John Naughton

Type: Person

Name: John Naughton

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Why big IT projects go wrong

LONDON. May 5. KAZINFORM - In 1975, a computer scientist named Fred Brooks published one of the seminal texts in the literature of computing. It had the intriguing title of "The Mythical Man-Month" and it consisted simply of a set of essays on the art ... [Published Kazinform - May 04 2013]

Entities: Fred Brooks, IBM Corp, Levi Strauss

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Maryland has its own Kermit Gosnell

Deborah Simmons rightly indicts the state of Pennsylvania for letting the house of horrors operated by abortionist Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia continue for decades (?A doctor with a perverted view of life and death,? Web, April 17). Pennsylvania is ... [Published Washington Times - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Leroy Carhart, Kermit Gosnell, Maryland Board of Physicians, John Naughton

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 1 reports

IBM Corp

Why big IT projects always go wrong

Fred Brooks's 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month is essential reading for any company boss about to embark upon a costly software projectIin 1975, a computer scientist named Fred Brooks published one of the seminal texts in the literature of computing. ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: Fred Brooks, IBM Corp, Levi Strauss

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Allied Completes Major Furnace Repair

Allied Glass Containers Ltd has recently successfully completed a major investment programme at its Knottingley site, which involved a complete melter and forehearth rebuild. The project, which started in January has resulted in a larger furnace with ... [Published Glass on Web - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Process Control, Combustion, John Naughton, Oxyfuel

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 14 2013 - 1 reports

Facebook Inc

Cash is on the line when Facebook comes calling…

Facebook has more than a billion users, and is bidding to reach more by a smartphone takeover – with a twistInfectious diseases, says the World Health Organisation , "are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi; ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: Facebook Inc, Patent, Google Android, Bandwidth

First reported Apr 07 2013 - Updated Apr 07 2013 - 1 reports

Dick Olver

Computer-mad children turn to volunteers to fill schools IT gap

Tech bosses have decried the poor IT content in the national curriculum, but here and abroad, mentors from the industry (and kids) are doing it for themselvesWhen David Jay became frustrated by his inability to find out what was on the school lunch menu, ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 07 2013]

Entities: Dick Olver, Michael Gove, Teaching

First reported Mar 10 2013 - Updated Mar 10 2013 - 1 reports

Online, some are more equal than others

Much is made of the internet being a level playing field. Tell that to the kids in Ghana…A few years ago, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman published a bestselling book with the title The World is Flat . In it he used the concept of "flatness" ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 10 2013]

Entities: Ghana, Thomas Friedman, Accra, Censorship, John Naughton

First reported Mar 03 2013 - Updated Mar 03 2013 - 1 reports

Even Google won't be around for ever, let alone Facebook

In the world of internet technology a company can go from zero to hero in a very short timeSome years ago, when the Google Books project, which aims to digitise all of the world's printed books, was getting under way, the two co-founders of Google were ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 03 2013]

Entities: Facebook Inc, Google Inc, Microsoft Corporation, Social Network

First reported Jan 27 2013 - Updated Jan 27 2013 - 1 reports

What obstacles will we have to overcome before self-driving cars become the norm?

Following this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), consensus from some was that the absence of battles years past (such as those between HD-DVD and BluRay) yielded little excitement . But one trend made headlines before the show began . In anticipation, ... [Published The Next Web - Jan 27 2013]

Entities: John Naughton, Augmented Reality, Toyota Motor Corporation, Consumer Electronics Show

First reported Dec 23 2012 - Updated Dec 23 2012 - 1 reports

Will the internet end up controlled by big business and politicians?

Its birth heralded a new age of intellectual freedom. Now the internet is under seige It's all about control. Of course, nobody uses that particular term. The talk is always about "governance" or "regulation", but really it's about control. Ever since ... [Published Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Dec 23 2012]

Entities: Cyberspace, Mark Zuckerberg, Adolph Zukor, Facebook Inc

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...Don't forget that as Sir Tim Berners-Lee remarked to John Naughton recently , "there are 200 million people in the world who think facebook is the internet" . Some people really love using Facebook

Facebook phones Home: Zuckerberg may have made a very smart move | Charles Arthur [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 04 2013]

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