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IBM test-drives transformer computer
News But Big Blue has no immediate plans to offer the Meta Pad as a product, though IBM Research intends to begin field trials of the device in a few months. Representatives of Big Blue's research arm demonstrated the gadget for CNET News.com on Wednesday.
[February 7, 2002, 9:38]
WiMax? Why not?
News That includes gear from equipment maker Aperto, a company that on Tuesday revealed that its own WiMax lineup will be at the heart of WiMax equipment trials by telephone operators in Spain, the Netherlands and the US.
[June 8, 2005, 10:45]
MP: Tech needs more female role models
News Memset's Craig-Wood, meanwhile, said she was "partially sold" on the benefits of remote working, but trials in her company had not been successful. Claire Curtis-Thomas (pictured), MP for Crosby in Merseyside, said on Wednesday that a positive...
[November 15, 2007, 13:24]
Police want power to seize encryption keys
News But Duncan Campbell, an investigative journalist who has served as an expert witness in many computer-related trials, insisted that Part 3 of the RIP Act could not be justified. The fact that law-enforcement officers don't have the powers to seize...
[August 15, 2006, 11:05]
Virgin Media to raise fibre-network capacity fourfold
News As web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media is looking to squeeze four times the capacity out of its optical network, but without the expense of ripping out and upgrading its fibre.
[May 12, 2008, 9:46]
The Day Ahead: B2bstores.com's buzzword abuse
News The B2bstores.com IPO is the ultimate in buzzword abuse. Here's B2bstores.com's plan -- take a six-month old company public, use a hot business-to-business buzzword and lure a few gullible investors to raise cash.
[January 13, 2000, 12:13]
Airport police will use email to fight crime
News From Spring, Gatwick's police will employ a scheme whereby the public can report crimes, particularly petty criminal activity such as theft, using an online database before it is added to a new computer database of all illegal activity at the...
[January 31, 2000, 15:07]
'No mobiles' to replace 'no smoking' signs on planes
News "No mobile" signs are to replace the outdated "no smoking" signs above airline seats with the introduction of in-flight mobile phone services in Europe next year. Air France will be the first airline to trial the satellite-based technology early...
[August 7, 2006, 16:10]
Smart-card ticketing goes Underground
News The London Underground has begun rolling out a smart-card ticketing system in what is billed as a major new showcase of contactless smart-card technology in Europe. This month 80,000 of the cards were issued to staff of London Underground and...
[November 20, 2002, 12:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Day off. Turned up for an afternoon of fatherhood with Number One Son: it's reached the point where we talk of Visual Basic and array handling, PDAs and CD-ROM drives as much as we talk about The Simpsons and killer ghouls.
[April 18, 1998, 7:00]
Government dismisses call to halt e-voting
News The Electoral Commission's call to pull back from e-voting has been dismissed by the government. The government has rejected the Commission's view that no further e-voting pilots should take place until the government has a comprehensive electoral...
[November 13, 2007, 10:24]
Korea mandates e-voting by 2005
News Korea will be the first country in Asia to introduce an electronic voting system for all political elections, starting in 2005. The new voting system will begin on a trial basis from next year, when the government allows local citizens to vote on...
[August 18, 2003, 9:50]
McDonald's upsizes Wi-Fi plans
News Fast-food chain McDonald's said on Tuesday that it plans to sell Internet access at 100 locations in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. Sixty of the 100 locations are already online, and the balance will be available by September, a McDonald's...
[August 13, 2003, 10:14]
Net banking trial gains high returns
News Building society staff used the Internet to carry out basic banking tasks such as checking the balance, paying bills and ordering statements, in order to simulate the way in which end-users might bank.
[October 3, 1996, 11:01]
Results are in from Pipex's WiMax experiment
News Pipex has completed the first phase of its WiMax experiment, saying the results exceeded expectations. The company's joint venture with Intel, Pipex Wireless, has been trialling the long-range wireless broadband technology in the Stratford-upon...
[August 16, 2006, 10:35]
Broadband Cravasse Opening up.
Talkback A 2MB rural Broadband target is just going along with what will already occur through market forces even if they didn't spend money on all these quangos, promoting universal coverage - its pathetic. Just by removing out-dated equipment from the...
[May 11, 2009, 11:05]
...and the upload speed?
Talkback As a Virgin Media customer I'm very satisfied with their broadband service.but upload speed has always been an issue. This is the limiting factor for me when it comes to peer-to-peer video (Skype, Messenger, etc.
[May 11, 2009, 20:22]
Wave and pay
Talkback I think I would be very concerned about security. Lose this card could be very serious dent on your wealth. I dont think I would be happy carrying one.
[December 14, 2006, 17:12]
Richard Thomas, please resign.
Talkback "We've worked with BT and Phorm and we are not going to take any punitive action at this stage" One question, why? How can you possibly justify that statement? When tens, even hundreds of thousands of UK citizens have been profiled without consent?
[June 9, 2008, 17:53]
Wave and pay
Talkback Agreed there would have to be additional security protocols before i started using it
[January 5, 2007, 10:04]
