But the first Java products were grindingly slow to execute, and their claims for uniform inter-operability were quickly exposed as absurd. Packet based GPRS services are poised to deliver packet billed applications with better bandwidth than...
Now its developers at the IEEE intend to take Ethernet out of the LAN and into the WAN these issues are becoming more pressing. The advent of its fatter version is opening up the transfer of WAN data from ATM, frame-relay or packet over SONET/SDH...
Then there are fuel cells with ~x20 the energy density, and interfaces that are almost human. Yes, our devices have become smaller and displays are bigger, and interfaces have become a little friendlier but the reality is that the PC, PDA, mobile...
And developments in optical equipment have pushed this trend to the point where there is substantial overcapacity in long-distance physical links. The combination of digital signals and optical fibre made long-distance communications far easier and...
Obviously, all of the different optical-drive technologies are supported in Windows. It was only three years after I started Microsoft that I went over to Apple and did Applesoft Basic for the Apple II and Office for the Mac as a product.
Other than a cursory mention of the new version of OS X for Mac, the keynote speech at the Worldwide Developer Conference was the iPhone and the developer community, and rightly so. The other big announcement was the upgrade of the Mac.com suite on...