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The Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative (E2Epi) is collecting and propagating information on how to get the highest possible performance from high-performance networks. Among other recent developments, E2Epi has formed a Technical Advisory Group and launched a discussion forum; on Wednesday, November 14, E2Epi will host a half-day workshop at SC2001.
In his first public appearance as dean of the USC School of Engineering, Max Nikias told a breakfast gathering of 250 Orange County business executives that the next fundamental Internet breakthrough will be the advent of 3-D immersive environments that encompass visual, aural and haptics (touch) technologies. “I call this vision ‘immersipresence.’ It will combine […]
EDUCAUSE 2001, taking place this week in Indianapolis, will include Internet2-related sessions on middleware, the Access Grid, and the Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative, as well as an Internet2 organizational update.
Colleges and universities are making slow yet steady progress on eCommerce and eService initiatives, according to new data from the 2001 Campus Computing Survey More than a fourth (27.6 percent) of the nation’s colleges and universities can process credit card payments from their campus Web sites, a gain of 50 percent in the past year […]
New portables equipped with Intel’s high-powered Pentium III Processor-M CPU nearly pulled off a clean sweep of our power chart this month. The new processor’s bus speed increases from 100 MHz (the PIII chip’s standard) to 133 MHz, and the secondary cache doubles to 512KB. The top-rated Dell Inspiron 8100, which carries a PIII-M-1000/733 chip, […]
The next generation of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows CE embedded operating system will include support for the wireless standard Bluetooth, paving the way for CE-powered computing devices to communicate with a variety of other wireless devices, the software maker said Tuesday.
A whopping 93 percent of U.S. homes equipped with PCs now have Internet access, marking a 10 percent increase over last year, according to a survey released Monday by the Yankee Group Inc.
Distance learning solutions in the higher education marketplace just got faster by some 500 percent, thanks to Compaq Computer Corporation’s (NYSE: CPQ – news) use of Packeteer Web acceleration software. The solution has been named the Compaq Dynamic Content Accelerator, Enabled by Packeteer. Loaded on Compaq industry-standard servers and powered by Packeteer’s (Nasdaq: PKTR – […]
No. 1 personal computer maker Dell Computer Corp , which made its name by selling made-to-order computers directly to customers, on Friday took a small step away from that strategy by selling a ready-made PC with a much lighter price tag.