The World Cup soccer tournament taking place in Germany is not only the planet's largest sporting event; during the four weeks of play through July 9, it's also home to what many experts say is the world's biggest communications network built for a single event.
I've been thinking a lot about this whole Wi-Fi business. I've been thinking particularly about the huge amount of money that companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Dell and HP are pouring into initiatives designed to popularize wirelessly connected, 802.11b-compatible mobile computing.
A new hardware-based user authentication capability will be available in Intel Corp.'s upcoming Banias microprocessors, due out next year in notebook computers.
Compaq Computer Corp. has been awarded a five-year contract from the U.S. Postal Service that is estimated to be worth around US$1 billion, the company announced Thursday. The contract was awarded through a competitive bid.