First Portable Telephone Call Made 40 years Ago Today
Forty years ago today, Motorola announced that Martin Cooper, director of system operations at its Communication’s Systems Division, made the world’s first public call (pdf) in Manhattan on its Dyna T-A-C (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) Portable Radio Telephone System.
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The War For Talent Continues For Engineers In Europe
A low graduation rate and aging workforce is causing a “severe” shortage of technical professionals.
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Biggest Bitcoin Exchange Halts Trading After Price Plummets
For the last month, Bitcoin has been growing fat on the vine, like an over-watered grape in July. But the fun is now over. The fruit has burst and all of the juices are running out.
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The 3rd Embedded Operating Systems Workshop
EWiLi, the embedded operating system workshop, aims at presenting state-of-the-art research, experimentations, significant and original realizations that focus on the design and implementation of embedded operating systems in both academic and industrial worlds.
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Should Data Collection Be Taxed?
A proposal in France would tax the gathering of online personal data.
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