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Ultrawideband standards war brewing, says Intel
News UWB promises low-cost radio connectivity at speeds approaching 400 Megabits per second, and is widely seen as having immense potential for digital media distribution in homes and in portable devices. Although the claims and counterclaims made by...
[November 13, 2003, 10:45]
Schwartz: Sun to focus on storage business
News Broadly speaking, tape (and, in the future, other forms of removable media) are a core part of Sun's archive plans," wrote Schwartz. Talk to any data-centre administrator, and that's what they want to hear — they live in a world managing the (often...
[October 2, 2007, 13:11]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Email me, Eugene Lacey, with interesting snippets about IT, computers or the Net, that you have read about in dead tree media. Ireland already dominates Europe as a technology centre: it's the number two exporter of software after the US, draws...
[September 15, 1998, 7:29]
A Year Ago: Parents are worried about kids on the Web
News Kathryn Montgomery, who heads the Center for Media Education in Washington, said some parents believe their children are more expert than they are at using the Internet. We found this incredible conflict," said Joseph Turow, who wrote the report...
[May 4, 2000, 7:01]
The testimony of Napster chief exec Hank Barry
News The commercial use of the Internet for media purposes abandoned this structure. This Committee is at the centre of the great Constitutional debates of our country and the protection of the rights we cherish as Americans.
[July 12, 2000, 9:56]
RightNow discounts IPO price
News PlanetOut, an online media company catering to gays and lesbians, recently cut the target price range of its anticipated IPO. RightNow makes applications designed reduce contact centre costs by helping companies serve their customers online.
[August 6, 2004, 9:50]
Soca: Russian cyber-gang bribed police
News As the RBN attracted media attention and grew, its leaders began to put a disaster recovery plan into place, said the British policeman. Auld said Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (Ripe NCC), one of the five European regional...
[October 22, 2009, 13:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In Winamp's case, a mid-life crisis compounded by founder company Nullsoft being bought by AOL left the software writers floating on a sea of cash but with a product that had thoroughly lost direction by the time Windows Media Player got serious.
[November 12, 2004, 17:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So I sit there, for a speech talking about how well Broadband Britain has performed since Ofcom came into being a few years ago (no mention of BT's price cuts, or rural activists, or media pressure). It was the Broadband Britain Summit at the QE2...
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
Dell Dimension 8200 (2.8GHz Pentium 4) review
Reviews Hard disk storage is provided by a fast 7,200rpm 120GB Western Digital drive, while optical media are taken care of by a Philips DVD+RW drive and a fast 48-speed CD-ROM drive. This six-piece (4 satellite speakers, one centre speaker and a subwoofer...
[August 29, 2002, 14:14]
XP's smart display enables double vision
News On Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans, Microsoft showed off a prototype of a set-top box co-designed with graphics chipmaker ATI Technologies that lets consumers view on a wide-screen TV their media...
[May 8, 2003, 13:39]
Hotmail 'glitch' an inside job?
News Kent, clearly exhausted by an early morning media blitz, denies there was anything "inexcusable" about Monday's events. A British hacker-turned-security consultant, who requested anonymity, told ZDNet UK News this morning that the nature of the...
[August 31, 1999, 13:19]
Treasury looks to replace HCI
Talkback Put a limit on the number of 'media' courses, and start to look more seriously at producing people who actually understand the core technologies that drive networks. Our focus is way off centre. The Governement has no idea about how to train our...
[April 4, 2006, 10:19]
Internet concepts build new ways of storage
News Instead of datagrams, it considers the basic unit as blocks of data (on disks, tape or other media), managed as arrays of bytes. The Internet Backbone Protocol (IBP) they're developing contrasts with the current most popular storage management idea...
[April 10, 2002, 15:56]
US electronics giant backs MP3
News While buying music online today is not a big business, the entry of mainstream companies into the MP3 music market is a key evolutionary step, said Lucas Graves, industry analyst with new media watcher Jupiter Communications Inc.
[April 29, 1999, 9:10]
Dell to sell S3 digital music device
News The Personal Sport Audio was created with S3's Diamond Multimedia division and plays up to 120 minutes of digital quality music -- such as MP3 files and Windows Media audio files -- with 64 megabytes of built-in memory.
[June 21, 2000, 11:51]
Heroes and villains
Leader The first name on the ISPA hit list is the European Commission's information society and media commissioner, Viviane Reding, She stands accused of "foisting the most arcane set of rules yet seen" for the registration of .eu domains according to ISPA.
[January 5, 2007, 14:28]
A tour of the highlights at TechFest 2009
News In a social media and learning theory presentation at TechFest, graphs demonstrate the dynamics involved in developing recommendation systems that collect and weigh opinions posted across a social network.
[February 25, 2009, 11:49]
Red Hat's Cox warns on open source security
News Things appear in the media like open source software is more secure, more reliable and there are less bugs. LinuxWorld is running at London's Olympia conference centre until Thursday. Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the UK open...
[October 26, 2006, 12:20]
Cisco fleshes out 'Data Center 3.0' strategy
News The MDS offers virtual SANs (VSANs), inter-VSAN routing (IVR), remote SAN extension with high-performance Fibre Channel over IP, integrated MDS Storage Media Encryption (SME) as a distributed fabric service, advanced fibre connectivity (Ficon...
[July 25, 2007, 16:49]
