We will be co-presenting a session with Adam Vile from Excelion on ‘Data Cache dealing with the compromises’ at the Waters UK ‘Managing the Grid’ Event on 25th September.
Technology body ISO granted official standard status to Microsoft Open Office XML (OOXML). Although more than two thirds of its members gave their approval there still could be a twist in the tail yet, as the European Commission look at Microsoft’s lobbying of members as part of a wider antitrust investigation.
One of the quickest way to make existing sites work for the Iphone is wrap them in an IFrame. You can even use this method as a quick fix for your own site by checking for the browser and then doing a redirect using the IFrame.
We’ve been doing quite a lot of Iphone work lately and one of the things we wanted to be able to do was to redirect to an Iphone application if the device was an Iphone.
This is easily done use mod rewrite and JavaScript but what if you are using PHP ? Well, we use the following code to redirect a PHP page:
Even GS, who managed to sidestep the Sub Prime horror, and who announced a 22 per cent profit hike in 2007 is cutting jobs. Rumours are that it is going to be 5% of their workforce or 1500 people.
This appears to be a signal that it sees no end in sight to the credit crunch. This comes on top off Morgan Stanley axing 1000 staff and Citigroup and Merrill also making sweeping changes.
We’ ve updated our bookmarks site to be Iphone / Mobile enabled. This piece of work involved providing an Iphone Interface for the core Scuttle open-source bookmarks manager. Check out the video below to see the results.
Well….old news now but Sun have acquired MySQL - interesting move and blind-sided everyone - A good acquisition for Sun we think although Sun have not got a good history of assimilating software vendors - it will give Oracle food for thought……
IBM has acquired Cognos, the Candadian intelligence vendor, for $5 billion - its largest ever deal. Seemingly this was inevitable after the Hyperion acquisition by Oracle.
Computer problems at the London Stock Exchange threw the FTSE Index into disarray. A technical glitch in it’s real-time data distribution system, Infolect, resulted in the index appearing to have climbed by 2% when in fact it has fallen by 1.3%. The LSE took the unprecedented measure of extending trading by an hour after its connectivity issues emerged.
The average British adult has, uknowingly, had their details recorded on 700 Databases with many different organizations.
In a report, “The New Politics of Personal Information” it is stated that people are losing control of how many organizationshold their personal data because “more and more are willing to give away information in exchange for the benefits they get in return.”
The report goes on to say that as well as government databases other organizations such as supermarket loyalty cards gather and share personal data.
The preotection of this information leaves a lot to be desired as we have seen from the Child Benefit lost data scandal, and now the DVLA admitting losing two discs with 6000 people’s details on it. How much more has gone missing that we are unaware of I wonder ?
Consider registering with a credit reference agency such as experian (experian.co.uk) who can instantly inform you of searches on your credit status which often happen during an identity fraud transaction.