Reorganization is to blame for 250 IT, sales, marketing, finance and support job cuts today in Dell Ireland, apparently.
A report on Silicon Republic said the move means that the firm’s Irish headcount will drop to 4,250 within nine months. Dell Ireland said that no manufacturing jobs would go.
The firm said it is looking to slash […]
1. St. Francis Dam, 1928
Self-taught engineer William Mulholland built this LA dam on a defective foundation and ignored the geology of the surrounding canyon. He also dismissed cracks that formed as soon as the reservoir behind it was filled. Five days later, it ruptured, killing 450 people and destroying entire towns (along with Mulholland’s career).
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The world is soon entering the era of the mobile Web with mobile phones acting as the ubiquitous window to the World Wide Web, also doubling as e-wallets, education devices, and more.
Possibly because of this, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of IBM’s India Research Labs, Big Blue has unveiled a new initiative to […]
At IBM’s annual Impact SOA bash last week, software group head Steve Mills stated that the next frontier for SOA is really not a frontier at all: it’s the basic blocking and tackling of getting Enterprise Service Bus backbones to deliver the high levels of ACID reliability and fault recovery now taken for granted with […]
Tim Bray, the co-creator of XML turned Ruby on Rails enthusiast, has told developers to face up to lingering performance problems in the scripting stack.
In a keynote at the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference last week, Bray called Rails “a big deal, a hot deal”. And the Sun Microsystems director of web technologies is walking it […]
DMW Technologies (P) Limited launcher an API to extract all possible information from any IP. You can sign up for free for the API at http://geoip.dmwtechnologies.com
We call it IP Intelligence. It is an open source API which can determine country, state/region, city, US area code, metro code, latitude, and longitude information for IP […]
The Standish Group (Who’s that?) is reporting that open source is robbing those poor, starving proprietary software companies of $60 billion in revenue each year. From the report:
Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion […]
CodeGear, the developer tools arm of Borland Software, has upgraded its tool set for PHP developers.
The company announced Delphi for PHP 2.0 on April 14. Delphi for PHP is an IDE (integrated development environment) for rapidly building interactive Web applications using visual drag-and-drop design capabilities. The product also features a PHP component framework.
CodeGear officials […]
A small set of PHP files to support using the Microsoft AJAX Library with PHP web applications. The current release supports creating web service proxies in PHP code such that the Microsoft AJAX Library (a free download from http://ajax.asp.net) can call them from client-side code. Future releases will support localization and globalization, debug and […]
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I recently downloaded GoogleHacks from the official Google Site. To my astonishment, AVG Free Version detected “Trojan Horse Agent.TGL” in the GoogleHacks.exe.
The only logical explanation I can come up with is that Google wants to know what all you search, just like they do with your web search. I understand its necessary to find […]
