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Intel To Invest $1bn In World Ahead Programme
News Paul Otellini, the company's CEO, is expected to sketch out the program further in a speech at the World Congress of IT, a biennial event taking place this week in Austin, Texas. Called the World Ahead programme, the effort essentially expands on...
[May 2, 2006, 10:20]
Chess Tiger
Downloads For the experts, the program includes one of the strongest chess engine in the world, the ability to save and reload games, to exchange games with PC or Mac chess programs, and to set up any position.
[February 7, 2003, 15:49]
Photos: OLPC, Classmate And Eee review
Reviews Nevertheless, Intel's World Ahead program has the laudable aim of 'connecting the next billion people to uncompromised technology around the world', and part of that program is a low-cost notebook platform called Classmate (above, centre).
[March 3, 2008, 14:03]
Chip Design: Humans Not Allowed
News In a world where semiconductor designers can't keep up with the demand for their services, Hewlett-Packard researchers are working on letting computers design themselves. The Silicon Valley stalwart, opening the doors to its HP Labs on Tuesday...
[June 13, 2001, 14:56]
IDF: Intel Unveils Banias Secrets
News Likewise, Banias reduces processor load by combining different aspects of the program flow into single internal operations, a process called micro-op fusion. Normal processors can waste up to 30 percent of their time recovering from mistaken...
[September 11, 2002, 13:57]
Intel Shatters Q1 Estimates
News First Call consensus expected the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer to earn 69 cents a share in the quarter. During the quarter, the company repurchased a total of 9.8 million shares of common stock, at a cost of $1bn, under an ongoing...
[April 19, 2000, 9:28]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback I've just read a survey that placed Open Office ahead of M$ Office in all major real world office tasks. Who said that functionality alone could determine the superiority of one program over the other?
[January 10, 2005, 14:32]
Analysis: Can IBM Be Big Again?
News In the meantime, he said IBM is pressing ahead with a program that allows resellers to configure and assemble machines. The disclosure came only a few days before an analyst with Oppenheimer issued a report that IBM had also fallen behind Microsoft...
[August 5, 1998, 11:22]
A Year Ago: Can IBM Be Big Again?
News In the meantime, he said IBM is pressing ahead with a program that allows resellers to configure and assemble machines. The disclosure came only a few days before an analyst with Oppenheimer issued a report that IBM had also fallen behind Microsoft...
[August 5, 1999, 6:44]
Love Bug: Could It Have Been Prevented?
News It might seem absurd that a couple of pages worth of computer code could bring the world's major corporate and governmental email systems to their knees, but that's exactly what the "Love Bug" worm virus has done.
[May 5, 2000, 16:46]
Big Blue Flexes Supercomputing Muscle
News IBM and the US federal government will on Wednesday unveil a system that ranks as the world's most powerful supercomputer. It gets its name from a funding program, called Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), that provides money to...
[August 15, 2001, 9:21]
Student Wrote Virus Similar To Love Bug As A Thesis
News Executive vice president of the AMA Computer College in the Philippines, told the Associated Press that a student had written the program as a thesis project and described the program as "very close" to the ILOVEYOU virus.
[May 9, 2000, 12:32]
Developing Open Source
News With only one country in the world speaking this language.and with 90 percent of the population not even having access to electricity, I highly doubt that there is anything even close to a monetary incentive to translate any Microsoft utility to...
[February 16, 2004, 13:05]
JavaScript - A Flash Competitor?
Blog JavaScript glues a lot of the Web 2.0 world together, but it's no speed demon. These are a cross between an interpreter and a compiler: they interpret each line of a program as it is executed for the first time, but keep a machine code representation.
[August 24, 2008, 15:57]
A Year Ago: New 'LoveBug' Suspect Named
News Philippine college student who proposed to submit a Trojan horse program as his graduation thesis is being sought by authorities Philippine college student who proposed to submit a Trojan horse program as his graduation thesis is being sought by...
[May 10, 2001, 6:04]
AOL Blasts MS Instant Message Service
News Microsoft's MSN Messenger, announced today, will let users send notes and messages to users of AOL's Instant Messenger program and other popular programs, including Microsoft's own Web-based, Hotmail e-mail system.
[July 23, 1999, 8:10]
JPEG Worm Breaks New Ground
News Dubbed the first "JPEG infector" by security company Network Associates, the W32/Perrun virus has two parts: infected JPEG images that contain the virus's payload and a viral program that extracts the code from the images and infects other JPEGs...
[June 14, 2002, 8:46]
Desktop Linux: Novell Leads From The Front
News The company's chief executive Jack Messman recognises the importance of being seen to lead from the front when encouraging users to ditch the tried and semi-trusted world of Microsoft for the disruptive and unknown world of desktops running Linux...
[April 19, 2004, 11:55]
Longhorn: End-to-end Search Remains A Dream
News Three years is a long time in the development world. Microsoft's release schedule -- and choice of features -- is partially motivated by its Software Assurance licensing program, which includes the option to upgrade to new release as part of an...
[May 14, 2004, 14:50]
Red Hat Launches Global Desktop
News Indeed, the project appears at this launch phase to be entirely based around new scaled-down hardware devices developed by Intel for the developing world via its World Ahead Program. The first is the Global Desktop, due to be launched next month...
[May 10, 2007, 14:01]
