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Nuggets: Ça fait cher, mon cher! (that's French y'know)
News Writing speeds are 6x to CD-R, which burns a CD in around 12 minutes, and 4x to CD-RW. Oh and in case you're at all interested, Nuggets in French is -- pépite d'or -- ain't it cool! CD-R.at a price It comes with the usual Adaptec software for PCs...
[August 4, 1999, 15:32]
Dell Latitude D400 review
Reviews The D400's dimensions, however, are standard for a business-class ultraportable: 29.4cm wide, 24.5cm deep and 2.66cm thick. The Latitude D400 can handle anywhere from 128MB to a whopping 2GB of 266MHz SDRAM, and hard disks of 20GB, 30GB and 60GB...
[July 22, 2003, 8:48]
John Thompson: Customers need security know-how
News I think if I was fair, I'd say the government has not done enough, and it would be equally fair to say the private sector has not done enough, either. It's just not happening fast enough, or not enough money is being funded at the top, from a...
[July 22, 2004, 15:20]
Acer TravelMate 291LCi review
Reviews The important keys are large, as you'd expect for the chassis size, and the touchpad is also spacious and smooth, with two mouse buttons below it. Acer's Web site also offers free technical support via email, along with driver downloads, user...
[February 6, 2004, 8:25]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook E8210 review
Reviews One of the latter is the power switch, while the remaining four fulfill the same functions we saw on the LifeBook E8110: two are for application launching, one is marked ‘E’ and puts the notebook into ‘Eco’ mode (which involves shutting down...
[April 26, 2006, 9:45]
Apple iMac G4 1.25GHz review
Reviews The 10.4kg iMac consists of a half-dome base that contains the SuperDrive (CD-RW/DVD-R) and external expansion ports. The drives remain unchanged on the 17in.iMac; it still comes standard with an 80GB hard drive and Apple's DVD-R/CD-RW SuperDrive.
[December 2, 2003, 9:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's all very well being a noble defender of the downtrodden, a fearless crusader against evil and a vigorous vanquisher of injustice -- but sometimes the bleeding downtrodden make you want to give up and leave them to get vanquished themselves.
[October 8, 2004, 18:45]
Fiorina: HP can fend off Dell
News Dell is a channel of distribution, not an R&D company. We have made a lot of money in this area and are gaining market share," said Fiorina, speaking in Orlando, Florida, at a conference sponsored by market researcher Gartner.
[October 8, 2002, 15:25]
SAP agenda dominated by licensing issues
News The R/3 product has been superseded in recent years and rebadged as enterprise core components in the wider mySAP ERP offering. We do have a senior SAP Australia executive on our board and a liaison officer, but for Influence they'd need to commit...
[August 23, 2006, 17:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary - Holy Land Special
Blog Our first stop is at the Haifa Intel Design Centre, a large R&D lab an hour from the hotel by bus — but then, everywhere in Israel is an hour away by bus. Just before Christmas, Intel shipped me and a handful of other European journalists out to...
[January 6, 2006, 17:40]
IT heavyweights eye the PeopleSoft pie
News Indeed, IBM, which had more than $5.5bn in cash and equivalents at the end of its March quarter, already has a long-standing joint-marketing deal with J.D. Hambrecht analyst Richard Petersen agreed, saying he thinks IBM has little interest getting...
[June 9, 2003, 12:40]
SAP's ABAP/4 -- the basics
News To this end, SAP R/3 may be conceptualised as a vast super-database, melding disparate smaller databases and external data sources into one huge, flexible, accessible library of information. In addition to the handling of conventional data types...
[January 15, 2003, 11:51]
Sony VAIO PCG-GRX616SP review
Reviews Conventional DVD-ROMs are read at 5X, while CD-R/RW media are written and rewritten at 16X/10X respectively; CD-ROMs play at 24X. These are rare enough to be interesting anyway, but Sony's drive can read, record and rewrite using either of the two...
[February 24, 2003, 9:46]
Sony VAIO PCV-RXG408 review
Reviews Pioneer's DVR-104VA, which has been included in previous Sony desktops, writes to DVD-RW, DVD-R, CD-RW and CD-R media, as well as reading most optical media. As well as the GigaPocket viewer, there's a timer recording manager application...
[January 15, 2003, 10:38]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook P7230 review
Reviews Also visible and accessible when the notebook is closed are a manual switch for the Wi-Fi radio, the power switch (which flashes blue when the notebook is in standby mode) and two buttons, one marked ‘E’ the other ‘R’.
[September 27, 2007, 15:07]
HP chip team sets up home at Intel
News You are already reducing your processor R&D budget. This is a way to cut your R&D budget," said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research. An Intel representative declined to provide the number of engineers sent to Intel in the deal but...
[September 14, 2001, 10:49]
BBC Micro designer gets New Year's Honour
News His success with the BBC Micro came during a 10-year spell in the R&D department of Acorn, the computer's manufacturer. They were based on a machine I'd built at home a year earlier. Furber is now a fellow of both the British Computer Society and...
[January 2, 2008, 12:45]
Sony VAIO PCV-RX203 review
Reviews The Pioneer drive handles DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R and CD-RW media, so you should be able to write out your creations to whatever format you need. The PCV-RX203 is the highest specification -- and therefore most expensive -- model in a range that takes...
[March 4, 2002, 23:00]
New US bill takes a shot at stock options
News Dick Durbin, D-Ill.and Sen. Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich.introduced Senate Bill 1940 in order to "plug a corporate tax loophole" that allows companies to claim large tax deductions without declaring the cost as an expense on earnings statements.
[February 14, 2002, 16:03]
HP's double-edged IP sword
News Partly out of fears about lawsuits, and partly out of a desire to help defray the burden of R&D budgets, large companies have also begun to shore up their own licensing practices. We spend over $3.7bn a year in R&D," Beyers said.
[November 11, 2005, 14:40]
