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RSS Power MacGoogle Chrome: Should its rivals be worried?
News Apple has expanded its Safari ambitions from Mac OS X to Windows, most notably by letting the browser hitch a ride along with the iTunes update software. And even Google, for all its charisma, money and power, will have a hard time replicating that. [03 Sep 2008]
Energy-Efficient MAC-PHY Resource Management With Guaranteed QoS in Wireless OFDM Networks
White Paper This paper proposes a joint MAC-PHY layer resource allocation algorithm. The proposed algorithm jointly optimizes the bandwidth and power allocation through an integrated design of packet scheduling, subcarrier allocation, and power control. [10 Aug 2008]
Power-Efficient and QoS-Aware Scheduling in Bluetooth Scatternet for Wireless PANs
White Paper This paper proposes a power-efficient and QoS (Quality of Service)-aware MAC (Medium Access Control) scheduling algorithm for Bluetooth scatternet. The paper proposes a mechanism to support the power-efficient operation of a Bluetooth scatternet... [03 Jul 2008]
Power Allocation for Multi-Band OFDM UWB Communication Networks
White Paper Though extensive study on physical layer has been conducted, limited work exists in the literature on design of medium access control (MAC) layer protocols. This paper proposes an efficient low-complexity power allocation technique for clustered... [03 Jul 2008]
PowerPC G5: The World's First 64-Bit Desktop Processor
White Paper The G5 processor has made its debut in the Power Mac G5, the world’s fastest personal computer according to industry-standard SPEC benchmarks. Now Power Mac users can tackle projects never before possible on a desktop system, and blaze through... [03 Jul 2008]
The Cost of Competitive Advantage
White Paper A number of White Papers have been released over the past 18 months laying out the broad vision of integrated voice and data or presenting models for quantifying savings from elimination of duplicated infrastructure and maintenance, reduced MAC... [03 Jul 2008]
Troubleshooting Mac OS 9.2.x
White Paper Shiro Wilde comments: "This means that, at least officially, all pre-G3 Power Macs have reached the end of the line - they will never run anything later than Mac OS 9.1. Initial feature and bug reports on the issue earlier this week (Aug, 2001) of... [03 Jul 2008]
The Cost of Competitive Advantage: Business Case Considerations for Deploying IP Telephony in the Enterprise
White Paper A number of White Papers have been released over the past 18 months laying out the broad vision of integrated voice and data or presenting models for quantifying savings from elimination of duplicated infrastructure and maintenance, reduced MAC... [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo El-E's power and computation is all on board and runs Ubuntu Linux on a Mac Mini. You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death... [10 Apr 2008]
Gambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet
News Attackers disguised the build up of traffic from up to 30,000 PC and Apple Mac botnet computers during the attack by analysing and reproducing the browsing habits of the sites' typical users. If they can do that to us, a large gaming company, than... [06 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet The BBC has consistently said it wants to offer a multiplatform iPlayer and has already made the download version compatible with Vista with a Mac version promised by the end of 2008. P is for Power lines [05 Mar 2008]
Broadband switching still a tricky business
News To switch providers, subscribers need to obtain a Migration Authorisation Code (MAC) from their current broadband provider. They should receive the MAC address within five working days of the request according to the Ofcom guidelines but research... [15 Feb 2008]
Minority Report: MacBook Air - slim chance of success?
Comment In July 2000 Apple launched the G4 Cube, a ground-breaking desktop computer that sat between the Power Mac and iMac lines. Crucially, the Cube also squeezed itself in between the consumer iMac and the pro Power Mac. [06 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08
Round-Up And so another Macworld has passed us by and Mac fans and news rooms are a-twitter with talk of the latest goodies to come off the Cupertino conveyor belt. The lack of a removable battery will bother some power users and pedants, but word from... [18 Jan 2008]
Augmented Split-TCP Over Wireless LANs
White Paper Using AS-TCP, a mobile host emulates TCP ACK packets using MAC ACK frames, instead of receiving real TCP ACK packets. Results show that AS-TCP achieves higher throughput, fairer resource allocation and, in power-saving mode, shorter delays. [27 Dec 2007]
