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PlayStation 3 stats spotlighted

News CPU: Cell Processor• PowerPC-base Core @ 3.2GHz• 1 VMX vector unit per core• 512KB L2 cache• 7 x SPE @ 3.2GHz• 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs• 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE• 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy• total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPSGPU...

18 May 2005, 9:27

What is your Wi-Fi saying about you?

News Much more information can be plucked out of the air if the computer is connected to an access point, in particular an access point without security. Simply booting up a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop can tell people sniffing wireless network traffic a lot...

2 March 2007, 9:24

Vista creates a puzzling buzz

News There appears to be significant buzz surrounding Vanishing Point and its ambitious series of scheduled events in cities around the world. Unlike previous 42 Entertainment projects, Vanishing Point is not a pure ARG.

15 January 2007, 10:13

Internet search dives into the gadget fray

News Make no doubt, the high-tech and consumer electronics industries are converging, and Semel and Page's presence at CES underscores that point. There's little doubt at this point that Google and Yahoo are the top dogs in the search market, and as...

5 January 2006, 9:46

News.blog: 'Second Life' goes back to its early roots

News At that point, he explained, no one had really thought that Second Life was about user-created content. Rosedale added that the point had passed about a year and a half ago where it was impossible for any user to see all of the new content created...

21 August 2006, 9:30

Camera shake could be no more

News A big selling point in new cameras is technology to counteract the unsteady hands of photographers as the photo is being taken. One example shows a bird with black, white and rust-coloured feathers, blurred to the point where its legs are barely...

10 August 2006, 9:30

Wi-Fi used for location services

News Using the unique identifier of the wireless router, it notes in the database where the access point is located. The company has compiled a database of every wireless access point in a given city. Morgan said that the software is able to detect when...

21 June 2005, 10:10

BT's Wireless Cities initiative grows

News Access points are linked to the Internet via a point-to-point link or meshed backhaul. BT has expanded its Wireless Cities programme, which provides Wi-Fi connectivity in town centres across the UK. The company said on Tuesday that it has expanded...

12 September 2007, 9:14

The great Windows Vista bug-hunt

News At this point, I don't think we know enough about the bugs," Gartner analyst Michael Silver said. At that point, the company would have to quickly ascertain whether the issue could be resolved in the remaining time.

31 May 2006, 9:57

Microsoft wants to meet more hackers

News At one point in the March meeting, a hacker lured a laptop running Windows onto a rogue wireless network. We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it," he said.

2 August 2005, 9:11

No Vista on Apple's horizon

News To this point, all of the Intel Macs have used 32-bit chips. Apple has said that it won't stop Mac owners from running or trying to run Windows on their Macs, but it has said it isn't supporting such efforts, a point Esfahani's talk made all the...

10 March 2006, 9:29

Fujitsu Siemens lines up 3G laptops

News Laptops with integrated 3G have become more common over the past year and, at one point, the technology was even due to be included in Intel's Santa Rosa processing platform. In March, Fujitsu Siemens chief executive Bernd Bischoff announced that...

Tags: connectivity, laptops, intel, inch

10 July 2007, 8:54

Photos: Microsoft's 3D photo album

News A close-up look at how the browser technology creates a 3D model by distributing the photos according to the vantage point from which they were taken. Photosynth also lets its users find shots that are similar to a given photo -- a historical view...

3 August 2006, 9:12

BBC tech chief calls iPlayer critics unfair

News It was just the starting point. Highfield said: "The point is that I do believe we will be able to and I'm pretty certain at some point during 2008 we will have one. The BBC has hit back at criticisms from the Mac and open source communities over...

Tags: platform, xp, linux, windows xp

31 October 2007, 9:43

Google employees patent wireless ideas

News Patent application No.seeks to develop a system for dynamically modifying the appearance of browser screens on a client device when connecting to a wireless access point. Under the patent, the browser's appearance would be modified to reflect the...

28 March 2006, 9:20