Introduced in April's budget, the legislation aimed to prevent contractors from exploiting what the government alleges is a legal loophole whereby they can declare themselves one-person service companies to avoid paying full levels of tax.
Software developer Stratumsoft has received £3.6m funding from equity group Murray Johnstone to develop and design cyber 'people'. The internet software company develops 3D-imaging for use on retail and entertainment websites, but they are now...
MMS will need to interoperate with other messaging services
messages can vary greatly in size and content
there will be a higher emotional attachment to message content
non person-to-person applications will be increasingly important
With so many overlapping standards, (the vendors are) killing the ability to have real interoperability. If Microsoft, Sun and other web services providers can't find compromises for overlapping standards proposals, customers may need to rely on...
There is the well-trotted-out characterisation of the typical Nextel PTT user being a construction worker on a site or real estate agent out in the field - and that's not uncommon - but plenty of users are your average consumer who wants a...
Although the idea has been bandied about for years, the actual scenarios in which people might use these sorts of services are beginning to gel. By timing how long it takes signals to go from the satellites to a person, a handheld containing a GPS...