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The EU is encouraging its members to occupy the same airwaves for mobile broadband In an attempt to reach its 2013 target of 100% broadband coverage.
As members change from the traditional analogue to the new digital broadcasting method, the spectrum will be made available.
The change will make it much simpler to use devices “across borders” [...]

AMD have announced that they are modernising their 45 nanometer “Shanghai” Opteron processors by creating new energy efficient chips that will be able to operate within thermal envelopes powered by as little as 55 Watts.  Advanced Micro Devices are hoping that the new, greener processor chips will wind up in servers such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell [...]

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are preparing themselves to release what they are calling the “fastest graphics supercomputer ever” they have announced.  It is the AMD Fusion Render Cloud, capable of bringing the user a powerful enough system to allow you to render high definition graphics in 3 dimensions, in a way that has never been [...]

Time Warner have had to cut their forecast profit for 2008, largely due to the fact that the company has been forced to cut the value of their cable, magazine publishing and AOL businesses by $25 billion.  The cut in profit forecasts is the first time in the last six years that Time Warner has [...]

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This morning commuters in London took advantage of free underground travel when technical problems brought down the Oyster ticket system.
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Gates were left open early this morning to allow commuters to continue with their day. Unlike that last time the Oyster system rolled over and died, the failure has not damaged peoples travel cards. Last time [...]

IBM has designed a new $100m supercomputer named ?Roadrunner?, that is powerful enough to operate at 1 petaflop ? that?s 1 thousand trillion calculations a second (beat that Vorderman).? The system is twice as fast as the next closest super computer ? the IBM Blue Gene system - and nearly three times as fast as [...]

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IBM researchers, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, have developed a rather unconventional way to keep microprocessors that are stacked on top of each other cool. The long running problem has now been solved by channelling water through the chips. Yes you heard that right.
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“As we package chips on top of each other [...]

Aberdeen Group have researched the use of usernames and passwords in business, and have found that many organizations are learning more about the benefits of deploying strong user authentication to increase the level of assurance for online identities as part of an overall approach to securing access to information and managing risk.
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The research indicates the [...]

When the new Terminal 5 opened up at Heathrow Airport on March 27th, we were supposed to be in awe of its technological brilliance.
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Unfortunately the project was never adequately tested and chaos ensued on the opening day, with thousands missing flights due to the baggage system giving up the ghost.
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“If I were to pick [...]

They brought us one of the best map services on the internet ? for free ? and now they are looking to make that journey from A to B even simpler with the introduction of street photographs to show you exactly where you need to go to. So how will it work?
Using the current [...]