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Rural areas face 20-year wait for broadband
News BT's chairman told the parliamentary select committee for Culture, Media and Sport on Tuesday that rural areas could be forced to wait between 10 and 20 years before they are offered high-speed Internet services, unless the UK government makes a...
[February 5, 2002, 15:02]
News Schmooze: Of Microsoft and Meta Pads
News Rural areas face 20-year wait for broadband Amid the guffawing, Bland's casual claim that Britain's rural idylls may have a 20-year wait for broadband Internet access went almost forgotten. MI5, however, seems not to mind about losing hundreds of...
[February 8, 2002, 12:12]
Windows XP to get USB 2.0 and Bluetooth
News Consumers craving USB 2.0 might not have to wait until the update is issued. Microsoft next year plans to update Windows XP to support two technologies left out of the new operating system: USB 2.0 and Bluetooth.
[December 12, 2001, 10:15]
Voice interaction spec nears approval
News The W3C attributed the longer-than-usual wait to the complexity and size of the specification. After more than a year in development, a Web specification for computer-voice interaction has advanced to the next-to-last phase before becoming a standard.
[February 4, 2004, 9:40]
FBI aims to patch security holes
News That's because we can fix the vulnerabilities, but if we wait until the threat is clear, we will be too late. There are a lot more vendors involved this year," Ingevaldson said. This will be the third year that the SANS Institute has released a...
[October 1, 2002, 13:23]
Micron misses 2Q estimates as DRAM prices slide
News Company executives on a Tuesday afternoon conference call blamed the profit shortfall on a steep decline in DRAM demand because of corporate worries about Y2K problems and the wait for Windows 2000. In the same quarter a year ago, Micron made...
[March 22, 2000, 13:33]
Smaller is better, says AMD chief
News But it will wait until next year to move to copper interconnects. When it comes to servers, AMD expects to introduce its Mustang chip later this year. We feel confident that in the second half (of the year) we'll move into the commercial space.
[June 27, 2000, 8:11]
Tuesday
Blog We'll have to wait and see. We'll have to wait a bit longer to see whether another aspect of OLEDs comes to pass -- their notoriously short lifetime. Where's the point in designing a 20-year lifespan into a device that'll be landfill in three?
[March 7, 2003, 14:37]
2004 'will be a buyers' market'
News There are plenty of companies that want to sell to businesses and [customers] realise they can afford to wait," he said. They are smarter than before and realise if they wait an extra quarter for a new product, they'll get a discount," he added.
[January 21, 2004, 16:20]
US Report: Who's calling the Java shots?
News Novell senior vice president Chris Stone says Novell can't wait for Sun. While Baratz did not say when EJB 2.0 will be released, sources close to the effort expect it by the end of this year or early 1999.
[September 23, 1998, 6:04]
IT Forum: 'Business 2.0' firms will win in e-commerce
News The 2.0 businesses won't be telling their shareholders to wait until next year, they will be declaring profits soon, he added. Research firm IDC predicts that Europe will draw level with the US in terms of the number of citizens online by 2003, and...
[September 14, 1999, 11:41]
When Web 2.0 fails review
Reviews But should the user want to change the request or create another, the user would have to wait while the second and third requests are served and downloaded. But Billy Hoffman, security researcher with SPI Dynamics, warned at this year's Black Hat...
[August 30, 2006, 9:45]
Satellite broadband goes nationwide
News Many regional development agencies are understood to be concerned that their areas will suffer from a lack of high-speed Internet services -- especially since BT chairman Sir Christopher Bland warned that some rural areas might have a 20-year wait...
[March 26, 2002, 17:47]
Top 10 Software Freebies
Blog If you’re wondering why, well, let me just say that I had to wait 20 minutes in a queue to get into the Microsoft Tech.Ed conference one year just to get around the glut of developers blocking the entrance hall trying to get their hands on a free...
[September 5, 2007, 20:25]
Microsoft hopes SP1 will drive Vista adoption
News Also, the company urged businesses not to wait for a service pack to start testing and rolling out Vista. Infosys, for example, has 4,000 PCs running Vista now, with plans for 20,000 by the year's end.
[August 30, 2007, 14:59]
High-speed wireless kit to be certified next month
News The Wi-Fi Alliance estimates that 802.11n will only be ratified in March 2009, but it announced last year that it was to start certifying products early because it would not be "in the best interest of the industry" to wait.
[May 16, 2007, 16:08]
BlueCore01 doubles Bluetooth range, reduces power
News The new chips arrive as Bluetooth is appearing in a variety of consumer products after a long wait. It first appeared in products more than a year ago, but until recently the technology has been considered buggy and difficult to use.
[October 10, 2001, 17:10]
Startup Spotlight: iglu.com
News Richard Downs, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Iglu.com, is 33 and hasn't long to wait before becoming one of those infamous 30something millionaires. At just one year old its monthly traffic figures are already exceeding the magic...
[December 2, 1999, 13:10]
Gates keynote emphasises security
News Gates also showed off his wristwatch using Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT), but confirmed the public will have to wait until early next year to get one of the devices, which uses FM radio technology to display sport scores weather and...
[November 17, 2003, 8:25]
The uncertainties of middle class man
Blog Buy one now when I really can wait until next year? Vista is just around the corner so it I delay the purchase until after the new year I am going to get a new operating system with my new PC whether I want it or not.
[October 29, 2006, 15:55]
