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Psion share price bounces back
News The rise in share price to £3.80 signals a dramatic turnaround for Psion which had seen its shares tumble since it made an abortive attempt to buy Amstrad last year and later warned analysts of weaker than expected performance.
[September 5, 1997, 11:14]
Taiwan gov't scraps plans for chip merger
News The Taiwanese government has ruled out plans to merge six local memory chipmakers, a move that signals a scaledown in the government's plans to stimulate its memory industry, news reports indicate. A merger would be "too complicated and difficult...
[March 16, 2009, 8:23]
EC proposes TV spectrum for WiMax
News UHF spectrum should be allocated to WiMax once Europe's analogue television signals are phased out, the European commissioner for information society and media has proposed. Viviane Reding made the suggestion during a broadband-related speech in...
[June 13, 2007, 11:30]
Yahoo's Overture may force Microsoft's hand
News Yahoo's $1.63bn buyout of Overture Services signals a dramatic shake-up of the Web search market that could wake a sleeping giant: Microsoft. Yahoo announced it would dive into paid-search business head first by acquiring the industry's pioneer and...
[July 15, 2003, 8:22]
Five years ago: Acorn fights back with reduced losses
News The year end results to March have sent strong signals that Acorn is re-positioning itself as a 'worldwide technology developer' and its education market collaboration with Apple is reaping some benefit.
[March 8, 2002, 6:01]
Optimising and securing your network review
Reviews Because wireless signals often travel beyond the physical confines of your home or office, you must take extra precautions to secure your network. Otherwise, any hacker on the street with a suitable radio can gain access to your network.
[February 6, 2003, 14:55]
Looking for vital signs in Microsoft Live
Leader Faced with impenetrable security and contradictory signals from the Soviet Union, analysts turned to watching for side effects of whatever policy was actually being followed. In Cold War days, there was a profession called Kremlinology.
[August 10, 2006, 13:35]
AMD touts importance of 'balanced' platform
News The trend of high-definition becoming mainstream signals that 3D is increasingly more than just the domain of gamers, John Taylor, AMD's director for product communications, noted at a briefing for regional media in Singapore.
[April 30, 2008, 9:18]
Scanners thwart exam cheats
News Some UK schools have begun using equipment that can detect mobile-phone signals in an attempt to clamp down on high-tech cheating methods. Throughout the educational community, concern is growing that students are using their mobile phones to...
[July 2, 2003, 14:40]
Wal-Mart commits billions to RFID
News Wal-Mart plans to spend $3bn (£1.8bn) over the next few years on a new inventory tracking technology that uses radio frequency signals to keep tabs on merchandise, sources familiar with the project said.
[November 10, 2003, 7:45]
Google sees profit in product images
News Google is testing a feature that lets consumers browse the pages of mail-order catalogues, a departure from its core search business that signals a major move into commercial listings. The beta service is currently free to catalogue companies such...
[December 19, 2001, 12:49]
HP to go solo in storage market
News The announcement of a raft of hardware and software products strengthens HP's desire to be the number one company in storage and signals a change of direction for the computer giant. The decision sees HP teaming up with Hitachi to offer a high-end...
[May 7, 1999, 14:18]
Finding a funder for fibre to the home
News Ofcom is now making obvious signals that it wants the issue investigated and the government is tackling the subject through the Caio Review. As bandwidth demands continue to increase, the requirement for fibre-optic internet connections has risen...
[May 6, 2008, 16:23]
Microsoft settles Bristol lawsuit
News The settlement closes another chapter in Microsoft's ongoing battles and signals a shift in the company's strategy, legal experts say. Microsoft and Bristol Technology on Wednesday abruptly ended their long-standing legal battle.
[February 22, 2001, 9:05]
News Burst: Motorola erases HDTV 'ghosts'
News The company believes that a new digital signal processing architecture built in to its latest MCT2100 demodulator chip will eliminate multipath reflections -- or ghost signals -- traditionally caused by obstacles to reception, such as large...
[August 23, 1999, 16:17]
ZephIR
Downloads It enables the computer to generate infrared(IR) signals which will control almost any piece of equipment designed for infrared remote control. The ZephIR (pronounced zeffer) is a device which connects to a computer through a USB port.
[January 5, 2008, 7:00]
Demo '97: The camera that needs a Pentium
News From the cable it gets power and control signals and back down the cable it sends video. So this DVC 300 has no batteries, no power supply, no PC Card controller; just a serial cable. Clearly, if you have it plugged into your office PC, you aren't...
[February 12, 1997, 11:41]
News Burst: Researchers patent anti-monitoring technology
News In 1997 professor Ross Anderson and researcher Markus Kuhn of the computer science department developed software that makes it possible to remotely pick-up radio-magnetic signals from a computer monitor, a hard-drive or even a keyboard's keystrokes.
[November 9, 1999, 12:54]
AOL gets ready to chat with IBM's Lotus
News The test signals the first time that America Online, a unit of AOL Time Warner, has attempted to open its IM network to communicate with an outside company. AOL Time Warner announced an agreement Tuesday with IBM's Lotus division to test ways for...
[August 15, 2001, 11:28]
US Report: NT 5.0 readied for early takeoff?
News Office pool participants and top market researchers may have NT 5.0 pegged for a year 2000 launch, but Microsoft has begun telling its development partners that all signals are go for a Q1 1999 delivery.
[September 22, 1998, 7:00]
