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Get Traffic Map
Downloads The problem: My wife and I were looking at locations to move to in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we wanted to figure out how bad our commutes would tend to be. The solution: An AppleScript that opens a Google Map centered on the Bay Area with the...
[November 27, 2007, 7:00]
Amazon CTO on the benefits of the cloud
News At the Supernova Conference in San Francisco, Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels broadly outlines the benefits of a cloud-based infrastructure. He says web services offer businesses the ability to lower costs, increase agility, and run a...
[December 8, 2009, 14:52]
Intel unveils new low-power chips
News At the opening keynote at Intel's autumn 2005 developer forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, chief executive Paul Otellini announced a new chip architecture and a new class of computer. The next generation power-optimised micro-architecture, whose...
[August 23, 2005, 18:15]
Intel Developer Forum in pictures
News If you couldn't make it to San Francisco this week, then here are some of the things that made us sit up and take notice. If you couldn't make it to San Francisco this week, then here are some of the things that made us sit up and take notice.
[August 26, 2005, 17:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Reluctantly abandoning San Francisco on Sunday evening -- and not without incident, as something about my person sets off the security scan at the airport and I have to remove shoes, belt and practically everything else -- I stumble out of...
[September 26, 2003, 18:40]
JavaOne from the inside
Blog In addition to my general reports and news on Sun’s JavaOne developer conference this week in San Francisco, I also have the chance to feature some comment from inside the technical sessions. Although I am not attending these myself, I’m able to...
[May 7, 2008, 23:37]
Sun lights chip roadmap
News But Sun began a counterattack at its annual analyst conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, shedding more light on its chip plans to show why it thinks its UltraSparc processors are worth buying now and in the future.
[February 26, 2003, 9:28]
Future portables go much faster all day, says Intel
News Intel predicted major innovations in mobile technology at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Wednesday. In a keynote speech and subsequent briefings, Anand Chandrasekher, general manager of Intel's mobile platforms group, revealed the...
[September 9, 2004, 10:05]
Sounds of sophisticated software
News Inside the DNA Lounge in the hip South of Market, San Francisco, neighbourhood, the festively attired crowd attending the annual Scorpio It's the wee hours on an unseasonably balmy November morning. Ball is bouncing and gyrating to thick bass beats.
[November 30, 2005, 12:25]
Sun introduces Java app store
News At JavaOne in San Francisco, Sun fellow James Gosling and chief executive Jonathan Schwartz demo the company's new online store. The Java store will distribute and sell mobile apps based on the Java programming language.
[June 4, 2009, 12:58]
HP: We're hurting Dell
News We are displacing Dell in most of the bigger and strategic accounts," Alberto Bozzo, vice-president of HP's personal systems group, told ZDNet UK at the HP Mobility Summit in San Francisco this week. Hewlett-Packard says it is displacing Dell...
[May 11, 2006, 12:05]
Ellison and McNealy discuss future of Java
News At JavaOne in San Francisco, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison talks to Sun chairman Scott McNealy about the future of Java development. Ellison says he will continue to expand investment in Java and sees the programming language being used in a...
[June 3, 2009, 12:08]
Intel spices up silicon for ultrafast future
News At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, Intel's director of technology strategy Paulo Gargini unveiled plans to reach transistor speeds of 250THz in ten years time. By adding a wide range of other semiconductor materials to...
[March 10, 2006, 14:15]
VeriSign Identity Protection Services Helps a Leading Financial Services Institution Protect Client Accounts
White Papers Viewed by many as one of the financial service industry's most trusted establishments, San Francisco, California-headquartered Charles Schwab & Co. Inc.has always viewed security and privacy as core tenets of its business philosophy.
[November 8, 2008, 0:01]
Gates announces push into unified comms
News On Tuesday, Bill Gates took the stage in San Francisco to announce Microsoft's new line of software aimed at unifying voicemail, email and business meeting technology.
[October 17, 2007, 17:06]
Yahoo talks up Open Strategy
News At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, chief technology officer Ari Balogh says he's working on "rewiring Yahoo from the inside out" through a developer platform called "Yahoo Open Strategy". The goal of Yahoo Open Strategy is to help Yahoo's front...
[April 25, 2008, 12:37]
Microsoft demos Live Mesh
News At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Amit Mital, general manager of Live Mesh at Microsoft, demos the company's new platform. The initiative is a "software plus services" platform that enables PCs and other devices to "come alive" by making them...
[April 25, 2008, 12:20]
Now win a notebook too in our Blogger at Large contest
Blog As if a trip to San Francisco and a free pass to the Intel Developer Forum weren't already a great prize, we've added another to the pot - a Lenovo ThinkPad T61. The Centrino Pro laptop will be given to the Blogger at Large, who will wirelessly...
[June 1, 2007, 17:12]
Microsoft sets sights on seamless security
News Giving the opening keynote at the RSA Conference 2007 in San Francisco, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, said that certification technologies such as IPSec must be deployed, to allow people secure access to their data...
[February 6, 2007, 17:06]
How to deal with information overload
News At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, Malcolm Gladwell — author of The Tipping Point and Blink — tells security professionals why too much information can impair judgement. As an example, he said emergency room doctors are much better at diagnosing chest...
[April 14, 2008, 15:54]
