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HDS puts Windows functions on NC
News The UK firm says the features allow the system to be used as a low-cost, fully featured alternative to networked PCs. Like an orthodox NC, the HDS runs Windows apps from a server but has the bonus of Windows printing, floppy access and multimedia.
[May 23, 1997, 11:14]
Redefining IPTV With the Sun Streaming System: Video-on-Demand (VoD) and Network Personal Video Recording (nPVR) for an Open Systems World
White Papers Home video in all of its forms is now a large and growing business, and Video on Demand (VoD), networked Personal Video Recorders (nPVR), and interactive video services can offer considerable convenience and tailored services in an already strong...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Second Linux merger cancelled this week
News Ebiz announced in March that it had agreed to acquire Linux NetworX, which builds low-cost supercomputers made of networked Linux machines. Linux NetworX and Ebiz Enterprises have called off their merger, the second time this week Linux companies...
[May 4, 2001, 10:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You may not be surprised that in the future, we'll all have Microsoft Media Center PCs in every room, all networked to each other and a central home server that stores incoming digital entertainment from satellite, terrestrial and broadband.
[April 29, 2005, 20:10]
Public sector's IT waste disposal
News The Executive's 'Scots Connects' programme has worked with Objective and LogicaCMG to develop public sector-specific systems, including a networked desktop package and electronic records and document management.
[November 28, 2005, 15:45]
Boeing puts Linux, AMD in orbit
News The system was built by Linux Networx, which specialises in "Beowulf" clusters -- gangs of networked Linux machines that collectively tackle computational problems. Boeing on Wednesday bought a 96-processor supercomputer based on the Linux...
[March 15, 2001, 8:36]
Microsoft says Passport boosts privacy
News We're not there yet, but as we move toward an increasingly networked world, marketers are salivating over the possibility of linking that data -- for example, tying your route home to your penchant for pizza, or your presence at a ball game to...
[April 20, 2002, 7:31]
Compaq, Novell tout newbies' network guide
News According to Jacqui Forrest, Novell's UK group marketing development manager, nearly two-thirds of PC-owning small companies aren't networked Called The Networking Guide for Today's Growing Business, the booklet covers hardware, setting up...
[January 28, 1997, 9:57]
IBM server: Buy now, upgrade later
News Servers are networked computers that juggle a number of jobs from storing data for email systems to conducting e-commerce and other transactions. IBM is pitching an upgrade-as-you-go server for medium-sized businesses.
[August 22, 2002, 15:21]
Red Hat ready to tackle Microsoft's desktop dominance
News Red Hat, the leading seller of Linux, gets the vast majority of its revenue from the use of its product in servers -- more powerful networked computers typically run by technically proficient administrators.
[June 24, 2002, 16:41]
Comdex Fall: Tosh Java OS broadens the spectrum
News Toshiba sees what it calls the J-PC slotting in as an alternative architecture to Windows PCs, Net PCs and NCs because JexeOS can run Java applications even on systems that aren't networked. The firm's JexeOS is a PC operating system dedicated to...
[November 19, 1997, 10:40]
Xircom to support Handspring
News Xircom said that it will provide a variety of Springboard modules integrating Ethernet, modem and wireless technologies giving Visor users access to networked data and the Internet. Xircom has announced that it is extending its handheld PC support...
[January 6, 2000, 10:50]
IBM slates NT scalability claims
News With off-the-shelf [software], it took us just a few weeks to assemble a system to run a billion simple transactions in a networked NT environment. Big Blue has issued a statement decrying Microsoft's claims regarding scalability, saying that they...
[May 19, 1997, 15:14]
IPv6 hype suggests real problems
Blog Comment You say that mobile devices will be networked with IP6 . Thanks Defyant - those are good points. I still think there is some confusion in the way it's being promoted at the moment. I don't understand how an IPv6 version of EU websites designed for...
[May 12, 2008, 9:30]
Grids go corporate
News The consortium will try to steer an open source software package called the Globus Toolkit, which helps universities, companies and other customers run software on large groups of networked computers called grids.
[January 24, 2005, 8:10]
Aurelon RIP for Epson 4000
Downloads Glossy, Semi-Matt, Luster, Proofing), free Aurelon Layout and Calibrator standard edition software and enables cross-platform, networked printing from any application. Aurelon has released a special, dedicated RIP for the Epson Stylus Pro 4000.
[June 8, 2004, 8:00]
Security relationships
Blog Comment My answer was that any networked computer will have its vulnerabilities, but frankly I couldn't see why you'd bother as you could normally find out what you wanted by standing the local plod a nice drink.
[September 13, 2007, 17:48]
GPL to get a makeover
News GPL author Richard Stallman says he's working on amendments that could deal better with software patents; clarify how GPL software may be used in some networked environments and on carefully controlled hardware; and lower some barriers that today...
[December 23, 2004, 15:10]
Sniffing worm snoops network PCs
News The worm has the potential to intercept passwords and PayPal account details on networked computers. Hackers have released a worm that captures banking and login details from computers that surround an infected PC.
[September 14, 2004, 14:55]
Aurelon Signalize!
Downloads is scalable from a single user, one printer set-up to a cross platform, multi-user, networked environment. Signalize! is Aurelon's professional modular production suite for large format printing and signmaking.
[June 28, 2005, 8:00]
