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Will we believe the telcos?
Talkback Which is all very well, but if 3G technology, which has been around for some 10 years, can't deliver faster speeds than 56k dial-up in a densely populated, heavily used commuter corridor, will we believe the telcos when they start selling 50Mbit...
[November 20, 2009, 2:43]
Adaptec to show Gigabit Ethernet
News The product is a single-port PCI network interface card with 64Kb buffered RAM which offers a maximum throughput of 1Gbit/sec. Adaptec will showcase its lightning-fast Gigabit Ethernet networking technology at the Networld+Interop exhibition next...
[April 30, 1997, 17:03]
A Year Ago: COM One delivers set-top box
News A smart card lets users store ID and preferences and the small format desktop case can connect to the Net via the integral 56Kb/sec modem, or ISDN or via a LAN. French communications firm COM One today announced what will be one of one the first...
[December 2, 1998, 6:42]
Five years ago: Adaptec to show Gigabit Ethernet
News The product is a single-port PCI network interface card with 64Kb buffered RAM which offers a maximum throughput of 1Gbit/sec. First published 30 April, 1997. Adaptec will showcase its lightning-fast Gigabit Ethernet networking technology at the...
[April 30, 2002, 7:01]
iLove College Football 2008
Downloads The following conferences are supported in addition to the Top 25: ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Sky, Big Ten, Colonial, Conference USA, Great West, Ivy League, MEAC, MAC, Mountain West, NEC, OVC, PAC 10, Patriot, Pioneer, SEC, Southland, Sunbelt...
[October 17, 2008, 11:45]
HP DVD-Writer DVD100i review
Reviews Based on specifications, the HP DVD100i writes to its native DVD+RW discs at a whopping 3.32MB per second (2.4X) compared to the Pioneer DVR-A03's 1.38MB/sec. At £549 (ex. VAT), the DVD100i debuts at a lower price point than the £699 (ex.
[January 2, 2002, 23:00]
UB Networks switches to fast lane
News A GeoBus backplane is now included in the GeoLan/500 chassis, providing 34.7Gbit bandwidth for 10- and 100Mbits/sec switching. A 12-port 100 Base-TX Fast Ethernet Concentrator (£290 + VAT per port) will be available from the end of this month, with...
[October 1, 1996, 15:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Hold on a sec. Thursday 3/12/2003 It was the Wi-Fi and 3G Summit, and official bod Bernie Frieder was on stage. As Director of Emerging Technology for the government, he was giving forth about how the recession was over, Wi-Fi was changing the...
[December 5, 2003, 16:30]
Comdex Fall, Las Vegas: USB devices wait in the wings
News Mitel showed its Personal Assistant, a telephone with integral 33.6Kbit/sec voice-modem that recognises callers and comes with software that automatically calls up contact management information. Universal Serial Bus (USB) is getting ready for...
[November 19, 1996, 13:55]
Netgear raises nearly $100m
News According to the prospectus filed with the SEC on Thursday, Netgear will have about 27.22 million shares outstanding, giving the California-based company a market value of nearly $381m. Networking technology maker Netgear announced on Thursday that...
[July 31, 2003, 16:00]
California Graphics plans New Year Voodoo 2 card
News The firm claims the two-card configuration creates a maximum memory bandwidth of 4.3Gb/sec and 180 million pixels per second. Aimed at the serious gamer market, the 3D Wizard includes one Pixel/fx and two Texel/fx processors and is planned to ship...
[December 15, 1997, 14:46]
The Day Ahead: Broadwing flies under the radar
News I first noticed Broadwing after perusing the SEC filings of Corvis, a hot fibre optic gear maker that made a huge IPO splash despite not having a dime of revenue. Commentary: You'd think the company behind the third largest fibre optic network...
[November 8, 2000, 13:00]
MineFinder
Downloads If think to have found a tile containing a mine, you can mark it holding down your finger over the tile for a little time (about 0.3 sec). MineFinder is a simple game where you must find all mines contained in the game field.
[June 16, 2009, 14:57]
US Report: Key issues for the Netscape-AOL merger
News AOL is already an SEC favourite. Those details include: earnings dilution, profits, integration, regulatory concerns and a few other things that could really throw a wrench into the AOL machinery. Since we're primarily concerned with the bottom...
[November 24, 1998, 5:29]
AMD faces $50m bill for restructuring
News In its SEC filing, the company said it anticipated more expenses related to its cost-cutting programme in 2009. AMD expects to spend $50m in the first quarter on restructuring its business, the chipmaker said in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
[April 3, 2009, 16:43]
Samsung ships 'quiet' 32x CD-ROM in UK
News The SCR-3230 achieves a maximum rotational speed of 6700rpm allowing data transfer rates of 4800kB/sec and access time of 80Ms. The SCR-3230, which is shipping this month, features an auto balancer that cuts imbalance within the drive.
[March 3, 1998, 15:36]
XML variant will boost corporate responsibility says UN
News The report claims that there has been a massive increase in the number of companies opting to release non-financial information pertaining to the impact of social and environmental issues, in addition to the mandatory financial information...
[November 8, 2004, 17:03]
Intel Mobile Module to enable fast, new notebooks
News The chipset integrates support for Concurrent PCI; the Dynamic Power Management Architecture (DPMA) that allows PCs to offer an "always on" mode; synchronous DRAM (SDRAM); Universal Serial Bus; and Ultra DMA 33Mb/sec drive transfer rates.
[February 19, 1997, 13:03]
A Year Ago: Intel Mobile Module to enable fast, new notebooks
News The chipset integrates support for Concurrent PCI; the Dynamic Power Management Architecture (DPMA) that allows PCs to offer an "always on" mode; synchronous DRAM (SDRAM); Universal Serial Bus; and Ultra DMA 33Mb/sec drive transfer rates.
[February 19, 1998, 8:42]
Friday
Blog No flashing lights, no half-meg a sec of business critical information flooding in (that was what you were downloading, Graham, wasn't it? Friday 9/08/2002 Poor old Graham 'Don't Call Me Norton' Wearden, our broadband reporter and scourge of the...
[August 9, 2002, 18:19]
