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Toshiba launches MacBook Air SSDs for the mass market

Toshiba has announced a new range of solid state disk drives (SSD) , but two of the three models have already appeared... Read more

8 November, 2010

Ubuntu aiming for phones and tablets, says Shuttleworth

...space tourist who bankrolls the Ubuntu effort to take Linux to the mass market, says that the company is now targeting "a broader range of... Read more

31 October, 2011
TV White Space Standardization and Regulation in Europe

TV White Space Standardization and Regulation in Europe

...the world are currently setting rules and requirements that will allow for mass-market access to TV White Spaces. It is expected that the opening... Read more

7 December, 2010
Small-World Social Relationship Awareness in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks

Small-World Social Relationship Awareness in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks

Unstructured Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file-sharing networks are popular in the mass market. As the peers participating in unstructured networks interconnect randomly, they rely... Read more

29 November, 2010
SCADA for the Rest of Us: Unlicensed Bands Supporting Long-Range Communications

SCADA for the Rest of Us: Unlicensed Bands Supporting Long-Range Communications

...of the next big wave in Internet and wireless technology for the mass market: the emergence of ubiquitous smart environments capable of automated sensing and... Read more

2 October, 2010
The Transition to 4G: 3G Americas Publishes Research Report on 3GPP Mobile Broadband Evolution

The Transition to 4G: 3G Americas Publishes Research Report on 3GPP Mobile Broadband Evolution

...potential of always-on, everyplace network connectivity has ignited a move to mass market mobile broadband usage as 3G technology becomes ubiquitous, stated Peter Rysavy... Read more

13 September, 2010

BT sees fibre finish line with addition of 73 towns

...will be "aimed at small-to-medium-sized businesses, not at the mass market". It is expected to go on sale in all FTTC-enabled... Read more

20 March, 2012 by David Meyer
Acorns land at Bletchley Park

Acorns land at Bletchley Park

...which formed the basis for the Acorn Atom, the company's first mass-market computer. The System 3 was also the basic development system within... Read more

25 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Apple and Microsoft: 10 moments of truce

Apple and Microsoft: 10 moments of truce

...would buoy Mac sales, the company realised the device had much greater mass-market potential and decided to make it compatible with Windows computers as... Read more

4 November, 2010 by Jason Hiner
A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

...right of its whiter ancestor, the ZX80, the computer was the first mass-market success for UK home computing. Incorporating a Ferranti ULA (Uncommitted Logic... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Inside Intel's 50Gbps silicon optics

Inside Intel's 50Gbps silicon optics

...tune to different wavelengths — two essential attributes to make the technology truly mass-market. Photo credit: Intel Read more

27 July, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Raspberry Pi sails through CE tests, ready for sale

...had received the Conformité Européenne (CE) mark. Products sold on the mass market must carry the CE mark, to show their electromagnetic emissions are... Read more

7 April, 2012

Intel pours cash into eye-tracking specialist Tobii

...funding to help it expand its technology into mainstream computers and other mass-market applications. Intel's investment division, Intel Capital, joined existing investors Amadeus... Read more

20 March, 2012

Containers to the cloud!

We're all familiar with the hypervisor, that slice of code that hosts and manages operating systems, partitioning and... Read more

24 February, 2012

Smartphones overtake PCs in shipments for first time

...the high-end of the mobile phone market to becoming a truly mass-market proposition," Canalys's principal analyst Chris Jones said in the report... Read more

6 February, 2012 by Rachel King

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