Monthly Archives: September 2001
Sedona Tunes in to Fixed Wireless
Surrounded by canyons and brilliant red-rock monoliths jutting out of the desert, businesses in Sedona, Ariz., are beyond the reach of most high-speed Internet...
New Wireless Apps Cater to Carriers, Not Users
The drive toward next-generation wireless services is producing a torrent of application development. But a look at some of the resulting products reveals a...
Intels Mobile Power Play
Intel plans a big push into the market for mobile and laptop computer chips that use less power, but supply high speeds.The power management...
Securing Wireless Networks
As committees and working groups scramble to overhaul the various wireless standards to provide better security, some vendors are jumping into the fray with...
Palm Taps AT&T Exec to Head OS Unit
After a summer of trying to turn itself around, Palm Inc. last week named David Nagel to head the handheld computing vendors new operating...
Michael Dertouzos, 1936 – 2001
Computer science lost an intellectual cornerstone this week with the death of Michael Dertouzos, the distinguished Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor whod led the...
Legal Adviser or Network Engineer?
Its not uncommon to find IT issues in the courts. Napsters tangle with intellectual property rights and Microsofts tango with the DOJ regarding anti-trust...
Geekspeak: September 3, 2001
The U.S. Department of Energys Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative White computer was publicly unveiled last month at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Livermore, Calif....
Fast Facts Matrix: September 3, 2001
PC PowerUnited Devices, a distributed computing startup, hauled in $18.2 million in second-round funding last week. Lead investors were Constellation Ventures and GE Capital;...
Large L2 Cache Reaches PIII
Large level 2 caches are usually seen on processors used in powerful back-end servers, such as Intels Xeon chips, but Intel recently increased the...