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RSS quakeThe Taiwan Earthquake: A Case Study in Network Disaster Recovery
White Paper The quake of 7.1 magnitude on the Richter scale severed eight major undersea cables, flat-lining communications for hundreds of millions of people. On December 26, 2006, an earthquake off the coast of Taiwan severely... [30 May 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.01.09
Round-Up No word yet on the big rusty manacles that should make playing Quake all but impossible. A career in technology is full of glamour, excitement and many-coloured Ethernet cables. Sadly, given the long hours there's little... [16 Jan 2009]
Quake II an Easy Conversion to the .NET Framework
White Paper To give Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 a thorough test-drive, Vertigo Software converted and enhanced the Quake II game, placed in the public domain by id Software. Vertigo did the port to managed code in two steps:... [04 Dec 2008]
Earthquake model predicts Silicon Valley's future
News A few weeks ahead of a conference commemorating the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, scientists from the US Geological Survey (USGS) and Stanford University released data from a 3D simulation of the quake that rocked the... [29 Mar 2006]
Pakistan earthquake relief: Appeal to tech
News The 7.6-magnitude quake also killed thousands in India. Donations for victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Pakistan over the weekend are trickling in from the US high-tech industry but so far most... [11 Oct 2005]
3GSM: Mobile expectations - the lessons of DoCoMo
News But while services and coverage has improved immeasurably since then, a recent quake in Niigata led to criticism of providers when systems didn't work perfectly. The president and CEO of NTT DoCoMo, Masao Nakamura, has... [16 Feb 2005]
Microsoft game for plugging two security flaws
News The network-gaming flaw only affects games that use Microsoft's free peer-to-peer gaming system rather than the client-server architecture used by many multiplayer games, such as the Quake and Unreal Tournament series. [09 Jun 2004]
Game server flaw poses attack threat
News In an advisory posted to the company's website, security consultancy PivX Solutions stated that popular multiplayer games that have servers supporting the GameSpy network - such as "Quake 3: Arena," "Unreal Tournament... [20 Jan 2003]
First impressions of Microsoft Smartphone 2002 and the Orange SPV
Comment Will it make the handset leaders - including Palm and those backing Symbian, most notably Nokia - quake in their boots? Microsoft and Orange were yesterday walking around with their chests puffed out. [23 Oct 2002]
Time to boot out the techno time-wasters?
Comment It was bad enough when you just had to make time to look at some movie clips you'd been sent, or reply to all the emails you received from your friends while you were out at Starbucks picking up a coffee, or down the corridor playing... [10 Oct 2002]
Cyber cafes blamed for murder
News However, it is the violent nature of the online games, such as Quake III, which is being blamed for a murder outside one of the cyber cafes on 30 December, when a teenage boy was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver. [24 Jan 2002]
Gates in earthquake scare
News Other companies in the region sent their employees home after the quake. Gates was speaking in a downtown Seattle hotel when the earthquake, which measured 6.8 on the Richter Scale, struck just before 11:00 (PST) on... [01 Mar 2001]
Transatlantic Cable: Tap, tap tapping on the net's door
Comment This gives the FBI access to the email of suspects, as well as any other traffic, such as which web sites they browse, what their lag times are like for Quake III and so on. You might think the UK is alone in having... [19 Jul 2000]
Windows 2000 Special: Roll-out! Roll-out! The greatest OS on earth?
Comment It's aimed squarely at the corporate business market but could equally be at home running Quake. You've heard the hype and seen all the headlines - but what exactly is Windows 2000? And is it the right operating system... [21 Feb 2000]
Sun marries Linux and Solaris
News The demonstration will show Linux applications running unchanged on Solaris including Applix, GIMP, Gnome, Netscape Communicator, Netscape Navigator, Quake II and WordPerfect. Sun Microsystems is planning to release... [13 May 1999]
