Classic dev problems solved with XML
News They will also have a pointer embedded in each Detail Summary record that points to another table that contains details for that record type. For example, there are lots of business systems that need to handle transactions that contain similar, but...
[February 6, 2003, 10:39]
RTLinux patent accused of violating GPL
News The Free Software Foundation has condemned FSMLabs, which developed the embedded operating system RTLinux, for using software patents that it says violate a central pillar of the Linux world -- the GNU Public Licence (GPL).
[September 17, 2001, 17:07]
VMworld Europe: Conference Blog Day 2 (part 1)
Blog Partners are expected to begin shipping servers embedded with the VMware ESX 3i hypervisor within the next 60 days. Rosenblum started with a nod to IBM saying that Big Blue did indeed “invent” virtualisation back in the fifties for work on its...
[February 27, 2008, 9:06]
Sharp prepping 3D monitors, laptops
News Sharp, which reported a $557m (£356m) profit in fiscal 2002, is one of the leaders in the market for TFT displays, the glass with embedded electronics that comprises LCD monitors, and it has a major presence in the LCD monitor market in Europe and...
[December 20, 2002, 7:56]
Pirates on Board the M.S. MoneyTanker!
Blog Microsoft can use that wonderful Terminal Services they've embedded in the OS to contact the owner or user of the system with a message that plants itself on the monitor until the User clicks the AGREE button.
[May 14, 2009, 3:08]
Adobe takes to GridIron
News XLR8 is designed to be embedded in other companies' software, Watts said. Adobe Systems has signed a deal with GridIron Software that will enable its video effects software to tap into spare computing power on a network.
[February 3, 2004, 8:55]
RealNetworks opens more Helix DNA
News The Helix strategy is in part designed to gain the company more presence on non-PC and embedded devices; an area where Microsoft has made significant inroads and Apple hopes to maintain a presence through MPEG-4.
[December 5, 2002, 9:34]
New wireless tech promises gigabits in the home
News Bluetooth spent years in standards committee, and although currently embedded in products, it has hardly become a universally used standard. The physics of radio transmissions is quite different from existing UHF systems such as 802.11, and much of...
[February 6, 2006, 16:40]
Is Linux on the move?
News These are the devices that have been targeted by manufacturers using Linux as an embedded OS. Both Credit Suisse First Boston and Merrill Lynch have converted major systems to Linux. As more software companies provide UNIX product versions...
[July 3, 2002, 10:42]
Tagging brings search power to the people
News But he added that tagging could become so deeply embedded in the social fabric that "tag clouds" — large groupings that collectively.For more, click here.cover many areas of information — could one day become the first search choice for many people.
[November 16, 2005, 14:45]
Germans launch $5,000 CeBIT hacker challenge
News In this case, the task was to remove a code number embedded into a piece of music, which some hackers achieved in a matter of days. Oliver Winzenried, chief executive of Wibu-Systems said the hacking contest will demonstrate the strength of Wibu's...
[March 22, 2001, 10:39]
Ballmer: Make computing easier
News It uses Embedded NT, which was demonstrated for the first time publicly running on the appliance. Microsoft, for its part, will work to support Easy PC in its operating systems -- presumably in forthcoming versions of Windows 98 -- by hiding DOS...
[April 8, 1999, 9:33]
Microsoft puts weight behind RFID
News Although the company offered few concrete examples of the sort of technologies it plans to develop for retailers, it pointed to use of its Windows XP Embedded operating system software as a prime area for development.
[January 13, 2004, 8:30]
Adobe acquires web word-processor Buzzword
News Documents can be embedded inside a web page as well. One of those will be an AIR version of Pronto, an email application from CommuniGate Systems that is expected to be released next spring when AIR 1.0 is available.
[October 1, 2007, 8:58]
Symbian shipments rise amid doubts over future
News The Symbian OS, like Microsoft Windows CE, the Palm OS and embedded versions of Linux, brings handheld computer features to mobile phones. Symbian was meant to drive the smartphone market through the creation of operating systems based on Psion's...
[February 23, 2004, 11:10]
Destinator review
Reviews It then automatically suggests suitable locations in the internal and storage card for the Destinator program and the maps of the UK with their embedded location and Points of Interest databases. Destinator works with one map at a time and to...
[May 13, 2003, 8:26]
Business intelligence moves to the front lines
News Another, called Active Reports, allows some analytical capabilities to be embedded in Web pages so that workers can interact with reports in emails or browsers without being connected to the report server.
[April 27, 2006, 15:45]
Sun Fire X4270/4275 review
Reviews The inevitable embedded hypervisor is another option — it's currently on a CompactFlash card, although an internal USB port is also provided and support for faster flash DIMMs may be added on future models.
[August 20, 2009, 12:37]
The future of Radio Frequency Identification
News Electronic information about an object is stored in RFID chips embedded or attached to the object. The RFIDs can even be embedded in a piece of paper or in a form that can be permanently tagged to a shirt.
[August 18, 2003, 14:55]
IBM ThinkPad X31 review
Reviews Instead of a touchpad, the X31 has a pointing stick embedded between the G, H and B keys. IBM also builds in its Embedded Security Subsytem 2.0 -- a processor that authenticates notebook users and encrypts wireless and wired communication -- as...
[July 4, 2003, 7:48]



