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Cellphone makers practise airborne calls
News During a two-hour "proof of concept" flight 30,000 feet over Dallas, wireless-gear maker Qualcomm joined American Airlines to show off a service using CDMA, or Code Division Multiple Access, technology.
[July 19, 2004, 10:25]
Microsoft gives new life to SMS
News Instead, Microsoft, like a number of its Linux competitors, has decided to plant its feet squarely in the management space. When Microsoft rolled out Windows 2000, many speculated the product spelled the beginning of the end for another Microsoft...
[January 17, 2001, 16:04]
Ex-Intel employee delivers email on Ponytium III
News Hamidi's site www.faceintel.com outlines his campaign, headed: "I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees". A High Court banned Hamidi from sending e-mail to Intel employees in November 1998 after he sent thousands of messages criticising the...
[July 5, 1999, 10:57]
Wind Speed
Downloads You can choose display units between Miles per hour (mph), Knots (Kn) feet per second (fps), kilometers per hour (km/h), and meters per second (m/s). Wind Speed is an anemometer (wind meter) that works by measuring inputs through iPhone's...
[June 4, 2009, 11:05]
AOL taken to task over ad claim
News A member of the public complained that an advert in the national papers showing a cheetah with "running spikes" on its feet and the slogan 'Fast just got faster' promised a 1Mb broadband service it was unlikely to deliver all the time.
[June 3, 2004, 14:45]
Hadron Collider shut down until early spring
News The LHC, the world's largest particle collider, is located in a nearly 17-mile-long circular tunnel along the French-Swiss border about 330 feet underground. Officials announced on Tuesday that the Large Hadron Collider will remain shut down until...
[September 24, 2008, 9:36]
UK government wakes up to Firefox
Talkback Personally I just vote with my feet, and go elsewhere. The webmasters/decision makers of those companies and government bodies that make their sites solely compatible with IE only demonstrate their stupidity and lack insight and understanding of...
[August 25, 2005, 14:59]
Acer P1265 review
Reviews An extensible foot provides a manual height adjustment while the rubber feet at the rear unscrew to provide horizontal adjustments, although you'd probably never notice that fact without reading the manual.
[October 30, 2007, 13:19]
Security audit for the WLAN
News We found the client's wireless local area network (WLAN) unsecured and accessible from any area within 500-plus feet of its office building. Five hundred feet away in the middle of a cornfield is preferable to 100 feet away in a neighboring office...
[September 15, 2002, 22:10]
BA038 crash at Heathrow
Blog Comment Chris, he only switched to manual when the engines failed to spool up , and he quickly grabbed the controls to dip the nose and increase speed to avoid a stall, then raised the nose and belly landed perfect when he was in the landing area.just a...
[January 21, 2008, 18:49]
Disaster Response in the Pacific
Blog Tuesday, a powerful underwater earthquake triggered a tsunami with waves 15 to 20 feet high that crashed into the Samoa islands, destroying homes and taking lives. By Adele WaugamanThis week has seen a devastating series of events in the Pacific.
[October 6, 2009, 9:25]
US airports to get Wi-Fi hot spots
News Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, is a networking technology that creates a cloud of Internet connectivity that is accessible wirelessly within a radius of around 300 feet of the transmitting device. T-Mobile USA said on Wednesday that it would set up wireless...
[October 30, 2002, 15:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As Jo Best's report says, the company may have to wait for a bit before the wunderkind gets his feet under the desk as there's a spot of porridge on the menu. Monday 20/09/2004 A teenage German hacker, currently on trial for creating the Sasser...
[September 24, 2004, 18:15]
Byte says UK retail won't welcome newcomers
News In number of locations we are the biggest; in square feet they are probably the biggest. "We [Byte and Dixons] can both exist," said Steve Rigby, operations director at Birmingham-based Byte. In retail of any kind there are always two major players.
[October 9, 1996, 15:42]
ROI, security and management: three necessities of the WLAN
News JP Gorsky, product line manager for Enterasys said, "I think one of the real compelling reasons beyond the 'gee whiz, it's cool' stuff is that it's a very effective medium for the last ten feet of connection.
[March 24, 2003, 13:46]
D-Link AirPlus DI-614+ review
Reviews The device comes complete with a six-foot Ethernet cable, an AC adapter and grey, snap-in rubber feet that let you position the router vertically or horizontally. The £139 (ex. VAT) DI-614+ offers a lot for the price.
[October 25, 2002, 8:09]
Is the Mac mini good value?
Talkback All I can find at the Dell webpage is 10 kilos of ugly black plastic for roughly the same price as the Mac Mini Unless you are absolutely desperately strapped for cash, or you need something to warm your feet, there is just no comparison between...
[January 14, 2005, 23:22]
Tech recycling law will hit in New Year
Blog Other states managed to roll out the directive on schedule but the UK is at least a year behind and has dragged its feet all the way thanks to some heavy-weight lobbying from the tech producers. Green may be a vote winner but you wouldn’t know it...
[December 20, 2006, 8:40]
Love it
Talkback But as I work at kitchen table and microwave is 6 feet away from laptop I suppose I can't complain. Hi Thanks for this, a great explanation of the stupid wi-fi scare. I first discovered that microwave ovens were bad things when I used to make my...
[June 8, 2007, 20:30]
Summer is still on Strike. Well I guess its still Spring in Texas.
Blog I had just starting pulling into the parking lot and I had 2 strikes of lightning hit the asphalt about 100 feet away about 5 seconds apart. Was going to the nearby (actually nearest) grocery store to pick up hamburger meat for my almost famous...
[June 22, 2008, 11:24]
