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The Intel Teach Program Helps Egyptian Teachers Bring Technology to the Classroom

White Papers Recognizing that education is key to creating sustainable economic development, the government is committed to helping its citizens - and its youth, in particular - gain access to technology and develop the necessary skills to compete in the 21st...

[January 1, 2009, 0:00]

BT to miss 21st Century Network target

News Just last month, BT Wholesale chief executive Paul Reynolds told the 21st Century Communications World Forum that BT hoped to publish a list of vendors it has chosen to help build its 21st Century Network (21CN) before the end of this current...

[March 30, 2005, 15:30]

BT demands open standards in telecoms

News Paul Reynolds, chief executive of BT Wholesale, told the 21st Century Communications World Forum on Monday that the telco wants to destroy the telecoms sector's culture of closed proprietary systems in favour of the "plug-and-play" ways of the IT...

[February 21, 2005, 16:05]

BT taking baby steps to IP upgrade

News Ansell, speaking at the 21st Century Communications World Forum in London, hinted that the look-before-you-leap policy was due to the pressure of dealing with cutting-edge technology, and the need for BT to keep costs down.

[February 23, 2005, 14:20]

UK scientists complete Grid foundations

News British scientists on Monday announced the completion of one of the building blocks for large-scale data sharing over the Grid -- a proposed network of computers seen as the 21st century's successor to the Internet.

[July 22, 2002, 12:45]

A Year Ago: 1999 - The year in technology

News For your reading enjoyment, ZDNet over the new year has published a series of reports on some of the top technology issues of the year, the century and the millennium. Fri, 24 Dec 1999 -- Looking back on a century of nifty items, ZDNet brings you...

[December 23, 2000, 6:03]

EU pact criminalising security research?

News The possibility scares European computer security experts gathered this week for Def Con Europe -- so much so that one hacker called it "the witch hunt of the 21st century". To have your say online click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet...

[October 26, 2000, 8:56]

Robots could be nurses of the future

News It believes that robotics is set to become an extremely important part of the manufacturing industry in the future, and hopes that the project -- titled "Robot Challenge in the 21st Century" -- will help to make Japan a world leader in the sector.

[August 29, 2001, 14:03]

Hawking warns of AI world takeover

News Set in the mid-21st century, the film portrays a self-aware computer that saves the world from an environmental disaster caused by the Greenhouse effect. Share your experience with others on the Developers Forum

[September 3, 2001, 12:10]

Nurses first to use Intel tablet PC

News Intel and Motion are hoping the C5 helps drag the health-care industry into the 21st century of information technology. The C5 was first unveiled during last September's Intel Developer Forum. In a world of profit-driven hospitals, $2,199 might...

[February 21, 2007, 15:08]

Australian supercomputer reaches for the stars

News Australian scientists and engineers are "totally under-funded for the problems of the 21st century," he warned. Go to the ZDNet news forum. A cluster of 240 Intel CPUs at Swinburne University of Technology will be among the world's 50 fastest...

[September 3, 2002, 9:52]

Networked world will require revolution

News Why would anyone want to own anything in the 21st century when it is immediately outdated and upgradeable? Rifkin, who has written over a dozen books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, was speaking atresearch firm...

[February 26, 2001, 14:51]

Ellison slates computers and pushes biotech

News Ellison said that biotechnology -- not computing -- is where he expects innovation to happen in the 21st century. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. It's a whole different view of the world," Ellison said.

[February 22, 2001, 9:19]

Comdex: Mercedes Benz rolls into town

News As the company that invented the automobile, we look forward to reinventing it in the 21st century," said Enders. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. Mercedes Benz threw down the gauntlet to the Comdex crowd today, saying...

[November 20, 2000, 14:54]

WiMax will be key to BT's 21st Century Network project

News WiMax is set to play a major role in BT's 21st Century Network project -- the company's programme to upgrade the UK's telecoms infrastructure into a pure IP-based network. Matt Beal, director of 21st Century Network implementation and strategy...

[June 9, 2004, 17:25]

The Internet of the 21st century

News As technologists reflect on the great inventions of the millennium and turn once again to predictions for a Star Trek future, the Net will undoubtedly figure as one of the biggest leaps forward of the last century.

[December 27, 1999, 6:00]

A Year Ago: The Internet of the 21st century

News As technologists reflect on the great inventions of the millennium and turn once again to predictions for a Star Trek future, the Net will undoubtedly figure as one of the biggest leaps forward of the last century.

[December 27, 2000, 6:04]

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