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A nation's road to 'digital abundance'
News As Singapore continues to set its sights on a high-tech future, ZDNet Asia looks at the investments the country has made over the past year to achieve its goals.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Local Government, grid computing, Abundance, Singapore, On-demand, Hardware, software, high-performance computing, high-performance
ISPs wary of role in anti-piracy actions
News As Napster's heyday fades into Internet mythology, its influence is being etched in an increasingly tense game of cops and robbers that has ISPs caught in the crossfire.
IBM, Seiko Epson to jointly make chips for mobile devices
News International Business Machines Corp and Seiko Epson Corp reached a basic agreement to set up a joint venture to make chips for customers that make mobile, Internet and wireless computing devices.
Delayed Debian distribution released
News Fourth version of the popular Linux distro is now available for download--four months after its target release date.
Tags: Linux, Open source
Study: DSL to overtake ISDN by 2003 in M'sia
News Broadband access services which are expected to be rolled out in Malaysia during the first half of 2001, are set to chart exponential growth till year 2006, a study by Frost & Sullivan revealed.
Steam age tech takes heat off chips
News Victorian engineering has come to the aid of overheated twenty-first century chips.
Study: DSL to overtake ISDN in M'sia by 2003
News Broadband access services, which are expected to be rolled out in Malaysia during the first half of 2001, are set to chart exponential growth till year 2006, a study by Frost & Sullivan revealed.
ISPs wary of role in anti-piracy actions
News As Napster's heyday fades into Internet mythology, its influence is being etched in an increasingly tense game of cops and robbers that has Internet service providers caught in the crossfire.
Mobile games gaining market foothold?
News Yes, says industry player, who adds that the US$3.5 billion industry is expanding into niche games segments.
Tags: Mobile applications
HP offers Debian Linux support
News Hewlett-Packard will offer support, but not marketing, for the noncommercial Linux version.
Tags: Linux, Business applications, Open source
Building Vista buzz with a puzzle
News A new game may or may not give a boost to sales of the OS, but it could send the winner nearly into orbit.
Tags: Microsoft Windows
Microsoft math: dual core licensed as one chip
News Siding with chipmakers, Microsoft said it won't charge double for per-processor licenses when dual-core chips come to market next year.
Tags: Business applications, Software licensing
Training molecules to draw chips
News Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have come up with a way to organize molecules through lithography, the science of "drawing" chip circuits. It's a development that could one day help bridge the nanotechnology-silicon divide.
Faking out the fakers
News Faced with a tidal wave of counterfeit goods, companies are turning to secretive sci-fi technology. But crooks catch on fast.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security Management, Sales/revenue, Brand management
Piracy battles have ISPs stuck in crossfire
News As Napster's heyday fades into Internet mythology, its influence is being etched in an increasingly tense game of cops and robbers that has Internet service providers caught in the crossfire.
