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Velocity 103

Reviews The Velocity 103 offers a lot of features, but this Windows Mobile smartphone will have a tough time competing because of its unintuitive interface and performance issues.

Wednesday, October 08 2008 11:30 AM

Tags: Mobile, Smart Phone, Video, HTC Touch, Touch Screen, Velocity 103, Bluetooth 2.1, speakerphone, toolbar, Velocity

Games pay off for tertiary students

News Over half of students in Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology program get jobs in the sector, while two games go commercial.

Tuesday, September 01 2009 06:13 PM

Tags: Games, Product development and design, Software engineering/development, Certification, Microsoft Xbox Live, Singapore, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, R&D, strategy, computer game

Apple Power Mac G5 dual 2.5GHz

Reviews Creative pros and power users will salivate over the speed and the design of Apple's top-of-the-line Power Mac G5, but we wish it offered more expansion and better support.

Tuesday, November 09 2004 10:03 AM

Yahoo stock rises on new acquisition report

News A second report indicates that AOL's former CEO, Jonathan Miller, is interested in buying some or all of Yahoo.

Wednesday, December 03 2008 05:45 AM

Tags: Web sites, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., Stock, venture capital, venture-capital fund, Velocity, Wall Street Journal, private equity

Google and the billion-dollar HTML tag

News Marissa Mayer, Google's guru of user experience, has found that focusing on speed in Web development can really pay off.

Thursday, June 25 2009 09:42 AM

Tags: Web services, Search, Google Inc., Google Checkout, I/O, Velocity, California, Web Developer, Google Maps, Marissa Mayer

Facebook's load balancing act by the numbers

News Some of Facebook's recent feature launches have brought in a crazy amount of traffic. How does the site balance it?

Wednesday, June 24 2009 09:59 AM

Tags: Web sites, Web services, CNN, load balancing, social networking, Facebook, San Jose, Velocity, data center, California

Google: Server efficiency needs new recipe

News Mobile computing companies have successfully lowered gadgets' power consumption. Too bad that work doesn't help much with servers, according to a Google engineer.

Tuesday, June 24 2008 07:55 AM

Tags: Servers, Activity, Mobile, Adapter, Google Inc., Electronics, Server, processor, hard drive, chip designer

Google to highlight Web's need for speed

News Google plans to unveil a new Web site designed to educate Web publishers on ways to make their pages faster and more powerful.

Wednesday, June 24 2009 09:11 AM

Tags: Java, Web servers, Web sites, Web services, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Firefox plug-in, JavaScript, San Jose, Velocity

M-Commerce's big moment

News Mobile commerce is gaining momentum as consumers get comfortable with ordering all sorts of products by cell phone and companies such as Papa John's watch sales climb.

Tuesday, October 13 2009 11:22 AM

Tags: Mobile commerce, Starbucks Corp., Phone, cell phone, mobile, Amazon.com Inc., M-commerce Driver, Papa John, Sales, M-commerce

IBM's Blue Velocity boost for dot-coms

News IBM Corp has started a programme to help what it calls Net generation businesses or Internet start-ups, which will focus on helping these companies become profitable as soon as possible.

Thursday, July 05 2001 02:39 PM