Motorola and Intel shake for joint WiMAX push

Motorola and Intel are joining forces to push development of the WiMAX wireless standard and ensure they get to market quickly with products that work well together. WiMAX works using the proposed IEEE 802.16e standard to offer a much more powerful version of the hot-spot, both in terms of bandwidth available and range. ...more

BlueGene/L heads the list of world's fastest computers

IBM confirmed its position as the builder of the world's fastest computers by claiming both the numbers one and two slots in the annual TOP500 list of supercomputers issued by the 20th International Supercomputing Conference (ISC2005) in Heidelberg Germany. To no-one's surprise, the Numero Uno piece of kit is the BlueGene/L System developed by IBM and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California. However, in the ensuing 12 months, the machine, which, among other things, simulates nuclear explosions, has doubled its size. ...more

Silicon Valley touches down in Oxford

Silicon Valley came to Oxford University yesterday, for the sixth time in this annual event, and two clear themes arose: the advisability for would-be entrepreneurs to Go West and plug themselves into the Silicon Valley network, and the threat posed by Google to the traditional funding strategies for online start-ups. Among the West Coast attendees at the Said Business School were successful start-up founders, such as Reid Hoffman, CEO and founder of Linked in and formerly of PayPal, and Alex Walsh CEO and founder of Photobucket, technologists such as Chris Sacca, Google's Head of Special Initiatives, and venture capitalists, such as Allen Morgan, MD of Mayfield, one of Silicon Valley's oldest VC firms. In a series of panel discussions, master classes and 'Garage Innovation' sessions, MBA students and UK start-up kingpins mixed with some of the West Coast's finest. ...more

Intel cuts prices on Pentium 4 and Xeon

Intel has announced its expected round of price cuts. The changes affect Pentium 4 and Xeon server processors. The current top-level 3. ...more

CES: Sony sees the future on telly

At CES, Sony's President Kunitake Ando has told of his company's belief in the television as being the centre of digital entertainment. He said the TV will be 'reborn as the centre of broadband entertainment'. To this end, he demonstrated products already available in Japan such as Sony's CoCoon media server and RoomLink which wirelessly routes your digital entertainment to TVs and PCs around the home. ...more