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Software Company Meets Oil Exploration and Production Challenges With 64-Bit Solution
White Papers As global oil supplies decrease, researchers are creating more-complex computer models of what lies beneath the earth's surface. Because the resulting data load is hard to manage in a 32-bit computing environment, Roxar is creating a version of its...
[August 30, 2007, 1:00]
5 Solitaires Pack
Downloads The only thing you need is a deck (or two) of cards and some flat surface to deal. We picked five most popular solitaires (Freecell, Klondike, Spider, Forty Thieves and Yukon) and adapted them for the small screen and limited computing power of...
[October 25, 2008, 6:22]
5 Solitaires Pack
Downloads The only thing you need is a deck (or two) of cards and some flat surface to deal. But even if these things are not available for you on the road you still can enjoy playing solitaire on your Palm handheld.We picked five most popular solitaires...
[September 11, 2003, 8:00]
Design, Construction, and Testing of a Novel Robotic Workstation
White Papers This paper describes, in detail, the design, realization, and initial testing of the multi-panel robot workstation which itself represents a novel type of robot surface. These configurations allow users to define their physical workspace as well as...
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Linux helps in search for oil
News A Linux-based supercomputer will be used by energy company Conoco to help search for oil beneath the earth's surface at a fraction of conventional computing costs. Conoco needs this massive computing power because its oil exploration work depends...
[September 1, 2000, 9:59]
Photos: Microsoft shows off 'Milan'
News Mark Bolger, director of marketing for Microsoft's surface-computing effort, shows off the company's new Milan at a briefing in San Francisco. Industrial designer Allan Han fashioned Microsoft's first surface-computer prototype, dubbed "T1", from a...
[May 30, 2007, 17:58]
SaaS may not live up to 'recession-proof' tag
News However, underneath the surface lurk more than a few questions marks. It's been a big week for the software-as-a-service industry: Salesforce.com is establishing itself as a leading cloud-computing provider, NetSuite is planning to take on SAP...
[November 6, 2008, 13:36]
Gartner: Web 2.0 set to transform business
News Looking further ahead, Fenn added: "Other technologies that have passed the trigger where they start to be interesting to businesses include 3D printing, surface computing, augmented reality and mobile robots.
[August 12, 2008, 8:19]
How the 'Milan' table PC was born
News I never thought I'd use my corporate [credit] card at Home Depot, said Lu Silverstein, product manager for Microsoft's surface computing effort. Microsoft researcher Daniel Robbins built the first application to run on the surface computer, a...
[May 30, 2007, 12:04]
Fiorina strikes back
News But we all know better than to simply believe that the whole story consists of what you see on the surface. In her harshest attack yet, Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina blamed "lazy reporting" and Wall Street analysts who are too...
[November 16, 2001, 10:41]
Itronix GoBook MR-1 review
Reviews Cleary this is not suitable for all mobile computing situations, and competent two-finger typists may prefer to work with the GoBook MR-1 on a flat surface. The MIL and IP standards are recognised standards in the rugged computing world.
[April 7, 2008, 16:21]
Apple may be readying mid-size 'iPad'
News BusinessWeek reported that the 'iPad' (name taken from Silicon Alley Insider) would be about the size of the Kindle, but with a screen that covers a greater portion of the surface. The iPad could also be the first Apple product to surface with a...
[April 30, 2009, 15:51]
Real-time responses for Linux possible, but unwanted
News If you change the shape of the wing surface on a fly-by-wire plane, you don't want the computer to effectively say, 'I'll get to that in a second,'" Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff said. The Californian start-up focuses on embedded computing devices...
[October 12, 2004, 9:35]
Preview: Infosecurity Europe 2007
News However, on closer scrutiny, it would appear that corporate wireless users have only scratched the surface. Identity management is certainly high on the agenda for Toby Stevens, vice chairman of the British Computing Society security forum, who...
[April 23, 2007, 16:29]
Pinpointing HP's centre of gravity
News On the surface, all the major vendors and consultancies say they are focused on reducing cost and complexity, and on helping customers get more out of their current IT investments. Web services are a precursor to grid computing," Robison said.
[October 7, 2003, 15:00]
The right to bear software for warfare
Blog In case you don’t follow (and I’ll admit that I didn’t until I read further), that’s an electro-optic system that allows greater flexibility in boat design and provides improved surface visibility without giving away the position of the submarine.
[May 1, 2008, 1:25]
Get your Shoes on and go dance with code
Blog While nobody denies that IT needs more engineering discipline, not less, and while Shoes is as undisciplined on the surface as a teenage disco, its purpose isn't to create programming geniuses who dream in algorithms while grokking the subtleties...
[August 15, 2008, 7:12]
Gates lays out vision for future tech
News Microsoft has a new concept application for its Surface computer that shows how the product can tie into Windows Live services and other devices. Gates used the tabletop Surface PC to design a custom snowboard and then send the design to his...
[January 7, 2008, 7:16]
Microsoft research does the PDC keynote
Blog The other fun technology on show was a Microsoft Research in Cambridge project called SecondLight which expands out the surface touch technology. Using an LCD shutter and a projector they sync up the shutter with the projector and project one layer...
[October 29, 2008, 17:12]
Linux holds key to future of climate change
News The Millennium Simulations' Earth System Model contains sub-models for atmosphere, ocean, land-surface and ocean-biogeochemistry and features an "interactive carbon cycle". The data from the Millennium Simulations is stored at the World Datacentre...
[December 9, 2008, 6:30]
