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Broadband drops below £20 a month barrier
News Internet users will be able to sign up for a home broadband connection for a monthly cost of only £19.99 from next week. Subscribers must agree to take the service for at least one year, though, and pay an initial one-off fee of over £200, which...
[July 26, 2002, 12:55]
Open-source IE patch hits trust barrier
News Openwares.org, an open-source software development Web site, has posted a patch that purports to fix a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, but software developers and analysts are advising against installing it.
[December 19, 2003, 15:10]
IBM breaks the petaflop barrier
News Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, Blue Gene.
[June 10, 2008, 11:09]
ISDN cards duck £100 barrier
News UK connectivity specialist Electronic Frontier will greet the annual TMA telecommunications show on November 25 by slashing prices on ISDN cards to under £100 at the entry-level. The move poses an interesting price challenge to the coming wave of...
[November 8, 1996, 10:23]
IT heading for the trillion-dollar barrier
News The global IT market is shaping up to be worth $1.3tr (£720bn) by the end of 2009, with banking, manufacturing and government set to be the biggest tech spenders, research has found. According to a report from analyst firm IDC, the communications...
[August 16, 2005, 16:40]
HP: We've broken 24-hour battery-life barrier
News HP has said it has achieved a mobile-computing milestone by getting its EliteBook 6930p to operate continuously for 24 hours on a single battery charge. The laptop used in the test is, however, rather different to those that consumers might...
[September 9, 2008, 10:52]
Big Blue breaks 36 Teraflop barrier to take supercomputing speed lead
News IBM claimed first place on Wednesday in a supercomputer speed competition with an expanded version of its Blue Gene/L, which beat a Japanese machine from NEC. But a new Silicon Graphics machine has a chance at giving Big Blue a run for the title.
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
Panasonic breaks £200 DVD-RAM barrier
News Panasonic has launched the first sub-£200 DVD-RAM drive as part of a major push for DVD-RAM acceptance in Europe, but analysts say it has little chance of breaking the hold of a rival DVD format camp.
[March 7, 2003, 16:36]
dm-drogerie breaks through the performance barrier with DS8100
White Papers dm-drogerie needed to respond to the need for faster business intelligence while reducing costs. The company implemented an IBM TotalStorage DS8100 storage system linked via fibre-channel switches to an existing estate of IBM eserver pSeries servers.
[March 31, 2006, 10:49]
Linux tablet PC breaks $1000 barrier
News A small PC maker and a Linux distributor have teamed up to offer a tablet-style PC for $999 (about £600), hundreds of dollars less than similar devices running Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software.
[December 2, 2003, 8:40]
China removes barrier to 3G phones
News China's state council said it has approved licences for higher-speed 3G mobile networks, a move expected to help bring higher-end services to phone users in the country. Under a telecommunications reorganisation plan whose creation delayed issuance...
[January 2, 2009, 9:18]
Will Intel smash the silicon barrier?
News In a wide-ranging briefing given the day before Tuesday's start of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel gave some details of the smorgasbord of techniques and innovations it claims will keep the rate of improvement of chips constant...
[March 1, 2005, 16:10]
Matrix DVD breaks 'extras' barrier
News The number of innovative extra features included with the DVD release of The Matrix suggests that the UK market is starting to catch up with the US in terms of the quality of content offered to consumers.
[November 5, 1999, 12:01]
Christmas online spending to break £5bn barrier
News UK shoppers are forecast to spend more than £5bn online during December, according to UK payments association Apacs. And Monday 3 December is predicted to be the most popular day for online shopping on the record-breaking run up to Christmas.
[December 3, 2007, 11:22]
Chips to hit size barrier by 2012
News Ever since the birth of the transistor, researchers have wondered how small the logical building-blocks of computer chips could get and still work. Until recently, scientists estimated that chip makers had as few as six years to find new chip...
[June 25, 1999, 9:44]
Intel breaks 3GHz speed barrier
News Intel's new 3GHz Pentium 4 chip should soon let loose a torrent of new, high-performance desktop PCs. It may be a year before the 3GHz chip, expected this week, and its hyperthreading feature catch on among business buyers, but gamers and affluent...
[November 13, 2002, 7:39]
Economist testifies on Microsoft remedy
News Without stiff controls on its business practices, Microsoft will continue to maintain "an applications barrier to entry" that significantly thwarts competition in the software market, an economist testified in federal court on Thursday.
[April 12, 2002, 7:31]
HostBridge and IBM Products Provide Foundation for Development of a New Web-Based Call Center Application at Navy Federal Credit Union
White Papers HostBridge Technology, an IBM Premier Business Partner, enables companies to overcome the integration barrier through its CICS application integration software. HostBridge Technology, an IBM Premier Business Partner, enables companies to overcome...
[November 27, 2009, 23:00]
Future fibre networks to exceed light speed?
News German scientists claim to have broken the light-speed barrier, which could blow away the known limitations of modern networking, but the technology is unlikely to make it into a product — if at all — until most administrators working today have...
[August 16, 2007, 13:39]
1GHz: The whole story
News AMD turned up the heat on sworn enemy Intel on Monday by breaking the 1GHz speed barrier ahead of its industry rival. Now that the gigahertz barrier has been broken, what's next? It is no secret that these manufacturers have been in a ferocious...
[March 7, 2000, 13:44]
