distributed working
The Ovum View: Speech - IT meets telephony?
Comment A distributed processing approach is valuable for mobile applications so that the embedded system can continue processing when the user passes through areas of poor radio network coverage. These people find the lack of... [07 Jan 2002]
Have we gone MAN overboard?
Comment Ask a networking vendor what that application is going to be and they'll give you myriad of answers from video-conferencing and streaming to apps on tap and distributed storage. The Ethernet camp already acknowledges... [05 Nov 2001]
John Lamb's Week: homes and databases of the future
Comment Among hot trends, peer-to-peer (P2P) or distributed computing has got to be on fire, so it will be asbestos gloves all round at the P2P International Forum in Munich on Monday and Tuesday. What's to be made of this new... [18 May 2001]
Green screen: Is computer recycling a waste of time?
Comment The PCs are then tested and distributed free of charge to organisations working in the voluntary sector. Moore's law states processing power doubles every 18 months. This has generally been a good thing. [08 Feb 2001]
John Lamb's Week (4/12/00): Who wants to help an e-millionaire?
Comment Talking about money, Sun is the latest company to jump on board the craze for distributed resource computing. That is the idea that big processing tasks can be carried out by farms of computers working... [04 Dec 2000]
French utility to get 60,000 PCs from Compaq
News The second installation will be distributed within EDF to offer employees access to its intranet while the remaining 10,000 will be distributed between EDF and GDF. A spokesman for EDF/GDF said: "Some of... [30 Aug 2000]
Vendor warfare accused of destroying SAN market
News SANs provide high-speed access to distributed storage via fibre channel (FC) technology. According to Madden, EMC is leading the group towards its own proprietary technology, rather than working on open... [10 Apr 2000]
This week in 1999: Mobiles, Microsoft and online taxes
News It incorporated Microsoft's TaxSaver 99 that was distributed through retail bank NatWest. The Minister for Public Health, Tessa Jowell, called for the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) to convene an expert... [07 Apr 2000]
Halifax puts knowledge to good use
News We also intend in the next few years or so to move it towards our intranet, so that it can be distributed across the enterprise if necessary," he said. The first step will be to make it available throughout the business... [12 Jul 1999]
Musicians sue MP3 site for 'piracy'
News But a legal framework to establish how music can be distributed over the Net without breaking copyright has yet to be constructed. Currently the European Parliament is working on a copyright bill - now... [29 Mar 1999]
Email bug hides viruses from firewalls
News Hackers can deposit a virus onto a company's Web site or chat forum, from where it is distributed to visitors. Microsoft has already posted patches on its Web site, while Netscape is working on a fix. [30 Jul 1998]
Cap Gemini gets some Weather Action
News Until now, the information has only existed as raw data, distributed in reports and emails direct from Weather Action. Weather Action financial director, David Jackson, stressed that the partnership is a... [17 Jul 1998]
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