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Hype - The Time Quest demo
Downloads Hype, a heroic medieval knight, falls victim to the curse of Barnak, the Black Knight, while attempting to save the kingsom from an evil curse. Thrown into the past, far from his imperiled king, Hype is unable to rest until he returns to his on...
[September 25, 1999, 3:21]
2002: the top ten in IT hype
News They may tinker with the technology for internal applications, but they understand that the glorious vision of Web services nirvana is nothing but hype. Oracle's dedication to security is a good thing, but using security to hype its marketing...
[December 24, 2002, 8:56]
Jane Wakefield: Keep on believing the Internet hype
News The hype surrounding it has gathered into a huge snowball, threatening to wipe out those who stand in its way and leaving those who haven't added their own snow to the ball feeling decidedly left out in the cold.
[December 8, 2000, 14:01]
Beware the Skype-iPhone hype-fest
Blog When you compare the hype-fest surrounding Skype to Truphone, possibly not. Beware hype-fests: like that surrounding the iPhone, glitz often wallpapers over a multitude of shortfalls. There’s a battle heating up in the burgeoning voice-over-wifi...
[April 3, 2009, 18:03]
Gartner hits out at security hype
News Enterprises are spending too much time and energy focusing on the wrong security issues as they buy into vendor hype designed to fuel fears and sell more products, Gartner warned on Thursday. The problem is if organisations fall for the hype and...
[June 9, 2005, 17:00]
Ginger - believe the hype?
News Furious speculation about the potential of the device is merely more evidence that the tech world thrives on hype says Adam Daum, senior analyst with GartnerGroup. It is an industry that runs on hype and if everyone can get a shot in the arm from...
[January 15, 2001, 15:50]
CA: Don't believe the wireless mega-hype
News There is too much hype surrounding wireless technology, according to Computer Associates' chief wireless strategist D.D. Comparing the level of hype in wireless today to that of the Internet boom, Ganguly says CA is trying to avoid falling into the...
[July 15, 2003, 7:36]
Report dismisses MMS hype
News The hype surrounding multi-media messaging services has been attacked by an analyst group, which claims that the worldwide market for those services will be only 20 percent of current predictions. The report, by World Wireless Forum, condemns...
[August 9, 2002, 8:10]
What Vista needs is a REASON to upgrade, not more Hype
Talkback What it doesn't need is more empty hype. What Vista really needs is ONE good reason for people to upgrade. It needs to be faster (it's not), more stable (it's not), or support some new hardware, peripheral or program (it does not), or at least...
[February 5, 2008, 13:57]
IPv6 hype suggests real problems
Blog Comment IPv6 isn't a "hype" issue at all. This is the next generation IP, plain and simple. Japan's government mandated way back in 97 that they research and plan to build and deploy v6 networks, and they have.
[May 12, 2008, 9:30]
The Gigahertz game: is it all just hype?
News The spokesman accused Intel of using the hype machine to distract the industry from the fact that AMD is currently shipping the fastest chip available in full production quantities, the 850MHz Athlon.
[February 20, 2000, 6:35]
Transmeta round-up: Technology worth the hype?
News Was it more a question of over-exuberance on the part of the marketers and the press, or does the potential of the new software-based processor really deserve the hype? For this and other reasons, some experts have expressed concern that the hype...
[January 21, 2000, 12:01]
Hacking contest 'just hype'
News The warning that hackers are planning a mass attack on Web sites this Sunday 6 July is nothing but hype, according to some security experts. The purported hacker contest awards points to vandal groups for defacing Web sites, with higher points...
[July 4, 2003, 10:04]
Technology hype comes under scrutiny
News Tablet PCs, Internet micropayments, passive RFID and video-conferencing are four technologies that are firmly stuck at the bottom of the "trough of disillusionment", according to the 2005 "Hype Cycle" of emerging technologies released by analysts...
[August 24, 2005, 16:15]
Topping the hype curve - mobile TV and IPTV
News Gartner uses its "hype cycles" model to show the maturity of technologies that the analyst claims run through a cycle from hype, though to disillusionment and then on up to understanding. Mobile TV is among the most over-hyped technologies on the...
[July 27, 2006, 16:55]
A Year Ago: Win 98: Microsoft turns down the hype
News Microsoft will release a third beta of Windows 98 on September 30 and still plans to ship the final release by April 1998 but the firm is already at pains to play down the hype over the operating system.
[August 27, 1998, 5:37]
Smartphone virus hype dismissed
News Overton believes awareness of potential future threats is no bad thing, given how far end users tend to lag behind threats when they do emerge "but what isn't acceptable is scaremongering and hype". A company which handles support for major mobile...
[May 5, 2005, 18:00]
A Year Ago: The Gigahertz game - is it all just hype?
News The spokesman accused Intel of using the hype machine to distract the industry from the fact that AMD is currently shipping the fastest chip available in full production quantities, the 850MHz Athlon.
[February 20, 2001, 6:01]
Teleworking: Don't believe the hype
News The report also describes the proportional rise as "quite small given all the hype surrounding the phenomenon". While government ministers and opposition politicians increasingly join forces with work-life balance campaigners and IT businesses to...
[September 8, 2006, 13:55]
Gartner Group Gaffs and "Web 2.0" Techno-Hype
Talkback The renowned Gartner Group's latest Hype Cycle report places "Web 2.0" in a "Trough of Disillusionment": http://tinyurl.com/6ycvs8 But for a few good chuckles, I suggest you Google the following and browse the first 20-30 listings: failures Gartner...
[August 17, 2008, 15:37]
