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Web Based VOD Ordering Supports Open Architecture And Integration Into E-Commerce For Digital Cable Head-End Equipment
White Papers In the past, the cable head-end equipment is traditionally a closed architecture environment where one equipment manufacturer has to provide every component in the whole cable system. This includes the head-end video origination source, conditional...
[May 9, 2004, 0:00]
Digital TV 'too Complicated' For Millions
News Following the publication of research that found digital TV equipment is much harder to use than existing analogue kit, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms called on the digital TV industry to wake up and pay more attention to usability.
[September 22, 2003, 14:44]
Intel, FTC Prepare To Square Off
News Digital Equipment Corp.now, part of Compaq), and Compaq Computer Corp.to protect its monopoly in the microprocessor market. The case closely resembled that of Digital Equipment Corp. Intergraph, Digital, and Compaq.
[March 8, 1999, 11:35]
Ultra-Compact HDTV CODEC LSI And Portable Microwave Link
White Papers For the smooth introduction of digital terrestrial broadcasting scheduled for implementation by the end of 2003, compact and inexpensive infrastructure equipment is needed. By incorporating this newly developed CODEC in NHK's digital HDTV signal...
[September 23, 2004, 0:00]
3Com Warns, Discontinues Cable, DSL
News The network equipment maker, which has announced warnings for three straight quarters, said it expects revenue of $450m (£326m) to $475m for the fourth quarter ended June 1. French network equipment maker Alcatel sold its DSL business to Thomson...
[June 8, 2001, 8:52]
Police And Military 'battling Over Spectrum'
News The communications equipment manufacturer is a key promoter of the Tetra digital radio system, used by police, ambulance and fire services to communicate instantly and securely. Emergency services are being preventing from making full use of their...
[November 23, 2006, 14:51]
Film Studios Create New Standards Body
News The studios said they also hope to spur the use of digital projection equipment in movie theaters. In order to bring the benefits of this technology to the public on a large-scale basis, there need to be industrywide standards so that movie...
[April 3, 2002, 15:32]
BP Employees Get DIY IT
News Oil giant BP is pioneering a "digital consumer" initiative that will give some employees an allowance to buy their own IT equipment and take care of their own support needs. The project, which is still at the pilot stage, gives select BP staff an...
[October 12, 2006, 9:25]
Just Do It! Nike Develops MP3 Player
News The audio player, the first product released by Nike's newly launched Nike[techlab division, is part of a larger ambition by a company best known for making sports equipment. We plan to take) Nike's advanced knowledge of sports and combine it with...
[May 11, 2000, 14:09]
Startup Aims To Inject Zing Into Net Telephony
News BOPS is attempting to break into the $7bn-a-year market for digital signal processors (DSPs), which are used in cell phones and other high-tech equipment. A startup run by a former senior executive of chip designer ARM is launching Monday a new...
[January 16, 2001, 8:37]
Card Promises Wi-Fi For The PDA Masses
News The wireless equipment maker announced on Tuesday that it is working with SyChip to incorporate 802.11b wireless networking technology into a Secure Digital (SD) card for handheld devices. He says they're interested now that they've seen the SyChip...
[July 10, 2002, 7:34]
Compaq To Pull Plug On NT On Alpha
News Digital Equipment was one of the first, if not the first, major OEM to back Microsoft's NT operating system. Joseph Pollizzi, deputy division head at the Space Telescope Science Institute and former president of DECUS the Digital Equipment's User...
[August 23, 1999, 12:03]
Wi-Fi Spreads Through The Home
News Manufacturers are adding Wi-Fi wireless connections to media adapters that let home-electronics equipment play music or show photos stored on personal computers. The devices, as with most early generations of equipment, have their drawbacks.
[July 15, 2003, 12:02]
HP's AlphaServer Reaches End Of Line
News The AlphaServer line began at Digital Equipment and outlasted that company's 1998 acquisition by Compaq Computer. Another operating system that runs on Alpha, the Tru64 version of Unix that also came from Digital Equipment, is being phased out in...
[October 20, 2003, 11:40]
Intel To Debut New Architecture
News The flagship of Intel's programmable network processor line, the IXP (Internet Exchange Processor) 1200 network processor, uses a StrongARM embedded processor core acquired from Digital Equipment The core is surrounded by six RISC-based...
[August 31, 1999, 10:58]
7/7 Bomb Rescue Efforts Hampered By Communication Failings
News The London Assembly report concluded: "It is essential that London's emergency services are equipped with digital radio equipment so that they no longer have to rely on mobile telephones to communicate between the scenes of major incidents and the...
[June 5, 2006, 15:05]
TI Expands Application Chips Beyond Phones
News TI's OMAP 3500 line of digital chips would support features such as graphics displays in navigation equipment, medical imaging equipment or music players, he said. Texas Instruments unveiled new application chips on Tuesday that can be used in...
[February 26, 2008, 14:55]
Gateway Touts Smart DVD Player
News It will sell the device alongside a number of new consumer-electronics products, including digital televisions and new home-theatre equipment, as it moves toward establishing itself as a player in the consumer-electronics market, a Gateway...
[June 30, 2003, 13:11]
Texas Instruments Accelerates Digital Signals
News Besides producing DSPs for industrial and networking equipment, the company also manufactures less-complex DSPs and other chips for cellphones. Increasing the speed from 720GHz to 1GHz in its industrial line of DSPs improves overall performance by...
[January 19, 2004, 9:25]
Toxic Tech Threatening Developing World
News Used computer equipment exported from the US and Europe is causing serious health and environmental damage in Africa, according to a report published this week. Huge numbers of exported obsolete computers and other used electronic equipment from...
[October 26, 2005, 9:45]
