capacity

AT&T: Net to hit full capacity by 2010

News The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. We are going to be butting up against the physical capacity of the Internet by 2010," he said.

Tags: traffic, bandwidth, speech, broadband

21 April 2008, 10:10

Is the mobile TV capacity problem solved?

News Earlier this week, IPWireless, which makes chips and wireless equipment for the mobile phone industry, announced the technology, called TDtv, claiming it provides enough capacity over the existing 3G spectrum so that mobile carriers won't have to...

23 January 2006, 11:31

Seagate ups hard drive capacity with new tech

News The internal drives include the company's first-ever design for the automotive industry, an 8GB 1-inch drive for portable media players and a 500GB capacity disc drive for home entertainment systems that can store as much as 85 hours of high...

10 June 2005, 9:50

Virgin to boost broadband bandwidth

News Virgin Media is looking to squeeze four times the capacity out of its optical network -- but without the expense of ripping out and upgrading its fibre. But now Virgin Media, which already offers the fastest broadband speeds in the UK with its...

Tags: optical, kit, bandwidth, trial

12 May 2008, 10:14

New hard drive hints at 100GB iPod?

News Toshiba on Tuesday announced new 100GB models of a small hard drive, a move that could lead to larger-capacity iPods next year. Moving from 80GB to 100GB would mean an iPod capacity increase from roughly 20,000 songs to 25,000 songs, going by Apple...

6 December 2006, 9:23

TDK boasts 200GB Blu-ray discs

News Technology manufacturing company TDK has managed to push Blu-ray's capacity even higher, to create a 200GB prototype disc. Previously, TDK's Blu-ray discs had a capacity of 25GB per layer, but it has now managed to raise this to 33GB.

4 September 2006, 10:16

Google puts the brakes on Accelerator

News Google cited capacity as the reason for putting the brake on downloads of Accelerator, which is designed to speed the delivery of Web pages. A message on the site said the company had reached its "maximum capacity of users and (we) are actively...

12 May 2005, 12:12

Iomega looking to make 800GB DVDs

News Storage company Iomega is looking to increase the capacity of DVDs up to 100 times, meaning it could, conceivably, create 800GB discs. The move would allow companies to significantly increase DVD capacity without having to change to next-generation...

27 May 2005, 10:06

Samsung unveils 16-gigabit flash drive

News Samsung has developed a new computer flash technology with so much capacity it could replace mini hard drives in some PCs, the company said on Monday. But Samsung's top brass are touting the new small-size, large-capacity devices as an alternative...

13 September 2005, 11:00

Fujitsu prepares 300GB laptop drive

News The vendor argues that the capacity of these kind of drives is now so high that they can replace the need for 3.5-inch desktop PC hard drives, which traditionally have offered greater storage capabilities.

14 December 2006, 9:55

Tiny hard disk could give mobile phones 4GB

News Hard-disk maker Cornice has launched a 2.5cm (1-inch) disk drive that will easily fit into mobile phones, GPRS devices or very small MP3 devices -- and it has a substantial 4GB capacity. The ideal capacity for most of these devices, today, is 4GB...

20 July 2005, 11:21

Intel and Microsoft endorse HD DVD

News It has to be a format that offers the best of both worlds," though, and the Blu-ray camp isn't willing to yield on the capacity issue. Typical DVDs today can hold 4.7GB of information, but two duelling camps are trying to establish a larger...

27 September 2005, 11:28

Streaming video too fat for 3G phone networks

News It just doesn't have the kind of capacity that video demands. According to a recent report from Analysys, an independent research group in the UK, capacity on a third-generation, or 3G, wireless network could be exceeded as early as 2007 if 40 per...

4 October 2005, 12:45

Writable HD DVDs due in 2006

News A group led by Toshiba supports a technology called HD DVD for next-generation DVDs, which promise much greater capacity for high-definition movies, while a camp led by Sony backs another format, known as Blu-ray.

9 June 2005, 10:41

London mobile service strained after explosions

News A statement from the UK's largest network operator, Vodafone, said the excessive number of calls had caused outages as the operator set aside capacity for phone calls to the emergency services. Following the major incident in London today, Vodafone...

7 July 2005, 14:22