3G wireless arrives in Europe
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iTunes finally arrives in Europe
iTunes finally arrives in Europe
06/15/2004 11:29 AMupdate Steve Jobs joins songstress Alicia Keys at the music store's
London launch.
Ultra fast Internet arrives in Europe
Ultra fast Internet arrives in Europe
08/30/2004 03:37 PMElectric New Paper Aug 30 2004 7:19PM GMT
Wireless: For 3G push in Europe, laptops
are the focus
Wireless: For 3G push in Europe, laptops
are the focus
05/09/2004 07:51 PMIHT May 10 2004 0:11AM GMT
First Free Wireless Link Between Europe
And Africa
First Free Wireless Link Between Europe
And Africa
06/23/2004 11:00 AMUPS Starts Wireless Logistical
Deployment in Europe
UPS Starts Wireless Logistical
Deployment in Europe
06/22/2004 01:51 PMUPS starts its global roll-out of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular systems
to speed up package processing: The system will start its rollout in
Europe in package sorting centers. Sorts will wear a Bluetooth ring on
their middle finger that will scan bar codes. The ring hands data off
to a belt-worn Wi-Fi device which communicates with the network. By
2007, UPS will have 55,000 ring scanners deployed in 118 countries.
They predict enormous savings in repairs and downtime as well as spare
parts inventory. It also provides worker flexibility: there's no fixed
station needed. 73 sites will have the system deployed by the end of
2005. UPS will install about 12,000 access points across 2,000
facilities as part of this rollout. While they say the resulting
network will be one of the largest in the world, a conversation I had
with a firm today that builds software to manage large-scale access
point deployments indicates that there may be several hundred
companies today with thousands of access points across all branches,
and that topping 10,000 access points for a worldwide corporation
won't be unusual in a year or two. In the U.S., UPS is testing its
DIAD IV (Delivery Information Acquisition Device) which combines GPS
(for positioning), Bluetooth (for scanning), Wi-Fi (for transmission),
and GSM/GPRS cellular data (for uplinking). The device even has an
acoustic modem for the backroads that UPS finds itself delivering
packages to....
Sierra Wireless Connects Mobile
Professionals in Europe to the O2
Network
Sierra Wireless Connects Mobile
Professionals in Europe to the O2
Network
01/27/2004 08:39 PMBC Technology Jan 28 2004 0:23AM GMT
Win XP SP2 arrives
Win XP SP2 arrives
08/06/2004 04:52 PMif you're on windows, go get it
10.3.9 Arrives
10.3.9 Arrives
04/16/2005 09:33 AMThe PSX arrives
The PSX arrives
12/15/2003 10:29 AMThe PSX, Sony's extreme version of the PlayStation 2 with a DVD burner
and a hard drive for recording TV shows, came out in Japan...
.NET CF finally arrives!
.NET CF finally arrives!
03/20/2003 08:33 AMThe .NET Compact Framework v1.0 is now available for download. Press
Release....
XP SP2 finally arrives. Now what?
XP SP2 finally arrives. Now what?
08/09/2004 04:51 PMDirect and Related Links for 'XP SP2
finally arrives. Now what?'
The ‘new’ XP firewall still doesn’t work on
outbound connections - so you still need something like ZoneAlarm.
“Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 2 to the masses
today after months of delay and mountains of hype. But don’t
think IT managers are chained to their desks feverishly working to
install it across their networks. Those asked said they’ll
carefully study the package on test computers to ensure compatibility
with other programs before loading it…
Microsoft's XP SP2 Arrives
Microsoft's XP SP2 Arrives
08/06/2004 06:45 PMUPDATED: The security centric update is released to manufacturing.
Now, the really hard part begins.
Vonage arrives
Vonage arrives
03/06/2004 01:59 AMMy Vonage phone arrive yesterday afternoon. I followed the simple
instructions for plugging it into my cable modem and now I'm making
calls to anywhere in the US or Canada - 500 minutes/month for $15. So
far, the sonic quality has been as good as a "real" phone. Yep, them
Voice over IP bits can hold their own. And the plain ol' telephone
company, the one with the network that's too smart for it's own good,
ought to be worried....
