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More wires, more fire: FireWire 800 review
Reviews The new 9-pin IEEE 1394b cables use 2 pins to attach a grounded shield that surrounds the other wires and prevents interference from outside electromagnetic noise, which helps speed up data transmission rates by reducing crosstalk.
[May 5, 2005, 10:25]
Roundup: Networks Telecom, without the wires
News Tue, 27th Jun Psion said Tuesday it would provide US computer giant Compaq with Bluetooth, a new technology designed to do away with all wires bar the power line Wed, 28th Jun The Mobile Internet Kit will enable users to link most Palm cell phones...
[June 28, 2000, 15:32]
Yeah, let's get rid off the old copper wires
Talkback BTs services over old copper wires are in such a poor state. I totally agree with your statements. That makes it really hard for business users. In many places, there are no symmetric services, and no decent service level agreements.
[March 22, 2007, 8:27]
I Dream of Wires
Talkback Surprised Gary Numan's 'I Dream of Wires' didn't get in there, Rupert. Best listened to while soldering together a breadboard amp design from Electronics Weekly.
[July 20, 2009, 9:53]
Are these wires the future of crypto?
Blog Comment This does get a bit confusing - how can the upconverter work while retaining the quantum magic that keeps the key distribution secure? I thought once you peeked at those pesky photons, all the secrets leaked out.
[June 13, 2007, 1:40]
Chips to talk without wires
News It will take a lot of work, but Sun Microsystems says it is making headway on a technology that will allow chips to communicate without circuit boards or wires. The technology, called "proximity communication," aims to let one chip transmit signals...
[August 3, 2004, 8:50]
More wires, more fire: FireWire 800
Talkback Thank you - this is the information I was looking for in trying to decide between Firewire 400 and 800
[July 17, 2006, 13:33]
Bridge LANs without wires
News Sometimes it's just too difficult to run new wires in a building or it's too costly to connect remote buildings on a campus. When linking buildings, lucky network administrators with big budgets get to run fiber or maybe even invest in a microwave...
[October 17, 2002, 9:50]
Are these wires the future of crypto?
Blog How Doctor Who is this? The boffins at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have put together a prototype of a high-speed quantum key distribution (QKD) system, and they sent us a photo to prove it.
[June 12, 2007, 18:19]
Dell Latitude: No wires attached
News Dell Computer wants to get more notebook consumers hooked on wireless. The PC maker plans to add dual-band Wi-Fi networking technology to its line of Latitude business notebooks by the end of 2003. The company also expects to reduce the price of...
[November 11, 2002, 7:44]
News Schmooze: Look ma, no wires!
News Strangely, the online poll "debate" has flared up again, this time after Oz telco Telstra admitted its employees rigged a bot to pelt ZDNet Australia polls with pro-Telstra votes. It actually served to highlight (that) your polls are not that...
[February 1, 2002, 13:05]
French powerline vendor wires homes and hotels
News French IT equipment manufacturer LEA is demonstrating a range of products at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover that allow a broadband connection to be shared around a building via the internal power network.
[March 18, 2004, 18:15]
Intel: Death to all wires
News Get rid of the wires. ZDNet UK caught up with Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger at the company's travelling Developer Forum in Barcelona, Spain, to talk about the great hope for wireless broadband, WiMax, and his claims that the industry is suffering from...
[April 22, 2004, 10:45]
crossed wires
Talkback I think this is a classic case of person A arguing that "coal is not yellow" and person B arguing that "coal is not orange"! Both ACS and Wyse are completely right to point out the obvious weaknesses in traditional thick desktop deployments (and...
[September 14, 2007, 11:36]
Will WiMAX Cut the Wires to Your Home?
White Papers WiMAX technology has the potential to upset the way internet data is delivered to both mobile and home users. With high performance in both distance and throughput, WiMAX technology could be a boon to current internet providers seeking to become...
[February 17, 2006, 0:01]
Palm Bluetooth card cuts wires
News Palm unveiled its long-awaited Bluetooth expansion card on Thursday at this week's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, along with several applications designed to take advantage of Bluetooth's short-range wireless capabilities.
[February 21, 2002, 12:43]
Member Review Fujitsu Siemens lays out nanotech roadmap
News Microprocessors that use carbon nanotubes rather than copper wires to connect layers of transistors may be available in less than a decade, according to Fujitsu Siemens. If the transistors within a microprocessor are below a certain size, copper...
[March 10, 2005, 15:20]
Swimming against the wireless tide
News PulseLink is now working with ultrawideband (UWB), a method of delivering information without wires that was approved for commercial use in February by the Federal Communications Commission. Over wires, it will create a "ghost network" capable of...
[July 2, 2002, 10:35]
HP introduces new chip mould
News HP and Nanolithosolutions say they have a machine that will let semiconductor manufacturers produce chips sporting wires measuring a few atoms wide. The HP-Nanolitho system is capable of creating grooves that will measure as small as 15nm...
[May 2, 2007, 10:38]
