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Microsoft unveils optimised sat-nav OS
News Microsoft has released Windows Embedded NavReady 2009, its first embedded operating system to be specifically optimised for manufacturers of portable navigation devices. The other Microsoft OS that has been specifically optimised in this way is...
[June 16, 2008, 14:00]
Bing's mobile site optimised for touchscreen devices
News Microsoft on Friday released a refreshed version of its mobile search site (m.bing.com) that is optimised for touchscreen devices. The new page includes finger-friendly buttons that are easier to identify and press, as well as a movie finder that...
[November 2, 2009, 12:05]
MMX will wait on optimised apps - AMD
News Microsoft only yesterday announced a version of Direct3D optimised for MMX. AMD said today it will add MMX instructions to its chips for the first time at the turn of the year, although it doesn't expect the algorithms to contribute much to...
[August 6, 1996, 11:10]
Cisco unveils strategy for video-optimised networks
News And we believe there is a huge opportunity to add new capabilities to make networks optimised for video. Cisco has designed a strategy, complete with new products, to help its customers meet demand for online videos.
[December 8, 2008, 13:59]
Flash to be optimised for Intel, Nvidia netbooks
News The work will result in a version of Flash that is optimised for Broadcom's Crystal HD video accelerators, and is expected to be completed sometime in the first half of 2010. Adobe is to optimise its Flash web-video technology for playback on...
[June 2, 2009, 16:56]
Nicely optimised supply chain you've got there...
Blog Whoops - it seems O2 and Phones4U have untied the knot, in an echo of last year's tragic Voda/Carphone breakup. Voda's even congratulated O2, "you go girl"-stylee, for breaking free of its loveless marriage.
[February 21, 2007, 15:55]
Dell, EMC bolster Oracle data-warehouse package
News Dell and EMC have announced they have teamed up with Oracle to offer new hardware and software for Oracle's Optimised Warehouse Initiative, which aims to provide ready-to-go data-warehouse setups for businesses.
[September 24, 2008, 16:23]
Athlon XP/2200+: conclusion review
Reviews Only when faced with SSE2-optimised software and multimedia applications such as video and audio encoding programs does the Athlon XP give way to Intel’s Pentium 4. Our performance tests with Lightwave 7b and the DivX compression with XMpeg show...
[June 18, 2002, 16:31]
Adobe helps uncover 'invisible' Flash web content
News Both companies have been given optimised Adobe Flash Player technology to help them better index dynamic web content and rich internet applications (RIAs) that include the Flash file format, or Shockwave Flash (SWF), Adobe said in a statement.
[July 1, 2008, 10:27]
Philips 107B20 review
Reviews Because PC monitors are optimised for displaying close-up high-resolution content such as text, they lack the brightness associated with lower-resolution TV screens, which are optimised for viewing images at a distance.
[December 11, 2000, 23:00]
IBM announces integrated mainframe packages
News The announcement highlights the latest hardware trend — vendors are increasingly pushing function-specific hardware optimised for a certain task. The latest line-up of task-specific mainframe packages are modelled after IBM's System z for SAP...
[August 17, 2009, 9:31]
Tech giants prep high-powered databases
News Databases optimised for 64-bit hardware can store great amounts of data -- up to hundreds of gigabytes -- in a computer's memory. Oracle says it will be the first out of the gate when it ships later this month a 64-bit version of its flagship...
[December 13, 2002, 8:32]
Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free
News This will provide better performance and power management on new hardware optimised for virtualisation, Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president of products and technologies, said on Wednesday. Xen and VMware were produced earlier and had to run on Intel...
[September 10, 2008, 17:51]
Intel lowers Itanium price barrier
News The new chip will provide about 25 percent more performance and cost much less than the initial Itanium optimised for clusters, which came out last year, said Jason Waxman, director of multiprocessor platform marketing at Intel.
[April 13, 2004, 8:35]
Five years ago: Intel 's MMX is finally out
News The MMX set of 57 instructions delivers a performance hike of over 60 per cent on optimised applications, according to Intel, resulting in faster frame rates for motion video and speedier image rendering, for example.
[January 4, 2002, 6:31]
Dan offers MMX systems for same price as Pentium
News Dan technical director Chris Bakolas said he expects non-optimised productivity applications to run around 10 per cent faster than orthodox Pentiums, but expects apps tweaked for MMX to be boosted by 40 per cent or higher.
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Softricity speeds app virtualisation
News Softricity claims that the upgraded software now makes virtualisation "a completely automated process that has been optimised for speed". SoftGrid 4.0 has also been optimised for speed, the company said.
[April 24, 2006, 11:50]
AMD delivers its own server platform
News Server builders can choose from three new chipsets: the SR5650, which is power-optimised; the SR5670, which is a combination of performance-optimised and power-optimised; and the SR5690, which is performance-optimised.
[September 22, 2009, 15:10]
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[April 17, 2005, 8:00]
phoneAlarm Lite
Downloads Never miss an important call, SMS or email again.Automatically switch profiles and quickly access Inbox, call history and control the state of bluetooth directly from the Today screen.Optimised for one-handed and in-car use.
[May 8, 2006, 8:00]
