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Computers to get a make-over in art exhibition
News The exhibition, which will feature two 24-year-old super computers and take place on 14 July, is being sponsored by the Syntegra, the systems integration business arm of BT. Although they are now obsolete, these computers were once among the most...
[July 5, 2000, 11:45]
Active Directory Cookbook: Computers
White Papers As far as Active Directory is concerned, computers are very similar to users. Computers need to be represented in Active Directory for many of the same reasons users do, including the need to access resources securely, utilize GPOs, and have...
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Computers to Africa Diary: Day four
Blog That particular mission aborted, I jumped into a taxi and after a couple of wrong turns managed to make my way to the next meeting of the day with Computers for Schools Kenya. This is an NGO that works to put the computers, that organisations such...
[September 12, 2007, 20:28]
New Technology Focus: Computers that know you're upset!
News The Affective Computing Department at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass.is trying to use computers to detect people's emotions. Computers are meant to be our assistants, she said, and they should learn our likes and dislikes just as a human...
[July 28, 1998, 6:33]
Study: Computers beat sex for some Britons
News A disturbing number of Britons prefer to play with their computers than have sex or even eat a bag of chips, according new research commissioned by Microsoft. One in four Brits like their PCs more than sex and four out of five said they'd rather...
[December 10, 1999, 12:03]
Computers to Africa Diary: Days Two and Three
Blog I am also off to the headquarters of Computers for Schools Kenya - a great African success story of aid being taken on by a local NGO - a case of Africans helping Africans. The organisation is based on a Canadian model, Computers for Schools Canada.
[September 11, 2007, 19:12]
Computers 4 Africa supports this initiative
Talkback Computers 4 Africa is pleased to be involved and supports this initiative Computers only go to schools and nonprofits, who only pay for the logistics - the PCs are free. Computers 4 Africa.org.uk We think that this is the best out there, in being...
[September 7, 2007, 9:15]
IDF Day Zero: Computers that feel - and squeeze the cheese
Blog Interacting - computers that could recognise not just the environment they're in but how the humans in it were acting and feeling, in order to make useful suggestions. Computers, he says, are very good at complex analysis and optimisation.
[April 1, 2008, 20:54]
Computers bare of OS
Talkback This really does raise the fraught question as to whether we should, in general, be able to buy computers with no operating system. Of course, it is also just a convenience to the retailer to sell computers with Windows, or should I say 'Brown Boxes'
[February 6, 2009, 8:18]
A Year Ago: Computers beat sex for some Britons
News Britons enjoy talking to their computers, while Swedes like to stroke their machines, says study A disturbing number of Britons prefer to play with their computers than have sex or even eat a bag of chips, according new research commissioned by...
[December 10, 2000, 6:00]
Time Computers denies tales of woe
Talkback Working at Time Computers. I posted a reply here about Time Computers. In hindsight the computers were not that great and the cost of the aftercare packages seemed very high. I am now working in IT support and tried sales at the time, I guess about...
[August 1, 2005, 23:34]
Computers: Just another commodity?
News The things that we used to think of as the areas for "wow" technology, like computers, have become commoditised and even transparent, as they are embedded into systems. It was actually used by people as a front-end communications device for TCP/IP...
[October 3, 2003, 10:54]
Time Computers denies tales of woe
Talkback I worked for Time Computers about five years ago. I hope Tasir Mohsin and the other members of the board who are perhaps partially responsible for this happening, aren't given the chance to start again, re: a company selling computers or a...
[August 1, 2005, 23:11]
Finjan finds botnet of 1.9m infected computers
News Security company Finjan has tracked down what it says is one of the largest networks of compromised computers, controlled by a single gang of cybercriminals. The six-person gang, whose names and email addresses indicate that they are from Eastern...
[April 22, 2009, 14:39]
All our computers are belong to Microsoft
Blog When these are given out as homework, they use their computers at home to prepare their reports with PowerPoint. Our teachers don’t get to use what they’ve learned from the training because our computers had been running on Linux," said Baricaua.
[August 5, 2008, 18:18]
China denies hacking US politicians' computers
News Two US congressmen who are longtime critics of China's human rights record have accused China of compromising computers that had information related to political dissidents. Representative Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican, says four of his...
[June 13, 2008, 9:07]
Time Computers denies tales of woe
News An email claiming to detail a multitude of ills at Time Computers was dismissed by a company spokesman on Thursday as "a malicious mix of fact and fiction" and probably the work of a "disgruntled employee".
[July 22, 2005, 10:55]
Dell Computers Help Brad Marshall Homes Increase the Mobility of Field Workers, Enhance Customer Service, and Accelerate Projects by an Estimated 20 Percent
White Papers Brad Marshall Homes wanted to enhance customer service and increase the efficiency of the building process as well as decrease computer downtime by deploying new desktop computers for the office and new notebook computers for field workers.
[June 18, 2009, 14:52]
Can a chip help computers see in 3D?
News Stereo vision may indeed be a leap ahead for computers, but there's still a long way to go before machines can achieve the sophistication of human sight. It allows us to bring stereo vision to computers," chief executive Buck said.
[July 3, 2002, 8:07]
File-swapping network told to unplug computers
News A Chicago federal judge has ordered file-swapping service Madster, formerly known as Aimster, to unplug its computers from the Internet in a last-ditch effort to prevent music piracy on its network. In the midst of weighing arguments as to whether...
[December 4, 2002, 13:10]
