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Open-source approach fades in tough times
News The ideological purity of the open-source software movement is being diluted by a new era of pragmatism as start-ups adjust to the economic slump. Lutris Technologies, whose application server e-commerce software competes with products from BEA...
[November 20, 2001, 13:03]
Conspiring to contaminate?
News Since the first computer viruses appeared in the DOS era, there's been an ongoing digital arms race between the authors of malicious code and the companies that write antivirus software. Many people believe there's a global conspiracy going on...
[November 14, 2005, 13:35]
Intel senses united wireless future in 802.21
News In a pre-show briefing to international press on Monday, Intel discussed developments that the company claims will herald a new era of cooperating standards in wireless. Our goal is to provide seamless network connectivity across a wide range of...
[August 23, 2005, 16:55]
IBM draws a veil over OS/2
News IBM will stop selling the OS/2 operating system at year's end, marking an end of an era. IBM, which made the announcement this week, said it will discontinue OS/2 products by 23 December and withdraw standard support for OS/2-related products as of...
[July 15, 2005, 16:30]
Inventor of the integrated circuit dies at 81
News Jack Kilby, whose work on integrated circuits in the 1950s ushered in the digital era, died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 81. In the summer of 1958, while working at Texas Instruments, Kilby built the first electronic circuit in which...
[June 22, 2005, 9:15]
Intel sets Banias release date
News Intel will release Banias, a new energy-efficient notebook chip, on 12 March, and open a new era in the company's laptop business. Company executives pinpointed the date of the release during a press presentation by Connexion, a new company from...
[February 7, 2003, 7:51]
AMD targets portable video players
News AMD launched its latest microprocessor on Monday claiming it would herald a "new era of portable multimedia". The Alchemy Au1200 chip is due to ship in the second quarter of 2005 at speeds of up to 500MHz.
[January 4, 2005, 15:40]
Britney tops the Google charts
News If the term "zeitgeist" is applied as it is defined -- an era's intellectual, moral and cultural climate -- then it is clear from Google's annual report bearing the same name that the Web is a society dominated by suggestively gyrating blondes.
[December 24, 2004, 9:25]
Five years ago: K6 launch is CPU milestone
News AMD ushered in a new era of competition when it formally announced its AMD-K6 MMX processor today in London. The firm said that the chip will give PC makers and buyers more freedom of choice, lower prices and spur innovation thanks to its unique...
[April 3, 2002, 7:31]
News Schmooze: WorldCom or WorldCon?
News Now, no one could have seen this coming -- a major technology company, driven by its stock price growth in the dot-com era, revealing an "aggressive accounting" scandal of nearly $4bn (roughly £3bn). It's WorldCom this time, but the indications are...
[June 28, 2002, 14:31]
Gates keynote emphasises security
News Addressing a more buttoned-down crowd than in past years, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates attempted on Sunday to usher in a new era of computing he dubbed "seamless computing. Gates' annual Comdex address, his 20th, was designed to outline the...
[November 17, 2003, 8:25]
Samsung CLP-500 review
Reviews Samsung's CLP-500 colour laser printer is low on flash; it looks like an electronic office appliance from a bygone era. Design Housed in grey plastic, the round-edged, boxy CLP-500 measures 51 by 47 by 40.5cm, which is about average for colour lasers.
[February 9, 2004, 12:00]
Tech firms named in apartheid lawsuit
News Fujitsu and Unisys are expected to be named this week in a lawsuit targeting companies that allegedly profited from collaborating with apartheid-era South Africa. Fujitsu is facing the lawsuit because of alleged actions by two of its subsidiaries...
[August 19, 2002, 12:33]
AMD details Opteron upgrade plans
News AMD will launch Rev F versions of its Opteron chips in the third quarter, a move that ends the single-core server processor era and paves the way for four-core models. The company had discussed some Rev F details before, but in a meeting in San...
[March 7, 2006, 12:35]
Fiorina steps aside
News Carly Fiorina, the embattled leader of HP, stepped down as chairman and CEO on Wednesday as HP tries to redefine itself for a new era. The company said the change was effective as of Tuesday, when the board made its final decision to ask Fiorina to...
[February 9, 2005, 13:25]
Picasa 2.0: a first look review
Reviews The Picasa photo organiser is the first standalone, hard disk-installed software that Google has released, and it may be the start of an era for the search giant. Unlike earlier versions, Picasa 2.0 has improved its editing tools and search...
[January 20, 2005, 8:20]
How JavaScript became a browser-war battleground
News After lurking inconspicuously within the code of websites for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of web-browser wars. JavaScript, which lets developers create everything from basic website menus...
[March 23, 2009, 14:46]
Slammer: The first 'Warhol' worm?
News Last week's Sapphire worm, widely known as SQL Slammer, infected more than 90 percent of vulnerable computers within 10 minutes, opening a new era of fast-spreading viruses on the Internet, according to a US think tank.
[February 3, 2003, 16:12]
City of Newcastle save millions in move from mainframes
News Newcastle City Council has saved millions of pounds as a result of a massive IT overhaul which saw it move from mainframes into the modern era of technology. Ray Ward, CIO of Newcastle City Council, said: "Most of our IT was centred on old mainframes.
[June 15, 2006, 16:35]
BT in university partnership to stimulate research
News BT's research arm BTexact and University College London (UCL) were busy congratulating themselves on Friday for a unique partnership they hope will herald a new era in communication research and which has already resulted in the establishment of a...
[March 26, 2001, 11:17]
