| MedApps Selected As Dell-NFIB 2008 Business Excellence Award Finalist | |
Posted on: Monday, 12 May 2008, 12:00 CDT SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- MedApps announced today, that it has been selected as one of the nation's 10 most innovative companies as part of...
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| Windows Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3 |
Even as Microsoft tries to shove Windows Vista down the collective and unwilling throat of computer users worldwide, the company is still perfecting the well-aged and well-loved Windows XP. The...
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| Cops shocked as Gateway becomes ... |
Queensland police say they are "stunned" after nearly 550 drivers were caught speeding within three hours along a single stretch of road in Brisbane.Officers set up a mobile speed camera on the...
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| Dell Expands Virtualization Package |
Posted on: Monday, 12 May 2008, 06:00 CDT Dell has released a new range of products to simplify the deployment and management of virtualization. The company said two new PowerEdge servers include...
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| Emirates Computers celebrates 30 years of excellence in technology |
Emirates Computers marked 30 years of excellence in technology with celebrations that included more than 450 of its employees at the Beach Rotana Hotel in Abu...
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| CMU Adds Degree Program Combining Computers, Arts |
Eight CMU students are scheduled to transfer into the new degree program this spring, with several first-year students poised to enter the program in the fall, school officials said. Originally...
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| London Gateway to be ready for Olympics |
Mohammed Sharaf said the Dubai ports operator will adopt an aggressive construction schedule with the aim of having the London Gateway project up and running in time for when the UK capital hosts the...
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| Recycling servers and rainwater part of greening existing offices |
For existing buildings, greening is about managing waste in electricity, paper, water use and landscaping, green office experts say. Small steps can begin the process and be cost-effective at the...
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| First Charter gets ready for big shift with merger |
. is hitting high gear over the next couple of weeks after regulators recently approved the deal that was announced in August. First Charter signs will be replaced by Fifth Third signs. About 50...
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| Peak 10 eyes growth options |
plans to expand into two new markets and invest in existing centers. The new credit facility replaces the company's previous $40 million credit facility with the Canadian bank. About $38 million of...
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| Questions for Oren Etzioni, professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington |
ON HIS CHILDHOOD IN ISRAEL: Israel is a wonderful place to grow up. There were a couple of wars when I was growing up but it was still in the day and age when the rockets from the border didn't...
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| Technology redo advances federal courtrooms into 21st century |
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts began an effort to bring the latest technology to the Columbus federal court's eight courtrooms. Two courtrooms are completed; a third is slated to be done in...
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| U.K. data storage manufacturer expanding local operations |
The corporate world's growing demand for data storage is driving rapid growth for a technology manufacturer with operations in West Sacramento. ...
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| Dell procurement exec retires |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Dell says an executive who led the slumping computer maker's procurement efforts and managed its relationships with suppliers has left the company. Martin Garvin was a vice...
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| Gateway To The Future |
Here is where most visitors to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition got their first inkling of what awaited them in the way of edifying instruction or cheap thrills. And expo-goers may have...
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| Pupils Suspended for Downloading Game Onto School Computers |
Posted on: Sunday, 11 May 2008, 00:00 CDT More than 70 pupils are to be suspended from a Lincolnshire school for downloading a game onto school computers. A total of 54 students at Tollbar Business...
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| Bypass Vista 64-bit Limitations |
Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007 . Pic: vista in vm.jpg Title: Vista on Vista Caption: Running 32-bit Vista on 64-bit Vista in a virtual machine. Users familiar with VMs will no doubt shrug, and say,...
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| Du Invests in $700m Europe India Gateway Undersea Cable System |
Posted on: Saturday, 10 May 2008, 03:00 CDT du, the integrated telecom operator in the UAE announced that it has signed a construction and maintenance agreement (C&MA) to build the first direct,...
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| UN secretary-general receives Talal Abu-Ghazaleh half a million computers for schools in developing world by 2010 |
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently received Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, CEO and Chairman of the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAGorg), at the UN headquarters, along with the UN team in charge...
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| If Apple can go home again, why not Dell |
announced the results of its findings that Apple had the best technical support in the computer industry. Talk about the rich getting richer. These are obviously boom times for Apple. But fortunes...
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| Microsoft to limit capabilities of cheap laptops |
May 9, 2008 (IDG News Service) Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs, one effect of which will be to limit the hardware capabilities of this type...
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| Secure Your Home Wireless Network for Free |
It's startling how easy it can be to swipe data from wireless networks. I live in a townhouse, so I'm at close quarters with my neighbors. It irks me when, for one reason or another, my Wi-Fi enabled...
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| Comcast Weighs 250 GB/Month Download Limit |
Comcast is considering a rate hike for broadband customers who consume more than 250 gigabytes of data each month, though there are no immediate plans for implementation. "Comcast is currently...
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| Fighting Viruses in Vista Without Antivirus Programs |
Jim Allchin suggested that users might not need an antivirus program, thanks to the new OS's stronger security features. While the statement was subsequently clarified until it lost all its meaning,...
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| Seiyu to Sell Dell PCs |
Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 18:00 CDT Tokyo, May 9 (Jiji Press)--Supermarket operator Seiyu Ltd. said Friday it will start selling personal computers of Dell Japan Inc. at a Tokyo store on...
