South Africa, too, is vulnerable to cyber attacks and needs to take steps to secure its digital futur
Billions of people now carry around more computing power in their pockets than was used to land a man on the moon, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Even for its author, Moore’s law – a predictor of progress in the electronics industry – has been around a lot longer than expected.
Intel unveiled developments at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that it says will help drive the reinvention of desktop computing.
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At the CES, Intel’s Brian Krzanich has announced its plans to accelerate innovation across devices while addressing the issue of conflict minerals.
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Kenya’s Safaricom has announced the release of the Yolo smartphone, the first smartphone for Africa using the Intel smartphone platform.
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Google’s Eric Schmidt is to meet the European Commission’s antitrust chief amid signs that the search giant will be accused of abusing its position.
Intel has said computer makers Lenovo, Asustek and Acer will launch its new lightweight notebook PCs — known as Ultrabooks — at the end of May.
Microsoft is expected to post a 9% increase in fiscal fourth-quarter profit, but investors may be distracted by evidence of flickering PC sales.
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/ 2 September 2010
Right now a tectonic shift is under way in one of the world’s most important industries: information technology.
Resilient demand for PCs and servers helped Intel’s margin and revenue forecasts blast past Wall Street expectations.
Intel on Monday revealed details of a new generation of chips designed for video-game lovers and multitaskers.
Intel rolled out a new batch of chips for laptops on Monday that promises longer battery life and better graphics-rendering abilities.
Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker business partner of Microsoft, has no immediate plans to roll out the Windows Vista operating system to all its employees.
Microsoft and Intel said on Tuesday they are teaming with United States universities to unleash the mighty potential of multicore computer chips. A recent trend is to increase computing power but reduce electricity use and heat production by crafting multiple processors, or computer brains, into each chip.
It seems that the £200 (about R3 150) ultraportable Asus Eee PC can do no wrong. The size of a paperback, weighing less than a kilogram, with built-in Wi-Fi and using Flash memory instead of a hard drive for storage, the Eee PC has been winning positive comments from both reviewers and users.
Computing-industry leaders claimed on Monday a leading role in the fight against climate change, arguing that software could cut world energy use. ”Green computing” has been adopted as a theme of the CeBIT computing expo, which opens in Hanover, Germany, on Tuesday.
Microsoft has announced steep price cuts in its Vista operating system in a bid to spur sales of its year-old operating system. The move, announced late last week, came as the company is facing a troubling class-action lawsuit that alleges it colluded with Intel to market computers as being ”Vista-capable”.
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/ 28 February 2008
Microsoft is to stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba ceded the high-definition video-format battle to Sony’s Blu-ray. Microsoft said on Saturday it will continue to provide standard warranty support for its HD DVD players.
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/ 12 February 2008
The first cellphones fitted with Google’s Android software platform made their debut at an industry trade show on Monday, a milestone for the internet giant as it looks to dominate the wireless world. A handful of chip makers showed off prototype handsets at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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/ 10 January 2008
What’s in store for tech fans in 2008? Plenty. If the stirrings of the present are any indication of what’s on the horizon, technology buffs can look forward to products that are better, faster, and less expensive than those we rely on today. The best news of all is that some of the most exciting products should appear earlier in 2008 rather than later on.
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/ 11 November 2007
Low-cost computers meant to usher poor children worldwide into the digital age are being mass-produced in China as United States non-profit One Laptop Per Child strives to deliver on its promise. The first of the XO laptops being built at a Quanta Computer facility in Changshu are destined for Uruguay.
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/ 30 October 2007
A computer developed for the world’s poor children, dubbed ”the laptop”, has reached a milestone: It is now selling for . The One Laptop per Child Foundation, founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte, has started offering the lime-green-and-white machines in lots of 10 000 or more for apiece on its website.
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/ 20 September 2007
A United Nations-backed Africa communications summit in Rwanda next month will seek to boost high-speed internet access to match the continent’s explosive growth in cellphones, officials said on Wednesday. In Africa, cellphones overtook fixed lines six years ago and now outnumber them nearly five to one.
Chipmaker Intel unveiled its new high-performance central processing unit at the recent Leipzig Games Convention in Germany. The Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 was shown to members of the press and industry ahead of the official opening of Europe’s biggest show for interactive entertainment.