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Symbian will smart over mid-market phones
Leader If Symbian's mid-market ambitions are dependent on its work with Intel, as senior executives were saying at the Expo, they seem doubly doomed to failure. And most network operators couldn't care less about the OS either -- they don't see beyond the...
[October 6, 2004, 12:45]
US Report: Windows CE lands its Sega dream machine
News The new game console, called Dreamcast, is Sega's chance to reclaim its respectability in the video-game industry after the spectacular failure of the Saturn. Interactive TV software maker Network Computer could make a surprise announcement in the...
[May 22, 1998, 14:43]
Select committee told that BT must lose local loop
News Wallace blamed BT for the failure of local-loop unbundling, a process that was intended to boost competition by allowing other operators to install equipment in or near local exchanges and offer telecom services to ISPs in competition with BT...
[February 6, 2002, 14:08]
Does the Net need a 'red-light district'?
News The "US zone" -- or "green zone," as Clinger calls it -- would help sharpen the detection abilities of filter programs, which he says have a high rate of failure because Web content is scattered through the IP spectrum.
[August 7, 2000, 10:24]
Rural broadband rollout hits problems
News According to AOL UK, one reason for Knaresborough's failure could be the complexity of BT's pre-registration scheme. Worryingly, neither BT Wholesale -- which operates BT's fixed line network -- nor ISPs such as AOL and BTopenworld can explain this...
[November 11, 2002, 13:15]
Broadband unbundler targets public sector
News Local-loop unbundling was meant to bring more wholesale competition to the UK, but over the past few years it has largely been a failure. Updata has no immediate plans to sell SDSL directly to businesses, and the rules governing the use of public...
[July 30, 2004, 12:40]
The four things your backup strategy is missing
News On the surface, this problem appears simple - have the backup software send you a notice when there is a failure. Of course, even better than notification on success as well as failure is a checklist of daily tasks which includes verifying the...
[July 29, 2005, 16:20]
State Department technology under the spotlight
News Despite the long-standing mandate, several studies in recent years have sharply criticised the State Department, in large part for failure to upgrade its technology. His department's budget includes $210m for two major information technology...
[September 12, 2001, 10:00]
Dell PowerEdge T710 review
Reviews The PowerEdge T710 is ideal for branch office or medium-sized business use, where performance, expandability and flexibility are key attributes — and where downtime due to hardware failure is not an option.
[September 21, 2009, 10:16]
Coding in corporate responsibility
News Is it possible then, given the public safety issue and market failure, that there needs to be some market correction? A tipping point is when chief executives, and not just network security people, are complaining to their IT vendors that they need...
[May 16, 2005, 11:20]
Maintenance error causes two-hour Gmail outage
News Several Google Apps customers who use Gmail for internal email at their businesses and organisations did not return calls on Tuesday seeking information on the degree to which they were affected, making it difficult to know the magnitude of the...
[September 2, 2009, 9:19]
EDS: The single point of failure
Leader It might cost slightly more and be harder to manage, but by splitting the DWP into smaller bite-sized chunks (possibly by geographic area or work function), a host of smaller firms could be invited to tender, increasing competition and doing away...
[November 29, 2004, 12:35]
Sun opens wallet for software push
News The only problem is that if the incentive doesn't have its desired effect, the company's failure is even starker. In the last year, though, it's been renamed the Sun Open Network Environment (Sun ONE) and had its independence eliminated.
[January 10, 2003, 8:47]
Eben Moglen: GPLv3 set for success
News Everybody is so heavily embarked in everybody else's boats, and the consequences of failure are so far-reaching, people have no choice but to share their ideas and seek compromise and co-existence," Moglen said.
[May 24, 2007, 11:40]
UK loses interest in wireless Net
News The failure of WAP has been a bitter pill, but it's important that we learn some valuable lessons from it," said Alistair Harvey, portal manager of iTouch UK, a wireless Internet service, at the 3G Mobile Internet Content conference earlier this...
[May 24, 2001, 12:19]
Europe falling behind US in cloud, says Reding
News Reding warned that a failure to reform European copyright laws on orphan works and libraries would see Europe falling behind the US in the digitisation of content. She identified some short-term goals, calling again for the Telecoms Package to be...
[July 9, 2009, 16:09]
Single PC to adopt multiple OS
News By allowing administrators, or even automated management software, to move computing jobs easily from one hardware system to another, virtualisation makes it easier to upgrade hardware, allocate more computing horsepower to a given job, adjust to...
[November 10, 2003, 10:00]
What to expect from Microsoft's Web Services Enhancements
News Modular and composable -- Made up of individual elements that are combined into a unified service; can be factored to either stand alone or work together.General purpose -- Don't know or care where they're running or who called them.Standards...
[February 26, 2003, 10:37]
IBM plays down hard-drive concerns
News Many drives were shipped, and therefore a given failure rate would mean a larger actual number of failed drives, he said. With lower-end network-attached storage systems proliferating from companies such as Quantum, Dell, Compaq, IBM and others...
[March 22, 2002, 15:14]
WPA crack details revealed
News Mitigation recommendations from the Sans Institute include reducing key-renewal intervals and checking for multiple Michael failure messages. Chopchop is a very old attack on WEP which allows the decryption of single packet in a WEP-protected...
[November 10, 2008, 14:16]
