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Start-up Gets Federal Nod For Wi-Fi Firewall
News A start-up's wireless security product has won approval from a federal standards organisation, paving the way for resale by Hewlett-Packard to the US government. Cranite Systems, a 3-year-old start-up based in San Jose, California, said its...
[March 26, 2003, 9:01]
Start-up Brings 'blades' To The Desktop
News Now a start-up appropriately named ClearCube wants to send it back. You can't just up and move a box. Despite the potential advantages of ClearCube's approach, though, the fact remains that start-ups get crushed on a regular basis in the hardware...
[September 23, 2002, 8:27]
Start-up Brews Hardware Boost For Java
News A Silicon Valley start-up called Azul Systems plans to start selling hardware next year designed to make it faster and more efficient to run Java programs. It requires a business relationship with Microsoft to open up that code.
[September 28, 2004, 9:25]
Start-up Banks On Hack-proof Linux
News Start-up Guardian Digital has launched an effort to sell a version of Linux that's less vulnerable to attack, a niche the company hopes will gain it a foothold in the market for the Unix-like operating system.
[September 25, 2002, 9:39]
Start-up Sees Low-cost Future In Clusters
News A start-up plans to launch technology in 2005 that it says will give the cheaper option the abilities of the more expensive one. Azul Systems is betting it can speed up Java servers, and Enck said he knows a handful of other start-ups planning on...
[December 17, 2004, 13:45]
Start-up Beats IBM For Linux Software
News A revamped version of key disk drive management software in Linux will be based on a project from a start-up, spurring a retreat by IBM programmers who had been working on competing software. Sistina Software's LVM 2.0 will be included in the...
[January 6, 2003, 8:48]
Start-up Aims To Improve Internal Security
News A start-up has launched software designed to stop leaks of sensitive business information by focusing on the greatest risk: insiders. Up to this point, these products have only generated reports about insiders' behaviour.
[January 25, 2005, 8:40]
Start-up Targets More Personal Search
News A stealth start-up out of Stanford University is hoping to raise the heat on one of the toughest problems in Web search -- and possibly out-Google Google in the process. Kaltix is a 'stealth mode' start-up.leveraging) research done at Stanford...
[August 11, 2003, 14:30]
Start-up Adds Depth To 3D Imaging
News Start-up Canesta has developed a chip and software that enable machines to do something that humans take for granted: get a sense of depth. The start-up is working with mobile and wireless device companies to use the 3D imaging technology in...
[March 25, 2002, 15:18]
Start-up Brings Windows And Mac OS Together
News Parallels, a start-up whose software enables Macs to run Microsoft Windows and the Mac OS at the same time, says it is ready with a final version of its product. As a result, the speed of Parallels is far better than past efforts at bringing...
[June 15, 2006, 9:15]
Start-up Gazes Into Crystal Ball For 3D Display
News The ideal computer display of today may be flat, but a start-up called Actuality Systems has gazed into the future, and what it has seen looks more like a crystal ball. Actuality's Perspecta display platform currently costs $40,000 (£28,000) and up...
[June 27, 2002, 17:00]
Start-up Brings PC Movies To TV
News It will be the first product from start-up Neuston, a Singapore-based firm, and will be among the first DivX/MPEG-4-compatible players available anywhere. The explosion in the popularity of Internet file-sharing has led to thousands of PC users...
[November 13, 2002, 10:00]
Start-up Aims At Beating MS And Macromedia To Next-gen Web Apps
News As chief technology officer of San Francisco start-up Laszlo Systems, Temkin is selling the idea that the long-predicted era has arrived in which software applications will live on Web sites rather than desktops.
[November 19, 2004, 14:40]
Start-up Software Harnesses Processing Power
News Now a start-up called PeakStream is developing software designed to let technical computing customers take advantage of that horsepower more easily. PeakStream's software is designed to greatly speed up calculations for customers in technical markets.
[September 18, 2006, 9:45]
Start-up Touts Keyboard Made Of Light
News A California-based start-up has joined other companies in embracing the concept of a portable computer keyboard made of light. Canesta will release chipsets next year that will beam a fully functional keyboard onto a flat surface, Carlo Tomasi, the...
[July 30, 2003, 10:19]
Start-up Amplifies Wi-Fi Coverage
News Volumes of those chips -- the AGN100 -- are expected to increase in the coming months with products, such as notebooks, using the chips, said Greg Raleigh, chief executive of the start-up. Airgo is already in discussions with original equipment...
[August 18, 2003, 10:00]
Start-up Introduces Safer Notebook Battery
News Boston-Power plans to show off a battery on Tuesday that it claims is a lot like conventional lithium-ion batteries but with a difference: it is less likely to blow up. The company is part of a wave of battery start-ups that have emerged in the...
[January 31, 2007, 7:59]
Start-up Creates Tiny Hard Drives For Gadgets
News The Longmont, Colorado-based start-up has developed a 1.5GB, 1-inch diameter hard drive for consumer-electronics devices that the company says will be cheaper, smaller and hold more data than some other mini-hard drives or flash-memory cards.
[June 4, 2003, 7:28]
Start-up Touts Musical Communities
News With a pitch that evokes the heady days of 1999, digital music start-up Mercora is planning to launch a distribution service next month, inspired in equal parts by iTunes, Friendster and eBay. Both company experiences have allowed him to provide...
[October 2, 2003, 13:20]
Start-up Promotes 'unlimited' AMD Clusters
News A start-up called Liquid Computing has secured $14m (£7.4m) in venture funding to design a flexible server based on AMD's Opteron processor and the Linux operating system. It's one of several start-ups emerging during a more sober entrepreneurial era.
[May 10, 2005, 9:30]
