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HP Announces New Antivirus Concept For Servers
News Early next year, the computer maker will begin selling software designed to slow the spread of viruses from its ProLiant servers and ProCurve networking equipment, an HP executive said on Tuesday. At the same time, it will release a version for its...
[December 1, 2004, 13:15]
Synergy: The Compaq And Novell Connection
White Papers When the rest of the industry focused on their own turnkey systems or provided software to run solely on mainframe equipment, these two visionary companies focused on developing high-quality industry-standard, PC products, products the customer...
[August 27, 2003, 0:00]
Itanium Failing Compaq Server Tests
News Sightings are a broad computer industry term for equipment that fails to perform as expected in testing, but with no immediately apparent defects. A Compaq representative said that the company has experienced "sightings" with Itanium, Intel's 64...
[November 15, 2001, 8:38]
Vista's Journey Isn't Over Yet
News That gives computer makers, also known as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), about 12 weeks until the 30 January launch to do their final testing and to start building Vista-loaded PCs. After weeks of final testing and stamping out last...
[November 13, 2006, 8:36]
Tips For Managing IT Facilities
News Facility monitoring systems and their alarms should be visible and audible enough to be seen and heard from almost any area in the computer room and when noisy equipment is running at its loudest. In today's era of fibre-optic cables, air-cooled...
[June 6, 2005, 17:35]
VMware Completes Storage Code Testing
News Mullany said the testing certifications should make it easier for VMware and the storage equipment companies to coordinate technical support services for customers. On Monday, the company said its ESX Server software had successfully completed...
[December 9, 2003, 13:30]
Intel's Barrett: PC Market On The Mend
News To complement its chips, Intel is expanding its effort to build software and testing labs in different parts of the world so that application developers and hardware manufacturers can tune their equipment for Intel chips.
[February 26, 2002, 9:01]
Intel To Open Chip Plant In China
News The vast majority of the budget in building and operating a plant revolves around the equipment for "drawing" circuits on wafers or sputtering metallic vapours onto silicon. The decision to concentrate on chipsets, rather than flash memory or...
[March 26, 2007, 9:00]
ST Builds Chips For Gene Detection
News The chip, technically called a MEMS (microelectromechanical system), essentially performs several of the tasks involved in scanning DNA for genes, a process that normally requires a battery of laboratory equipment, according to Barbara Grieco...
[November 6, 2002, 8:23]
AMD Highlights Standards In Live Push
News The company first began to apply the Live designation, which resembles the block stencil lettering found on musical equipment crates, on computer equipment sold to customers in the entertainment industry.
[January 4, 2006, 8:40]
Intel Advances Centrino With Faster Wireless
News The Wi-Fi Alliance — a global supplier-led organisation — is running a more widespread interoperability testing programme covering nearly every equipment vendor. Next-generation equipment based on 802.11n will offer throughput of up to 300Mbps...
[October 2, 2006, 11:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If it was wardriving, then it was very well funded and not very well disguised: the way to do it is to stuff the equipment into the pannier of a rusty moped, stick a big red L on the back and rubber band a grotty list of streets to a perspex...
[August 1, 2003, 18:10]
Recycling Special Report: Disposal Is Too Hot To Handle
News Just ask IBM, which handled 60,000 tons of computer equipment at the end of its useful life in 1999, coming just from equipment it leased and its own internal operations. The European Union says the hazardous content of electrical and electronic...
[June 18, 2001, 14:00]
Top 20 Reasons Contact Center Applications Don’t Scale
White Papers Even the best-designed automated voice systems can have potentially crippling performance problems that frustrate and alienate customers while driving up a contact center's toll charges, equipment needs and personnel costs.
[July 21, 2003, 0:00]
HSE To Fund Study Into Portable Computer Health Risks
News People are also worried about being mugged because they are carrying expensive computer equipment around," he said. At present, although there is plenty of research and guidance on the use of full-sized display screen equipment there is little...
[March 23, 1999, 11:05]
Turing Award Goes To Error-checking Researchers
News Without the conceptual breakthrough pioneered by these researchers, we might still be stuck with chips that have many errors and would lack the power and speed of today's equipment," he said. You simply can't do enough testing, so any methodology...
[February 5, 2008, 17:23]
Discarding Old PCs Carries Hidden Costs
News Disposal costs, which vary depending on the quantity and condition of the gear being sold as well as on the method of disposal, can involve things like disconnecting PCs from networks, erasing sensitive data from hard drives and, in some cases...
[September 30, 2003, 10:45]
Linux Tool Turns Your Office Into A Supercomputer
News Latter said CHAOS would be of interest to "those with large computational usage and particularly those with existing high investment in commodity equipment". The project was driven by one challenge: the lack of time, said Sydney-based Pure Hacking...
[April 7, 2005, 10:05]
HP 'should Split' - Merrill Lynch
News Meanwhile, the company's computer product line is diverse, including products from Compaq's own acquisitions of Digital Equipment and Tandem. HP spun off a medical testing unit, called Agilent Technolgies, in 1999.
[June 8, 2004, 9:25]
C# Gains Support
News Microsoft has now used that as a stepping stone to gain the imprimatur of a more widely recognised standards group, the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, which governs standards for items as diverse as dental equipment...
[October 11, 2002, 14:08]
