For more rock solid predictions and navel gazing, check out silicon's newest hot topic, Beyond the Processor at http://www.silicon.com/btp Computer memory could one day be based on a non-metallic - but magnetic - material discovered accidentally by...
The kinds of device which might be best for data services and which will encourage users to adopt them also hold out the possibility of a different paradigm for those services - a download, off-network sort of world rather than a browsing, on...
and eBay have also attached fees to new services in a bid to supplement flagging revenue from their core activities. Jeff Bezos is customer-centric, he will live and die by that," said O'Boyle Kelly. The catalogue service also includes listings for...
The original IBM PC was built round an Intel processor that was never designed for general purpose computing but meant as an embedded chip in peripheral devices. Now the shift to 64-bit processing is hardly as urgent as was the shift to 32-bit...
While Intel regularly updates its processors with higher clock speeds and improves features such as cache, the pool of memory that holds data close to the processor core for quick access, the company's use of numbers for names marks a major shift.
Housed in a vertical plastic case and featuring a revolutionary pointing device called a 'mouse', the Macintosh also featured a graphical user interface, with files, folders and drives represented by pictures rather than a command line, ushering...