Martyn Williams

Articles by Martyn Williams

Processor prizefight – pushing chips to their limits

Overclockers waged a battle of ice against fire last week in Taipei, pushing the performance limits of Intel's CPUs to 5GHz. The hobbyists, who are becoming an increasingly common sight at IT trade shows, are perfecting the art of pushing processors to their limits.

Millions disconnected by NTT broadband outage

Millions of broadband Internet users across most of eastern Japan were unable to log on Tuesday evening after a problem at the country's largest broadband provider.

US Army to evaluate Mobile WiMax use

The U.S. Army

Google looking to expand geo-tagged information

Google Inc. is looking to increase the range and variety of information with a geographical element that it offers, and hopes its users will play a big part in the expansion.

RIM discloses reason for Blackberry service blackout

The addition of a new software routine caused the multi-hour failure of Research in Motion's Blackberry messaging service in North America earlier this week, the company said Friday.

Adobe CEO won

The head of Adobe Systems has questioned Microsoft's commitment to keeping its new Silverlight platform compatible with other operating systems besides Windows.

Lenovo top, Apple bottom in green IT ranking

Greenpeace has published its latest "green ranking" of the world's biggest electronics companies and the results might surprise you.

Wikipedia open-source search engine hopes to rival Google, Yahoo

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is targeting the fourth quarter of this year for the unveiling of an open-source search engine that he hopes could challenge the dominance of market-leaders Google and Yahoo.

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