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Round-Up Web-based spreadsheets, word processors, that kind of thing. Once again, after one too many cinnamon cappuccinos, the Round-Up is transported behind the scenes of this week's momentous events in Redmond and Mountain View, California to see what...
[08 Feb 2008]
Comment For Google, applications mean office tools: calendars, spreadsheets, word processors and so on - a direct challenge to Microsoft's hugely popular Office products - but all delivered on-demand via a web browser from one of Google's glistening data...
[23 Jan 2008]
Comment For instance, online retailers and payment processors use geolocation to detect possible credit card fraud by comparing the user's location with the billing address on the account or the shipping address provided, or identifying known IP addresses...
[09 Jan 2008]
Comment The regulators have suggested that in an efficient market there should not be the current 50 or 60 processors but only five to seven, and that any bank can use any processor. As a result, consolidation is already happening with the creation of...
[20 Dec 2007]
Comment The industry in the past has measured its progress by faster processors, bigger hard drives and ever smarter smart phones, oblivious to their energy consumption. Green IT is not about compliance or coercion.
[03 Dec 2007]
Comment Critics say about half the energy used in an average data centre - enough to power a small town - is spent on cooling over-active processors. Data centres don't have to be power-hungry monsters. Futurity Media's Stewart Baines looks at ways of...
[21 Sep 2007]
Comment The problem with the greening of IT is that - admittedly this is a generalisation - the underlying goal is to get you to buy more: new servers with more energy-efficient processors, intelligent sensors for data centre coolant systems, server...
[13 Aug 2007]
Comment There are a number of IPTV components that need to work seamlessly together, including content processors, set-top boxes and video-on-demand servers. Despite the challenges in bringing IPTV into the mainstream, interest is booming.
[04 Jul 2007]
AS Profile With others argue over whether two-core or four-core is better, Azul has developed 24-core processors which feature built-in virtualisation plus lower acquisition and running costs than comparable technology.
[25 Sep 2006]
Comment Even the arrival of the Mac Pro - Apple's high-end workstation equipped with two dual-core Xeon processors - failed to wow the crowd, despite the machines representing the early completion of the company's impressive transition to Intel chips.
[01 Sep 2006]
Comment AMD already makes processors with built-in memory controllers that connect the processor to memory. The key to the deal, however, is that it will give AMD the internal know-how to devise processors with integrated graphics and communications...
[25 Jul 2006]
Comment Here, a single chassis contains a number of 'blades', containing one or more processors, memory and storage capabilities, along with network connections. It's a constant refrain in business: how can we make savings on our day-to-day IT operations...
[13 Jun 2006]
Comment According to the latest reports, that could involve a restructuring which would see Intel dumping several products and businesses that have failed to live up to expectations and are unrelated to PC and server processors.
[07 Jun 2006]
Leader The Oyster scheme was a chance for the payment processors to sneak a little bit more of the cash market into electronic form. And when Tesco starts cutting the banks out of their own business, the payment processors might wish they'd been just as...
[09 May 2006]
Comment The modern Mac is built from components designed and built by third-party manufacturers and the move to Intel processors made the differentiation between Apple kit and those of rival hardware vendors more difficult to determine.
[12 Apr 2006]
Comment The timing of Macworld also coincides rather neatly with the release this week of Intel's latest range of mobile processors, Yonah. With Macworld looming next week, Seb Janacek comments on the rampant speculation that Apple is poised to launch the...
[06 Jan 2006]
Comment So one way to collaborate with Microsoft is to first ensure control of an important market sector, such as processors. In its bid to expand, Google appears to have no choice but to take on Microsoft, says Martin Brampton.
[20 Dec 2005]
Comment In the months since Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the Mac was making the seismic shift from PowerPC to Intel processors, the murmurs about the possible resurrection of the clones programme have been getting louder - but will the talk come to...
[04 Nov 2005]
Comment A few months later came the big surprise of 2005 - the company abandoned the PowerPC architecture and made the leap towards Intel processors, its third major platform migration, following the original move from 68K to PowerPC and then from Mac OS...
[02 Sep 2005]
Comment To try to restore its position, Sun has many irons in the fire - among them, a newly open source operating system, servers using Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processors and a marketing campaign boasting of Sun's "sharing" values.
[24 Jun 2005]
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