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Technology in the Midlands

west-midlands-map On business and social media sites such as Ecademy, LinkedIn and Twitter I often see networking events, conferences and meetings arranged for technology companies and contractors for the London area. Having had some contact with the North West region as well, I am aware of a reasonable number of telecoms companies, large and small, in that area too. But what about here in the Midlands? Is the demographic different here? Are more people employed in roles outside of the technology arena? Is there less interest in technology here?
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Top Smartphones for 2010

Top Smartphones for 2010
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Some seven months ago in July 2009 http://top10.com/mobilephones/ wrote an article for this site on Top Smartphones for 2009. With the fast pace of mobile telephony I thought it was time to recap on what are now considered the top Smartphones. As well as looking at some of the near future contenders.
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Smartphones of the future

imgres What will the term Smartphone mean in five years time and will today's "Smartphones" replace the current low and mid range phones in the future?

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Professional Membership - Is it worth it?

In the past, as a Technology and Engineering student in the UK, I received literature extolling the virtues of joining a professional institution such as the BCS (British Computer Society) or the IEE and IEEIE (Institute of Electrical Engineers and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Incorporated Engineers, which merged to form the Institute of Engineering and Technology or IET in March 2006).

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No tutorial but new site available

I just thought I would allay any fears. For any one who has been following my iPhone App tutorial blogs you may have noticed that there has been an unusual delay in publishing lesson 6. This is because I have been concentrating on creating a more iPhone App specific website whilst writing the next lesson.

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The end of an era

I've just heard from some old colleagues about the impending closure of their company in Coventry. I have no attachment to the company they work for as it was taken over after I left. However I do know a fair number of the people being affected.
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5(B). Web Data Model

iPhone App displaying result of web data model Lesson 5B. This is the second part of the lesson to look at how to create a data model to sit behind the table created in lesson 4. In this part the data within the model will be extracted from the web.


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Will your iPhone replace your wallet?


iPhone containing wallet 'functionality' Do you remember those old adverts from the eighties when a well known credit card company tried to persuade you to loose the 'fat wallet' in favour of a 'flexible friend'? With the rising popularity and increased functionality of Smartphones will our wallets soon be disappearing altogether?

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5(A). Data Model


iPhone App displaying result of data model Lesson 5A. This is a two part lesson looking at how to create a data model to sit behind the table created in lesson 4. In this part the data model will be created and simply populated by hard coding data. In the second part (5B) the data model will be populated by data from the web.

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4. Table Views and Navigation

iPhone App displaying table list
Lesson 4. This lesson will look at how to create tables on your View and give the user sufficient control to delete and move entries around. It will look at creating multiple tables so that a user can drill down to some information displayed on a second view.

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