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Blackouts showed Internet's weak spots
News The Internet was far more seriously affected than previously thought by the blackouts that swept Europe and North America this summer, and without more investment in backup power it is in no shape to supersede the telephone network for primary...
[November 25, 2003, 13:30]
Automated Sports Blackouts Via Satellite
White Papers Blackouts refer to a contractual agreement between media organizations like ESPN and sports leagues that prevents programming from being aired in certain areas in an effort to bolster other interests - local ticket sales, local sports operations...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
Amazon.com blackouts hit Christmas shopping
News Visitors to Amazon.com experienced unexpected delays Monday morning and at times couldn't access the site at all. Throughout the morning Pacific Time, visitors to Amazon's site were sometimes greeted with a "Service Unavailable" message, and...
[December 7, 2004, 7:45]
ISP squabble sparks Net traffic jam
News The Net has built its strength in part on this decentralized, unregulated environment, but the ISPs' fight underscores that very little can prevent future blackouts like this from happening. Some who closely watch the Net's daily health say such...
[June 7, 2001, 8:24]
News Schmooze: Resurrected Daleks hail new e-minister
News As if the blackouts across California's messily deregulated power system weren't bad enough, officials there admitted hackers have been persistently trying to break into the power grid's computers. They insisted nobody has succeeded so far, despite...
[June 15, 2001, 16:12]
Taiwan manufacturers rattled by quakes
News However, there were no blackouts and production was not affected. Taiwan's electronics industry has been rattled by a major earthquake and several moderate aftershocks, but has escaped damage. No injuries have been reported.
[September 12, 2000, 12:12]
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory single-player demo
Downloads Citywide blackouts, stock exchange sabotage, electronic hijacking of national defense systems .this is information warfare. To prevent these attacks, operatives must infiltrate deep into hostile territory and aggressively collect critical...
[February 24, 2005, 3:23]
Murdoch versus the Net? Game on.
Blog Comment media blackouts.EUROPE HI GUYS i don,t know what happening in europe but i,ve contacted about 100 IT personal all over europe about our governments stance, on this young hacker gary mac.you may recall he,s been researching fron NSA.site for alien...
[November 14, 2009, 7:09]
HomePower
Downloads If you are tired of power blackouts, you can get off the grid by designing a power-backup system with HomePower. This application designed by electrical engineers takes the energy usage from your power bill and computes the ratings required for...
[August 2, 2005, 15:46]
WANSyncHA Helps CPS Ensure Polek & Polek e-Commerce Application Availability
White Papers Following the August 2003 blackouts on the U.S. One of the components critical to the smooth operation of Polek & Polek's e-Commerce Web site is the company's SQL server-based VAM (Visual Account Mate) e-Commerce application, which allows visitors...
[January 4, 2007, 17:56]
TCP-Planet: A Reliable Transport Protocol for InterPlaNetary Internet
White Papers Current TCP protocols have very poor performance in the InterPlaNetary Internet which is characterized by extremely high propagation delays, link errors, asymmetrical bandwidth and blackouts. The space exploration missions are crucial for...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
Crossword Wizard
Downloads New word placement options to maximise word entry GRAPHIC backdrops for your puzzle onscreen (they print in colour behind your puzzle) New graphic resize option New puzzle types Shape puzzles No Peeky Crossword (no Blackouts, No Word Length...
[July 5, 2009, 18:39]
IBM faces cancer victims in court
News During this period, she visited the IBM Medical Clinic for various conditions, including conjunctivitis, blackouts and sleep disturbances. Like Hernandez, he began experiencing blackouts, eye trouble and other unusual symptoms.
[November 4, 2003, 8:20]
Brits in Australia struggle to roam
News British tourists who were expecting to be able to use the Vodafone service to keep in touch with friends and relatives while visiting Australia have been subjected to frequent mobile service blackouts over the holiday period and there are...
[January 12, 2004, 7:55]
Very real and very scarey
Talkback Additionally the problem was compounded by attacks on news services portals, effectively causing news blackouts. I recently read the transcript of the Estonian Defense Ministers talk at the Center for Strategic and International Studies website...
[December 10, 2007, 12:43]
Amazon suffers afternoon of outages
News By comparison, rival eBay has struggled with periodic blackouts. The world's biggest e-commerce company suffered an outage late on Thursday afternoon, which temporarily put its Web site out of business.
[March 17, 2000, 10:29]
Blackout kicks disaster recovery into action
News Companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM and SunGard promise to help companies keep their data and applications running in the event of disasters such as blackouts and floods. Thursday's power outage in the eastern United States led some companies to...
[August 15, 2003, 8:40]
Power struggle at PalmSource
News But, he added, people were calm -- perhaps because there were so many Californians with experience from last summer's rolling blackouts. Reporter's notebook Having run a number of PalmSource developer conferences, Gabriel Acosta-Lopez has gotten...
[February 8, 2002, 9:58]
Transmeta loses server deal to Intel
News The new type of units, in which "blades" containing an autonomous server are packed into a standard-sized 2U unit, are often based on low-power laptop processors such as Pentium III-M or Crusoe chips to decrease heat output and power consumption...
[August 2, 2001, 14:37]
Toddler-sized robot dances at debut
News I just hope there are no blackouts during my stay. It dances. It can hold a conversation. And in about a year, humanoid robot Qrio will be knocking on doors, if Sony's plans fall into place. Nobuyuki Idei, chief executive of Sony, gave the first...
[October 14, 2003, 15:00]
