Curriculum vitae, work experience, references, skills inventory, resume: all describe a source of information where people can condense the vital information about themselves into a single document for interested parties to examine. The idea is giving people an overview they can sort through in order to weigh your merits and strengths against their needs, as well as to get an idea of how you present yourself.
We hand pick a few of the last 7 days’ weird, quirky and just plain funny tech happenings…
Give the people what they want
See what happens when you let the public decide things? Derby’s got its newest road: named after Lara Croft.
The US patent cites the award is for: "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network".
The development means Facebook could sue Twitter – which is essentially one giant news feed – for copyright infringement.
The report by psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos recommends games consoles are sold with parental controls already switched on.
This would mean buyers (parents in the case of children) would have to actively have to choose to ‘unlock’ the console to let it access adult and online content.
Angelica Mari, Computing, Friday 26 February 2010 at 14:25:00
And technology integration is on track
Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has reduced its yearly IT spend by six per cent to £1.2bn as the financial giant continues to integrate Lloyds TSB and HBOS.
Angelica Mari, Computing, Friday 26 February 2010 at 14:22:00
User’s entire account deactivated following dispute with social media management firm
A Computing blogger has had several hundred videos wiped from his YouTube account after a dispute over footage he posted of an audience at a stand-up comedy show.
The X90 will cost £329.99 and has a intelligent Zoom function, claimed to boost the focal length to ’4225mm’.
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It’s just a rumour, so don’t get too excited, but there’s news afoot that the Appple iPad will retail for £389 when it hits the UK shores.
The base 16GB WiFi iPad is set for a £389 bracket, the 32GB WiFi model will be available for £439 and the 64GB WiFi version is aiming for a salty £489.
