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Embarcadero's new IDE enhancements - a sneaky peak
Blog It’s not just Microsoft Office making waves with a 2010 release product push just now you know? Database tools player Embarcadero is currently showcasing ‘sneaky peaks’ of its RAD Studio 2010 IDE enhancements, which it hopes will up the ante in...
[August 5, 2009, 8:56]
Virtualisation surfs the plateau of productivity
Blog The hype cycle curve goes as follows: it starts with invention, rocketing to the summit of the peak of inflated expectations, plunges into the trough of disillusionment, climbs up the slope of enlightenment and finally levels out on the plateau of...
[August 17, 2009, 17:42]
FCC Wants To Restrict Loud TV Commercials
Blog It seems broadcasters are allowed to air commercials at a volume equal to the peak volume of the program during which they play. The shows have a realistic pattern of volume that ranges from whispering to loud dialogue to loud blasts, while the...
[June 15, 2009, 9:36]
Intel Developer Forum - Day Zero
Blog Fantastic - even if I can't reveal which keynote regular unwisely told Mike Magee about the DIP 10pm Internet traffic peak. A mobility "sneak peak" party had a small collection of laptops and mobile Internet devices - and a solitary drink per...
[September 22, 2009, 10:16]
Skype sell-off: eBay dodges a bullet
Blog Both BT and Sky in the UK have recently added 0870 numbers to their standard off-peak free calls offer, while also introducing a low-cost monthly subscription deal for free peak calls and free international calls in direct competition to the...
[September 3, 2009, 15:45]
Double up on databases
Blog Dante's Peak came out at around the same time as Volcano - and that For those techies out there who are also film buffs, you'll know that Deep Impact hit the screens at just about the same time as Armageddon.
[January 28, 2008, 10:55]
Facebook confused about the way forward
Blog It reached a peak last year with Microsoft paying $246 million for a stake of just 1.6%, valuing the company at $15 billion. Have a number of recent announcements reduced Facebook's usefulness to members and also derailed any prospects of realising...
[May 28, 2008, 9:22]
UK Bing use falls after initial few days
Blog At its peak, on 3 June, Bing was getting 10.8 percent of UK search traffic. Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, saw a brief spurt of popularity in the UK before its usage levels fell, according to the web monitoring service Hitwise.
[June 8, 2009, 16:25]
Is virtualisation starting to feel real?
Blog I guess the over-riding theme (or more accurately, the over-riding question) is - to just what extent virtualisation has reached its peak in terms of industry adoption? In the wake of some very 'real' encounters spent discussing virtualisation at...
[February 6, 2009, 1:16]
Intel Developer Forum - Wimax, HD laptop commitments
Blog New module available next year, Echo Peak, will have Wimax and Wi-Fi. Paul Otellini has moved onto Wimax, which he says is an essential component of the next wave of ultramobile. Year ago, trials moving from fixed wimax to mobile.
[September 18, 2007, 17:30]
Malware and the moral compass
Blog One recent example is emails telling you there was a tax refund coming your way which had a peak earlier this year that HMRC did some work to educate people about. There’s no such thing as bad news. All publicity is good publicity.
[October 1, 2009, 9:17]
This is what happens without net neutrality
Blog We shall also ignore the reported wise words of a Tiscali support gonk: "You can use the service during the day from work because it is not in peak hours". Players of the online game EVE who also happen to be Tiscali subscribers have just received...
[October 5, 2007, 12:35]
Thursday
Blog Fourteen quid a month, 750 minutes off-peak free, 50 text messages, blah blah -- but after four months, CW pay your entire year's line rental. Thursday 5/12/2002 Telcos. Hah. Mobile telcos. Double hah.
[December 6, 2002, 16:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That's 200 watts RMS, not the 'Peak Music Power' beloved of lesser manufacturers. Thursday 31/1/2002 Exciting times in the old labs. Following the relocation of our magazine interests elsewhere some time ago, we've had room to breathe -- and the...
[February 1, 2002, 14:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Of course, that sort of peak power could only be obtained doing something highly parallel — which means something scientific or technical. Tuesday 22/8/2006 Fancy a next-generation gaming console, but holding back because it's too self-indulgent?
[August 25, 2006, 19:20]
Samsung ships fast 2Gb DDR3 memory
Blog Part of the synchronous dynamic random access (SDRAM) family of chip technologies DDR3 is an improvement over its predecessor SDDRAM 2 as it can transfer twice the data rate so that the memory bus is faster and it supports higher peak rates.
[March 20, 2009, 15:53]
Do we need a multi-touch gesture alphabet?
Blog Last week I mentioned Embarcadero’s sneaky peak ‘let’s get three press releases out of one story’ programme for releasing its RAD Studio 2010 product. Developers working in the touch screen arena are, it appears to me, wielding some of the greatest...
[August 11, 2009, 8:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This is a cunning wheeze that tries to get around the problem of huge peak bandwidth demands for streamed video by using peer-to-peer. Monday 10/10/2005 Up in Cambridge, where I was taking part in a Cambridge MIT Institute day of wireless future...
[October 14, 2005, 18:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's a far cry from the peak days of the old First Thursday, when entire floors of major London venues were taken over by the seething masses -- when IT news coverage had just begun to interest the nationals and numbers of Fleet Street's finest...
[October 1, 2004, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog King Rupert's army was at its peak of manpower and readiness. As I write this, it's lunchtime. I have already had an entire month's worth of angst in a mere four hours, I have to get the diary done in a frantic rush before an office reorganisation...
[May 14, 2004, 19:00]
