Intel has partnered with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and will initially provide its army of Linux and open source developers to help improve the OLPC software.
An industry group has formally christened a faster second-generation version of the PCI technology that's used to plug everything from video cards to InfiniBand adapters into computers.
In an effort to speed the development of interoperable wireless networking technologies, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced on Monday that it has teamed up with several competing technology groups.
Industry groups backing competing wireless standards have admitted that they must start cooperating more for users' sake.
The hodgepodge of incompatible wireless networking technologies is about to get a bit smaller, as companies working on Bluetooth and ultrawideband are combining their efforts.
From 2004, a new I/O technology called PCI Express will power desktops, notebooks and servers. Should you defer your hardware upgrade plans?
The group responsible for maintaining the PCI standard for linking PC components has announced that it is working on a new version that will double the speed of connections.
The Web's leading standards body is forging ahead with new Web services initiatives, putting out a new draft proposal and co-sponsoring an August meeting on security.
Two international standards bodies have teamed up on a forum about Web services, in a bid to clarify what's really going on.
Bluetooth adoption in the enterprise could be just around the corner, assuming issues such as questionable security, possible interference with wireless LANs, and product availability are suitably resolved.
After reading of my botched Bluetooth demo, readers offered up their own interoperability horror stories, including how Microsoft's Bluetooth-based keyboards and mice only work with Microsoft-branded Bluetooth transceivers. Can this be for real?
Bluetooth was supposed to cure cable clutter, by letting PCs, keyboards, printers, and PDAs talk to each other without wires. Here's why that hasn't happened--and what needs to be done.
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