One-third of US Net surfers have gone wireless

26 February 2007

One-third of US Net surfers have gone wirelessZDNet – 25 Feb 2007
One-third of U.S. Internet users have connected to the Web using a wireless network to send e-mails, check the latest news or read other things, according to a survey released on Sunday by the Pew Internet Project.

The survey also found that 20 percent of Internet users now have wireless networks available at home, double the number recorded in January 2005.

One-Third of Net Users Go WirelessForbes, NY - AP 02.25.07
About one-third of Internet users in the U.S. have used a wireless connection to surf the Web or check e-mail, according to a survey released Sunday.
The survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project showed that 34 percent of Internet users have gone online through Wi-Fi service or a cell phone network, including 27 percent who have logged on from somewhere other than their home or workplace.

Samsung speeds up GDDR4 graphics memoryInfoWorld, CA - Feb 23, 2007

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is using a more advanced production method to push graphics memory chips to a higher speed.
The company, which is one of the world's biggest chip makers, said Friday it has managed to make GDDR4 (graphics double data rate 4) memory chips that work at 4G bps (bits per second). That's two-thirds faster than the current fastest GDDR4 chips generally available, which operate at 2.4G bps, Samsung said.

Samsung boosts GDDR4 graphics memoryEarthtimes.org - Feb 24, 2007.

South Korean electronics giant Samsung Corp. has increased the speed of its graphics memory GDDR4 by about two-thirds. Billed as the world's fastest graphics card, the GDDR4 is mainly used to process video images in PCs, laptops and notebooks.

Apple, Cisco make 'iPhone' peace, will share nameComputerworld, MA - Feb 23, 2007
February 22, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. agreed yesterday to share the "iPhone" name, putting an end to a dispute that threatened the June launch of Apple's highly anticipated multimedia phone.

The deal ends a six-week legal trademark tussle that began Jan. 10, a day after Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced his company's iPhone, when Cisco filed suit in a northern California federal court, claiming the name as its own via a 2000 acquisition. Cisco currently sells a line of Linksys VoIP devices under the iPhone label.

Cisco-Apple Truce Murky on Details
Wyoming News, WY - February 25, 2007.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The short-lived legal battle between Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. over the "iPhone" name was only on the surface a trademark-infringement dispute involving identically named multimedia telephones.

Cisco has maintained since the start of the squabble six weeks ago that the dispute was not about money, even though it stood to profit handsomely from any settlement.


Tech vendors look to cash in on Google's new app offeringiT News, Australia – Feb 26, 2007

Several companies are jumping on the Google Apps bandwagon because they see an opportunity to offer add-on products to the search king's office software products.

A number of companies are jumping on the Google Apps bandwagon in an effort to take advantage of the search king's move to place office software products online.

Google Apps aims beyond Microsoft Office
PC World Magazine, Australia - Feb 26, 2007

Following Google's announcement that it would offer an enhanced version of its Google Apps, dubbed Google Apps Premier Edition, the company left no doubt about the direction in which it was heading.

Not only has it added key business applications -- a word processor and spreadsheet -- to Google Apps, but the company is offering the kind of support corporate IT would expect: IT management tools, technical support, and service level agreements for uptime.