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| Endless Reboot Cycle Plagues AMD/XP SP3 PCs |
delayed it until May 7 . Mention of the reboot problem first popped up on the Microsoft forums on April 23, prompting some to speculate that the poster's problem was due to an outdated version of...
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| Takara Steering Wheel Talks to Sensors, You |
Takara has announced a new kind of computerized steering wheel that can talk to a separate sensor installed in your vehicle, in an effort to minimize driver distractions. According...
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| Dell squeezes cloud into a shipping container |
has learned has a containerized data center in development. "We have (a container system) in the works for a customer," said a Dell insider. "We are looking at that space very, very...
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| Bioware, EA Games to Make Piracy Check Every Ten Days |
official forums by technical director Derek French, both the PC version of Mass Effect and EA's upcoming Spore have been outfitted with a new type of augmented SecuROM technology designed to re-check...
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| Dell promises replacement keyboards for wonky laptops |
Dell has apologised to customers after shipping a batch of its Vostro laptops with the wrong keyboard layout. The firm said it will replace keyboards on its 1310 and 1510 models that went out to...
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| Toshiba Makes MacBook Air Look Like a Brick |
Toshiba has achieved an unprecedented 1.7-pound chassis; the R500 (SSD) is a worthy rival to the MacBook Air and the ThinkPad X300. It isn't as sturdy as those two systems, and, at $2,699, it's a...
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| InterNAP going green with new Boston data center |
InterNAP Network Services Corp. reports it plans to build a new "green" data center in Boston. The company said it will add 15,000 square feet of colocation space at a new 45,000...
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| Tiny Media Center Keyboard |
Home theater PCs have evolved from devices which were built to record TV, back before the DVR was king of time shifting, to the multipurpose digital media buckets and family room connectivity devices...
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| A modest proposal to fix Dell |
When Robert Pedersen's Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop went on the fritz, he naturally assumed the 5-year Next Day service warranty he purchased would get him instant help from the company's customer...
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| Alexis Richard From Logitech and Alex Eckelberry From Sunbelt Software, Inc. To Be Featured on Let |
Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 09:00 CDT Guests from Logitech and Sunbelt Software, Inc. will appear on radio talk show Let's Talk Computers. Logitech International is a Swiss public company traded...
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| The Gateway Building at Maryland Institute College of Art |
Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By MAXIMILIAN FRANZ A construction worker is seen through a window on the corner of the nearly complete Gateway Building at Maryland Institute College of...
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| Toshiba to ship laptops with Cell-based GPUs this year |
Toshiba has pledged to begin selling notebooks equipped with its oddly named SpursEngine graphics chip this year. SpursEngine is based on the technology that powers the PlayStation 3's Cell...
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| A gateway to northern Gulf |
MANAMA: The second day of gulfBID saw more than 1,500 buyers visit the building and interior design show, a new record for the event. Organisers say the last day of the show was on track to set new...
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| Flaws Weigh Down Two Thin Laptops |
I've been testing one of these new IdeaPads, a small, thin model called the U110, that's sized to be ideal for travelers. It looks nothing like a classic black ThinkPad. It even comes in red, has...
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| Microsoft and Dell back in patent hot seat |
NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated one of two patent cases tossed out last year in the ongoing user-interface technology dispute pitting Alcatel-Lucent against...
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| Panasonic Intros New Home Theater in a Box, Blu-ray Player |
Panasonic has introduced the latest version of its home theater in a box (HTiB) system, the first such unit to include an integrated Blu-ray player. The unit is set to be released in late spring, for...
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| MoD encrypts laptops after data losses |
Machines used by the army, Royal Navy and RAF will be given password-protected encryption using BeCrypt's Disk Protect Baseline. Disk Protect Baseline allows a hard disk to be encrypted and...
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| Technology to trace stolen phones, laptops here |
By Ibrahim KasitaA NEW technology, to track stolen mobile phones and laptops, has been launched. The search-and-find technology is similar to the car-track system but tailor-made for a wide range of...
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| Harvard Team Defends Kids Playing Video Games |
Harvard researchers. Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson, a husband-and-wife team at Harvard Medical School, detail their views in "Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games...
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| State Dept. loses, then recovers, anti-terrorism computers worth $30 M |
For several months, according to an Inspector General's report discovered by a group of former State Department employees, the Dept. did not know the whereabouts of some 400 laptops. And now,...
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| Ultra Low-Cost Notebooks Destined As Second Computers |
The ultra-low-cost notebook, a clamshell device with a screen measuring 7 to 10 inches, is likely to find its place among consumers looking for a second computer for accessing the Web on the road, a...
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| Latest laptops are put to the test |
Consumer Reports recently tested two dozen laptops – ranging size and price – to see which ones are the best values. Testers examined machines including the mini Asus Eee PC with its...
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| Why Hyundai Turned to Microsoft for Help |
Microsoft to build a music and information system that will be available in 2010 Hyundais. In an announcement made in South Korea's presidential Blue House, Microsoft and Hyundai Motor Group said...
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| Id Software Announces |
id Software announced that production has started on Doom 4 -- because the studio is seeking additional internal talent to develop the latest iteration of the influential first-person shooter...
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| Vonage To Provide DSL Service |
Vonage said Thursday that it will resell DSL service provided by Covad, in a bid to expand its product offerings. Separately, the VoIP provider reported a narrowed loss against record revenues....
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