Articles on the future of computing; a glimpse at our future computing technologies and how we will be effected by them.
Aug 07 2007Company confirms workforce halved. TROUBLED SYSTEM BUILDER EVESHAM TECHNOLOGY has issued a statement containing more details of the company’s move into administration and plans for the future. One hundred and fifty jobs have been axed, leaving the Worcestershire company with a headcount of 138. Details of the board of the new company, Geemore Technology, which will trade under the Evesham Technology name, remain to be confirmed at press time.
The Boss of Acer Gianfranco Lanci has blasted Microsoft’s Vista. Lanci told the Financial Times Deutschland that the impact of a new Microsoft “operating system” has never been so weedy as with Vista.
“The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista,” he said.
With a recent article describing how a 75 year old woman has the Worlds fastest home Broadband connection at 40Gbps, the comments section shows the sheer diversity of connection speeds and connection prices across the globe.
Hitachi were the first to announce and produce their 1 Terabyte HDD, with Samsung and Seagate offerings soon to follow. Dates for those to hit the market are late August and end of September, respectively, leaving the Deskstar 7K1000 a few months to steal the limelight. Although all still seems quiet on the western front with Western Digital being rather silent about its drives. Price: £250, €400, $399
The hand is controlled by the user’s mind and muscles, the highly functional bionic hand which was invented by a Scottish NHS worker has gone on the market.
The technology has been tested by US soldiers who lost limbs in the Iraq war.
One gram of this substance could store 887,808 petabytes, that’s the equivalent storage of more than 11 billion typical PCs!!
Data storage demand is ever increasing, Scientists are researching new ways of storing data that could solve all the problems, but is it ethically correct to store EVERYTHING?
It could transform life for billions of children, but one man’s charitable dream of a £50 computer is under attack from Chip manufacturer.
Just as orders are due to be placed, Intel has changed its tune as it jostles for position, with others who once doubted the dream, in a market that could be worth billions.
Experts queued up to say it couldn’t be done, but they were proven wrong and on the dawn of production, all maybe lost.
