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‘Web 2.0′ has become the one millionth word to be ‘accepted’ into the English language.
That’s according to the Global Language Monitor, a company which sifts the web for neologisms in search of formal recognition. Once a word has been used 25,000 times, it gets the stamp of approval.
French visitors to Disneyland Paris will be able to access venue information by using their phones to snap 2D barcodes.
The so-called Flashcodes – a French take on QR codes, which are big in Japan – will push visitors to a mobile portal containing a range of Disney info such as discount coupons, show times, videos and games.
The UK government has awarded the contract for creating the next generation of British passports to secure-document specialist DeLeRue.
The Identity and Passport Service on Thursday announced the £400m contract for the passports, which will be available to UK citizens from October 2010. The passports will feature new designs and improved security, including the ability to carry fingerprint biometrics.
Business intelligence has enjoyed a boom despite the less than healthy state of the global economy.
According to analyst house Gartner worldwide revenue for technology related to business intelligence, analytics applications and performance management grew by 22 per cent in 2008.
Despite a £75m government plan to roll out 25,000 mobile devices to police forces nationwide by 2010, the majority of forces remain unable to take full advantage of mobile tech.
According to Jan Berry, the Home Office-appointed independent advocate for reducing police bureaucracy, handheld deployments are failing to live up to expectations.
CSC has landed six new deals worth £31m with the Civil Nuclear Police Authority (CNPA) and five UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) companies.
The contracts will see the outsourcer provide the six organisations with a number of infrastructure services including desktop, helpdesk and network support, applications management and database administration.
Security experts have discovered two new attacks targeting Mac users, a new version of a worm and a Trojan hidden inside a porn site.
Sophos on Wednesday discovered a new version of the Mac OS X Tored worm, according to a Sophos blog post.
LTE? Isn’t that a Chinese mobile maker?No, no, that’s ZTE but you’re in the right industry at least. LTE stands for Long Term Evolution – which, in itself, is short for Long Term Evolution of Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network. LTE refers to the likely technical upgrade path for 3G mobile networks.
Upgrade path?LTE is all about the mobile industry defining a standard to enable a move to an all-IP-based, data-centric infrastructure. LTE will also mean a speed boost for mobile networks, with downlink speeds of up to 100Mbps and uplink speeds of up to 50Mbps.
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Orange is aiming to launch its first Android handset for the UK before the end of 2009, and says the phone could even be out in the next three months.
Yves Maitre, Orange’s head of devices, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK at a London event on Thursday that the operator would “definitely” launch an Android phone during this year.
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