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Slug-eating Robot Moves Towards Commercial Release
News Scientists who have been developing a slug-hunting robot that could be powered by its prey are close to releasing a commercial model. The four-wheeled SlugBot, capable of identifying slugs and capturing them with its extendable arm, has taken...
[December 12, 2001, 13:59]
Livingstone And Dobson Slug It Out...virtually
News Anyone bored with watching the main candidates for London mayor discuss issues in an orderly fashion, can now turn to the high tech world for some light relief. The "Ken Vs Frank Slugfest" allows fans of Ken and Frank to smash one another in the...
[April 28, 2000, 16:47]
WiMax Firm Gets A Slug Of VC Cash
News A US manufacturer of WiMax equipment has won $20m (£10.8m) of investment, as venture capitalists show renewed interest in the high-tech sector. Aperto Networks, which makes a range of equipment based on the 802.16 wireless standard, announced the...
[March 8, 2004, 16:20]
Dell And HP PDAs Slug It Out Amid Sea Of Gadgets
News With their respective announcements at Comdex Fall 2002 on Monday, the world's two biggest PC sellers have set the stage for a holiday showdown in a whole new arena: the PDA market. As expected, both No.
[November 19, 2002, 10:28]
A Year Ago: Livingstone And Dobson Slug It Out... Virtually
News Never mind the ballots, see Ken and Frank battle online Anyone bored with watching the main candidates for London mayor discuss issues in an orderly fashion, can now turn to the high tech world for some light relief.
[April 28, 2001, 6:09]
A Year Ago: Compaq, Dell Slug It Out In PC Servers
News Texan rivals Compaq and Dell are pushing hard to take advantage of a booming PC server business in the UK. According to Dataquest market research, Compaq took its market share for the third quarter of 1996 to 39 per cent, with its nearest rival...
[November 12, 1997, 9:21]
Compaq, Dell Slug It Out In PC Servers
News According to Dataquest market research, Compaq took its market share for the third quarter of 1996 to 39 per cent, with its nearest rival trailing on 9.6 per cent. In the PC mid-range server market, Compaq has a dominant share and growing, up from...
[November 12, 1996, 14:52]
ZigBee Pioneer Raises Another $12m
News Ember, a US company at the forefront of the nascent sensor network market, has landed another slug of financial backing. The company announced on Wednesday that it had raised a total of $12m (£6.3m) from several existing investors.
[June 14, 2006, 17:30]
Broadreach Raises Cash To Push Train Wi-Fi
News The company announced this week that it had raised a multi-million pound slug of investment capital. UK wireless operator Broadreach plans to take a larger role in the emerging market for Wi-Fi enabled trains.
[July 15, 2004, 17:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That concerted burst turned out to be a massive slug of interest from -- yes! Wednesday 9/1/2002 By now, you'll probably have read about our poll over whether Microsoft's .Net or Sun and IBM's Java would be the primary technology for new web...
[January 14, 2002, 8:59]
Virtual Banking Hits The High Street
News The fight to be top of the heap in online banking is reaching fever pitch as traditional players and Internet start-ups slug it out. According to a survey from Barclays bank last week, up to 10 million people in the UK will bank on the Net in a...
[November 24, 1999, 8:50]
Star Wars Film Title Revealed Online
News He claims to have also spotted some "fantastic slug-like robot designs". A sales representative, on a business trip to Fox Studios, claims to have seen promotional material for Episode 2 -- revealing the film's title.
[February 21, 2001, 11:39]
BT: Google Is Our Biggest Threat
Talkback More like a slug worrying about a steamroller. BT saying that Google is their biggest threat is a bit like an educationally challenged guppy saying a great white is its' biggest threat. Let's not beat around the bush - BT sucks.
[June 9, 2006, 11:11]
Artificial Intelligence: The Edge Of Research And Beyond
News You can even run a virtual sea slug on your Windows PC. While the practical aspects of AI have fallen short of early promises, research continues into genuine mechanisms of consciousness. One of the biggest problems is that consciousness itself has...
[March 29, 2006, 18:40]
AOL Unveils 7.0 As Competition Mounts
News The software revisions come as AOL and Microsoft continue to slug it out over ownership of mainstream Internet users. Internet giant America Online announced the availability of its AOL 7.0 software on Tuesday, an upgrade that comes as competitive...
[October 16, 2001, 15:38]
Vista To XP - Two Weeks Later
Blog Comment running a dual core AMD x64 running Vista Ultimate with 4Gb of RAM fitted should have been flying .the machine runs with the speed of a slug on valium - I couldn't believe the problems that we were having.
[January 2, 2008, 8:27]
Google And Sun Plan Partnership
News You used what came bundled into Windows and got a new slug of functionality each time you upgraded. Sun Microsystems and Google plan to announce a collaborative effort that some analysts speculate could elevate the profile of the
[October 4, 2005, 9:35]
AMD's Sledgehammer Is A Blow To Intel's Itanium
News Intel would neither confirm nor deny Sanders' prediction that Itanium will be a slug on existing 32-bit software. Jerry Sanders, chief executive and chairman of Intel rival AMD, said during an interview in Hannover on Monday that his company's 64...
[February 29, 2000, 12:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One good slug of Thor's Finest down the tower outside, and hundreds of volts magically appeared on the wires. Monday 13/10/2003Computers don't always thrive in the real world, as a story about peculiar data destruction shows.
[October 17, 2003, 16:25]
Figures Show Intel's Chips Are Down
Leader While both companies slug it out with vicious price cuts, consumers can enjoy an unprecedented age of ultra-powerful computing at very low cost. In a world in which hype and counterclaim are increasingly used to disguise lack of real innovation, it...
[August 24, 2004, 12:25]