A630 Arrives
A630 Arrives
12/22/2004 01:42 AMMy Motorola A630 order arrived yesterday, around four weeks after I
ordered it. The good: It's small and quite handsome....
The DMCA arrives Down Under
The DMCA arrives Down Under
08/03/2004 09:52 PMA free trade agreement between Australia and the U.S. will bring
DMCA-like laws to the land Down Under.
DSL-to-go arrives in Berlin
DSL-to-go arrives in Berlin
09/16/2004 05:17 AMPortable broadband
The Antelope arrives
The Antelope arrives
10/29/2003 02:17 AMGosh, we remember when the Antelope Modular Computing Core was just
vaporware, way back in the halcyon days of late 2002. But despite all
the haters who said it'd never come out, the Antelope MCC has arrived.
About the size of a deck of cards, the MCC is a tiny 1GHz computer
with 256MB of RAM and a 10 or 15GB hard drive that runs a full version
of Windows XP. The idea is that the core -- which by the way, costs
$4,000 -- pops into a docking station with a screen and keyboard if
you want to use it like a desktop, or into a smaller PDA-type shell if
you need something more portable. Read - New Scientist Read -
AntelopeTech.com [Thanks, John]...
"Doom 3" arrives
"Doom 3" arrives
08/03/2004 11:05 AMQPS arrives for QuarkXPress 6, Mac OS X
QPS arrives for QuarkXPress 6, Mac OS X
08/31/2004 11:42 AMQuark today announced the release of Quark Publishing System 3 Classic
Edition (QPS Classic 3), a new version of its software for
professional publishing and editorial workflows...
Bricolage 1.8.0 Arrives
Bricolage 1.8.0 Arrives
05/05/2004 09:06 PMTheory writes "It is with great pleasure that the Bricolage
development team announces the release of Bricolage 1.8.0. The
culmination of over 15 months in development, with contributions from
over 20 independent developers, and new features sponsored by ...
The Mirra arrives
The Mirra arrives
12/02/2003 11:06 AMThe Mirra Personal Server is finally out. Basically, a hard drive that
connects to your home network, the Mirra can be set to automatically
backup and synchronize files from all the computers in the house so
that if there's a crash, you'll always have your data. It can also be
accessed remotely over the Internet if you ever need to get some file
while on the road or want to share MP3s or digital photos with
friends. We've been playing around with one for the past week or so,
and it works as advertised (well, except that the first one they sent
was defective). It's been automatically backing up our documents
folder, and we were able to upload our MP3 collection and then access
it from a web browser. Om Malik has some more details about the Mirra
on his blog. Read - Mirra.com Read - GigaOm...
The Mac Mini Arrives
The Mac Mini Arrives
03/29/2005 05:04 PM
So
we ordered a Mac Mini last month. Then, last week, we get a box from
"ACI," which we astutely reversed engineered to "Apple Computer Inc."
The excitement built as we opened the box and pulled away the paper
packing material...and then pulled away some more...and some
more...and some more.
In the end, as the above picture shows, we got a keyboard and a
mouse at the bottom of a big box. The amount of packaging they used
to ship that keyboard and mouse was criminal. The actual Mini arrived
a week after that.
Speaking of which, a couple thoughts:
I was really surprised at how small the Mini actually is.
Pictures do not do it justice. If someone wanted to work on the same
machine at work or at home, it would be perfectly reasonable to pick
it up off the desk at the end of the day, and put it in a briefcase or
even a large purse, and just carry it home. If you think you
need a laptop, maybe you just need a Mini and two monitors.
Joe worked with it for a day while his machine was getting a
new power supply. It was Joe's first real working experience with the
vaunted OS X. In the end, he said he was actually less likely
to buy a Mac, simply for the fact that it did nothing that his Gentoo Linux machine couldn't
do.
That said, the Mini is awfully cool to look at. Still doesn't get
me all giddy for a Mac, but it's better than an Etch-a-Sketch, at any
rate.
