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Jupiter predicts free ISPs to take off in US
News Up to 8.8 million US online households are expected to turn to free access ISPs by 2003 according to a report from research firm Jupiter Monday. While the free access model is threatened in the UK by BT's decision to introduce unmetered access...
[December 8, 1999, 7:00]
Bluetooth shipments take off
News These kinds of things take some time to reach critical mass. Three separate market reports are giving encouraging news for Bluetooth, suggesting that the wireless technology is at last beginning to catch on.
[December 3, 2001, 13:33]
Travel sites take off after US attacks
News Airlines' own sites, by contrast, have seen no drop-off in traffic and in fact have been busier than ever following 11 September. Traffic to well-known travel sites has eventually returned to normal levels, after being hit badly by the terrorist...
[October 9, 2001, 16:20]
Second-hand Microsoft licences take off
News A company that began trading in second-hand licences for Microsoft software last autumn has been attracting business from within the UK and internationally. Disclic has been able to sell over 2,500 second-hand software licences from insolvent or...
[April 7, 2006, 16:00]
In-flight Wi-Fi prepares to take off
News The move appears to be paying off. More than two years after airlines had to reroute their plans to install Internet service, the idea of offering in-flight Web connections to passengers is again on the carriers' radar.
[March 29, 2004, 14:55]
Aeroplane broadband is cleared for take-off
News The international body responsible for the allocation of radio spectrum has given its approval for airlines to provide broadband access on aeroplanes. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has decided that operators should be able to use...
[July 11, 2003, 11:59]
Akamai, Chartered Semi IPOs take off
News Investors in the US went gaga Friday over Web traffic management technology. IPO Akamai rocketed up 458 percent to 145 3/16 -- a gain of 119 3/16 for the session. The company priced shares at $26 (£16) each Thursday night, well above its increased...
[November 1, 1999, 11:41]
Nanotubes set to take off
News Carbon Nanotechnologies (CNI), the company that produces carbon nanotubes for IBM and various research institutions, plans to expand production over the next two years, in a move that could help jumpstart commercial deployment of nanotubes.
[September 12, 2003, 12:40]
Ryanair sales take off on Web
News Online tickets sales now form the vast majority of all flights sold by Ryanair, the Irish budget airline said on Tuesday. Announcing its latest passenger figures, Ryanair said that 90 percent of seats sold in the last 12 months were via its Web...
[November 5, 2002, 11:57]
Limitations take the shine off open Sun
Leader Sun is close to delivering on its open source promises, so let's get the good news out of the way first. Five million lines of code -- the heart of one of the most mature and highly specified operating systems around -- are to be released into the...
[June 14, 2005, 15:00]
WiMax take-up takes off
News Infonetics believes WiMax will start to make its way onto mobiles and other portable devices from around 2007, when the standards are signed off and hardware makers start to include WiMax capabilities on their devices.
[July 29, 2005, 15:25]
Dell aims to take server load off customers
News Dell will soon extend a service, currently available for desktops and laptops, to include servers, in a bid to ease the administrative burden for enterprises in the current resource-constrained climate.
[April 2, 2009, 8:55]
Texcel LLC Uses Biscom Delivery Server (BDS) to Eliminate Email Attachment File Size Issues, Take the Burden Off Their Mail Server, and Send Large 3D Modeling and Design Files to Their Clients Quickly
White Papers Texcel provides their world-wide customer base with medical device products and process development. Texcel has a department of twenty-five engineers who use SolidWorks, a 3D modeling and design software application, to create medical device drawings.
[May 15, 2008, 1:01]
Tracking tech predicted to boom in Europe
News Technology for wirelessly tracking vehicles and people is predicted to take off in Western Europe throughout the next five years. The business sector will be the main area where it will take off, but there is also potential in the consumer sector...
[December 11, 2007, 7:49]
One Year Ago: Intel preps half-price 300MHz PII
News Intel is getting ready to take more than half off the price of its 300MHz Pentium II. As of August 1 the chip behemoth will reduce the price of the device from $1,940 to $830 and take off another $50 on November 1.
[July 16, 1998, 6:00]
Swedes spurn next-generation Web phones
News Sweden's first nation-wide GPRS service has failed to take off, adding to the gloomy news surrounding the wireless telecoms market. Nokia and Ericsson are planning to launch GPRS phones later this year, which may boost take-up.
[February 14, 2001, 12:23]
Crackers fell Cabinet Office Web site
News Crackers brought down the Cabinet Office's Web site Thursday, defacing the site and forcing its hosting company to take it off line. There have been hacking attacks in the past but we've been able to fend them off," he says.
[July 13, 2000, 15:24]
Intel preps half-price 300MHz PII
News Intel is getting ready to take more than half off the price of its 300MHz Pentium II. As of August 1 the chip behemoth will reduce the price of the device from $1,940 to $830 and take off another $50 on November 1.
[July 16, 1997, 16:51]
Firms delay moving to XP
News The migration to Windows XP is yet to take off in the UK -- with companies still holding off on making the move to Microsoft's most recent desktop operating system for a variety of reasons. Feedback from some of our larger customers is that...
[September 4, 2003, 16:05]
IDC: Low-cost laptop no threat to PC
News Inexpensive, stripped-down notebook computers targeted at emerging markets are not likely to take off, but if they do, they will have no major impact on the "fully-fledged" PC market, predicts a senior executive at IDC.
[June 18, 2007, 9:56]
