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Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News Speaking at a roundtable discussion yesterday, Ashish Patel said the long-range wireless technology would find an enthusiastic audience among the users of mini-notebooks and other portable web-surfing devices.

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Customer Story: Sony

whitepaper To accomplish this goal, Sony turned to Microsoft and the Windows Live Messenger Tab, a mini advertising window within the Messenger environment. Sony wanted to forge a connection between film fans and current information on upcoming releases, so...

Tags: streaming media

[03 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment So, continuously travelling with scissors, nail file, tweezers and my full mini-electrical tool kit I have traversed the planet unchallenged and unimpeded. First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week...

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo Click here for more pictures of the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC. HP is targeting the mini laptop market with this sub-£300 offering aimed at mobile workers and school children. This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited India to check out...

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Photos: HP squeezes into the dinky laptop market

Photo The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC has an 8.9-inch screen and an anodised aluminium shell. There is a choice of operating system on the Mini-Note: Windows Vista Business or Novell SuSE Linux. The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC will be available in the UK and Ireland...

Tags: laptop, hp

[11 Apr 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...

Tags: healthcare, laser, robotics

[10 Apr 2008]

E-Learning for the Enterprise

whitepaper It highlights a mini-case study of e-learning experiences at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and notes some other companies that have successfully embraced e-learning. This paper presents background information on e-learning and discusses technology...

Tags: learning management systems, learning, factiva, considerations

[10 Apr 2008]

Implementing an IPv6 and Mobile IPv6 Testbed Using FreeBSD 4.9 and KAME

whitepaper This paper explains and documents the process of implementing a mobile IPv6 testbed using VIA EPIAV Mini-ITX based machines running FreeBSD 4.9 and the development code from the KAME project. The exponential growth of the Internet in recent years...

Tags: ip technologies, testbed, machines, functionality

[10 Apr 2008]

Intel 810E Chipset Great Performance for All PCs

whitepaper These market segments also include sub-categories, which include the new mini and micro systems being offered in clever and attractive housing. The Intel 810E chipset offers computer manufacturers the flexibility to reuse one product across several...

Tags: asics - chip sets, pc, reuse, segments

[10 Apr 2008]

Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package: Freescale MPC8349E-mITX - Quick Reference

whitepaper Available in the 170mm x 170mm mini-ITX form factor, the compact reference board makes it easy to design small-footprint digital home systems. Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB) is a full-featured, modern operating system that extends open-source NetBSD...

Tags: desktop systems - pcs

[11 Mar 2008]

New mobile masts to be drastically reduced

News T-Mobile recently announced it was investing in Ubiquisys, a UK-based company that makes femtocells, which are mini-base-stations that can be installed in homes and offices to route cellular data onto fixed-line networks.

Tags: mobile, base stations, femtocell, coverage

[07 Mar 2008]

Ads popping up on US mobiles

News In December, Microsoft launched mini banner ads optimised for mobile phone browsers and screen size when people visit mobile MSN portal. Nearly a quarter of all mobile phone users in the US say they have seen an advertisement on their phones in the...

Tags: ads, google, us, mobile

[05 Mar 2008]

A Parallel Processing Primer

whitepaper SAS takes the code that a programmer submits and attempts to split that task into small tasks, tasks that can execute independently, and writes mini-programs called threads to execute the small-tasks.

Tags: parallel processing

[04 Mar 2008]

T-Mobile injects cash into femtocells

News Femtocells are mini base stations for the home or small office. T-Mobile has invested in the UK-based femtocell manufacturer Ubiquisys. Ubiquisys is one of the main promoters of the mobile technology and has already received funding from companies...

Tags: femtocell, mobile, t-mobile, coverage

[04 Mar 2008]

An Animated Guide to Basic Parallel Processing

whitepaper SAS writes mini-programs called threads to execute the small-tasks. SAS has added many new features to V9.1, features that can dramatically reduce the clock-time-to-solution for jobs that are both CPU bound and/or I/O bound (clock-time-to-solution...

Tags: parallel processing

[03 Mar 2008]

Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall

News For more coverage from MWC check out Natasha's daily diaries - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - and keep an eye out for a mini series of video interviews with senior mobile execs at the show in the coming weeks.

Tags: mwc, facebook, 419 scam, moon

[28 Feb 2008]

The mobile industry in its own words

News I learned the hard way, in mainframes and mini computers, the best technology doesn't always win does it? The world's biggest mobile phone trade show - Mobile World Congress 2008 - took place earlier this month in Barcelona.

Tags: nokia, mobile, vodafone, cisco

[22 Feb 2008]

Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008

Photo The annual show occupies Barcelona's La Fira exhibition centre but as mobile's many players descend upon the city mini conferences spring up in various places around town, like this Ericsson breakfast briefing.

Tags: mwc, android, hsdpa, mobile

[18 Feb 2008]

Orange and T-Mobile join forces on mobile TV

News Orange and T-Mobile will jointly trial a mobile TV service in West London during the second half of 2008. The service will include 24 TV channels and ten radio stations delivered to multimedia-enabled mobiles phones over 3G UMTS spectrum.

Tags: t-mobile, umts, tdtv, mobile tv

[13 Feb 2008]

Dell sees the future - and it's mini!

News In a sign that the convergence trend is even reaching technology's stalwarts, Dell has hinted its customers could force it to release a laptop with an eight-inch screen. Photo stories Check out silicon.com's latest photo stories here…

Tags: dell, mobile, smart phone, screen

[08 Feb 2008]

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