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IBM eServers & Linux Propel Hindustan Motors in to Top Gear
White Papers Hindustan Motors (HM) has been a pioneer in the Indian Automotive industry for more than six decades. HM wanted to extend its ERP applications to suppliers and large international customers, expecting that such a move would streamline business...
[April 24, 2007, 1:00]
ARM: Moving on from mobiles
News The remaining 600 million cores represent the fastest-growing segment of the company's business in markets such as set-top boxes, printers, networking gear, and automotive applications. So, with sales of digital gear booming, ARM is looking to...
[April 3, 2006, 13:40]
Redmond seeks wireless upgrade
News Improving security "should be a top concern" for gear makers, said In-Stat/MDR analyst Sam Lucero. Pandey said Microsoft is seeking gear that will support all of the current flavors of Wi-Fi: 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11a.
[December 10, 2004, 11:55]
VoIP boom driven by Y2K
News Since then, VoIP technology has worked out most of the kinks, and it's at the top of many buyers' lists, now that it's time to replace older gear. Telecom equipment suppliers say they're seeing a belated Y2K windfall as companies such as Bank of...
[October 21, 2004, 9:10]
Video demand helps Cisco profits soar
News And telephone companies such as AT&T have also been buying gear to upgrade their networks to deliver TV over their networks. This demand helped Cisco increase revenue 18 percent on its IP routing equipment and 13 percent on its Ethernet switching...
[February 7, 2007, 8:27]
HP tops chip-purchasing table
News Monthly figures released by the Semiconductor Industry Association also reflect this optimism.iSuppli said the Asia-Pacific region is the top destination for chip shipments in 2004, with 40.4 percent of all chips going to the region, up from 36.9...
[April 23, 2004, 17:10]
Intel's consumer fumbling
News That software will also enable a technology called Intel Hub Connect, which is designed to make it easy to set up a home network with a Viiv PC, a Viiv-certified wireless networking router, and other consumer electronics gear like a Viiv-certified...
[April 12, 2006, 13:35]
T-RackS 24
Downloads If you record music with digital gear, you already know how challenging it can be to get that warm, broad, analog sound. Yet, up until now, there's never been a way to achieve this leaving the digital domain and piping your music through...
[July 30, 2008, 8:00]
The Day Ahead: Can things get even better for Cisco?
News Once these companies decide on what gear they want, a two to five-year investment cycle will begin, starting in 2001. The company said it will strive to meet "insatiable demand" for optical gear. Cisco's strategy is to "venture capital" its way to...
[August 9, 2000, 13:28]
Wi-Fi shows rapid growth
News The Wi-Fi gear market continued its rapid growth in 2003, led mostly by consumer holiday sales, but companies saw a slight shuffle in their market share rankings. The overall revenue for Wi-Fi wireless networking gear was up more than 55 percent in...
[February 11, 2004, 9:10]
The Day Ahead: Sycamore allays Wall Street worries for now
News Some folks were concerned about a software flaw that wouldn't allow Sycamore's hardware to get along with its fellow equipment vendors' gear. One customer had trouble with Sycamore gear when it left the lab.
[November 15, 2000, 12:51]
Apricot netbook ditches Linux
Blog Comment I think the Apricot netbook just proves you can't buy in a shipment of anonymous gear, slap a sticker on it, bung any old software on top and have a good product. Or even an acceptable product. Didn't work in the 80s, didn't work in the 90s, won't...
[October 22, 2008, 10:23]
HD-DVD explodes on the launchpad
Blog Comment I've got friends with walls and walls of DVDs and some top-notch AV gear, and they clearly take great pleasure in that. It's all very simple - what do consumers want? And that's simple to answer: value for money, convenience, and the pleasure of...
[February 20, 2008, 11:14]
New Microsoft Wi-Fi gear runs on latest standard
News Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it has updated its line of wireless-networking products, adding gear based on the latest Wi-Fi 802.11g standard. The decision cost Microsoft market share after the company, which entered the Wi-Fi gear market in...
[September 17, 2003, 11:05]
Chip gear manufacturers look forward to bumper year
News The gear makers are benefiting as their chipmaking customers see their own upswing in sales. Rounding out the top five were ASML, Nikon and Advantest. Worldwide revenue for makers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment is projected to grow 40...
[April 9, 2004, 20:45]
Texas Instruments accelerates digital signals
News Texas Instruments plans this week to unveil digital signal processors that run at 1GHz, in an advance that will probably help the company to maintain its top spot in providing chips for cellular base stations, video production gear and other systems.
[January 19, 2004, 9:25]
iPlayer enjoys 'wonderful start' to 2008
News The five most frequently viewed programmes were the Christmas specials of Extras, Doctor Who and The Catherine Tate Show, along with EastEnders and Top Gear. The top 10 most popular programmes accounted for around a quarter of all programmes viewed.
[January 16, 2008, 11:06]
Motorola could buy General Instrument for $10bn
News The Federal Communications Commission has been pushing the cable industry to make its set-top gear widely available through retail outlets. According to people familiar with the matter, the Motorola name would be used on General Instrument's...
[September 13, 1999, 14:20]
How the 'Milan' table PC was born
News The notion of a table-like computer had garnered interest within Microsoft since at least 2001, but it wasn't until industrial designer Allan Han went to Ikea in January 2003 that the effort really kicked into high gear.
[May 30, 2007, 12:04]
IBM sets up Power portal
News The chips are often used in consumer electronics devices, such as set-top boxes and networking gear. They range from IBM's Power family of high-end server chips to its PowerPC processors for computers, servers, handhelds and networking gear.
[May 17, 2004, 9:35]
