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7th January 2007 Archive

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  • Chasing the holy grail: the algorithmic arms race

    Column The finance industry's secret weapon

    Investment banks and major brokerage firms may or may not be leading the innovation in algorithms for securities trading purposes, but they take the lead in publicising their innovations in this field. With trashy names reminiscent of graphic comics such as Dagger, Nighthawk, Cobra, Razor and so on, they are rolling these …

    Applications 7 Jan 2007, 07:02

  • Web stalkers to get face search plug-in

    Opinion Polar Rose dodges thorny issues

    If privacy campaigners think the internet has given them stomach ulcers, they ain't seen the latest in facial recognition web search yet. The idea is that you can snap a picture of someone with, say, your mobile phone, stick it on your computer and use it to search the web for other pictures of the same person. Using a …

    Applications 7 Jan 2007, 07:02

  • IT slave workers moan some more

    Letters Porsche-sized salaries are a myth

    Since the new boss of the British Computer Society warned that the economy would wither if it didn't train some more IT bods, Register readers have started to recount the sad stories of their underpaid, unappreciated, insignificant lives. The problem, according to Professor Nigel Shadbolt Shadbolt, the BCS head, was that …

    Letters 7 Jan 2007, 07:02

  • Netgear brings media player into HD era

    For EVA and EVA

    CES 2007 Netgear has announced the HD-ready successor to its EVA700 networked digital media player, beefing up that product's feature set with pre-standard 802.11n wireless networking and an HDMI port for easy connection to an HD TV. It also has built-in YouTube support. The EVA8000 will also support the broad array for …

    Hardware 7 Jan 2007, 19:50

  • LG unwraps slick Blu-ray, HD DVD player

    One for living room, another for PCs

    CES 2007 LG today unveiled the dual-format HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc player that garnered it so many headlines last week. Dubbed the Super Multi Blue Player - aka the BH100 - it's due to go on sale later this quarter, the company said. So will a version for PCs. The BH100 supports 1080p playback through HDMI, component- and …

    Hardware 7 Jan 2007, 20:22

  • Toshiba expands HD DVD player line-up

    1080p added to entry-level spec

    CES 2007 Toshiba today extended its HD DVD player line-up with an intermediate model that combines the feature set of the entry-level HD-A2 with 1080p-resolution output. The HD-A2 - in Europe, it's the HD-E2 - is limited to 720p and 1080i. The more feature-rich HD-XA2 has 1080p too, but there's clearly a demand for a low-cost …

    Hardware 7 Jan 2007, 20:49