More than 25 million of the country's 47 million population use the Internet. Fully 40 percent of all households have high-speed, always-on broadband connections. One hundred percent of schools are wired to the Internet. Well over one million subscribers signed up so far for Internet-connected phones that allow callers to chat and swap pictures.
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At the world's premier chip design conference, which begins here today, the spotlight will be on blinding computer speed. That emphasis suggests that the trajectory of desktop PC performance increases of the last two years will not slow in the near future, but actually accelerate.
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Intel technology executives last week briefed analysts on techniques applied in the McKinley processor architecture as well as on such speculative technologies as body biasing and a new nonvolatile memory that could displace flash in cell phones and other space-constrained portables.
4:33:35 PM    comment   

IT gurus continue to debate the future of the mobile network. Wireless carriers are betting that their 2.5G and 3G networks will hold the future to the mobile Internet, with wireless data users dependent on carriers and their suite of applications for all their data needs. This view, according to the analysts at Ovum, is out of touch with the future of the wireless Web. Handsets, particularly next-generation handhelds like the Handspring Treo and Symbian-based smart phones, hold the future to the wireless Web.
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>>> With a few mouse clicks, Gundotra displayed the instructions he had added to Outlook on a Saturday afternoon. It amounted to just 12 lines. "If you look at the code, it was nothing," he says. The actual work behind the curtain was being done by an automated translation service run by the search site AltaVista. (Like all current machine translations, it isn't even close to perfect.)

The point was that Gundotra didn't have to go to the trouble of opening a Web browser, logging on to AltaVista, finding the translation page, typing the text and then copying and pasting the translation back into the e-mail program. Instead, he was calling on the service across the Internet, as if it were a feature of Outlook. Gundotra was demonstrating, he says, how "insanely simple" it could be to tap into a Web service from within a PC application.

Accomplishing all that with just 12 lines of code impressed Gates. "The fact that you can do [this] efficiently made us feel like, gosh, we can move this stuff up to critical mass," Gates says now. <<< [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
3:16:05 PM    comment   

Wi-Fi is to the wireless Internet like walkie-talkies are to cell phones: Doc Searls weighs in on the story below. A pithy observation: 1. Right now we have the Internet everywhere we have the phone system (and in some places, cable). That's Condition A. 2. What we want next is to have the Internet everywhere we have cell phone service. That's Condition B.

3:03:47 PM    comment   

Funk to ship 802.1x server solution in February [Network Fusion World]: Funk's site is unreachable to me at the moment, but the story portrays the software as a full implementation of the 802.1x draft standard. The writer says that the server completes three separate tasks, but in my understanding those tasks are all part of the 802.1x spec: secure exchange of authentication information handed to and from a RADIUS server, with the AP acting as a relay instead of an authenticator itself.

2:56:14 PM    comment   

American Medical Security Group is using a Rapid Evaluation Methodology to assess issues like value, risk and total cost of ownership for new and existing technologies.
2:49:17 PM    comment   

Supply chain and inventory management will be Jim Milde's top IT priorities in his new role as CIO at Sony Electronics. Milde's appointment is being announced by the consumer electronics giant tomorrow.
2:48:31 PM    comment   

James Milde, the new CIO at Sony Electronics, said in an interview that he plans to tighten IT/business ties at the company and move it toward common systems and business processes.
2:47:32 PM    comment   

Halfway through a three-year deployment of 40,000 IBM laptops and desktops, Eastman Kodak says it has realized "significant" cost reductions. Other companies can see similar savings, analysts said.
2:03:37 PM    comment   

Citibank is in the process or replacing its decades-old back-office banking platform with a new global system that's expected to generate substantial ROI against its estimated $100 million-plus investment.
1:52:22 PM    comment   

Comparing online and offline sales is a good place to start calculating the bottom line value of your company's Web site.
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