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Bluetooth Shatters Milestone As New Standard Debuts
Talkback I really wish I knew what these one million Bluetooth devices a week were.the only high profile BT devices I know of are Apple computers, a couple of PDAs and cell phones and a bunch of USB, CF and SD adapters - few of which you can actually buy...
[November 7, 2003, 17:39]
Via Demonstrates Tablet PC
News Connectivity features include USB 2.0, IEEE 1394 and optional WiFi, or 802.11b, wireless networking. As for the tablet PC, IDC sees little mainstream demand for it in the near future, mainly because of the success of the notebook form factor and...
[May 8, 2002, 17:31]
Vonage Goes After Big Business
News New York — Vonage is targeting large and medium-sized businesses with its new V-Phone, a USB flash drive loaded with voice over IP (VoIP) calling software. Vonage's new product, the first major announcement since the company's disastrous IPO last...
[June 29, 2006, 11:05]
Microsoft Launches Smartphone Assault
News The tri-band GPRS phone has a 176x220 64,000 colour display with USB and MMC support, and supports MMS. At £179, with a 12-month service contract, the SPV is slightly less expensive than the Z100, and the price includes a USB cradle and an...
[October 22, 2002, 16:58]
Backup Exec 9.1 For Windows Servers review
Reviews Setting up our external USB 2.0 hard drive as a backup device, for example, proved painless. Backup Exec is designed to back up to tape; instead, our test-bed server backs up to an external USB 2.0-connected hard drive.
[June 16, 2004, 15:35]
MSI Wind: A First Look review
Reviews It also humbles HP's 2133 Mini-Note, which has just two USB ports. There are two USB ports on the left side and a third on the right. It has three separate USB ports, which really puts the MacBook Air's single USB to shame.
[June 2, 2008, 11:50]
Consumer Demand Calls For More Flash Memory
News Already the NAND Flash in USB drives has displaced floppy disk drives in PCs for transferring data, especially as density in NAND flash devices increases," said Jim Handy, an analyst at Semico. It's also widely used in mobile phones and USB flash...
[November 22, 2005, 14:10]
Intel Delves Deeper Into Consumer Electronics
News The bulk of the cost of manufacturing MP3 players is in flash and USB," Richard Doherty, an analyst at the Seaford, NY-based Envisioneering Group said last month. Intel also makes the technology for hooking up audio players to PCs through a...
[January 3, 2001, 9:21]
Sony VAIO T1 Series: A First Look review
Reviews A port replicator provides a 100Mbps Ethernet connection, along with three USB 2.0 ports, a VGA port and a parallel port. Although it has the bare minimum of on-board connectors, including a pair of USB 2.0 ports, iLINK (a.k.a.
[September 14, 2004, 9:10]
Sony To Make Handheld Game Device
News The PSP will have a screen capable of showing 3D images, stereo sound, USB 2.0 connectivity and a custom processor built on cutting-edge 90-nanometre chipmaking technology. The USB camera will initially be used as a custom game controller, but Sony...
[May 14, 2003, 7:54]
Windows XP: Service Pack 1 review
Reviews The company won't tell us exactly what Service Pack 1 will include, but we expect it to have many of the updates you can already get via Windows Update, such as USB 2.0 and Bluetooth support. Microsoft belatedly released USB 2.0 drivers for Windows...
[May 24, 2002, 19:16]
UK Chipmaker Ships 10-millionth Bluetooth Chip
News WirelessUSB is similar to Bluetooth, but doesn't require new software drivers for devices that already support wired USB. However, Bluetooth's ongoing success is increasingly being called into doubt by questions about its usability.
[May 29, 2003, 16:32]
Weekend Detour, Vista To XP
Blog The largest problem was that the USB 2 controller on this laptop would occasionally just freeze. Since I have most of my peripherals connected through two USB 2 hubs, when that controller froze, nearly everything else did as well.
[November 26, 2007, 7:12]
Palm Takes The Middle Path
News It also supports USB and a variety of improved security measures, eliminating a well-documented developer back-door. The secret of success is not just what you put into it, but what you leave out," said Chris Dunphy, director of competitive...
[March 9, 2001, 16:12]
Is The Mac Mini Good Value?
News It uses ATI's Radeon 9200 graphics chip, with its own 32MB of graphics memory, and also includes connections such as a FireWire port, two USB ports, an Ethernet port, a modem and digital and analogue ports for connecting a monitor.
[January 13, 2005, 15:40]
Xbox Uncovered
News The console includes four USB controller ports, a front-loading 5x DVD drive, as well as eject and back buttons on the front. Since the success of the Atari 2600 of the 1980s, American companies have tried to jump into the video game console market...
[November 15, 2001, 11:04]
IPO Update: OnDisplay Soars, C-Bridge And EGreetings Also Debut
News Robertson Stephens and USB Piper Jaffray are co-managers. The company is likely to do well based on the success of similar services companies that have made IPOs this year, but it is entering a crowded field; C-Bridge currently competes for client...
[December 20, 1999, 15:33]
Windows Vista SP1 review
Reviews There are also many tweaks and improvements in ReadyDrive (requires the use of special hybrid drives) and ReadyBoost (requires special USB drives) and SuperFetch (requires a specific amount of RAM). Two of these updates increase the success rate...
[February 12, 2008, 7:45]
IPod Sparks Record Boom In Chip Sales
News The continuing strong demand for flash card and USB flash drives in 2005, along with the successful launch of the iPod shuffle by Apple at the start of 2005 and the release later in the year of the iPod nano, will drive this device market to the...
[December 9, 2005, 16:25]
Memory Makers Adopt XD For Digital Pics
News For the latest news, reviews and price checks on everything from USB flash cards and PCCard hard disks to storage area networks, see ZDNet UK's Storage News Section. The success of a card format can be measured by who adopts it.
[May 28, 2003, 13:29]