Fischer arrives in Iceland
Fischer arrives in Iceland
03/24/2005 11:31 PMControversial US chess champion Bobby Fischer lands in Iceland, after
being freed from detention in Japan.
First game arrives for AMD 64-bit chip
First game arrives for AMD 64-bit chip
09/22/2004 12:55 AMCNET Asia Sep 22 2004 5:01AM GMT
Longhorn arrives with a whimper
Longhorn arrives with a whimper
06/05/2005 11:56 PMA friend recently attended a demo of Microsoft's latest operating
system, Longhorn. This is the long-delayed replacement for
Windows NT, which was introduced in the early 1990s and has been
improved into Win2000 and WinXP. The main risk for a project
like Longhorn is Second System Syndrome. A group of programmers
is given an existing product and a list of 100 things that people have
said they don't like about the product. They boldly plan to
build a Second (new) System from scratch that will solve all of the
problems the First System solved plus have the 100 new nice-to-have
features. Traditionally Second Systems are late and often, on
balance, don't solve any more problems than the First System.
Longhorn was particularly at risk due to the fact that a larger
challenge was attacked with very similar tools to those used to build
Windows NT circa 1990. Programmers haven't gotten any smarter
since 1990; how can we expect better results than were obtained back
then unless there is a shift to radically new tools?
Longhorn has in fact been running quite late (two years?) and
Microsoft has been reducing the scope of its ambition. My friend
was underwhelmed by the result. One of the big features of
Longhorn is a more searchable file system, something that WinXP users
can get right now by downloading Google Desktop Search. Longhorn
will let you create a virtual folder that represents the results of a
persistent search, e.g., you can have a folder with all files
containing the word "Samoyed" and it will be updated quickly when a
new matching document appears anywhere in the file system.
Does Longhorn have a versioned file system? No. I.e.,
you can't ask the system to show you what a spreadsheet or document
looked like two months ago. Probably the vast majority of
user-created documents in a file system are there because of this lack
of versioning in WinXP's NTFS file system. You have "Whizco
Contract", "Whizco Contract pre-lawyers", "Whizco Contract
post-legal-review", "Whizco Contract with comments from Whizco",
"Whizco Contract 20050510", "Whizco Contract Final", "Whizco Contract
Final Signature Copy", etc. If Longhorn had a versioned file
system, as became available for commercial Unices in the early 1990s,
there would only be perhaps 1/10th as many user-created documents on
the typical system.
The hierarchical file system with its folders and subfolders was
created for mainframe programmers in the early 1960s. Let's call
it a Multics-style file system to pay homage to this pioneering system
built in the 1960s by MIT and Honeywell. Alan Cooper, one of the
creators of Visual Basic, and a perennial consultant to Microsoft, has
persuasively attacked the idea of exposing this hierarchy to
end-users. It was built by programmers for programmers but
somehow leaked out into consumer consciousness with the Apple
Macintosh and the original DOS on the IBM PC. Do we need
this? How many documents can one person create? Even a
professional writer such as Stephen King hasn't generated an
overwhelming number of stories and novels.
Why not start with a versioned file system? Then we can get
rid of the "save" and "save as" commands in word processors and
spreadsheet programs and replace them with a "name this version"
command. When you're done working on a document you close
it. If you want to go back a couple of months you ask for the
version circa 20050301 or a version with a specific name. Given
a versioned file system we provide access to documents via a
chronology. If you're looking for something related to your 1999
taxes, scroll back to April 1999 and it will probably be there.
If that doesn't work resort to a full-text search. If we need to
organize a bit more let us aggregate documents in named folders, as in
a mail-reading program, most of which don't allow or don't encourage
subfolders.
There is nothing wrong with the hierarchical file system as a tool.
Assuming you know a file's name, it provides O[log N] access to a
corpus of N documents. This makes a hierarchical file system
great for computer programs and computer programmers but why should
users have to see the innards?
Apple and the Linux folks aren't doing any better in this area than
Microsoft. For years I have been hoping that Google or Yahoo!
will show the way with a replacement for Microsoft Office and the
underlying desktop file system. The average household user of a
personal computer doesn't need anything with many more features that
the Palm OS or Microsoft Outlook and probably has far fewer megabytes
of documents than he or she has of archived email.
