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UK firm claims first Java-based mobile NC
News UK firm Concept Technology has launched what it claims is the first mobile NC based on Sun's Java operating system. Called Pic Pocket, the device enables users to download Java applications from the Internet.
[December 5, 1997, 14:21]
Networks 97 dubbed NetPC versus NC show
News With the NetPC camp out in full force including Intel, Microsoft, Compaq, Dell and now Viglen, the publicity rug is expected to pulled from under the NC vendors. Netscape will attempt to shift the emphasis of the show towards intranets.
[June 23, 1997, 8:50]
Oracle claims wide industry support for NC
News However, Barley admitted: "One thing that's been overlooked is the underlying NC architecture. More important than the NC device is that the network and server technology are good. Users should be able to plug the NC into the network and it'll work.
[December 6, 1996, 14:36]
CeBit: NetPC won't compete with NC - Intel
News Entry-level NetPCs are being touted at around $1,000 with major selling points being the ability to remotely configure and manage the PC across a network and a sealed case inhibits user modification. There are no ISA slots, therefore ensuring all...
[March 13, 1997, 16:07]
IBM set to release NC
News IBM is about to announce its Network Computer (NC) plans, according to a report in this morning's Wall Street Journal. The report says that IBM's first device will be priced at about $700 without a monitor and will be aimed squarely at the business...
[September 5, 1996, 9:17]
Five years ago: CeBIT: NetPC won't compete with NC - Intel
News First published 13 March, 1997 Entry-level NetPCs are being touted at around $1,000 with major selling points being the ability to remotely configure and manage the PC across a network and a sealed case inhibits user modification.
[March 14, 2002, 6:01]
UK firms hesitate over NetPC and NC
News The report, commissioned by AST, spoke to 138 companies of which 47 per cent believed it will be at least two years before the NetPC and NC even beginning to make an impact on the UK market. Just eight per cent were totally unconvinced by either...
[December 5, 1997, 17:08]
Sun bundles apps suite with NC
News The suite is Anyware Office from US developer Applix. It includes a word processor, 3D spreadsheet, e-mail client and data querying tool, and is aimed at corporate intranet users. Applix claims the suite is even more economical on system...
[November 8, 1996, 9:39]
Microsoft counters NC with device of its own
News The device is expected to be a sub-£600 Windows-based machine and will compete with Network Computers such as Sun's much-hyped JavaStation, which will be announced tomorrow. Microsoft's partners are expected to include Hewlett-Packard which has...
[October 28, 1996, 14:12]
Five years ago: IBM preps NC middleware tools
News First published 15 May, 1997. IBM has moved its object technology firmly into the Network Computing arena, now that the BOSS project, long secret inside IBM, has been announced. Big Blue promised a September ship date under the Component Broker...
[May 15, 2002, 7:01]
IBM preps NC middleware tools
News IBM has moved its object technology firmly into the Network Computing arena, now that the BOSS project, long secret inside IBM, has been announced. Big Blue promised a September ship date under the Component Broker product name for the middleware...
[May 15, 1997, 8:45]
Intel aims to trump NC cost claims
News The chip giant will supply its LAN management software and Fast Ethernet cards and silicon with Wake On LAN support to several blue chip PC vendors, said James Smith, European director of Intel's networking division.
[October 31, 1996, 16:19]
Aerospace Dynamics International Uses NX CAM to Speed NC Programming for Large, Complex Parts Produced on High-Speed, Five-Axis Machines
White Papers Aerospace Dynamics International (ADI) manufactures large components such as aircraft wing spars and bulkheads and panels for the space shuttle's external fuel tanks. Aerospace Dynamics International no longer has time to code intricate machine...
[January 15, 2008, 0:01]
US Report: Sun cuts NC prices, hopes JavaStation will shine
News Sun Microsystems promises to break the $500 (£300) price barrier with its new Java-Stations due in the first quarter of next year. Sun hopes the new pricing could deflect criticism that network computers do less than PCs and cost more.
[December 5, 1998, 7:41]
US Report: Don't pull the NC plug yet
News Sun is hoping the new pricing could deflect criticism that while network computers cost more than PCs, they do less. Acquisition cost does matter, even though customers interested in Network Computers are interested in centralised administration.
[December 2, 1998, 6:25]
Quotes of the Week, December 9-13
News "We've been overwhelmed with requests for [NC] pilots," - IBM's David McAughtry on the popularity of the NC. Oracle's Nick Barley on the rise of the NC. Intel and Microsoft don't have a monopoly on the PC anymore.
[December 13, 1996, 9:41]
Q&A (2): IBM's McAughtry on a break from Wintel
News It's not NC versus PC versus Net PC for us. For instance, an NC should not have a Pentium chip. The NC is an optimised intranet workstation. What happens with the NC is low-level traffic. The type of customer who likes the NC is the sort who didn't...
[July 2, 1997, 17:00]
Sun/Oracle plans - don't get excited says MS
News The NC debate got stuff on the agenda, which is great.but it never took off. Turning her attention to Ellison's continued berrating of Microsoft, Reay says, "in terms of the NC debate, Oracle has disbanded the division that was going to deliver the...
[December 16, 1998, 16:16]
MIMO-OFDM
White Papers In OFDM the high speed data stream is divided into Nc narrowband data streams, Nc corresponding to the subcarriers or subchannels i.e.one OFDM symbol consists of N symbols modulated for example by QAM or PSK.
[April 11, 2007, 1:01]
