A consortium of more than fifty telecoms companies - including AT&T, BT, Cable and Wireless, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and MCI - is to lay a transatlantic telephone and data cable. Expected to go live by the end of 2000, the $1.5bn project...
Lucent Technologies has unveiled an optical fibre technology that it says will quadruple the speed of long distance undersea cable links. The company claims its Truewave XL technology will allow data transmission speeds of 10GB per second over...
Fibernet is to launch a pilot scheme of symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL) networks for telcos and ISPs and will, unlike ADSL, herald the arrival of both voice and data transfer of up to 2Mbits upstream as well as downstream.
They could then transfer the copy to another computer and make it available to mass audiences within a peer-to-peer community such as Kazaa. Users could, for example, use the personal video recorder to copy a television show or movie from a pay...
For the first time, Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition is supporting multiple tuners, meaning that consumers will be able to watch one channel while recording another or record two stations at once, silicon.com sister site CNET News.com...
You can shift a workload from server A to server B but if the security policy doesn't follow, [virtualisation] has broken it. Crosby warned that throwing random data at the interface between the guest software and the controlling hypervisor could...