No 3G spectrum trading before 2006 - government
News The government is proposing that trading of 3G spectrum should not be allowed until at least the end of 2005, despite the financial difficulties facing some 3G licence-holders. In a consultation document called Implementing Spectrum Trading...
[July 15, 2002, 16:15]
AMD plans to remain thorn in Intel's side
News If chipmaker AMD has its way, it will continue as its crosstown rival Intel's thorny nemesis for years to come. AMD recently started shipping its new Athlon XP 2800+ processor and is on track to deliver its next-generation chips, the Opteron and...
[December 10, 2002, 9:37]
Faster, sleeker blades coming from IBM
News IBM will introduce a new chassis for its blade servers in 2006, boosting its networking features and flexibility, the new leader of the company's blade group said on Thursday. Blade servers are thin systems that plug into a chassis that supplies...
[October 21, 2005, 9:55]
Dell's customers wooed by IBM
News IBM has a two-powered plan to lure Dell customers to its servers: point out the holes in its rival's line-up, then offer price cuts on machines that fill the gaps. Next week, the company plans to launch a sales campaign -- "Dell on Ice" -- that...
[August 11, 2003, 10:55]
NComputing X300 review
Reviews Each X300 kit consists of the PCI splitter, three access units and the NComputing terminal services software. Customers will need to add cables, keyboards, mice and monitors. NComputing warns that this entry-level solution is not recommended for...
[February 14, 2008, 15:13]
NComputing L230 review
Reviews L230 terminals communicate over the network with a PC that acts as a terminal server, which responds to the mouse and keyboard inputs, processes the requests and returns the results as a GUI display back to each terminal.
[March 10, 2008, 16:11]
Consumers spur notebook boom
News Notebook shipments are expected to mushroom during the next three years thanks to falling prices and booming sales to consumers. The portable PCs are expected to make up nearly half of all PC shipments in the US and almost 40 percent of PC...
[January 12, 2004, 10:05]
Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron review
Reviews AMD's 45nm chips have arrived almost exactly one year after the first Intel processors to use the same feature size — currently the most advanced process used in mainstream processor production. Codenamed 'Shanghai', the new AMD processors are...
[November 20, 2008, 12:46]
Ofcom to auction high-frequency spectrum
News Telecoms regulator Ofcom is to auction four bands of high-frequency spectrum which could be used for wireless broadband services. The bands — at 10GHz, 28GHz, 32GHz and 40GHz — are able to carry large amounts of data over relatively short distances.
[December 4, 2007, 11:09]
A great year for Broadband Britain?
News The last 12 months have seen real progress in the drive towards Broadband Britain. On 31 December, 2001, there were barely 300,000 broadband customers in the UK; now there are some 1.3 million. Today, around 34,000 new broadband connections are...
[December 30, 2002, 6:11]
Intel turbocharges Xeon chip
News Intel has tuned up its Xeon chip for workstations and two-way servers. As expected, the California-based chipmaker released on Monday a new version of its 3.06GHz Xeon that packs an additional 1MB of cache.
[July 15, 2003, 9:32]
Grubbing XP Pro to 2nd Boot
Blog I had a hard drive failure on my home Windows XP Pro DELL system last week. I decided this morning at about 4AM to rebuild the system as a dual boot with Ubuntu 9.04 on the second partition. The goal is to minimize my "Windows dependency" status as...
[September 14, 2009, 9:03]
New Intel chipset for the masses review
Reviews Early adopters got theirs last month, when Intel announced its 875P performance chipset, code-named Canterwood. Intel now released a chipset for the rest of us. Developed under the name Springdale, the 865 chipset improves upon Intel's 845 chipset...
[May 22, 2003, 13:34]



