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Negroponte at NetEvents
Blog [These are some pretty raw notes from Negroponte's presentation at NetEvents, Hong Kong, as it happens. He's showing off the first "production laptop" - although it's not the finished electronics. An ASIC - to run the camera, the flash memory and...
[December 2, 2006, 6:09]
In pictures: One Laptop Per Child review
Reviews When Nicholas Negroponte (above, right) of the MIT Media Lab showed off a prototype OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) at NetEvents in Hong Kong, ZDNet UK's Rupert Goodwins was there with his camera. The laptop just visible in the bottom left-hand corner...
[December 6, 2006, 9:37]
Incumbent telcos accused of plotting against VoIP
News There´s nothing they can do about this emerging explosion, unless they work with governments to regulate this business," Whyte told a group of journalists at NetEvents in Barcelona on Thursday. NetEvents also heard that few companies are actually...
[October 8, 2004, 10:55]
Colt: Next-gen networks are essential
News Speaking at the second day of the NetEvents conference in Geneva, Mahmoodshahi said that rolling out so-called next-generation networks (NGNs) was no longer a matter of choice for telcos that wanted to survive.
[February 23, 2007, 14:57]
Intrusion prevention security tipped to boom in Europe
News But a couple of quarters ago is the time when IPS took off in the US," said Kip McClanahan, chief executive of TippingPoint, speaking at the NetEvents gathering of networking analysts, vendors and press in Barcelona on Friday.
[October 11, 2004, 12:45]
Ethernet marches towards telecoms domination
News It will provide vendors with the ability to provide solutions which deliver metro Ethernet services," explained Chen, speaking at the NetEvents 2003 European Press Summit in Nice. Companies use Ethernet in their offices, so it's easier for them to...
[October 13, 2003, 11:50]
BB Client
Downloads The URL's are:Unix Time - displays date/time in unix format (needs v1.2 or 1.2.2)http://www.pasoftware.com/products/ (at the bottom of the page)-- NOTE: v1.2.1 has a display bug in itTickCount - freeware scripting addition (returns uptime...
[June 16, 2000, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog How to describe NetEvents? Thursday 9/10/2003 Nine years ago, a bright lad had the idea of getting a load of European tech journalists together in a room and feeding live computer company executives to them.
[October 10, 2003, 15:10]
Virtualisation is about politics not technology?
Blog Discussions at the NetEvents conference in Geneva have moved on to all things virtual with a panel led by Yankee Group analyst Camille Mendler who claims that terminology is one of the things holding back the wider uptake of the technology.
[February 22, 2007, 10:23]
Orient yourselves...
Blog For the next couple of days, I'm in Hong Kong - or as my father calls it, Harry Honkers - for a NetEvents bash. This will mean listening to people like Negroponte give keynotes and meeting more mustard-keen companies than I've had crispy duck...
[November 30, 2006, 13:52]
Branch offices offered ride on wireless Trapeze
News Branch offices and small and medium-sized businesses represent the next big WLAN opportunity," Jenni Adair, a spokesperson for Trapeze, told NetEvents on Friday. Wireless equipment vendor Trapeze Networks launched a wireless LAN product this week...
[October 8, 2004, 15:55]
'Few firms' ready to embrace Internet telephony
News Most of the businesses Gartner talks to aren't there yet," Keene told the NetEvents conference in Barcelona, adding that IT managers are finding it "pretty darn difficult" to establish the business benefits.
[October 8, 2004, 10:45]
Internet downtime still up there
Blog The penultimate panel debate at NetEvents Geneva on Friday was based around a recent study of downtime across European and US sites which revealed significant downtime for most sites. The fabled five nines of Internet uptime is just that according...
[February 23, 2007, 13:35]
Virtual insanity in Geneva...
Blog I'm currently out in Geneva attending a two day conference called NetEvents which basically brings together analysts, journalists and industry types to chew over some of the big issues in tech and virtualisation is one of the subjects on the menu...
[February 22, 2007, 8:07]
Analyst accuses cloud vendors of unprofessionalism
Blog Camille Mendler, VP of research at Yankee Group, was speaking at NetEvents AsiaPac press summit, said that she had analysed over 50 contracts, and most included clauses that limited the vendor's liability to a far greater extent than their...
[November 19, 2009, 9:12]
MIMO brings 400Mbps Wi-Fi closer
News Speaking at the NetEvents telecoms conference in Capri last week, Strix claimed that customers will soon be able to buy equipment that supports data transfer rates up to 400Mbps. Wi-fi technology will experience a significant speed increase within...
[October 3, 2005, 13:40]
Security concerns hamper corporate Wi-Fi
News At a debate at the NetEvents European Press Summit last week, industry figures warned that firms who are reluctant to install a corporate Wi-Fi network because of concerns over security and scalability may find that staff take the matter into...
[October 13, 2003, 16:40]
Intel bangs the drum for Active Management
News Speaking at NetEvents in Capri on Thursday, an Intel executive claimed that Intel Active Management Technology (IAMT) would enable companies to "better manage their own security through easy-to-use security technology".
[September 30, 2005, 12:30]
Microsoft: Best of breed doesn't work
News Speaking in a debate with IBM's senior consultant architect Keith Edwards at the NetEvents industry gathering in Montreux, Switzerland over the weekend, Hutson said companies who build using best of breed products -- which means picking the best...
[March 4, 2002, 16:34]
IBM, Microsoft clash over .Net and Java
News IBM's senior consultant architect Keith Edwards and Microsoft group manager for .Net technical evangelism, Neil Hutson, were speaking at the NetEvents industry gathering in Montreux, Switzerland. The rift between IBM and Microsoft over Web services...
[March 4, 2002, 16:00]
