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News FTSE's criteria for social responsibility will also be outlined today and while weapons makers, chemical companies and tobacco firms are most at risk, the hardware sector - which has been attacked in the past for its environmentally unfriendly... [10 Jul 2001]
Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo Colossus could read paper tape at 5,000 characters per second and the paper tape in its wheels travelled at 30 miles per hour. The Colossus code-cracking computer is up and running for the first time in more than 60 years. [16 Nov 2007]
Breathing life into broadband: Will satellite technologies save the day?
Comment The second largest VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) supplier is Gilat Satellite Networks, based in Petah Tikva, Israel. Sending data into space and back takes a long time, so there is inevitably a short delay (around quarter of a second, for the... [21 Aug 2001]
Sanctioned surfing becoming integral part of office life
News Corporate information sites topped the hit list, accounting for 49 per cent of work-time traffic, with financial sites coming a close second (42 per cent) and online travel third (31 per cent). Neilsen/NetRatings announced yesterday that more than... [12 Jul 2001]
ICI takes the plunge with WLAN
Case Study One of the big benefits is that visiting users - such as consultants or temporary contractors - can access the network securely without the need for a second network so there has been a significant amount of cost avoidance. [10 Oct 2007]
The Emergence of Talent Management: An Old Idea Gets New Life
White Paper If talent management is going to take off this time, it's the second reason-corporate receptivity-that will be the catalyst. And it's an idea that didn't even originate in this decade. Why the renewed interest? [27 Jul 2006]
Indiana Public Schools Provide Students With Individual Access to Intel Processor-Based Desktops to Enhance Learning and Build Life Skills
White Paper At the beginning of 2004, in order to implement one of its new projects, Infobolsa needed the ability to handle 2000 messages per second and storage capacity of 6 GB per day in order to guarantee real-time content availability to its customers. [05 May 2006]
Jobs delivers Mactels "a little ahead of schedule"
News Leaving no doubt that Apple would launch a marketing blitz around the Intel-based machines, Jobs showed off a new advertisement introducing the products - "Starting today, the Intel chip will be set free and get to live life inside a Mac. [11 Jan 2006]
Telecommunications Technologies and Urban Development: Strategies in U.S. Cities
White Paper Second, what role will telecommunications advances play in efforts to promote dense downtown development aimed at the New Economy? Telecommunications systems have become a critical component of today’s economy. [03 Jul 2008]
Sun Mainframe Rehosting at Transamerica Life Canada Part 3: The Testing
White Paper The second snapshot focused on the migration process. This white paper is the third of three snapshots of the migration of a key business system from a mainframe computing environment to a Sun environment. [24 Feb 2004]
World's fastest computer comes to life
News The machine uses 5,104 processors, which allow it conduct 35.6 trillion calculations per second. The world's fastest computer has been unveiled in Japan, and it's five times faster than IBM's quickest machine. [22 Apr 2002]
Death of cash? Not yet, say retailers...
News Cash represents a very substantial part of total revenue for retailers - the second biggest after debit cards - and the BRC spokesman said: "I can't see that changing a huge amount in the very near future.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [12 Mar 2007]
The IT girl: millennium schmillennium
Comment And second, couldn't you tell I was joking? Well, am I ever glad we booked that log cabin to see out the millennium. As expected, there was a hell of a storm kicked up and it was nice to have somewhere to keep our heads down while the unlucky ones... [01 Feb 2000]
Another loss-making quarter for Corel
News Corel said in its earnings release that revenue was up about $500,000, or 2 per cent, over the second quarter of the year, due mainly to increased sales of WordPerfect to government buyers and due to the release of a new version of CorelDraw... [26 Sep 2002]
Breathe.com: The latest high profile failure
News Breathe has failed in its attempts to secure a second round of funding. The Guardian ("expired") reports that having run up debts of £50m the ISP has now called in administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers to tout the company around to any buyers who... [18 Dec 2000]
