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Five years ago: CD-ROM speeds just keep getting faster
News It is predicted that these fast speeds require very accurate disk production. Toshiba has just released details of its 15x drive and Korea's L.G. Electronics has announced a 16x CD-ROM drive expected to ship before the end of the year.
[November 16, 2001, 6:00]
IBM speeds up low-end Unix server
News The Power4+ uses a newer manufacturing process that permits higher clock speeds, lower power consumption and ultimately lower costs. IBM will upgrade its least expensive Unix server with its newest Power processor in an effort to keep pressure on...
[February 24, 2003, 5:54]
Upgrade boosts 3G network speeds
News Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless are already upgrading their 3G wireless networks to increase internet upload speeds, although the ink on the cheques for building those networks is barely dry. The main benefit of upgrading to EV-DO Rev A is an...
[February 2, 2007, 9:05]
Sun doubles server speeds
News Unlike it, though, Panther will be built with a more advanced manufacturing process that allows more high-speed cache memory and higher clock speeds. To help keep up with the faster speeds, the UltraSparc IV+ can "prefetch" instructions better...
[October 5, 2004, 15:15]
Light-emitting silicon boosts chip speeds
News Silicon is one of the key building blocks of integrated circuits, such as the chips found in personal computers, while fibre optics allows data to be transferred at far greater speeds than silicon. British scientists are claiming a breakthrough...
[March 8, 2001, 15:02]
Ofcom: UK broadband speeds lower than promised
News Ofcom has published the initial findings of its research into the real speeds UK consumers are getting from their broadband connections. According to a preliminary version of the telecommunications regulator's UK Broadband Speeds 2008 report...
[January 8, 2009, 14:51]
Fujitsu speeds up corporate drive
News Compared with previous generations, storage capacity in the models has been doubled at both speeds, the company said. Platter sizes have shrunk as the speeds of the drives have increased, though. Fujitsu has beefed up a disk drive for the corporate...
[March 9, 2004, 10:00]
Broadcom speeds up 802.11g networks
News Globespan Virata's system only speeds up the transfer of compressed data such as audio and video, while content such as encrypted data are transferred at lower speeds. Broadcom has introduced a Wi-Fi chipset that it says can speed the performance...
[January 9, 2004, 11:45]
T-Mobile to catch up with 3G data speeds
News T-Mobile plans to boost speeds for its 3G datacard to 384kpbs during the fourth quarter, the company said on Thursday. This will put the company on par with rivals Orange and Vodafone as far as speed is concerned, and the company hopes that its...
[August 27, 2004, 17:35]
ISPs criticised for overstating broadband speeds
News It is concerned there is a wide disparity between the speeds which customers believe they will get when they sign up and the speed they actually receive when their line is installed. Factors such as distance between the customer and their telephone...
[October 10, 2007, 14:57]
Biometrics speeds up visa-processing by days
News The system speeds up the process by checking a visa applicant's ID and biometrics against a database held in the UK. Biometric technology has slashed the time taken to process visas for people coming to the UK, the government has said.
[March 6, 2008, 8:00]
Actuary Speeds Calculations by Factor of 10 With Windows-Based HPC Cluster
White Papers By adopting High-Performance Computing (HPC) with Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Mercer improved calculation speeds by a factor of 10. Mercer, a global pension consulting firm, developed a new actuarial valuation system that required a sharp...
[November 7, 2008, 0:01]
Vodafone boosts uplink speeds
News Vodafone will further boost mobile broadband speeds with the introduction of the latest enhancement to 3G technology. The enhancement, called High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), offers increased upload speeds of 1.44Mbps, which Vodafone claims...
[August 28, 2007, 13:10]
Online Job Site Speeds Development, Keeps Developers Happy, With Visual Studio 2008
White Papers The software automates more of the development process, cuts load times, and speeds debugging, so developers can iterate as much as they want, without waiting for the development environment to catch up to them.
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]
Intel speeds up Celeron strategy
News With the latest chip, Intel now offers Celeron processors at 433, 400, 366 and 333MHz speeds, each with 128KB of onboard secondary cache for speeding applications. Perhaps more than Intel's new processor speeds, the change in Intel's terms for the...
[March 23, 1999, 8:51]
A Year Ago: CD-ROM speeds just keep getting faster
News It is predicted that these fast speeds require very accurate disk production. Barely a week goes by without a new CD-ROM speed being announced. Toshiba has just released details of its 15-speed drive and Korea's L.G.
[November 19, 1997, 9:06]
Sun speeds UltraSparc amid analyst concerns
News The new processors run at speeds of 1.95GHz and 2.1GHz, compared with earlier models at 1.8GHz. Sun announced faster UltraSparc IV+ processors on Tuesday, just in time to address analyst concerns this week that the company's high-end servers had a...
[April 4, 2007, 9:32]
Ericsson claims 500Mbps speeds over copper
News Ericsson has successfully demonstrated data-transfer speeds of more than 500Mbps over copper, the communications company said on Monday. VDSL2 has traditionally offered speeds of around 100Mbps. The data-transfer rates were achieved using a version...
[March 16, 2009, 16:01]
Broadband Britain sees costs fall as speeds rise
News Now the majority have signed up to packages with speeds of up to 8Mbps at an average monthly cost of just £17. When it comes to connection speeds, cable broadband provider Virgin Media's planned 50Mbps rollout &mash; set to be available to some...
[February 4, 2008, 7:26]
MIPS speeds broadband set-top boxes
News The 5Kf claims to be the industry's only synthesisable 64bit core with an integrated floating point unit (FPU), which speeds processing throughput. MIPS Technologies has given high-tech set-top boxes a boost with a new 64bit microprocessor design...
[June 13, 2001, 14:02]
