Ireland's university staff have received recent pay increases of up to 19%, the Sunday Tribune can reveal. And because the rise was due to be implemented two years ago, many top-brass and professors are currently receiving backdated payments as well. The huge increases at a time of widespread cutbacks in the education sector have been criticised by the Irish Federation of University Teachers. The...
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Frontier Oil Corporation (NYSE: FTO) announced that Paul Eisman, Executive Vice President Refining and Marketing Operations, will retire from the Company effective November 1, 2009. There will be no successor to Mr. Eisman at this time, and his responsibilities will be assumed by Frontier’s existing management team. Frontier President and CEO, Mike Jennings, commented,...
Following his blog last week about the home-made hard disk destroyer, Bustadrive, Mike Jennings was deluged with comments from readers, both on the blog and here on Slashdot. Most seemed to like the product, but also offered up far more innovative and madcap methods of hard disk destruction, with a wide range of implements used — household and otherwise.
Barence writes "Following his blog last week about the home-made hard disk destroyer, Bustadrive, Mike Jennings was deluged with comments from readers, both on the blog and here on Slashdot. Most seemed to like the product, but also offered up far more innovative and madcap methods of hard disk destruction, with a wide range of implements used — household and otherwise. In this follow-up...
Times have changed for the State’s university lecturers with increasing scrutiny of their role and a more corporate approach to third-level education. General Secretary Mike Jennings must now lead their union through turbulent waters, writes .
The UK's Telegraph Media Group is hiring Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Android developer advocate Mike Jennings away to lead its mobile engineering team - one of two appointments as the news publisher beefs up its wireless commitment. Canadian-born Jennings had been with Google since 2006, first as a software engineer, then traveling around Europe to help developers understand the new platform, including...
Help out an old friend of YARS, Mike Jennings and his fellow writers at PC Pro magazine as they take on a set of insane blags! PC Pro magazine challenges five of its writers with a simple task: buy a PC for £250. Each is taking a different approach to the problem, however, with one trying to buy a PC off the high-street, another looking online, a third investing in a second-hand system and a...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Frontier Oil Corp. said Wednesday its Chief Financial Officer Mike Jennings will become president and chief executive officer on Jan. 1. The current CEO Jim Gibbs will remain chairman of Frontier's board until at least Jan. 1, 2010. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on...
Google unveiled its new “Google phone”, along with its Android operating system, at the company’s Developer Day conference, giving attendees a brief glance of how to design software for the new device.The official launch of the “Google Phone” is set for next Tuesday in New York.Mike Jennings, a member of the Android operating system development team, led a brief demonstration...
TechRadar reports Google showed off a Android handset in London: The new handset, shown off by Google's Mike Jennings at Wembley Stadium, looked very much like the HTC Dream, but had its branding covered up. Jennings demonstrated Google maps, though there was no Street View data of London (if that feature will be available, it's very exciting). Jennings also spoke about carriers: "a lot of [them]...
As T-Mobile finished handing off a round of press invites to its Android event next week, Google was busy having a bit of Android fun as well. At a developer event held earlier this week in London, Google’s Mike Jennings gave quite the demo - showcasing a few apps and even displaying an app that [...]
Some shaky footage of Mike Jennings demonstrating a working Android mobile phone for "the first time in Europe" at the Google Developers Day in London. Jennings demonstrates browsing Google Maps on the phone (about 43 seconds into the video). __________
While at the Google Developer day in London this morning, Mike Jennings demonstrated a full working Android-powered smartphone that’s said to be looking a lot like the HTC Dream. The handset seems to be in its final stages, though the software itself has some hiccups of its own. But judging from what’s been demoed, it [...]
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