The online trading community will grow to 8.6 million people in the next six months, according to research firm Gomez Advisors and polling firm Harris Interactive. With 5.1 million online investors holding 11.2 million accounts through 140 Web...
For things like screening tests for basic literacy and numeracy, it means prisoners won't have to go through these tests time and time again, which means staff time is saved and the whole system will be speeded up.
Speaking at the launch, Graham Wallace, CEO of Cable & Wireless, said he hoped the project will ensure the deaf community doesn't become marginalised by the digital economy. Deafax Trust - a charity for the hard of hearing - has launched a Web...
However, targeting the consumer market before testing technology on the business community is a foreign concept to the technology industry - one Grant argued they must break through. Dr Michael Grant, principal consultant at Analysys, argued the...
This statement appears to contradict what the EC said last year - that the EPO would continue to grant software patents that make a technical contribution, despite the European parliament's decision to reject the software patent directive.
The UK IPO interpreted the Macrossan and Aerotel judgments as meaning it could not grant patents to computer programs at all. Hot on its heels comes a second judgment, in which Autonomy Corporation appealed against the UK IPO's refusal to grant a...