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Support for Personal and Service Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
White Papers This paper describes an agent-based architecture that brings personal and service mobility to the ubiquitous computing environment. Ubiquitous computing environment is defined by the shift of computing technology from the desktop to the background.
[March 17, 2006, 0:01]
Personal, High-Performance Computing in E&P: New Capability Is Just in Time
White Papers Conditions of the petroleum marketplace, business practicalities, scientific computational capabilities and advances in computing technologies are coming together to create new ways of doing business that simply make good sense.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
IBM's diamond in the rough
News The observation that there is nothing "personal" about personal computing is nothing new. Pervasive computing was the topic of discussion last week at IBM's New Paradigms for Using Computers, an annual gathering of designers, scientists and academics.
[July 31, 2000, 12:45]
IBM widens Big Blue utilities' reach
News IBM's Personal Computing division is expected to begin offering some of Big Blue's ThinkVantage Technologies computer-management utilities to a broader audience next month. It's a big step for us," said Lee Highsmith, worldwide program manager for...
[March 29, 2004, 12:15]
IBM: Pervasive computing is the future
News IBM defines pervasive computing as any computing device that is not a personal computer, stretching from Internet fridges to mobile telephones. Pervasive computing is here and it's going to enter most aspects of your life, according to IBM.
[January 30, 2003, 9:24]
Intel forum focuses on consumers
News Home and personal computing will loom large at the Intel Developer Forum, which runs from 27 August through 30 August in San Jose, California. In the past, Intel used the forum to encourage more stylish designs for PCs, boost peer-to-peer computing...
[August 16, 2001, 15:10]
Wiping the slate clean for Windows
News That, of course, was prior to the advent of personal computing, a revolution that sought to make computers accessible by the masses for whatever they wanted to do. Once people had access to computing on their own terms, the idea of generalised...
[November 25, 2005, 8:20]
HP: Desktop PC not dead, just changing
News Karine Paoli, research director of the personal computing group at analyst IDC, said that, because of the higher cost of ownership, maintenance and acquisition, laptops will never have the same market share in larger businesses as they do in the...
[September 6, 2007, 15:11]
Wi-Fi trousers, edible phones and mobiles for lefties
News The Personal Hotspot range is true mobile computing brought to life," claimed Marie Bashkirtseff, head of WLAN garments at TrouserNet. The Cloud, Europe's largest Wi-Fi network, announced a "ground-breaking partnership" with Ukrainian wearable...
[April 1, 2004, 14:10]
US regulators question cloud-computing security
News US federal and international regulators on Tuesday met to hear about whether the benefits of cloud computing justify increased regulation, as privacy activists claim, or whether such an approach would do more harm than good.
[March 18, 2009, 7:48]
Bringing computing to India's masses
News It is this kind of entrepreneurial thinking that has made Jain the latest visionary to seek out today's Holy Grail of home computing: a desktop that will start to bring the Internet to the more than 5 billion people around the world who aren't on...
[July 5, 2005, 13:40]
End in sight for OS/2
News According to sources with access to an IBM internal memo, the Network Computing Software Division "integrates the expertise and solutions from the Java team and the Networking Software and Personal Software Products organizations.
[November 25, 1997, 9:06]
A Year Ago: End in sight for OS/2
News According to sources with access to an IBM internal memo, the Network Computing Software Division "integrates the expertise and solutions from the Java team and the Networking Software and Personal Software Products organizations.
[November 24, 1998, 6:01]
AMD adds Alchemy to its chip arsenal
News Advanced Micro Devices will use a little alchemy to compete better with Intel and other chip makers in the portable computing devices market. AMD has a large presence in the market for embedded non-PC computing devices, with its X86-based processors.
[February 6, 2002, 15:55]
MontaVista wants to put Linux on your TV
News The Red Hat unit devoted to Linux for "embedded" computing devices, for example, has been punished by slower spending on the part of microprocessor companies, and the beleaguered Embedix (formerly Lineo) was acquired last month by Motorola...
[January 8, 2003, 9:02]
With Java in Palm, will companies bite?
News Baratz said Personal Java, which he said was designed for stand-alone computing, would now be incorporated into industry-specific profiles that can be used in Java 2 Micro Edition -- for example, a version for a set-top box maker.
[June 16, 1999, 7:59]
IBM chases a PC's soul
News Right now, the product is in the testing phase, but SoulPad contributor Ramon Caceres, a staff member at the Wearable Computing division of IBM Research, said the technology could be licensed to hardware manufacturers that could make them into...
[August 15, 2005, 9:30]
New Microsoft gadget set for debut
News Many of these computing functions that Mira provides will come through .Net My Services, a part of Microsoft's .Net strategy that stores personal data such as calendar items and addresses for retrieval by multiple devices.
[January 7, 2002, 10:27]
Tech giants partner on security standard
News All their previous specifications had widespread support from the industry: SOAP, a communications technology that glues together different computing systems so businesses can interact and conduct transactions; UDDI, which lets businesses register...
[April 11, 2002, 8:32]
Treasury denies new tax on PCs
News Redston said that in a worst case scenario the removal of the Home Computing Initiative (HCI) from the Finance Bill would make employers liable for more national insurance contributions, and employees liable for higher income tax.
[May 3, 2006, 11:05]
