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Linux on mainframes: Phase two
News In an inversion of the usually cutting-edge world of Linux, many of the announcements coming out of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week will have a retro flavour, as companies that specialise in software for the oldfangled mainframe move...
[January 28, 2002, 12:55]
Sony shows first products in high-end Qualia line
News Sony has unveiled more details about its Qualia product line, which is designed to bring cutting-edge technologies to real-world products, but which has remained somewhat ambiguous so far. The company said initial products, arriving in August, will...
[June 10, 2003, 7:51]
Intel fast RAM plans may be put on hold
News The result could mean that mainstream PC users will not have access to cutting-edge computer memory - the memory that speeds applications - as quickly as originally planned, experts said. The reason: With Intel (INTC) supporting both the old and...
[February 2, 1998, 9:43]
Hackers 'improve' Xbox
News From its cutting-edge graphics processor to the video game industry's first built-in hard drive, Microsoft's Xbox has been praised as one of the most technologically sophisticated game devices ever. But that's just not good enough for hardware and...
[December 12, 2001, 15:22]
News Burst: Current tech redundant before m-commerce begins
News The speed at which wireless technologies are changing means that today's cutting edge mobile devices may soon be redundant, according to a report from market researcher Gartner Group. Investment in intermediate technologies such as WAP and GPRS to...
[September 11, 2000, 11:06]
Nokia launches low-tech wireless email
News Nokia has launched a corporate messaging service that, in a twist on the usual pattern in high-tech, avoids cutting-edge acronyms such as GPRS and 3G. Instead, the selling point of Nokia One, which was more than four years in the making, is that it...
[June 14, 2002, 17:07]
'Short-term view' hits financial IT sector morale
News Think of financial services companies as cutting-edge users of IT? Around two-thirds of IT managers in the sector say IT isn't viewed strategically where they work and almost three-quarters reckon cost-cutting has emerged as the primary driver for...
[April 3, 2003, 8:51]
24Mbps broadband is here
News Two of BT's rivals are threatening to steal its thunder in the high-speed broadband market by embracing ADSL2+, a cutting-edge technology that is much faster than standard ADSL broadband. Be Unlimited started a pilot this week for ADSL2+ that will...
[September 1, 2005, 13:40]
Psion heads for Bluetooth spotlight
News Psion (quote: PON) hopes a deal announced Thursday with NEC Computers International will boost its profile in the market for the cutting-edge wireless technology Bluetooth, giving it access to the installed base of Europe's sixth-largest PC maker.
[February 16, 2001, 6:16]
How to lead the unleadable
Leader This might seem a question for vicars and politicians rather than a technologist working at the cutting edge of practical IT, but the open-source movement has always had people playing all three roles.
[February 8, 2008, 14:15]
Intel releases tools to support super-chips
News Intel on Monday released new software development tools to support its next-generation processors, the latest move to ensure there will be plenty of software available for its embattled cutting-edge products.
[November 14, 2000, 15:36]
Army gets high tech with new Battlelab
News The Ministry of Defence announced the establishment of the laboratory, which will give the Army access to cutting edge technology, on 27 October, 2004. The UK Army's Land Warfare Centre has been equipped with a new Battlelab.
[October 29, 2004, 15:49]
Naked innovation online
News Although few at the top of the IT industry would like to publicly admit it, adult entertainment companies have been first to market with many of the technologies which are now seen as cutting edge by mainstream businesses.
[November 18, 2005, 14:10]
Banks invest millions in m-banking
News Forget what you might have heard about WAP being dead: banks in Western Europe still see mobile commerce and mobile banking as the future, and are investing millions to make sure they are on the cutting edge.
[October 25, 2000, 7:22]
AMD and IBM deepen chip commitment
News AMD and IBM will work together to devise chip-manufacturing technology for three additional years, a deal that will bring about a quarter of a billion to IBM over four years and give AMD access to cutting-edge chip inventions.
[September 22, 2004, 8:30]
3G phones taking market share
News Despite its rocky start, 3G could yet turn out to be both popular with consumers and telcos alike, with analysts predicting third generation technology will drive the handset market as shoppers scrabble to get the latest in cutting edge devices.
[March 14, 2005, 15:00]
Iomega chief throws in towel
News The popularity of recordable and rewriteable CD-ROMs has seen sales of the company's once cutting edge drives and disks plummet. Jodie Glore, president and chief executive of troubled storage firm Iomega, resigned Thursday following a rocky year...
[August 20, 1999, 16:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's cutting edge nanotechnology, that's for sure, and it looks like a genuine development. Wednesday 3/5/2006 How about this for a story? asks Tom Espiner, boy detective. He's looking at a piece on a trade website talking about how Philips have...
[May 5, 2006, 18:50]
Friday
Blog And what would better befit a company at the cutting edge of home and corporate technology than a big collection of videogames -- Xbox, motorcycle and car driving arcade cabinets dotted around the place among other entertainments.
[December 6, 2002, 16:20]
Sony adds broadband to digital video recorder
News The NDR-XR1, set to launch in Japan on 12 April, goes a step beyond current cutting-edge DVR products. Sony is to release a digital video recorder (DVR) with a hard drive and DVD recorder, as well as a broadband Internet connection and Web browser...
[April 4, 2003, 13:16]
