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Start-up trials mobile video-editing chip
News Start-up chip company Movidia has raised $14m (£8m) in venture capital, it announced today. When asked how the limitations of screen and controls would affect video editing on a mobile phone, Mitchell was sanguine: "We're not talking about pixel...
[October 20, 2008, 17:40]
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. On Monday, software maker Vontu introduced version 4.0 of its Vontu gateway, which sits on a network and monitors...
[January 25, 2005, 8:40]
Start-up brings 'blades' to the desktop
News Despite the potential advantages of ClearCube's approach, though, the fact remains that start-ups get crushed on a regular basis in the hardware world. Now a start-up appropriately named ClearCube wants to send it back.
[September 23, 2002, 8:27]
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 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 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. The Burlington, Massachussetts company, founded in 1997, has been perfecting a...
[June 27, 2002, 17:00]
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 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 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. The company has developed a custom processor called Vega that provides a hardware foundation...
[September 28, 2004, 9:25]
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 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 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 introduces email management currency
News That's because a Palo Alto, California-based start-up called Seriosity has come up with an email management system that borrows heavily from the virtual economies and currencies found in World of Warcraft (WoW) and other large-scale online games.
[February 28, 2007, 16:02]
Start-up looks to extend battery life
News Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion laptop battery, with a silver-zinc technology the company says will make its debut with a large laptop maker in 2009.
[October 9, 2008, 13:08]
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. More and more, new computers are packed with processing engines.
[September 18, 2006, 9:45]
Start-up redesigns fuel cells
News A start-up company says it has developed a way to make fuel cells out of silicon, a change that potentially could increase the performance of cells and make them easier to manufacture. Products aren't set to start shipping to customers until 2005.
[February 11, 2003, 8:29]
Start-up introduces pricy terabit routers
News The telecom bust "makes it difficult for start-ups who must compete on having better technical ideas", said Dataquest analyst Tim Smith. Five-year-old Procket Networks introduced its first products on Wednesday: a pair of terabit routers for major...
[April 9, 2003, 7:48]
Start-up amplifies Wi-Fi coverage
News But as with all start-ups and new technologies, the proof will be in the finished product. 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...
[August 18, 2003, 10:00]
