6,872 source-backed technology facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 69 of 69.
“Companies with premium service contracts will have the choice of running a second web-based version from their own data centres for free.”
“no new nuclear power station has been ordered in the US for more than 20 years”
“The move will see Microsoft catch up with products that rival Google launched three years ago”
“none is being built in western Europe.”
“comes within a week of the announcement that Google plans to challenge Windows with a free operating system.”
“Wind power still produces less than 1 per cent of the world’s electricity”
“The Californian internet firm announced the plans just nine months after launching internet browser Chrome, a product which also pitched its tents on Microsoft’s turf by competing with Internet Explorer.”
“and solar cells far less”
“Google said the operating system would initially be targeted at unsophisticated, cheap and ultra-portable laptops known as netbooks.”
“but both have trebled since 1996.”
“Called the Google Chrome Operating System, the new software will be in netbooks in the second half of 2010, Google said in a blog post, adding that it was working with multiple manufacturers.”
“on election day alone, abcNEWS.com (the internet wing of the ABC television network’s news) scored 27.1 million hits, its previous high having been the ten million who looked in to view the Kenneth Starr report on Clinton’n’Monica.”
“It’s been part of their culture to go after and remove Microsoft as a major holder of technology, and this is part of their strategy to do it.”
“mainstream news websites reported increased traffic of between 130 and 500 per cent.”
“This could be very disruptive. If they can execute, Microsoft is vulnerable to an attack like this, and they know it.”
“The privatised NTT – Japan’s equivalent of BT – has an entire floor of its 44-storey building in Tokyo devoted to demonstrating what IT will be like in ten years’ time.”
“Digital technology is altering the shape of book publishing, creating tremendous new opportunities but also putting unprecedented pressure on our costs and our traditional ways of working”
“About 10 per cent of French households are connected and the figure is rising. By 2005, it will reach 40 per cent.”
“One Monday earlier this year, I spent a lunchtime with ten venture capitalists reviewing their portfolio of 140 investments in high-tech companies on both sides of the Atlantic.”
“(The fishing licence idea was developed from scratch by Impower, a company specialising in e-government services and software.)”
“secret trials of genetically modified (GM) crops in five British counties.”
“has one-third of Europe’s bandwidth capacity”
“more than one-third of its inward high tech investment”
“Surescreen Diagnostics of Derby is offering parents a £24.99 drugs-testing kit for use on their children”
“Only 56 per cent of UK homes can receive all six packages of digital terrestrial services.”
“Each package reaches between 64 per cent and 81 per cent of British households; substantial investment could improve this to 80-83 per cent.”
“But that would still leave five million homes without reception.”
“The report to the DTI estimates it will take six years before this price differential is eliminated.”
“The DTG – really a lobbying group that supports the digital industry – itself discounts as “at the optimistic end of predictions” the forecast by the equipment manufacturers’ association that 22 million digital TVs or set-top boxes will be…”
“only one in five of us has actually done so.”
“95 per cent of us have digital access.”
“by 2002, they might cost only £25 each.”
“There are about 90 million television sets and video recorders in the country.”
“If, however, the whole country goes digital in 2004, it will arrive much faster.”
“many more will be by 2004, probably the earliest date at which the airwave auction could happen.”
“the new five‑channel system for the BBC announced recently by the director general, Greg Dyke, would become obsolete within a few years.”
“The Digital TV Group reckons that, by 2002, they might cost only £25 each.”
“probably the earliest date at which the airwave auction could happen.”
“getting 500,000 hits a day – ten times the circulation of the paper, which had shrunk to a miserable 50,000 a day.”
“the $15bn investment programme in IT from the Japanese hosts”
“just 1 per cent of internet users live on the African continent”
“It is a combination of syringe driver and personal computer that, when loaded with a mixture of a fast-acting barbiturate and curare (which causes total paralysis and so stops breathing), operates as a euthanasia machine.”
“During the 1970s, the UK spent £200m on research and development in new technologies; Japan invested an incredible £5bn over the same period.”
“They are 20 years behind the times in their new technology mindset, says one moderniser.”
“They are 20 years behind the times in their new technology mindset,” says one moderniser.”
“where Asians head more than one-third of the new company start-ups.”
““28-year-old””
“Twelve months in the making”
“two Ananova fan websites”
“£12m was invested in Digital Animation which devised Ananova when tech shares were crashing everywhere.”
“She is supposedly based on a mixture of Kylie Minogue, Posh Spice and Carol Vorderman. The result is a pleasant-looking “28-year-old” with a friendly but intelligent manner and green hair”
“it is only a couple of weeks since Ananova was launched and already [...] Ananova is taking part in a conference with Bill Gates about the future of computer hardware.”
“Twelve months in the making, Ananova’s looks and personality were developed”
“The BBC has made it clear that it is unlikely to move to Pacific Quay unless a bridge linking the site to Glasgow’s West End is thrown across the Clyde, and if they go somewhere else, that might seriously damage the credibility of the rive…”
“BBC Scotland is looking to move out of its antiquated premises at Queen Margaret Drive and build a new headquarters in Glasgow.”
“Penguin Books... assembled a team of experts to pore through Irving’s 30-odd books in English and German down to the source notes.”
“a bombastic journal that runs, according to Irving, to 20 million words.”
“in five days we are going to visit ten examples.”
“two‑seater composting lavatory”
“In a 20,000-word essay in Wired magazine – which has been compared to Einstein’s letter to Roosevelt in 1939 warning of the atomic bomb – he suggests that human beings face “something like extinction” in two generations.”
“Such machines, says Joy, could be with us in 30 years.”
“In the end, as Alan Turing said half a century ago, it may not matter whether tomorrow’s computers are “literally” conscious or not.”
“The main thrust of the Cruickshank report will be to sweep away roadblocks against the new competitive pressures, which include 50 new Internet-based bank services due to be launched this year.”
“But the Seattle economy also contains – and this is what offers continuing growth potential – more than 2,200 other software firms, to say nothing of several thousand other new and expanding enterprises in highly innovative fields such as …”
“Modern mathematicians discovered in the 1970s an equation that used the properties of prime numbers as part of radically better system of guaranteeing privacy”
“In 1961 Cedric Price, the now legendary architect, created an inspired reaction to Littlewood’s vision: Filigree Towers.”
“Shougang Steel became so expert in computerised production techniques that it won a contract to install the control systems for a US steel-maker”
“one of the young men had given up $10 million in share options when he had left a job at Yahoo! to join the start-up venture”
“Jim Clark (the only man to found three $1 billion companies)”
“Silicon Valley is no more about technology than Hollywood is about high culture”
“in the 90 seconds it takes the elevator to reach his office on the fourth floor”
“The audience: everyone in America with an income of over $70,000”
