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Gateway turning off Net appliances?
News Last year, Gateway announced plans to come out with the Web tablet, which is designed to resemble an Etch A Sketch. A number of corporate giants have come out with a variety of Web-surfing devices. IDC analyst, Bryan Ma, said Gateway faces the same...
[March 6, 2001, 15:04]
All at sea: Challenge race asks tough IT questions
News It turns out that the Challenge was made possible by building these 60-feet yachts out of steel. But to reach Inmarsat, you need a dish; and a quite big dish. And on an ordinary yacht, made out of wood or glass-reinforced plastic, you just stuff...
[August 29, 1996, 9:20]
Spyware's tentacles spread to search
News They will screen that traffic out, and if it slips through, we won't pay for the traffic. The company's Web site is intermittently out of service. A recent survey reported that nearly one out of every three computers scanned for Trojan horse...
[June 29, 2004, 12:50]
The 1GHz race is on
News Observers of the chip scene point out that the one gigahertz mark is just that, a mark. Both AMD and Intel have already gone on record saying they expect to reach the gigahertz mark by the end of next year, a claim observers of the chip scene fully...
[December 1, 1999, 12:42]
iPod sparks record boom in chip sales
News Sales of semiconductors are at their highest ever level, said Gartner on Friday, as they broke a five-year-old record to reach $235bn. The analysts pointed out that in the previous three years, Intel's growth rate had been below the market average.
[December 9, 2005, 16:25]
Nvidia NV30 pursues raw speed
News The company has said in the past that it would not sacrifice stability in order to reach higher clock speeds, a concern that has kept ATI with the more mature 0.15-micron process. The chipmaker, which currently dominates the competitive graphics...
[October 8, 2002, 16:40]
Linux lovers hit hard times as home users
News The operating system in various forms will continue to take a bite out of Windows over the next few years, IDC expects. Sales of PCs running the Linux operating system will reach $10bn by 2008, according to a 2004 IDC study of the Linux ecosystem.
[November 3, 2005, 17:20]
Word 12 (beta 1) review
Reviews Check out our image gallery of Word 12 (beta 1) for a look at its new face and features. Word 12 documents rely on a thick ribbon of functions clustered at the top of each window, placing the major features within reach without demanding so many...
[November 18, 2005, 15:55]
Can Mobiles Benefit Nigerian Micro Finance Banks?
Blog The question is, what is out there.million mobiles subscribers is a significant and potential customers base that can be engaged using the mobile channel.Network coverage is nearing 70 percent of total landmass in Nigeria, an extensive reach is...
[May 13, 2009, 9:37]
Can Mobiles benefit Nigerian Micro Finance Banks?
Blog The question is, what is out there.million mobiles subscribers is a significant and potential customers base that can be engaged using the mobile channel.Network coverage is nearing 70 percent of total landmass in Nigeria, an extensive reach is...
[May 5, 2009, 8:47]
Online ads take a cue from TV
News Turning the user session into a fundamental buying unit brings online measurement closer to the reach and frequency model used in traditional media. Known as "reach" and "frequency," they refer to the audience an advertisement reaches and the...
[November 19, 2001, 14:47]
BT gadget may give broadband speed boost
News BT may have been making a few noises about investing in a fibre-broadband network for the UK — provided it can get a guaranteed return on investment — but it's still banking on getting the most out of Britain's ageing household wiring first.
[October 2, 2008, 7:48]
A democratic mobile revolution
News Election Day than on an ordinary day, and young voters turned out in large numbers to help unseat the government. The Mobile Voter group is aimed at helping improve voter participation, particularly among younger people who can be difficult to...
[October 20, 2005, 20:00]
The problems of processor manufacture
News The one on top is very thin, making it very easy to take heat out of the top. We're learning to take it out of the bottom. What will happen when you reach the limits of silicon? Strained silicon accelerates mobility by up to a factor of two, but...
[March 10, 2006, 17:05]
Yahoo! blows past Q2 estimates
News reaching 60 percent of Web users in the United States in May, which puts the web portal in the top spot for Internet audience reach. will not break out Geocities results in future quarterly reports. Blodget was one of the few analysts to go out on...
[July 8, 1999, 8:37]
Web research gets time-sensitive
News Nielsen/NetRatings and ComScore Media Metrix, rival Web analysis firms, introduced on Monday products designed to let Web publishers and advertisers find out which types of people are visiting popular Web sites during specific periods of the day...
[March 11, 2003, 9:34]
Portal commerce deals lack results
News E-commerce sites aren't getting the bang for their buck out of portal deals, according to a new study from US analyst firm Jupiter Communications. As a result, Jupiter analysts advised merchants "to diversify their marketing strategies as a way to...
[April 7, 1999, 9:24]
European Net registrars boycott ICANN
News A fight has broken out between a key Net standards body and Web address administrators in Europe. The servers act as a Yellow Pages for the Internet, showing one domain how to reach addresses in another domain.
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
Yahoo! does it again...
News Although the website does get a cut of each sale made by its merchants, those transaction fees aren't large enough to break out as a separate revenue stream, Yahoo executives said. ranked No.in reach with 53.4 percent of all users dialling up from...
[April 8, 1999, 9:21]
Microsoft gears up for victory in the virtual battle
News VMware is the undisputed market leader in virtualisation but, as a company, it came from nowhere to reach that position. No large company out there is 100 per cent virtualised. At Gartner and IDC, they will say that perhaps 12 percent of the...
[October 9, 2008, 1:00]
