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Drop Proofing A Hard Disk Drive
White Papers Designing a hand held device, like a PDA, cell phone or MP3 player with a hard disk drive requires designing in some kind of drop protection. Thanks to some new technology from Hitachi Metals, the drop sensor technology that is used in the laptop...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Diamond And RIAA Agree To Drop Lawsuits
News The Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies also signed the agreement to drop pending lawsuits. "Diamond Multimedia and our RioPort subsidiary are pleased to bring an end to this legal dispute as we move forward with the music industry on the...
[August 5, 1999, 9:10]
Intel's Revenues And Profits Drop
News The company's chief financial officer, Andy Bryant, called it a strong end to a difficult year, which saw full-year revenues drop from $38.8bn (£19.7bn) in 2005 to $35.5bn. Intel on Tuesday posted a quarterly profit that slightly beat analyst...
[January 17, 2007, 16:09]
Fix Noisy Computer Fans With A Drop Of Oil
Talkback Thanks to your advice and a drop of mountain-bike chain lube the machine once again quietly purrs. BRILLIANT! My computer was as loud as a lawn mower.
[November 27, 2005, 19:46]
Xbox Price To Drop Tonight
News Spokespeople for Microsoft Australia remained tight-lipped about the details of the announcement, but according to a source within US retail giant Wal-Mart, the store has been told to prepare for the Xbox price drop on Monday night.
[March 29, 2004, 11:55]
Impact Of Drop Synchronisation On TCP Fairness In High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks
White Papers This paper considers the performance of several well known high speed protocols in environments where individual flows experience different probabilities of seeing a drop in drop-tail buffers. The initial results suggest the properties of networks...
[December 26, 2007, 23:00]
Time To Drop 'AOL'?
News In an email memo forwarded to CNET News.com, the America Online unit's chief executive, Jonathan Miller, said he approached AOL Time Warner chief executive Richard Parsons with the suggestion to drop the AOL from AOL Time Warner.
[August 12, 2003, 11:40]
Kewney: Rumours Say Motorola To Drop PowerPC
News This has suddenly been given a big boost in the credibility stakes, following a hysterical rumour that Motorola, which makes the Mac processor (the Power PC chip) is going to drop Mac-related chip development.
[September 5, 1997, 15:45]
Graduate Vacancies Drop - Skills Are Key To Success
News Graduate employers are predicting a drop in vacancies this year, but salaries are on the way up, and graduates with the right skills can demand healthy packages. This year's Graduate Salaries and Vacancies Annual Review from the Association of...
[February 18, 2002, 16:11]
Silicon Balls Drop In Zero G For Solar Cell Magic
Blog Each ball produces around 1.5 milliwatts, which isn't much in our terawatt society but is plenty for lots of low-power electronic applications - and each long-drop production tube makes watts-worth per second.
[March 10, 2008, 21:30]
IWF Says ISPs Must Drop Illegal Newsgroups
News The Internet Watch Foundation on Wednesday announced its decision to take greater responsibility for illegal content on the Internet, and will be telling Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to drop newsgroups that are known to regularly contain...
[July 19, 2001, 10:10]
Analysts Shrug Off Freeserve Share Drop
News The drop has attracted disproportionate attention because Freeserve, as the UK's first major technology share floatation, was hailed as the beginning of a US-style high-tech boom when it debuted earlier this year.
[September 21, 1999, 13:37]
Windows XP To Drop In On Friday
News Microsoft on Friday will deliver final Windows XP code to PC makers in a big way: Air drop. In a stunt involving Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Vice President Jim Allchin, helicopters will circle the company's Redmond, Washington, headquarters...
[August 22, 2001, 8:32]
Swing Hacks: Drag-and-Drop With Files
White Papers This paper shows how to go much further than mere clipboard access by digging into the lower levels of the Drag and Drop APIs and building a program that can save files directly to the desktop via dragging, complete with proper file icons and drag...
[October 17, 2007, 0:00]
BT's Shares Drop On Strong Earnings
News BT also blamed the drop on rising interest costs and international investments. British Telecommunications (quote: BT) beat analysts' expectations on its full-year profits Thursday, but concern over its growing pile of debt helped bring its share...
[May 18, 2000, 15:30]
The New Generation Of Fiber Optic Multi-Drop Networks: An End-User’s Perspective
White Papers Fiber optic cable has long been recognized as an ideal medium for multi-drop communication networks; however, special supporting hardware designs were severely limited until recently. Then, advancements in semiconductor technology, specifically...
[March 1, 2004, 23:00]
Fix Noisy Computer Fans With A Drop Of Oil
News In many cases, the fan, like the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz, needs only a drop of oil. Well, to begin with, you need to use only a single drop of oil. At this point, put a single drop of oil in the lubrication well, as shown in Figure E.
[June 3, 2003, 11:01]
Intel Sees 76 Percent Drop In Income
News Executives blamed the drop largely on weak sales of communications chips and flash memory, used in devices such as handheld computers and cell phones. The earnings figure was a 76 percent drop from the same period a year ago and a 22 percent...
[July 18, 2001, 9:13]
Pentium Prices Drop Prior To Official Cuts
News Also, a scramble to make up for first-quarter shortages of memory and flat-panel displays, combined with the subsequent drop in PC sales, has led to gluts and price declines. Intel plans to cut prices on its Pentium 4 chips soon, but many dealers...
[August 21, 2002, 8:04]
EC To Drop Intel Antitrust Investigation
News The European Commission is to drop its competition investigation into Intel, according to reports. An EU source told Reuters on Monday: "The European Commission will soon drop its investigation against Intel Corporation.
[February 4, 2002, 14:12]
