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IEEE infighting may derail Ethernet development
News Squabbling within the international IT standards body IEEE looks set to derail efforts to clarify the next Ethernet standard. A group within the standards body, which was set up to define the evolution of Ethernet, has succumbed to infighting, and...
[June 19, 2007, 18:07]
Superfast Ethernet project aims for 100Gbps
News Scientists will collaborate with as-yet-unnamed hardware and software vendors to develop a prototype 100Gbps Ethernet network, which will be used to connect US Department of Energy supercomputer centres.
[August 12, 2009, 16:50]
Yahoo offers 100MB of email space
News Yahoo on Tuesday will begin offering 100MB of extra storage for users of its free email service as part of an overall redesign of its mail service. Along with the 100MB boost, Yahoo will upgrade Mail Plus paid users to 2GB of storage and lower its...
[June 15, 2004, 8:30]
Western Digital plans 3-inch hard drive
News Western Digital (WD) surprised observers yesterday by saying it plans to expand its disk drive coverage at the mobile end of the market with a new form factor, as well as entering the SCSI server/workstation market for the first time.
[September 25, 1996, 16:18]
Intel eyes 450MHz chips, 'lean' clients
News At its biannual financial briefing near its headquarters in California, Intel's top ranks also disclosed an aggressive Pentium II road map for portables, desktops and servers. The strategy is based on delivering specially built products for every...
[November 10, 1997, 9:14]
Firefox 1.0PR: a first look
Talkback The browser market has definitely shown that a lack of competition is bad for the consumer. There have not been any major improvements to the browser user experience in IE for quite a long time. I recently started using Firefox and can say already...
[September 16, 2004, 13:11]
Compaq server boasts remote management tools
News The ProLiant 2500 ships with a tool built into the motherboard called Integrated Remote Console, providing access to system diagnostics for remote management. A London-based IT manager could control a server sitting in an out-of-town office, for...
[October 25, 1996, 10:33]
2007: The year in software
News After 2006 finished with a big software splash, as Microsoft launched its long-awaited Vista operating system, it seemed inevitable that 2007 would be a quiet year by comparison. But instead the activity shifted away from launches to re-launches...
[December 28, 2007, 15:11]
Vodafone launches mobile-data bundles
News Vodafone has finally launched data bundles which take it into competition with rival mobile operators. Like Orange, the operator is relatively late in introducing significantly sized monthly data bundles, but Vodafone claims that its timing relates...
[June 1, 2007, 13:24]
Where to start?
Talkback Hmmm, let me guess, you are a Apple lover of some description? Too much like Vista Um, it's easier to use than Vista. And Vista is actually quite a decent operating system (if you have powerful hardware to run it that is).
[October 9, 2009, 16:26]
Look, another netbook!
Blog With HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and others all on-board the netbook bandwagon, it's no surprise at all to see Toshiba announcing its own offering in the shape of the 8.9in. Atom N270-based NB100. According to Toshiba, we can expect 'build quality of a...
[September 19, 2008, 8:58]
COOL-ER: a home-grown e-book reader
Blog A week or so ago, Phil Wood, marketing director of UK start-up Interead, handed us a shiny new ('vivid violet' coloured) e-book reader called the COOL-ER. It launches officially today, at £189 (inc. VAT), in eight colours, along with a companion...
[May 29, 2009, 16:47]
Sony VAIO T1 series: a first look review
Reviews How do you follow up on a success like Sony's diminutive VAIO TR notebook? Easy: make it thinner, more powerful and throw in a few additional key features. That's exactly what Sony's crafty designers seem to have done with the brand-new VAIO T1...
[September 14, 2004, 9:10]
Flash memory heading for mobiles
News The flash-memory industry is facing a bright future thanks to the evolution of consumer electronics and wireless devices, the chief executive of SanDisk said on Monday. Eli Harari, head of flash memory product maker SanDisk, told attendees at an...
[August 3, 2004, 15:15]
Free Google email service to launch 'in weeks'
Talkback Doesn't sound too good to me! I want an email service that has a 2mb storage limit and sends me shitty emails saying that the janitor is gonna delete all my emails if I don't clear out old messages! Also it is great fun when I sometimes go to my...
[April 19, 2004, 10:09]
Sony wants to rescue your lost data
News At the CeBIT trade show in Hannover Sony is pushing a service to help customers retrieve lost data from memory sticks. To use the company's Memory Stick Data Rescue Service — which Sony says will restore 'most data' — users must download free...
[March 9, 2005, 16:10]
NEC Versa S900 review
Reviews This is why we're being a bit picky about size, shape and weight issues. Centrino technology promises several things, among which are significant reductions in size and weight even for conventional notebooks, never mind smaller systems, and it's...
[April 3, 2003, 15:28]
Adobe acquires web word-processor Buzzword
News Adobe has officially entered the "web office" game. The company on Monday is expected to announce that it has acquired an 11-person start-up, Virtual Ubiquity, that has built a free web word processor called "Buzzword".
[October 1, 2007, 8:58]
The game's up for Windows 2000
Talkback The main replacement for Windows 2000 is Windows Server 2003, not XP. Server 2003 is a brilliant product. I love Novell and to a lesser extent Linux, but Windows 2003 beats both of them hands down. It is very stable, rich in features, very secure...
[July 4, 2005, 16:19]
Dell warns of Vista upgrade challenges
News Dell has taken the unusual step — for a PC vendor of its size — of toning down its sales pitch for Microsoft's Vista operating system and warning businesses of the migration challenges that lie ahead for them.
[July 4, 2007, 18:02]
