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Microsoft scales back Longhorn for 2006 launch
News Microsoft executives said last month that the first widespread test, or beta, version of the software, would likely not arrive until the first half of next year. Microsoft said on Friday that it is aiming to release Longhorn in the first half of...
[April 12, 2004, 10:35]
Wireless broadband auctions: Round 2
News Legislation due to come into force next week will pave the way for the auction of the remaining broadband fixed wireless access licences, after last year's auction ended in failure. Industry experts predict that these costs will come down over the...
[October 5, 2001, 16:39]
"Fastest browser on earth" now free for Linux, Mac
News In the first month Opera made the free Windows version available, 2 million copies were downloaded, a company representative said. Opera has not yet tallied downloads for the second month. But two million downloads were enough to convince the...
[February 1, 2001, 7:39]
BTopenworld to spend millions on broadband ads
News BTopenworld announced on Friday that it will spend several million pounds over the next three months on advertising and promotions for its broadband services. Promoting broadband aggressively, via increased marketing and distribution deals that...
[March 8, 2002, 14:57]
First half review: Rambus rules, Egghead scrambled
News The first half of 2000 was exceptionally strong for most chip stocks and the odd specialty software developer, but money-losing Internet retail and infrastructure stocks took a beating as investors shied away from stocks that were hyped as the...
[July 10, 2000, 14:52]
Terra hits WAP scene with iobox buyout
News Terra Mobile was founded earlier this month by Telefonica Mobiles and Terra Networks, which recently acquired US-based Internet portal Lycos. For example, Germany's T-Mobil last month revealed that only 1.3 percent, or 175,000, of its subscribers...
[July 25, 2000, 16:41]
Intel's low-power Crusoe challenger
News Intel's first ultra-low-power Pentium III chip, due in the first half of next year, will be a 500MHz, which drops to 300MHz when on battery power. Transmeta chief executive David Ditzel was attending the Microprocessor Forum this week when Spindler...
[October 12, 2000, 8:19]
RunPlan
Downloads RunPlan 2.3 RunPlan is an application for Palm OS PDAs Be independent of training plans on paper, stats sheets or your desktop PC RunPlan helps you achieve your fitness goals RunPlan helps you get in shape for a marathon or a triathlon Enter...
[May 29, 2003, 8:00]
Rivals 'could beat BT' in the next-generation game
News Marconi surprisingly missed out last month when BT picked its first batch of suppliers for its 21st Century Network (21CN). We’re seeing a lot of new interest in next generation networks from everyone in the UK," Evans said.
[June 10, 2005, 13:00]
Parliament to probe Digital Britain plan
News Many of the government's recommendations in Lord Carter's Digital Britain report, published earlier this month, require new legislation if they are to be put into practice. The 50p-per-month levy on each fixed copper line, as proposed by Carter...
[June 30, 2009, 12:47]
Palm readies high-end wireless handheld
News Palm says it plans to have the Tungsten W, the handheld computer maker's combination phone, email device and organiser, on US shop shelves by the end of the month. Certification is expected in the next couple of days, after which the companies are...
[February 19, 2003, 8:11]
Looking behind India's tech boom
News India has only 100 million phones for its population of 1 billion people - including both cellular and land lines - but that number is expected to grow to 250 million in the next two years. Over the next 12 months, you will see three to four new...
[June 28, 2005, 16:50]
System availability targets
News Continuous availability target Hours of outage allowed per month 99.99% 0.07 hours 99.9% 0.7 hours 99.5% 3.6 hours 99.0% 7.2 hours 98.6% 10.0 hours 98.0% 14.4 hours To quantify the amount of availability achieved, you have to...
[February 6, 2003, 12:54]
100Mbps broadband a reality by 2007
News Initially only available in Scotland, the 10Mbps service should reach London at the beginning of next year with the rest of the country following over the next 12 months. The company also announced the price of this service has dropped from £50 per...
[September 23, 2005, 16:55]
Vodafone updates small business offering
News The tariff starts at £22 per month and is intended for businesses with up to 20 company mobiles. It's a spearheading of a whole host of things coming from Vodafone specifically targeted at small businesses," a Vodafone spokesperson told ZDNet UK on...
[October 16, 2006, 17:45]
UnitedLinux prepares first beta
News UnitedLinux, the project uniting the operating system software of Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE Linux and Turbolinux, said it will begin beta-testing its new distribution in the next two weeks. The former will arrive by the end of this month, with the...
[August 14, 2002, 13:49]
Carphone Warehouse 'cleared' over free broadband claim
News Dunstone also revealed that next week Carphone Warehouse will start offering Free Broadband to users of its more basic phone package, which excludes free international calls and is a pound cheaper than the £9.99 per month voice package previously...
[July 14, 2006, 12:45]
Palm lays off another 250
News All (the handheld makers) did pretty well in the past two weeks, with Palm selling more than Handspring or Compaq," said Thomas Sepenzis, an analyst with CIBC World Markets, who added that the recovery in demand could continue through the next...
[November 29, 2001, 8:50]
Is Apple about to take on the video market?
News When asked at a conference last month whether the company would sell video via an iTunes-like store, Jobs says Apple's "actions of the future" would answer that question, adding that it is working on "great things" in its labs.
[July 21, 2005, 17:35]
Firebird database readies SMP release
News Firebird developers are due to do an alpha release of version 2.0 of the open source database later this month and have completed work on SMP support, which is due to be released in late spring. It is already completed and is due to be merged with...
[January 7, 2005, 14:45]
