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Intel's Thunderbolt will see slow PC take-up, expert says

...transfer technology will see slow adoption among PC makers due to its high cost Read more

12 May, 2011 by Liau Yun Qing
From RTL to Silicon: The Case for Automated Debug

From RTL to Silicon: The Case for Automated Debug

...design tools are continuously improving their scalability and efficiency to mitigate the high cost associated with designing and fabricating modern VLSI systems. A key step... Read more

1 January, 2012
A Survey on Security Issues in Cloud Computing

A Survey on Security Issues in Cloud Computing

...Computing holds the potential to eliminate the requirements for setting up of high-cost computing infrastructure for the IT-based solutions and services that the... Read more

25 September, 2011
The Village Telco Project: A Reliable and Practical Wireless Mesh Telephony Infrastructure

The Village Telco Project: A Reliable and Practical Wireless Mesh Telephony Infrastructure

...over IP) over mesh networks could be a potential solution to the high cost of making phone calls in most parts of Africa. The Village... Read more

13 September, 2011
Strategic Software Development: Productivity Comparisons of General Development Programs

Strategic Software Development: Productivity Comparisons of General Development Programs

Productivity has been one of the major concerns with the increasingly high cost of software development. Choosing the right development language with high productivity... Read more

14 September, 2010
Towards Cooperative Grids: Sensor/Actuator Networks for Renewables Integration

Towards Cooperative Grids: Sensor/Actuator Networks for Renewables Integration

...an uncertain path forward to Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) goals and the high cost of energy storage, the authors believe that deep demand side management... Read more

1 August, 2010
A Water-Filling Algorithm for Receive Antenna Selection Based on Mutual Information Maximization

A Water-Filling Algorithm for Receive Antenna Selection Based on Mutual Information Maximization

...high spectral efficiencies of multiple-input multiple-output systems, they suffer from high cost and complexity due to the use of multiple radio frequency chains... Read more

28 July, 2010

Microsoft takes German Bing Streetside imagery offline

...Street View photos in April last year, most likely due to the high cost of manually processing hundreds of thousands of blurring requests. Microsoft only... Read more

23 May, 2012

Hitachi: Companies have 'horrible' storage utilisation

...said. "We cannot afford to have this cheap data sitting in a high-cost infrastructure, that's our problem right now." Most enterprise vendors have... Read more

2 May, 2012 by Jack Clark
Seagate Barracuda XT (3TB, SATA 6Gbps)

Seagate Barracuda XT (3TB, SATA 6Gbps)

...If solid-state drives are notable for their extreme speed and high cost per gigabyte, the Seagate Barracuda XT is distinguished by its extreme... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Dong Ngo
Motion Computing J3500

Motion Computing J3500

...front-facing camera and SD card slot, the hefty weight and the high cost once a number of options are added to the basic offering... Read more

24 June, 2010 by Charles McLellan

CES 2012: OWC Jupiter miniSAS and 480GB PCIe RAID

...don't need the infrastructure of a storage area network or the high cost of fibre channel to get large amounts of fast, shared storage... Read more

19 January, 2012
Domesday Reloaded in touchscreen glory

Domesday Reloaded in touchscreen glory

...laserdiscs but the technology soon became obsolete as a result of the high cost of use and fast pace of technological development. The project was... Read more

9 December, 2011 by Ben Woods

Photos: BBC's life in the 1980s Domesday Project reborn as touchscreen exhibition

...etched onto LaserDiscs and displayed using a BBC Master computer. The relatively high cost of the hardware and the rapid development of technology saw the... Read more

8 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Free shipping drives online purchasing

...Day. This year's will be held on Friday, December 16. The high cost of shipping is visible in some products on both Amazon and... Read more

5 December, 2011

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