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IBM unveils software for real-time data backup

News IBM plans to announce new data-backup software on Friday, becoming the latest and largest entrant into the market for continuous data protection. IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files, which is slated for release on 16 September, is...

26 August 2005, 9:39

Microsoft and Motorola form new alliance

News The effort is designed to better serve law enforcement agencies and emergency service providers by increasing the reliability of the software and allowing continuous access of data. Mission-critical environments demand unparalleled reliability and...

5 October 2005, 9:51

Memory cards survive plummet into ocean

News The camera and the recorder each contained SanDisk SD flash memory cards to capture images and continuous telemetry readings. This gave us more accurate data," Menchaca said, "and just as important, it was continuous, whereas the data we received...

11 July 2005, 10:22

New, Earth-like planet discovered

News Microlensing involves nearly continuous monitoring of the stars through various telescopes around the world. Once the OGLE telescope spotted the planet, the network was triggered to begin recording continuous data.

26 January 2006, 9:40

Photos: Nikon D80 comes into focus

News The Nikon D80 offers continuous shooting at 3fps for up to 100 shots when shooting in JPEG normal mode, Nikon says. Nikon released information on the much-anticipated Nikon D80 dSLR camera on Wednesday.

10 August 2006, 11:08

Trains to hook up to satellite broadband

News Wireless hot spots have become ubiquitous in city centres, but transport operators have been slower to bring wireless Internet access to passengers, partly because of the technical hurdles involved in maintaining a continuous link to a moving...

13 September 2006, 10:58

High-tech keyboard takes cue from Etch-a-Sketch

News Instead of tapping independently on four virtual keys with a stylus to spell 'word', for example, consumers would put the stylus on 'w' and then carve a continuous trail all the way to 'd'. It may not be long before you can input data into your...

12 July 2005, 9:48

Sony looks for musical magic from Walkman Beans

News Sony puts the continuous playback time at 50 hours, and a quick-charge function allows three hours of playback on a three-minute charge. Sony is getting curvy and colourful with its latest digital Walkman offering.

19 August 2005, 11:13

Milton Keynes leads UK cities to Wi-Fi

News He claims it will be "the largest continuous area" to offer free Wi-Fi access in the UK. Milton Keynes hopes to be the first UK city to offer free wireless Internet access throughout its city centre. The service, which will go live on 1 August...

26 May 2006, 10:45

Nanobots make themselves into models

News The trick is that the fabric would not be a continuous piece of material. Intel is trying to see if millions of tiny robots can work together to create a coffee cup, or a model of a truck. Intel's lab in Pittsburgh, affiliated with Carnegie Mellon...

2 October 2006, 10:30

Microsoft unwraps Zune for Christmas

News This gets harder and harder to do with Apple's continuous upgrades of the iPod. Microsoft took the wraps off its Zune media player on Thursday, though what's underneath is largely what enthusiasts had come to expect.

15 September 2006, 11:21

Britannica lambasts Wikipedia findings

News We practice strong scholarship, reasoned judgment, and continuous editorial review, and we publish a reliable, high-quality encyclopedia. The Encyclopaedia Britannica has reopened the debate over how its accuracy compares to that of its online...

27 March 2006, 10:20

Wi-Fi ready to roll on East Coast trains

News It's such a mixture, which is the reason why we didn't go for a ground-based system," he explained on Friday, adding that, unlike Virgin, GNER operates a network of routes rather than one continuous line.

30 October 2006, 9:39

An automatic doctor that blogs your blood pressure

News The major advantage to the AdvancedBPM system is having continuous and ambulatory monitoring of blood pressure," said Dr John Vasconcellos of Scripps-Green Hospital, in La Jolla, California. Think of it as a blog for your arteries.

16 September 2005, 10:35

Photos: Satellite tech maps through clouds

News Kitmitto said the mudflats in Morecambe change continually with the tide coming in and out and that to understand them it needs continuous imaging from the air. Satellite technology able to penetrate thick cloud cover is being used to help prevent...

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12 December 2007, 8:46