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BT offers London-wide Ethernet LANs
News The service can also be extended to greater speeds, as optical techniques can run multiple channels on the fibres used, through dense wavelength digital multplexing, which sends signals on different colours.
[September 14, 2005, 15:45]
Cisco branches out for WANs
News Actona, and several other companies such as DiskSites, Tacit Networks and Riverbed Technology aim to overcome this issue through a combination of techniques including data compression, remote data caching, and the optimisation of protocols and...
[December 15, 2004, 12:45]
Google side-steps AI rumours
News Speaking in 2003, Google Senior Research Scientist Mehran Sahami explained that Google News was using AI techniques to handle information. Google has been quizzed about rumours that its current quest to digitise books may be about more than simply...
[November 15, 2005, 15:00]
IDC finds optimism in 2004's crystal ball
News Although manufacturers continue to promote the concept, real investments in server virtualisation and other techniques to more efficiently use computing resources will continue to lag," the prediction said.
[December 5, 2003, 8:25]
Windows PatchGuard 'hindering security'
News Third parties have two choices: continue to petition Microsoft to create an approved kernel-hooking interface so products like theirs can work, or use 'black hat' techniques to bypass the restrictions.
[August 11, 2006, 8:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog With the enhanced techniques the semiconductor industry has created to build micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and other nano-technology marvels, it will now be possible to engineer chip-sized uranium fission devices.
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
Intel teams up with Philips on design
News By using these two techniques to cut costs, Pronto++ can lower the barriers to entering the consumer-electronics device market for companies such as PC markers, telecommunications companies and even automakers, representatives from Philips and...
[September 4, 2002, 9:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog At every point, the publication accurately reflected not just the techniques but the spirit of the hacker, even if wiser heads went equipped with a pinch of salt alongside their hexadecimal dump utility.
[July 15, 2005, 19:00]
EU vote 'widens loopholes' in software patent directive
News The FFII, which cites these among the worst Council articles, said: "Patents on techniques required for interoperability are kept under RAND (Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory) conditions, so the line ensuring that actions for the purpose of...
[June 21, 2005, 13:25]
US hackers plan three-day contest
News In fact, the contest could help security experts learn more about online attackers' techniques and how to defend against them. If everything goes as planned, for 72 hours next February hackers from all over the United States will hit targets across...
[August 2, 2004, 10:55]
Australia considers sending spammers to jail
News The concept of one to one sales techniques is something that will probably be captured by this legislation and will need to be analysed.if you try to capture everything then you're generally stifling one of the uses of emails.
[July 25, 2003, 9:44]
Cut-price phishing toolkits pose growing threat
News The obfuscation techniques they use are very difficult to detect with antivirus because JavaScript can be tuned, changed on the fly and every user can have a different version of the content," Hubbard said.
[October 16, 2006, 9:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog With these computational advances, coupled with new simulation methodologies to harness the new techniques, we will be able to address questions previously considered impossible to tackle computationally, and make even greater impacts on our...
[August 25, 2006, 19:20]
Data compression solution or impossible dream?
News George isn't refuting the mathematical laws that prove perfect compression using traditional techniques is impossible. In a tiny office in West Palm Beach, Florida, a handful of clunky computers are crunching through a software problem that many...
[February 19, 2002, 15:33]
Stamping out spam
News The problem with basic authentication techniques is that spammers can authenticate themselves - for example, they can go out and publish an SPF record. As soon as you write an anti-spam rule, someone quickly finds a way around it.
[May 4, 2005, 13:00]
Sony CD protection sparks spyware row
News In any case, First 4 has moved away from the techniques used on the Several earlier versions of copy restriction were widely mocked online for being trivially easy to circumvent, by using techniques that included holding the computer’s "shift" key...
[November 2, 2005, 12:15]
xG, xMax, xetera...
Blog Confusingly, xG has also published a bit error rate to signal-to-noise graph -- the standard way of describing physical performance -- that shows (without explanation) that its technology is, at best, slightly better than most existing techniques.
[August 16, 2007, 19:12]
A Year Ago: Pentagon and hackers in 'cyberwar'
News Officials said the attacks were coordinated to increase the "stealth and firepower" of the perpetrators and were "difficult to detect" because they were planted in "a large volume of identical traffic that is too massive to process without...
[March 6, 2000, 6:09]
Sun plays up Java for gaming
News IBM last year helped launch Butterfly.net, a project to apply grid supercomputing techniques to running online games, and a number of specialists have formed companies to address online gaming mechanics.
[June 4, 2003, 7:49]
Government launches new e-crime unit
Blog The PCeU will also play a vital role in helping police forces across the country improve skills and techniques needed to clamp down on e-crime. Ok, so this is outside of my main area of focus of sustainable and green tech but I do track some...
[September 30, 2008, 14:45]
