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Westminster gets all meshed up
News Starting with a square mile across Soho and the West End, the entire City of Westminster will be connected by the end of 2008, a spokesperson for Westminster Council said on Monday. Work will now start on finally rolling out the network, with the...
[November 27, 2006, 15:21]
Britain's biggest Wi-Fi hot spot rides the waves
News Square Mile International, a Wi-Fi service provider, is currently building a wireless "hot zone" on the coast of South England. This will provide wireless connectivity over an area of more than one square mile.
[January 13, 2004, 14:45]
Streaming tech doubles broadband speed
News You've probably heard plenty about the "last mile," but soon you may be hearing a lot more about the "middle mile" if streaming media start-up EdgeStream has its way. Today, however, anyone from anywhere in the world can go to our Web site, and if...
[April 10, 2002, 16:07]
Robot race draws crowd
News The 250-mile course -- which won't be completely revealed until two hours before the start -- will require the computerised vehicles to drive through or around sand, mud, boulders, ditches, barbed wire, mountains and at least one overpass where...
[October 31, 2003, 8:25]
UK regulators 'relaxed' on net neutrality
News Joking that "Ofcom is not concerned about whether the UK will move off its low-fibre diet and unblock that last mile", he criticised the regulator's "laissez-faire" attitude towards fibre to the home — which would replace the copper last-mile...
[March 20, 2007, 16:42]
Servers to show modest growth
News He likened the difference to the construction of two tunnels: The Chunnel bored previously untouched ground between England and France at a cost of $387m per mile, while the "Big Dig" beneath Boston is costing $2bn per mile because it occupies...
[May 27, 2003, 8:00]
Steorn demo fails to appear - update
Blog Comment Perhaps you can arrange a trip with some of the physics dept.from Queen Marys on the Mile End Road for a good laugh. I ain't all that surprised. Perhaps it require some proximity to Liffey water?
[July 5, 2007, 11:40]
On the Feasibility of Switching ISPs in Residential Multihoming
White Papers In theory, multihomed Internet hosts, that is, hosts simultaneously connected to multiple Internet Service Providers (ISP) should see increased access capacity, be able to circumvent possible last-mile congestion problems, and experience improved...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) in Converged Application Platforms: Enabling Improved Utilization, Change Management, and Cost Reduction Through Hardware Assisted Virtualization
White Papers Over the years, the high speed last mile services have broadened their reach in tandem with wireless technology such as 3G and Wi-Fi, and end users are beginning to experience richer multimedia services in which video, voice, and data are...
[February 24, 2007, 0:00]
360Works SuperContainer
Downloads We always strive to go the 'extra mile' for our clients, so it's really refreshing to be on the receiving end of sterling customer service. SuperContainer lets you do document management and digital asset management using the new Web...
[January 15, 2008, 7:00]
WiMax on the brink
News If this can't be achieved, the report warns WiMax could just end up as a last-mile niche player. Wireless broadband technologies like WiMax and MobileFi could still end up winners -- and possibly stymie 3G -- even if the big mobile firms get cold...
[December 15, 2004, 11:50]
A blur between applications & content… really?
Blog So that’s the other end of the mile isn’t it? A company that takes pride in saying that it is focused on the ‘first mile of computing’ i.e.the mile between the user’s computer screen and the door of the data centre.
[May 23, 2008, 14:52]
Canary Wharf gets the Wi-Fi treatment
News Over time, though, operators have looked to construct increasingly larger networks, such as Broadreach's Wi-Fi hot zone in the West End of London, which stretches for 500m, or the mile-long hot zone created by Islington Council earlier this year.
[August 22, 2005, 13:15]
Massive free Wi-Fi hot spot lands on Paris
News Square Mile International said in January that it is building a wireless "hot zone" on the coast of South England that will provide wireless connectivity over an area of more than one square mile. Broadreach has unwired a 500m stretch of London's...
[July 28, 2004, 17:40]
Five years ago: Boca backs 56,000bps modem spec
News President and CEO Tony Zalenski was quoted in a press release saying the 56,000bps announcement was "record-breaking.like breaking the sound barrier, passing the speed of light, or beating the four-minute mile".
[September 13, 2001, 8:00]
Overthrow the state with a ZX Spectrum
Blog By moving the genlock to the very end of the chain, to within a mile or so of the receivers, the astronomers bypassed all the security and expense. During that time, the transmitter varies the signal to make the beam lighter or darker; at the end...
[April 23, 2007, 0:17]
Intel announces global WiMax investment
News Intel touts WiMax as a last-mile alternative for remote areas not currently served by DSL or cable, as well as a way to make it possible to wirelessly connect buildings located up to several miles apart.
[November 11, 2005, 9:05]
Apple picks aluminium over titanium
News We are outpacing the market by a country mile," Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of hardware marketing, said in an interview. Apple said that the 15-inch and 17-inch models are available immediately, with the updated 12-inch model to be...
[September 17, 2003, 17:15]
WiMax gathers steam
News WiMax, whose transmission distances range from a few hundred feet in densely populated areas to more than a mile in suburban areas, can support peak data speeds of 20 megabits per second, although average-user data rates fall between 2Mbps and 8Mbps.
[March 27, 2007, 10:57]
The Day Ahead: EMachines' Greenspan excuse doesn't fly
News That's what eMachines tried to do yesterday when it told Wall Street it would miss estimates by a mile. EMachines is a low-margin enterprise focused on the commodity driven low-end of the PC market. Yes, PC demand -- especially on the low-end -- is...
[June 20, 2000, 11:34]
