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Gates to Students:
We Need Your Ideas
(By Grant Gross)
Microsoft Corp. needs students interested in computer science to program the IT innovations of tomorrow, including Tablet PCs that users can write on with a pen and wireless camera phones that interpret foreign street signs, Bill Gates said.
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Documents Formally Requested in AMD vs. Intel Case
(By Tom Krazit)
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has formally asked dozens of companies in the PC and server industries to turn over documents related to their purchases of microprocessors as part of its legal campaign against Intel Corp., an AMD spokesman said.
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A Perfect Place for Veqar ul Islam to Receive the Excellence Award
A vibrant entertainment complex with parks, gardens, fountains, museums, restaurants -the Darling Harbour in Sydney Australia is one of the worlds most beautiful place for an outing. The Convention and Exhibitor Centre located inside this harbour, was the venue of the Gala Dinner held on 29th September 2005 at the conclusion session of the South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) Conference and Exhibition.
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Linspire Heads for the Enterprise
(By Manek Dubash)
Linspire, the Linux company formerly known as Lindows, is to release an enterprise version of its Linspire Desktop. It will be the companys first foray into the corporate market.
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Decline of the Desktop
The PC still rules the desktop but not for long. Laptops, once considered an expensive luxury, will soon claim the mantle as the personal computing platform of choice in the enterprise.
(By Robert L. MItchell)
After almost a quarter of a century as the personal computing device of choice for business, the desktop PC is sliding off its pedestal. It has withstood assaults by technologies such as the Windows terminal, the Web and the network PC, but the mighty desktop has been humbled by user demand for the one thing it cant deliver mobility.
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Sunrise Period for .eu Domain Names Begins Dec. 7
The registry for the .eu Internet top-level domain will accept reservations for second-level domain names from Dec. 7. The domain is intended to identify activities or information related to the European Union, and give companies based there the opportunity to use a pan-European Internet identity to complement their individual national sites.
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Telenor Pledges Rs.65 Million Relief Package
Telenor has announced an emergency relief package for the victims of the recent earthquake that has left thousands dead in its wake. Telenor is pledging a sum of Rs. 65 million to go to the Red Cross and Presidents Earthquake Relief Fund.
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Warid Telecom Donates Rs.120 Million and Plans to Construct SOS Villages for Earthquake Survivors
Considering the massive destruction caused by the devastating earthquake which has affected thousands of households all across the country specially in the areas of Abbottabad, Mansehra, Balakot, Shikiari, Muzaffargarh and Bagh. The Management of Warid Pakistan and Warid International has contributed Rs.120 million towards the president relief fund.
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T-Mobile: Mobile E-mail Will Change the World
(By Peter Judge)
T-Mobile has launched a mobile Internet package it claims will drag people away from PCs to browse and send e-mail by phone.
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Nokia Puts Symantec on its Mobile Phones
(By Jeremy Kirk)
Nokia Corp. has announced it has signed an agreement to include Symantec Corp.s Mobile Security software on its Series 60 and Symbian OS mobile phones.
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Indian Telecom to Require Local Equipment Manufacture
(By John Ribeiro)
Indias two large telecommunications services companies, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL), have decided to require their suppliers to manufacture equipment directly in India or through contract manufacturers in the country, the countrys minister for information technology and communications, Dayanidhi Maran, announced.
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FEATURE
Fixed and Mobile Convergence
According to some industry predictions, the boundary between fixed and mobile technologies will largely be dissolved by 2010. If the forecast is anything to go by, we are only several years away from a fundamental transition to seamless telecommunications.
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CEATEC : Maspro Pushes Wi-Fi 5 Kilometers
(By Martyn Williams)
Maspro Denkoh Corp., a Japanese manufacturer of wireless communications equipment, has developed a transmission system that can send Wi-Fi signals as far as 5 kilometers.
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Intel Pitches Faster NICs, Knocks Level 5
(By Peter Judge)
Intel has announced a batch of fast Ethernet adapters, and dismissed Level 5s claims to streamline networking and cut CPU loads.
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Rural India to Get PCs That Can Run on Car Batteries
(By John Ribeiro)
Intel Corp. will introduce a PC in India later this year that can run off a car battery in a bid to serve the needs of the countrys rural and farming communities, company executives said.
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Intel Unwraps Dual-Core Xeon Server Processors
(By Tom Krazit)
Intel Corp.s first dual-core Xeon server processor is around 50 percent more powerful than its single-core predecessor, but it will cost around 40 percent more than that chip, company executives said.
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Siemens Shows Ultra-Thin Color Display for Packaging
Producers of food, consumer electronics and other fast-selling products hoping to attract more eyeballs to their goods should be interested in this technology: Researchers at German electronics giant Siemens AG have developed ultra-thin miniature color displays that can be printed onto paper or foil.
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CEATEC : Splashpower Wants to Cut the Charger Cord
(By Martyn Williams)
You can use them while jogging, take them into the woods or ride with them on the open sea, but portable gadgets still need to head back to base every time their batteries need recharging. The power cord remains the final connection to the wired world for many devices now that technologies like Bluetooth are replacing data cables but it too might be going away if a U.K. start-up gets its way.
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Big Guns Launch Assault on 802.11n Wireless Spec
(By Peter Judge and John Blau)
More than two dozen leading wireless LAN companies have formed an industry coalition to create and submit a spec for the IEEEs next generation wireless LAN standard - 802.11n.
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CEATEC : Sony Updates Vaio X with 2 Models
(By Martyn Williams)
Sony Corp. has updated its Tivo-on-steroids Vaio X multichannel video recording computer with two new models and is demonstrating them for the first time at this weeks Ceatec Japan 2005 exhibition.
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3G : Hong Kong Government Deploys 10G Network from Huawei-3Com
(By Abigail Ho)
When you have a government department in charge of providing utility engineering and building services on a non-stop basis, that department needs the most up-to-date network backbone. Accordingly, the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD), of Hong Kong Government, has gone live with a Huawei-3Com 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10G) network with intelligent resilient framework technology (IRF).
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Hard Disks Anything But Gone, Says Seagate
Hard-disk drive technology is anything but dead and isnt in danger of being replaced by memory chips anytime soon, an executive of drive-maker Seagate Technologies LLC said.
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CEATEC :Toshiba Shows HDD-Based Video Camera
(By Martyn Williams)
Toshiba Corp. has developed a digital video camera based on its miniature hard-disk drive and is showing it for the first time at the Ceatec Japan 2005 show currently taking place in Japan.
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Macromedia Releases Low-Cost Web Development Tool
(By Elizabeth Montalbano)
Macromedia Inc. unveiled on a new, low-cost development environment that links the Eclipse open-source framework with the companys Flash multimedia technology.
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Arwen Tech Becomes the only Cisco Silver Partner in Pakistan
Cisco Systems has accredited Arwen Tech as the only Silver Certified Partner in Pakistan. The certification recognizes that Arwen Tech has passed stingent technical support and system integration requirements and is now certified to resell Cisco products in the Middle Eastern region.
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Researchers:
SMS Attacks Could Cripple Cell Phones
(By Robert McMillan)
Hackers armed with a moderately sized network of zombie computers theoretically could knock out cellular service throughout the U.S., according to security researchers at Pennsylvania State University. In a report published recently, the researchers explained how such an attack could exploit weaknesses in Short Message Service (SMS), which is used to send and receive text messages between mobile phones.
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