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Restaurant Managers Push CIO for More Time With Customers
White Papers Nando's is a fast-casual restaurant chain based in Johannesburg, South Africa, that specializes in a tongue-tingling dish called Peri-Peri Flame-Grilled Chicken. The restaurant started by implementing a centralized directory service - the Active...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Google jumps into TV business
News Several advertisers, including E*Trade Financial and 1-800-Flowers, plan to buy ads to run on the DISH network, saying that knowledge of where and when a spot ran, and how many people likely saw it, is what attracted them to buying their spots...
[April 3, 2007, 10:07]
Iraq reaps ironic wireless rewards
Blog Comment You can bring in a COW (Cell On Wheels) on the back of a truck or cargo plane, crank up the mast, point a dish at a satellite, fire up a generator and be going in next to no time. It's ridiculously easy to set up a mobile network.
[November 28, 2006, 9:46]
Lazy developers throw clunky applications over the wall
Blog Would a cook present a complex dish without tasting it first? Well, obviously they need to write an app that has all the features that they said it would include, but it needn’t be secure or even work that well on the network.
[August 7, 2009, 9:09]
New tech changes the face of war reporting
News Enabling those efforts will be systems such as the IPT Suitcase, a briefcase-sized satellite broadcasting system developed by Swedish company Swe-Dish Satellite Systems. Hampus Delin, marketing director for Swe-Dish, said several major broadcast...
[March 21, 2003, 9:19]
The Day Ahead: ICG's Rightworks hopes to take on Ariba
News The company has 260 employees and boasts revenue growth of 1,100 percent from a year ago, said Coleman, who didn't dish out any other details, given that RightWorks is a private firm. A suite integrated with best-of-class software is also on deck...
[September 18, 2000, 11:28]
Sun updates Solaris operating system
News The update can dish out Web pages faster and is easier to manage, the company said. The update also lets Solaris dole out Internet addresses to hundreds of thousands of computers on a network using a new version of the Dynamic Host Configuration...
[August 8, 2001, 11:43]
Organic robot mixes rat brain with silicon
News The incubator contains a few thousand living neurons cultured from rat cortex and placed on a special glass dish equipped with an array of 60 micro-electrodes. As the neurons form a network and react to the external stimuli, the research team can...
[June 13, 2003, 16:19]
Broadband boom gathers speed
News Alcatel is putting its own system in place in 2002, called SkyBridge, which will transfer data in both directions via a small satellite dish. The problem is not as serious as in the US, with its vast, sparsely-populated rural areas, but Radley said...
[November 21, 2000, 10:46]
All at sea: Challenge race asks tough IT questions
News But to reach Inmarsat, you need a dish; and a quite big dish. You can send ASCII characters, slowly, with an ordinary aerial; but for high bandwidth, you need a dish. The next idea was to cut a hole in the deck, and build the dome that covers the...
[August 29, 1996, 9:20]
AVC Broadband review
Reviews An engineer has to come to your home and fit the satellite dish (or if you already have a dish, the extra hardware required), and a different engineer will set up your computer. Along with the dish, or amendment to your existing dish, you get a...
[June 16, 2004, 9:35]
Streaming a Napster solution on campus
News The company installed a satellite dish and server on Bucknell's campus. The product gives users access to Launch.com's music and video content while offloading the network congestion to an infrastructure run by iBeam Broadcasting.
[July 12, 2000, 13:58]
SatDrive review
Reviews Our test installation was the SatDrive USB Package, comprising a 60cm dish with 10m of coax cable, a (rather bulky and utilitarian-looking) USB receiver box and a CD containing the SatDrive software and a PDF manual.
[December 13, 2002, 12:32]
Servers for your business review
Reviews But for servers expected to dish up files to multiple users simultaneously or transmit Web pages to the Internet, SCSI is a must. After all, if your server is under too much strain, it'll slow down your whole network.
[July 8, 2003, 13:25]
BT to test low-cost satellite broadband
News There is also a £400 fee to cover the cost of supplying and connecting the satellite dish. As BT's ADSL network only covers between 60 and 70 percent of the UK, significant areas of the country cannot get affordable broadband.
[April 15, 2002, 13:53]
Firefox hits 10-million mark
Talkback It's like your classic switch from cable to the dish network. I think that this is a wonderful opportunity for an "under-dog" such as Firefox to get some exploitation in the Internet world. As with any new competitor that comes along, people are...
[January 7, 2005, 2:45]
Google celebrates 70 percent profit rise
News The company is aggressively expanding its advertising platform to the offline world, including partnerships to sell ads to run on Clear Channel radio stations, on EchoStar Dish satellite TV network and in newspapers.
[April 20, 2007, 11:12]
Jury decides first DMCA conviction
News The operation, announced in February, targeted Whitehead and 16 other programmers suspected of selling wares that bypassed satellite TV systems provided by DirecTV and EchoStar's Dish Network. A federal jury has convicted a Florida man of violating...
[September 24, 2003, 16:40]
DSL makes surprise gain in broadband battle
News Realising they have no video offering to compete with cable, SBC and Qwest Communications inked deals with EchoStar's Dish Network to bundle into their service package for phone and data services. The broadband war between phone and cable companies...
[July 28, 2003, 16:43]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The latest Mars machine, the Surveyor, has an experiment on board to check whether amateur radio types could receive signals from a small transmitter onboard without the need for the whole Deep Space Network giant dish schmeer.
[July 25, 1998, 8:10]
