45 posts
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Holiday Decorations Can Create Major Wi-Fi Disturbances
AirMagnet Inc., the award-winning leader in wireless network assurance, announced the results of a recently conducted survey measuring wireless signal strength in a standard office setting both before and after introducing a change in the office environment — holiday…
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Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks
Parents and teachers are forcing some schools to dismantle wireless computer networks amid fears that they could damage children’s health. More schools are putting transmitters in classrooms to give pupils wireless access from laptops to the school computer network and the…
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The Lowly Hardware Technician
Seeing I have been in the PC business for over seven years I have noticed something about the support industry. PC support companies build their business on the backs of high school and college graduates, the people who get a job just to get by until something better comes…
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Save $100 By Simply Turning Off Your Computer
Running your computer is pretty darn cheap when viewed at an hourly rate – approximately $0.02 an hour. This figure was obtained with the following assumptions: The typical desktop computer uses around 200 watts of energy per hour (with a 50% / 50% split of energy…
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Moore’s Law is dead, says Gordon Moore
The extrapolation of a trend that was becoming clear even as long ago as 1965, and has been the pulse of the IT industry ever since will eventually end, said Moore, who is now retired from Intel. Forty years after the publication of his law, which states that transistor density…