said Kim Davies of Icann in a blog post.”
“Egypt's communication and information technology minister Tarek Kamal told the Associated Press that three Egyptian companies were the first to receive registrar licences for the '.masr' domain, written in Arabic.”
“When Icann first announced its plans for non-Latin web names it said it was the "biggest change" to the net "since it was invented 40 years ago".”
“All three are Arabic script domains, and will enable domain names written fully right-to-left,”
“Tina Dam, told BBC News that this has been 'the most significant day' since the launch of the internet”
“ICANN first announced its plans for non-Latin web names it said it was the 'biggest change' to the net 'since it was invented 40 years ago'.”
“The Facebook features would be part of the finished Starcraft II when it goes on sale on 17 July.”
“Ushahidi was built amidst the post-election violence in Kenya in 2008 to document the trouble.”
“Ushahidi is a free, online mapping tool that can be used to collect and plot reports coming in from people via e-mail, SMS and Twitter.”
“The two firms announced the alliance - aimed at breaking the dominance of Blackberry - in August 2009.”
“The new software will initially run on Nokia E52 and E72 phones running the Symbian operating system.”
“Microsoft Communicator Mobile has previously been available for phones running Java.”
“The firms will offer phones running Microsoft Office later in the year.”
“It's a cover version of the Isley-Jasper-Isley version from 1985.”
“To date Google has scanned over 12 million books, both in-print and out-of-print, giving it a greater selection of material than either Apple or Amazon.”
“Google said it would make 'millions of books searchable via the web'.”
“The first devices to use the second generation of Atom processors should appear in the second half of 2010.”
“To cut power consumption the processing elements of the chips are separated into 19 power islands, each one of which effectively handles a separate task such as video decoding or audio playback.”
“The parsimonious power consumption suggests, he said, that a smartphone built around the Atom chips would get 10 days of standby power.”
“For the same full battery it could offer 48 hours of audio playback, five hours of 720p video or six hours of 3G calls.”
“This is about Intel's third attempt to do a reference design for phones.”
“They have a not very happy history going back over eight years or so,”
“it was only going to be the smaller chips due in 2011 that would allow them to produce small enough phones.”
“has won two People's Voice gongs for its news website and mobile site”
“It is the sixth year running that the BBC has won the People's award for its news site”
“The Webbys were set up in 1996”
“The 14th Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries”
“Winners will accept their awards with five-word speeches at a ceremony in New York in June”
“The Webbys were set up in 1996 and are predominantly voted on by a 750-member body of web experts”
“The FCC wants to boost net speeds from 4 megabits per second to 100Mbps”
“Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, now accounts for less than 60% of the market, down from 95% at its peak in 2003, according to new figures.”
“Latest statistics, from measurement firm NetApplications, show that IE has 59.9% of the market, with Firefox gaining on it, with 24.5%.”
“While third-place Google Chrome's 6.7% share of the market looks tiny by comparison it is rising sharply, up from just 1.7% this time last year.”
“In the UK, research firm Nielsen suggests that IE still commands 70% of the market, with Mozilla's Firefox on 18%. It does not include figures for Apple's Safari.”
“It still shows a downwards trend for IE, losing 6% of market share since last year.”
“Microsoft introduced browser choice to European Windows users in March.”
“This was the result of a ten-year dispute with the European Union over the fairness of IE being installed as the default browser on billions of computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system.”
“Now customers get the choice of 12 browsers.”
“And with the release of version 9 of Internet Explorer, the battle could really hot up.”