Intel HD Audio Arrives
Intel HD Audio Arrives
06/24/2004 11:13 AMMotherboard audio gets a major (and long overdue) facelift. We take
you through the highlights and low points of Intel's first HD Audio
solution.
Far Cry shader 3.0 Patch Arrives
Far Cry shader 3.0 Patch Arrives
06/24/2004 11:20 PMATi HDTV Tuner For The PC Arrives
ATi HDTV Tuner For The PC Arrives
06/22/2004 12:24 PMHelp arrives for VMware users
Help arrives for VMware users
09/11/2004 03:51 AMI’ve always been a big fan of VMware, the utility software that
allows you to run multiple operating systems, or multiple instances of
one operating system, on a single hardware platform. For many years,
marketing and sales people have carried laptops equipped with VMware
products, NetWare server and client software so that they could easily
demonstrate network operations without having to tote hundreds of
pounds of equipment.
First Linux Phone Arrives in US
First Linux Phone Arrives in US
09/09/2004 02:44 PMSlashdot Sep 9 2004 6:31PM GMT
Intel 3.40EE & 3.60E - LGA Arrives
Intel 3.40EE & 3.60E - LGA Arrives
06/19/2004 04:27 PMMenuCalendarClock for Entourage arrives
MenuCalendarClock for Entourage arrives
02/05/2005 09:19 PMObjectParkSoftware has released a version of its MenuCalendarClock
utility that offers support for Microsoft Entourage 2004. The software
places an integrated calendar and clock in your menu bar, complete
with access to events and to-do lists. You can download and use
MenuCalendarClock for free, although such features as event and task
list display, new event creation and a configurable hotkey are only
available by paying a US$24.95 registration fee. Mac OS X v10.2.8 is
required -- this utility isn't compatible with Entourage X.
Doom III Arrives Early For Some
Doom III Arrives Early For Some
07/30/2004 09:00 PMIt appears that some lucky people have got their hands on a copy of
Doom III and currently links are flying around the internet with early
screenshots of the game. This highly anticipated FPS has been in
development for many years and is due to be released in the states
next week and in Europe the following week. Check out the screenshots
below.
Screenshot:
>> Click here <<
News source:
In-HouseRead full story...New LEGO Falcon Arrives
New LEGO Falcon Arrives
04/20/2004 11:25 AMJohn Beisty sent in this photo of the new LEGO Millennium Falcon Hoth
version he got yesterday from
LEGO Shop
@ Home. This Falcon looks to be even more of a playset than the
first version.
Kellogg's Poster Arrives
Kellogg's Poster Arrives
04/12/2005 02:48 PMRebelscum reader Jedi_Turok writes in:
I wanted to give everyone a head's up to check their mailboxes for the
Kellogg's Episode III poster. I got mine today....here'a a
pic...enjoy!Rumsfeld arrives in Afghanistan
Rumsfeld arrives in Afghanistan
04/13/2005 03:53 AMUS Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is in Afghanistan for a surprise
visit, a day after his trip to Iraq.
IPv6 arrives on Root DNS
IPv6 arrives on Root DNS
07/23/2004 02:56 PMAid Arrives in Asia As Deaths Near
150,000 (AP)
Aid Arrives in Asia As Deaths Near
150,000 (AP)
12/31/2004 08:43 PMAP - The United States upped its tsunami relief aid tenfold Friday as
the world's ships and planes converged on devastated shores.
Bottlenecks of supplies built up, fears of epidemics grew, and in an
echo of 9/11's aftermath, people at a Thai resort scoured a bulletin
board of 4,000 photos in search of the dead and missing.
Long-awaited SP2 arrives
Long-awaited SP2 arrives
08/07/2004 10:40 PMUSA Today Aug 8 2004 3:02AM GMT
Grok Description matches for 3G wireless arrives in Europe
GrokA matches for 3G wireless arrives in Europe
3G wireless arrives in Europe
