Stories about: Epoch

The Australian National University (ANU) is conducting a world-first program to digitally map the southern sky using a specially constructed telescope called Skymapper, and in another global first will provide the data free to the world via a virtual observatory.

Moore's Law is dead. Long live Moore's Law, which for most of us was the opening salvo in the intellectual exercise of relating society to technology.

Research being conducted in conjunction with the Managing the Information Resource Program at the University of California in Los Angeles indicates that we are a mere 10 years away from the day when every molecule on this planet could be assigned an IP address.

Dates and time form an important part of many sophisticated PHP applications. From simply displaying the date for a user to validating dates and times in user-supplied input, PHP developers have a wealth of functions to solve all manner of problems.

Sun Microsystems's Greg Papadopoulos shook hands and answered questions in front of the wall-sized panel of white boards he had filled with his charts and diagrams. By the end of his two-hour chat with analysts, he had put a fresh coat of paint on Sun's ages-old tag line, "The network is the computer."

Concerns about denial-of-service attacks are resulting in a growing number of products and services aimed at helping companies detect, trace and block the threat. But most of the technologies do little to prevent such attacks outright, users said.

Despite the brief moment of lifting hopes on the news of rising stock indexes Thursday, all was back to gloom and doom by the time the markets closed, with the same rumbles of layoffs and financial warnings that shook the technology industry in the first quarter of the year.

Alleging that their patented property was stolen, Stanford University and Litton Systems filed suit against 15 fiber-optic manufacturing companies, according to Randy Belote, spokesman for Litton Systems.

Wireless access to corporate data was the theme at this year's DEMOmobile show in Pasadena, Calif., with hardware announcements mostly taking a backseat.

Positioning its MQSeries middleware to take advantage of the expected explosion of wireless handheld devices, IBM this week debuted MQSeries Everyplace, which allows users to conduct secure business transactions.

We know that more discussion on the technology of your listening pleasure was scheduled for this week, but spleen and fury has diverted us from the appointed path and we feel compelled to comment.