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Intel switches attention to physical world
News Because you are dealing with the physical world (as opposed to finite data sets) getting an exact, fixed answer is impossible, but accurate results can be had. IrisNet, a project currently under development by Carnegie Mellon University and Intel...
[May 6, 2004, 9:00]
Google turns Heathrow into testing lab
News Google has taken its first foray into the physical world with the launch of an Internet cafe-style computing booth in London's Heathrow Although the search specialist claims the project is primarily about helping travellers use their time more...
[November 24, 2005, 13:00]
World of Where
Downloads World of Where is the easiest way to learn the countries, capital cities, flags, provinces and physical features of the world. Navigate "atlas style" to one of the many colourful political maps or stunning physical maps within World of Where and...
[January 24, 2008, 7:00]
New technologies in 802.11n review
Reviews The proposed 802.11n standard incorporates some impressive improvements to the physical hardware and firmware. The physical data rate selection algorithm has the tough job of determining what data transfer rate should be used based on the measured...
[June 24, 2008, 9:51]
Intel dives into pervasive computing
News Micromachines will rein in the data flood by being able to directly gather information from the physical world and deliver it in real time when the data is wanted. The chip giant will increasingly focus its research on "proactive computing," or the...
[August 28, 2001, 9:19]
E-commerce fraud takes a toll on sales
News During that same time period, Visa International and MasterCard reported that about 0.06 percent of physical world sales were lost to fraud, said Avivah Litan, research director at GartnerG2. There's a lot more sales going on in physical world, but...
[March 4, 2002, 15:39]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback They think it's like in the physical world, where you have kind of an arms race between the "evil-doers" and the code patchers who try to keep them out. Obviously, that can never provide real security, and unlike in the physical world, where...
[October 12, 2005, 23:50]
Networked world will require revolution
News According to Rifkin a networked world has no chance of making an impact on peopleÂ’s lives unless it is accompanied by a revolutionary shift away from a market based economy which trades on geography, time limitations and physical transactions to...
[February 26, 2001, 14:51]
Intel: Sentient mobile devices will understand users
News Intel also plans to connect the physical and digital worlds via the virtual world, using visually rich interfaces. At the heart of connecting the physical and digital worlds are sensors, Andrew Chien, vice president of the corporate technology...
[August 20, 2008, 11:46]
Microsoft to tweak virtualisation licensing
News That poses a challenge in a world in which virtualisation software, such as that from VMware, allows companies to seamlessly move virtual machines from one physical server to another, based on demand needs.
[August 18, 2008, 9:03]
HP misses the spot
Leader It matters immensely that we can associate our physical world with the shadow universe of data we're creating: we know when we're doing it well, because things tend to disappear. That's another bad sign for Memory Spot: HP's own list of potential...
[July 17, 2006, 17:25]
Nuclear shelter turns to email
News Nobody in the world in our physical businesses spends this much on technology. That is one of our competitive advantages on the physical business. ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com recently spoke with Reese about Iron Mountain's digital-records...
[June 1, 2004, 12:00]
Hacktivists threaten World Bank meeting
News The US government's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) said on Monday that those planning physical disruption might also use computer attacks to "enhance the effects of the physical attack or to complicate the response by emergency...
[September 24, 2002, 12:13]
Spy games
News Some vendors are pushing to make corporate physical security systems as pervasive and as easy to operate as Google. Corporate interest in physical security systems goes back, inevitably, to the terrorist attacks of 11 September, 2001.increased the...
[April 10, 2006, 13:15]
UK woos overseas ISPs in push for a better Web
News This gives the overseas ISP a physical presence in Britain from which it can connect to other LINX members. They have potentially high expenses in establishing a physical presence at LINX because of the costs involved in deploying staff to install...
[November 21, 2003, 16:35]
Re-use Begins at Home
Blog Secondly, the requirement for SOA tools should be seen in the context of a three layer architecture: conceptual, logical and physical. However, at the logical and physical layer this can be accomplished in the short term by existing technology, or...
[December 8, 2008, 18:15]
Privacy vs protection: Police and the right to hack
News But the bill being introduced in NSW would give police physical access to the computer. They could install physical keyloggers to get your passwords. What, in your view, is the biggest technological challenge for police in terms of collecting...
[March 17, 2009, 16:06]
How Intel's supercomputer almost used HP chips
News At this point, nobody's keeping up with the GHz rating of chips," he said, no doubt to the delight of Intel and AMD, which both ran into physical limits on clock… speed and focused their attention on multiple processing cores and getting more...
[September 24, 2009, 13:51]
Travel Israel - illustrated guide, phrasebook, and maps. Incl: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and more
Downloads Petersburg | Venice | Vienna | Zurich Other: Israel | Montreal | Shanghai | SydneyMEDICINE: General: Human Anatomy and Physiology | Cell Biology | Pharmacology | Medical Abbreviations and Terminology | Nutrition | Nursing and Physical Assessment...
[September 18, 2006, 8:00]
Hackers can come in through the front door
News And armed with a background in physical security, he emphasises the importance of going beyond the firewall, encouraging companies to focus on the physical and procedural aspects of security as well as the technology.
[March 19, 2002, 16:35]
