Will patience create a Wi-Fi winner?
News So when you walk into a Starbucks three years from now, what will you see? When you walk into a Starbucks three years from now you're going to have multiple Wi-Fi devices on your person. Sky Dayton, who started EarthLink, now the US' No.
[September 23, 2003, 13:15]
Dell carves a niche in green tech
News In three years, the average desktop will cause 1.26 tons of CO2 to be produced while a notebook will cause 0.42 tons to be generated. Thus, if the tree lives 70 years and a desktop is retired after three years, it's close to parity.
[January 10, 2007, 8:12]
BenQ MP721c review
Reviews BenQ’s warranty is also worthy of special mention: the purchase price buys you three years of on-site cover including deinstallation, a loan unit, and reinstallation of the repaired projector. This means that photos and corporate logos can be...
[November 15, 2007, 9:40]
Met Office forecasts SOA pay-off
News So we plan two or three years in advance as we eat up the technology — the capacity of the supercomputer to handle the calculations. In our climate model, it could be looking at 50 or 70 years ahead, as opposed to a day so.
[July 17, 2007, 17:58]
US Report: Old Cambridge targets high-tech success
News The number of law firms has mushroomed from 400 to 1,300 since 1995, and the ranks of high-tech consultants, who weren't even here three years ago, stand at 1,350. One or another of nCipher's three founders is almost always in the company's San...
[December 1, 1998, 10:18]
Eye2Eye: Dirk Hohndel of SuSE Linux, Part I
News Had you asked me three years ago when Linux would be the prevailing OS in Web servers, I would have said five years.and I would have been wrong. I would say two to three years [to take on Microsoft on the desktop], but you never know.
[March 15, 2000, 16:14]
Gordon Moore: How I came up with the Law
News I can see the extra two or three generations of technology likely to proceed, and expect we have another ten or 20 years before we hit a limit. I took this and extrapolated it for ten years to say the number of component would go from 60 to 60,000...
[April 13, 2005, 11:40]
PC users enlisted to fight cancer
News To date, nearly three million people have installed the SETI software, contributing over 600,000 years of computing time. The researchers behind the project claim that it could speed up research into the fight against cancer by several years.
[April 3, 2001, 11:02]
Peter Coffee: Forbodings about Y2K weekend
News I began my exploration of Y2K several years ago, when a colleague at COBOL toolmaker Micro Focus (now part of Merant International Ltd.pointed out that there were only a thousand working days to go before Y'00.
[December 30, 1999, 6:05]
Microsoft software to manage itself?
News O'Brien acknowledged that Microsoft expected the process of fully realising DSI to take three to five years. Its three companies are working to build big self-repairing, self-managing software package they believe will appeal to enterprises.
[March 14, 2003, 16:41]
VoIP boom driven by Y2K
News VoIP phone equipment sales have surged in the last three months, and analysts attribute much of the growth to a buying cycle set years ago, when companies spent billions of dollars on information technology upgrades to offset the notorious...
[October 21, 2004, 9:10]
HP plans reign of ink from the cloud
News Twenty-five years ago when the inkjet was invented, it looked fantastic compared to the quality of screens and nothing else could touch it. If it's being bought by people three stages away from the people who use it, it's enterprise.
[March 31, 2009, 16:32]
IDC: Biggest quarterly drop in 12 years for servers
News Worldwide revenue in the first three months of 2009 fell to $9.9bn (£6bn), according to figures released by the market-research firm on Thursday. The totals mark the third consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue decline, and the lowest...
[May 29, 2009, 16:33]
Factiva CEO: Surfers will pay for news
News According to Hart, publishers around the world are starting to migrate their users to the notion of paying for content and the next two years are just going to be the transition period. AMR Interactive senior consultant Jason Ross claims there are...
[July 31, 2002, 6:27]
AMD accused of patent violation
News Opti, a chip-oriented intellectual property company, has filed a lawsuit alleging that AMD violated three patents with its Opteron processors and other products. The company asserts that its three patents on "predictive snooping of cache memory for...
[November 20, 2006, 8:18]
Despair greets software patent bill
Talkback "Because there was no software patent protection, that company struggled for years but was eventually buried by superior resources of other companies that copied the product. The existence of some three-legged dogs does not mean that dogs are three...
[March 26, 2006, 14:01]
Microsoft to amend schools settlement plan
News By that reckoning, training should be at least $1.5bn, or three times the value of the software. Microsoft and plaintiff attorneys cut the deal last month, agreeing to set up a private foundation to aid needy schools and donate an estimated $1bn...
[December 10, 2001, 9:23]
HP sues printer cartridge refillers
News On Friday, HP sued InkCycle in US District Court for the western district of Wisconsin, alleging that the company's ink violates three HP patents. The company does put some limits on the practice, such as adding software that makes some of its...
[March 29, 2005, 9:20]
2003 World Almanac - Year in Review '02
Downloads The Database contains:Full-color Cover Page, Storage Card Compatibility, Searchable Records2002 News Stories, including the Top Ten Stories and Offbeat News StoriesWar Against Terrorism, including the Ongoing War Against Terrorism, Facts About the...
[February 4, 2003, 7:00]
Microsoft contributes code to Linux community
News Microsoft will release three drivers for Linux under the GPL that governs Linux. The company has also been going after Linux for years, both on the marketing and legal fronts. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted...
[July 21, 2009, 8:48]



