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Ubuntu comes to netbooks with chip deal
News Effectively, it's about moving [Ubuntu] from one instruction set [x86] to another," he said. Canonical has announced it is to develop a version of its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system specifically for ARM's... [17 Nov 2008]
iPhone 2.0 cuts business mustard, says Gartner
News Windows Mobile interprets the alphanumeric parameter as an instruction to force the user to employ a complex password. The report states: "The device can be wiped clean via the issuance of a standard... [11 Aug 2008]
Are sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News An anonymous reader from Hampshire said: "People have to blame something else for their problems," and added that "most sat-nav devices have a start up message indicating the Highway Code rules over a sat-nav instruction". [24 Jul 2008]
Sat-navs driving motorists to distraction
News If a sat-nav system gives you an instruction which is likely to endanger other road users, you should ignore it. Many drivers can't imagine life without their trusty sat-nav - but the motorist's best friend is being... [22 Jul 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News According to university press officer Alex Waddington, the computing speed was 1.2 milliseconds per instruction, equivalent to a clock speed of slightly under 1kHz - more than two million times slower than a typical... [20 Jun 2008]
Glasgow kids get classroom PCs and support
News All full-time equivalent primary teachers and nursery school head teachers will receive laptops, allowing them to carry out admin from home and to assist with classroom instruction.silicon.com Public Sector [22 Feb 2007]
Intel hit with energy-efficiency patent suit
News Other patents relate to areas such as instruction scheduling and other micro-architecture issues. Transmeta, the chip designer that once tried to take on Intel in the laptop market, is suing Intel for patent infringement. [12 Oct 2006]
Intel sheds another fringe business
News At one point, Intel had hoped to transform the telecommunications business with products based on industry standards, in a fashion similar to how it moved the server market away from Risc (reduced instruction set... [10 Aug 2006]
Want a Skype 10-way conference call?
News Other processors based on the x86 instruction set, such as AMD's chips or Via's, obviously will not come with the same optimised code found on Intel's chips. The latest version of Skype's internet-calling software can... [09 Feb 2006]
Google warns of spiralling hardware energy costs
News To address the power problem, Barroso suggests the very approach Sun has taken with Niagara - processors that can simultaneously execute many instruction sequences. The electrical costs of running today's computers could... [12 Dec 2005]
ID cards may test Blair's reduced majority
News Out of the 19 Labour MPs who voted against the government, 16 have been returned to parliament (with the remaining three standing down), while all 10 of the Conservative MPs who defied Michael Howard's instruction to... [06 May 2005]
HP commits $3bn to Itanium
News The Itanium allies once hoped Itanium would conquer the server landscape, but have scaled back ambitions to the relatively modest goal of competing against IBM's Power and Sun's UltraSparc that employ the reduced... [16 Dec 2004]
Microsoft updates Windows tech
News Microsoft already has separate versions of Windows that support Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor, which has a completely distinct instruction set from the Opteron and the Athlon 64. Microsoft said on Tuesday that it has... [08 Dec 2004]
Big Blue gets bigger
News Overall, x86 server sales grew 18.3 per cent to $5.4bn, the third quarter in a row that they've been greater than sales of servers using reduced instruction set computing, or RISC, chips such as IBM's Power, Sun's... [24 Nov 2004]
Techies missing out on non-IT training
News However, instruction in business, management and communication can greatly enhance the team's productivity as well as their ability to collaborate on solving everyday challenges such as improving efficiency and... [22 Nov 2004]
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