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Cyberwarfare 'a reality in 12 months'
News Gartner claims that, unlike traditional circuit-switched networks, VoIP networks have an inherent weakness when it comes to latency -- any delay to the packets carrying the voice traffic disrupts communication.
[January 15, 2004, 11:50]
Rambus speeds up chip connections
News While the company came to prominence marketing a type of memory (called RDRAM), it is now focused on a variety of input-output technologies, including a technology called Raser for connecting different circuit boards.
[February 17, 2003, 7:53]
Inkjet printers are chip factories of the future
News Different resistances and other circuit features can be programmed by changes in the image file. Although the company says that performance will never approach that of silicon circuits -- inkjet resolution is of the order of 200 times larger than...
[April 11, 2002, 17:33]
Nanotube breakthrough paves path for carbon chips
News Organising these tiny structures into circuit arrays has been a problem that has occupied researchers at IBM Research and other laboratories. We first envisioned a patterned growth of carbon nanotubes on silicon wafers five years ago, but it wasn't...
[January 8, 2004, 7:50]
Sendo withdraws Orange lawsuit
News The handset maker said that the lawsuit against Orange centres on a patent relating to miniaturisation in the SPV's circuit-board design. Sendo sued Orange rather than HTC because its circuit-board patent only covers the UK, but the company has...
[July 22, 2003, 10:38]
BT's Net monopoly ends Wednesday
News System overloads will happen, says Johnson, because operators will put multiple users on the same circuit. ISPs will pay out £424 per year for each circuit and Johnson predicts they will put at least 10 users on each port.
[May 31, 2000, 14:06]
Digital Electronics Reference for TREO
Downloads This option also includes types of logic and important characteristics of Logic Gates.Combinational Logic - This option presents features like Half / Full adder and Half / Full subtractor and Code Conversion apart from the sequence of steps...
[February 7, 2003, 7:00]
ThinSight from Microsoft
Blog It uses Circuit boards like the one below to detect when light is reflected back. Also it can be used on normal screens as Alex Butler from Microsoft explained he had somewhat voided the warranty of the screen on display by taking it apart and...
[May 13, 2008, 16:32]
A half-century of hard drives review
Reviews One motor spins the spindles, another moves the head arms; the heads are connected to a preamplifier to turn the tiny electrical pulses into signals that can be decoded, and a driver circuit to make the carefully shaped pulses that write to the disk.
[September 13, 2006, 15:10]
Tiny plastic tube helps computer communication
News Fibre ribbons -- which have tens of channels in a row -- have already been shown to enable communications between the different chips on a computers circuit board, but with the increasing transmission loads required to ferry information, the two...
[January 6, 2004, 11:15]
NRG
Downloads If you connect source with source, there will be short circuit. The area where was the short circuit get empty. NRG is obsessive and challenging new game, with a lot of colors, figures and surprises. The aim of the game is to score points by...
[July 1, 2008, 8:00]
China to market advanced CPU
News Another academic, Prof Yan Xiolang, who co-ordinates national research and development on integrated circuit design, said that the government's heavy investment in the field will boost the industry and attract talent.
[December 10, 2003, 10:10]
Sanyo demonstrates innovative 3D display
News The display also includes a head-tracking sensing feature, consisting of an IR LED, a CCD camera and a control circuit. The CCD then senses the reflected light and the control circuit works out the position of the viewer's head.
[January 7, 2000, 6:35]
Netgear WPN824 RangeMax review
Reviews Although you can't see it, the RangeMax router's most interesting feature is the MIMO technology on the unit's circuit board. Airgo's solution requires three external antennas, while the Video54 solution built into the Netgear unit includes seven...
[April 20, 2005, 9:35]
Patent reform case falls
News Nowadays, the companies argue, the Federal Circuit reverses trial judges more than one-third of the time -- resulting in less incentive for companies to settle suits early, aggressive defences of clear cases of infringement and pursuit of...
[January 20, 2005, 9:30]
10 things you should know about deploying a UPS
News Install a UPS data protection circuit between your telecommunications provider's data line and your computer systems. Typically, the telecommunication circuit plugs into a physical input on the UPS, which also presents an equivalent RJ-11 or RJ-45...
[June 21, 2006, 15:40]
Chip rewires itself on the fly
News In designs where the chip replaces a full custom circuit, he said, development costs can be reduced from millions of dollars to tens of thousands, while development time can be reduced from over a year to a few weeks.
[April 26, 2004, 10:05]
Photos: Recycling the mobile mountain
News Most of these are either burned or buried, but researchers at the University of Delaware have claimed such feathers can be recycled into circuit boards made of soya-bean and chicken feathers. The circuit boards are created by turning soya-bean oils...
[April 4, 2006, 12:20]
3GHz Pentium 4 may mean pricier PCs
News This will mean changing a power-control circuit called a pulse width modulation controller, according to the report. On top of that, to make room for more components, board makers will have to rearrange the boards' circuit layouts.
[August 22, 2002, 11:32]
Cosmic threat to tomorrow's computers
Blog Soft errors happen when a memory or logic circuit returns the wrong answer, without there being anything wrong with the circuit itself -- the problem goes away the next time new data comes in. Intel's first two billion transistor processor, details...
[February 4, 2008, 23:35]
