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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News I can record Radios 1,3 and 4 all day and work out what I want to listen to when I get home. With these everywhere, you'll be able to find where your car keys are -- from anywhere in the world! IBM unveils ‘the biggest disk in the world' (which I...
[November 14, 1998, 5:03]
Blue Gene set to claim supercomputing crown
News The Blue Gene/L performance handily surpasses a record announced last week by Silicon Graphics, which said its Columbia supercomputer, built for NASA, clocked up a speed of 42.7 teraflops. The US Department of Energy plans to unveil test results on...
[November 4, 2004, 8:33]
AOL, Microsoft and IBM earnings ahead
News Oh by the way, the Dow Jones industrial average closed up 200 points to a record high of 11,722.98 this week. First, America Online and Time Warner announced a $350bn (£217bn) merger that will join the world's largest online service provider and...
[January 17, 2000, 9:25]
OpenBSD releases version 3.3
News In a message posted to an OpenBSD list, the developers of the software were keen to point out that under a default configuration the distribution has an impressive security record. We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of seven years with only a...
[May 1, 2003, 11:25]
The billion dollar pachyderm
Leader It's not as if the home of high technology has got a particularly good track record in infrastructure management. Globalisation works both ways: by extending our business interests out to the developing world, we not only accept a moral...
[December 6, 2005, 14:55]
Apple's Jobs hit by ex-CFO stock options claims
News Anderson said he advised Jobs in January that the options dates had to be priced as of the formal approval of the grant dates, or Apple could have to record an expense. This is legal if properly recorded, but many companies didn't record the...
[April 25, 2007, 8:35]
Microsoft's server u-turn
News Though Unisys' 32-processor ES7000 server has been available with Windows for more than a year, the speed record Gates referred to was set by a new NEC server with 32 Itanium processors. The configuration used to set the Windows transaction speed...
[November 25, 2002, 7:47]
CloudMade Betas New Map Editing Tool
Blog Up until now, to mark a POI on OpenStreeMap, users had to record them via a GPS device and then connect that GPS device to a PC; or mark the POIs on a conventional paper map and manually input them via a PC to OpenStreetMap.org.
[December 2, 2009, 14:26]
Ballmer reveals mobile TV smartphone
News This year with Vista we are really building on Media Centre's ability to record programmes — being able to access this on a mobile device will be very important for consumers," said Ballmer. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer showed off a...
[February 14, 2006, 12:00]
Yahoo and Cisco put anti-spam standard forward
News The public key is published in the DNS record, while the private key is stored on a DKIM-enabled mail server. This is a big milestone for us and the email authentication world," said Miles Libbey, an anti-spam product manager at Yahoo Mail.
[July 12, 2005, 10:00]
Micro Focus tables ‘Tech-Manifesto’ at House of Lords
Blog To be fair and afford Micro Focus a direct voice in this blog, Stephen Kelly went on record to say that, “Now more than ever, is the time for business, politics and academia to create more UK jobs by joining forces to implement a plan which...
[July 22, 2009, 13:42]
Virgin launches MP3 phone
News It's very unlikely that any major record labels will sell their material in MP3 format, so users could be restricted to tunes from unsigned bands and illegal copies," he said. The evolution of the mobile phone into a multimedia gadget took a step...
[August 29, 2000, 16:36]
Tuesday
Blog If you have a record collection too big to fit onto that, then you really should get out more. Unless you're The Avalanches (an Australian music duo, m'lud, who've made one smasheroonie of a record from 900 odd samples) in which case you should...
[August 5, 2002, 11:18]
Phorm ......
Blog They do not have the approval of the majority of those that understand them, not only in the current form of a money making advertising vehicle which uses our privacy without any control over it on our part, but also represent the thin edge of the...
[May 5, 2009, 8:49]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News So it's all "off the record" and all I can tell you is that one of the Hackers found me a spare bed, on Sunday night, down in Silicon Valley. Apparently, it takes about a gigabyte of disk to record a year's signatures.
[November 30, 1996, 7:00]
The Schmoozer: UK military declares war on Anna K
News And anyway, given the MoD's info-security record, do you really want to be running their software on your PC? Apparently senior NHTCU people are on training missions, presumably fighting jungle guerrillas, overthrowing puppet regimes and taking on...
[April 27, 2001, 14:29]
CES: It's the triumph of the nerds
News Not anyone from a TV maker, or a record label or a stereo manufacturer either. The ability to pause live TV and search and record programs are two big features of a new technology called "personal TV", a central feature of new technology from...
[January 6, 2000, 10:07]
Oracle Special: Customers pay the price
News Customer-relationship management software is supposed to help businesses keep track of customer information and maintain a record of their transactions. The project deadline was considered ambitious even for the frenetically paced high-tech world.
[July 2, 2001, 13:42]
Morpheus looks to Gnutella for help
News The record labels successfully shuttered Napster last year only to see alternatives quickly step in and allow the free-for-all to continue unabated. It looks like good news for the record labels," said Jupiter Media Metrix analyst Aram Sinnreich.
[February 28, 2002, 9:34]
Napster puts music on pause
News Leery of further court action, the company is acting conservatively to ensure that none of the music identified by the record industry is getting though its services. The last month has seen an exodus of music lovers from Napster, as efforts to...
[July 3, 2001, 9:24]
