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A Year Ago: Demand Pummels National Geographic
News Just 24 hours after National Geographic.com launched its new "Map Machine" feature, the site is still scrambling to handle the demand. The launch of the Map Machine coincides with the release of National Geographic's new world atlas.
[October 29, 2000, 6:02]
Trojan Horse Maps Drive, Lifts Addresses
News Why would someone want a detailed map of files on a user's hard drive? The other text file created by the administrator's version of picture.exe.called $2321.dat, is a map (filename and path) of every file with the extensions .txt, .html, .idx...
[January 14, 1999, 15:38]
Apple Makes The Move To Intel
News Jobs said there are a lot of products Apple envisions for the coming years, but "we don't know how to build them with the future PowerPC road map. As for why Apple was making the shift, Jobs pointed both to past problems and to the PowerPC road map...
[June 7, 2005, 9:40]
Demand Pummels Nat'l Geographic
News The launch of the Map Machine coincides with the release of National Geographic's new world atlas. Map Machine is free of charge. Map Machine features all of the information offered in the book form of the world atlas.
[October 29, 1999, 14:49]
F-Secure: Inside The Cage
News On the map, every IP address shows the location of a machine infected with the Blaster worm. As the infected machine searches the internet, it "touches" the F-Secure darknet, enabling the company to trace the infected machine.
[September 28, 2007, 17:25]
Analysis: Is XtremMac Too Cool To Be True?
News While Mac veterans said the overclocking techniques Xtrem proposes might conceivably work, many observers expressed scepticism about the feasibility of the company's product road map. The recent announcement by Stockholm's Xtrem that it is...
[August 10, 2000, 9:29]
Middle-aged Mainframe Converts To Java
News The new products comes on the eve of a celebration IBM will hold at the Computer History Museum on Wednesday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the release of the S/360, the computer that put the mainframe on the map.
[April 7, 2004, 8:55]
The IMac's First Year? Sudden Impact
News It's basically put them back on the map, given the kind of high profile that Steve Jobs loves, and helped their profitability," said long-time Apple watcher and Creative Strategies President Tim Bajarin.
[August 16, 1999, 10:34]
Kernel Administration Made Easy With XP
News The registry has been moved out of the paged pool; XP uses the Memory Cache Manager to map the registry, in chunks of 256 KB, into the system cache. The size of the paged pool is set by the operating system, based on how much physical RAM is...
[June 5, 2002, 9:49]
MAJC Faces Developer Hurdles
News To that end, Sun has outlined a four-year plan aimed at putting MAJC on the map. Thus, even though each processor would work independently in performing a task or running a Java virtual machine, it would still be on the same piece of silicon and...
[August 19, 1999, 9:27]
How Does XML Measure Up?
News Bray has since gone on to address another big challenge -- the visual representation of data -- with his company, Antartica, which sells tools that display information from Web searches, corporate portals and other sources in an intuitive map...
[September 24, 2003, 14:05]
Intel Pits Its Own Beast Against AMD
News Mainstream Pentium 4s have 1MB of main cache and an 800MHz bus -- though Intel, which has redrawn its processor road map several times this year, said in October that it will step Pentium 4 chips up to 2MB of cache next year.
[November 2, 2004, 10:39]
Ideal Mathematics Test Practices: Making Online Quizzes With Math Symbols
Blog In Windows, go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map to insert special math symbols. MathML is a low-level specification for describing mathematics as a basis for machine to machine communication by the W3C Math...
[May 6, 2008, 11:25]
Tony Smith: Macs Marred By Megahertz
News It's clear that the decision to produce the G4-II was made only recently -- evidenced by Motorola's September PowerPC road map, which lists the G5 (the multi-core G4-based chip codenamed V'ger) as the next release.
[October 13, 1999, 15:17]
Start-up Offers Mass-market Robot Tech
News Although the system must be "trained" with an initial tour of its environments, it can update its map to account for changes in furniture locations, Evolution Robotics chief executive Bernard Louvat said.
[January 9, 2003, 14:37]
IBM Sews Up Second Blue Gene Deal
News Research subjects could include the early universe, supernovas, Jupiter, galaxy formation or a map of cosmic-ray origins. Today's fastest machine, NEC's Earth Simulator, built in 2002, has a speed of 35.6 trillion calculations per second, but new...
[February 23, 2004, 9:40]
Intel Defends Architectural Advances
News In fact, he thinks they'll be as much as 20 percent better than AMD products released at the same time, based on internal testing and projections of AMD's public road map information. A four-wide machine means a chip can process four instructions...
[March 10, 2006, 15:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 27/10/2003If you haven't seen it, may I recommend you inspect our spiffy new Wi-Fi map of Great Britain? What you can't tell from the map is what went on behind the scenes. But we promised you a Wi-Fi map, so a Wi-Fi map you shall have.
[October 31, 2003, 14:20]
Comdex: Pricking The Mobile Bubble
News Details of a good restaurant, an ATM machine, or a pharmacy, together with map-based instructions on how to get there from a network that knows exactly where you are. Bell South's Jim Hobbs, vice president of strategic development, pricked one of...
[November 15, 2000, 10:32]
Lexmark: Printers Pose Security Threat
News Brendan O'Connor, a security expert at an unnamed US financial company, demonstrated how he was able to exploit a weakness in the security of a Xerox multi-function device to gain total control of the machine and map an organisation's internal...
[August 13, 2007, 13:08]
