space in news
RSS space in newsOfcom: Digital dividend up for grabs to highest bidder
News According to the regulator, further proposals will soon appear to deal with issues such as local TV spectrum, and the "white space" spectrum that is needed for wireless microphones and other events-related usage. [09 Jun 2008]
Microsoft readies "Quebec" embedded Vista OS
News The forthcoming Quebec embedded release will include BitLocker drive encryption, Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, Address-Space Load Randomisation - and on the memory-management front, support for SuperFetch, ReadyBoost and Dynamic System... [06 Jun 2008]
Revealed: Top tech security risks and cash-sappers
News A company with 20,000 PCs would typically see around 2.4TB of hard drive space being taken up with these files. Viruses, dodgy printers, unsupported open source software and iTunes are all among the 10 most common tech problems that can cost money... [29 May 2008]
Building society streamlines system support
News The system alerts server support that disk space is running out and presents them with a list of file types as likely candidates for deletion or archiving. Principality Building Society has implemented a process automation platform to streamline a... [27 May 2008]
Red Chilli aflame for hosted backup
News Charges are per usage, so if the company uses more space, the rental will go up. Independent property finance advisory firm Red Chilli has outsourced its disaster recovery and backup systems to Thinking Safe.silicon.com Financial Services [23 May 2008]
Cloud computing: Ready to experiment with
News Pointing to developments in the space, such as Amazon's virtual storage service and Google and Salesforce.com's recent alliance, Swaminathan said the industry's progress in creating hardware, services and applications in the cloud is something... [23 May 2008]
Google bigs up 'white space' wireless plans
News The FCC has been testing equipment to see whether the white-space spectrum can be used without interfering with television broadcasts. Page was scheduled to meet with lawmakers in Congress and officials at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC... [23 May 2008]
LiMo targets the business mobile
News He told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk: "We're looking at two of the very well-known Linux-distribution companies that currently operate in the enterprise space but are interested in bridging between the enterprise and mobile. [15 May 2008]
Microsoft users surf the skies from the web
News The program, which was developed by Microsoft's research arm, marries together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others. The program is similar to Google Sky, a mode of... [14 May 2008]
Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power
News The US space agency's Pleiades programme aims to give peak performance of 1,000 trillion operations per second - or one petaflop - by 2009. Nasa is upgrading its supercomputer to cater for an expected surge in workload associated with future... [09 May 2008]
Galileo phones home
News Galileo is a joint project between the EU and European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a comprehensive European sat-nav system, which will eventually replace the US military GPS network. It was carried into space by the Soyuz-Fregat rocket which... [09 May 2008]
Google execs defend a Yahoo! ad deal
News It's incorrect to assert there's lock-in or opportunity for dominance in the ad space. Google's top executives have given a glimpse into how it might try to deflect antitrust concerns of a possible ad-sharing deal with rival Yahoo! [09 May 2008]
CIOs are driving the green agenda
News Fahy said the drive for efficiency at Lehman Brothers has meant the company has shifted to charging for internal services based on consumption - by calculating how much resource is required to run individual applications, instead of, say... [01 May 2008]
Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?
News Unfortunately, there simply wasn't enough space to include all the early computers this time around, which means silicon.com will simply have to run a similar poll sometime in the future… Amstrad or Spectrum? [30 Apr 2008]
Skype trialled on Java mobiles
News Gareth O'Loughlin, general manager of mobile and hardware devices at Skype, said in a statement: "These are still the early days for making Skype calls on mobile phones but we've already made great strides in this space. [30 Apr 2008]
