A little light discipline
Leader Recently, ZDNet UK attended the VMworld conference in Los Angeles. There will be a time — and it's not far away — when a skyscraper blazing with light in downtown Los Angeles or central London will be as unacceptable as a factory chimney spewing...
[December 6, 2006, 16:09]
Events Diary
News 28 DTV Summit: Los Angeles, California, US. Jupiter Entertainment Forum: Los Angeles, California, US. Personal Networking Conference: Newport Beach, California, US. Digital Photography Day: Open University Conference Centre, London.
[September 27, 1999, 7:05]
Sony unveils UK PS3 pricing, availability
News Sony Computer Entertainment announced PlayStation 3 pricing and specific availability information and showed off the final version of the console's controller at a glitzy press conference held at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles on Monday.
[May 9, 2006, 9:00]
ZDNet Events: Top tech events of 2001 -- Palm them now!
News Los Angeles, California, USA. Los Angeles, USA. FT New Media and Broadcasting Conference LinuxWorld Conference & Expo MacWorld Conference and Expo Olympia Exhibition and Conference Centre, London. JavaOne, Conference
[December 29, 2000, 14:40]
PDC Day minus one
Blog A couple of months ago ZDNets editor Rupert Goodwins asked me if I'd like to go to Microsofts Professional Developer conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. PDC is a odd Microsoft conference in that it's a conference where Microsoft like to show some of...
[October 26, 2008, 15:01]
SnapTime
Downloads You may know what time it currently is in London and New York, but imagine you have to setup a telephone conference between London, New York, Los Angeles and Paris. The challenge of setting up meetings and conference calls across multiple timezones...
[June 25, 2009, 15:54]
Microsoft turns spotlight on Windows 7 Server
News Speaking on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles, Microsoft vice president Bill Laing pointed out the difference between products that would use the server software, as opposed to netbooks and other PCs...
[November 7, 2008, 10:29]
Microsoft matures Longhorn plans
News At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, the software maker will detail Longhorn's underlying graphics and user interface technology, code-named Avalon. Microsoft will be giving out an early preview, or developers' edition of...
[September 30, 2003, 9:00]
Microsoft to offer Windows code
News At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft is planning to provide programmers with the code for an early version of Vista, as well as Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, both of which will be released in November.
[September 12, 2005, 10:40]
Events Diary
News DTV Summit: Los Angeles, California, US. Personal Networking Conference: Newport Beach, California, US. Digital Photography Day: Open University Conference Centre, London. 13-17 Networld+Interop: Atlanta, Georgia, US.
[September 13, 1999, 7:00]
Indigo: The colour of Passport security?
News Microsoft plans to make the first software developer release of Indigo available to key corporate and software partners at this week's annual Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. At its developer conference this week, Microsoft is...
[October 23, 2001, 11:41]
MS cosies up to Java community
News Microsoft is working to ship a beta of VJava 98 in time for its Visual J++ conference next month in Los Angeles, sources have said. At the Internet World trade show in Los Angeles, Microsoft will discuss details of a new version of Visual J++.
[March 6, 1998, 16:37]
Virtualisation speed test being developed
News They will drive industry toward a standard way of making this kind of virtualisation comparison," said Stephen Herrod, vice president of technology development at VMware, speaking during a presentation at the company's VMworld conference in Los...
[November 13, 2006, 9:53]
US agency wants more cash to fight file sharing
News The department is prepared to build the strongest, most aggressive legal assault against intellectual-property crime in our nation's history," Attorney General John Ashcroft, who created the task force in March, said at a press conference in Los...
[October 13, 2004, 9:30]
Sony to make handheld game device
News The PSP, introduced during a press conference in advance of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in Los Angeles, would compete to some extent with Nintendo's Game Boy, which has all but owned the portable game market for more than a...
[May 14, 2003, 7:54]
What's next in couch-potato tech?
News PocketCinema's creator, Los Angeles-based CinemaElectric, has been in stealth mode until recently. But at the eTV World conference in New York this week, CinemaElectric chief executive Jim Robinson opened the kimono on what he and his colleagues...
[September 20, 2000, 14:20]
Internet World: Broadband on a roll
News The main points of debate at the conference this week in Los Angeles will be not whether high-speed Internet will ever become common, but what such a system will look like, Powers said. Broadband] sounds like more of an inevitability than an...
[April 13, 1999, 7:48]
Sun's plan to eclipse .Net
News For example, Microsoft, which is holding a developers conference this week in Los Angeles, is expected to announce the pending availability of new tools as part of its .Net strategy. On Tuesday at a Sun conference in Santa Clara, California, chief...
[October 23, 2001, 8:52]
Xbox faces the music with new software
News The announcement of the Xbox Music Mixer was the most striking announcement at the company's press conference held in advance of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in Los Angeles. David Hufford, Microsoft product manager, said before...
[May 13, 2003, 7:55]
Google sponsors robotic race to the moon
News The X Prize Foundation staged a splashy event to announce the contest at the Wired NextFest conference in Los Angeles. At a recent artificial-intelligence conference, Peter Norvig, the former head of computation at Nasa's Ames facility and now...
[September 14, 2007, 15:12]



