Neowin News Feed for: Faster

Lazy loading now available in Chrome Canary builds, allows faster page loading

Usama Jawad — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:44:01 +0000

Google is currently working on built-in lazy loading capabilities in Chrome, which allow for significantly faster page load times, as only specific website elements will be loaded instead of all. Read more...

Websites will load 'significantly faster' in Microsoft Edge with the Fall Creators Update

Usama Jawad — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 21:02:01 +0000

Microsoft claims that with the Fall Creators Update, webpages will load a lot faster in Microsoft Edge. This is due to the introduction of independent rendering for various elements used by websites. Read more...

Rumor: Next gen iPhone to feature much faster internet speed

Sam Symons — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:55:26 +0000

More rumors pointing to a next generation iPhone have come out, this time pointing to the iPhone 3G's questionable 3G speeds. According to Business Insider, the next generation iPhone will (when inevitably released) feature faster... Read more...

Apple announces faster syncing with Outlook for MobileMe

Brad Sams — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:09:12 +0000

Apple has posted on its website that they have improved MobileMe syncing with Microsoft Outlook. This is a step in the right direction for the platform after it faced a very rocky start. From... Read more...

Windows Server 2008 is 20% faster than Vista

Steven Parker — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:56:33 +0000

It seems Microsoft may have a successor (or replacement) for Vista after all and it's already been released. Windows Server 2008 isn't easy to configure as a desktop operating system but when done correctly... Read more...

Vista SP1 RTM up to 86% faster

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:01:06 +0000

Is Vista SP1 really the shot in the arm your Vista system needs? We've spent many hours strapped to our benchmarking system in a caffeine and pizza fueled haze to uncover these very interesting results.... Read more...

AT&T Announces Free Wi-Fi, Faster Speeds for Some Customers

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:43:56 +0000

AT&T announced today that it is boosting speeds for some of its AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet customers and offering AT&T broadband customers access to free Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. AT&T says that more... Read more...

ATI R680 is 1000X Faster Than a Cray-1 Supercomputer

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:19:13 +0000

We just got a nice look at the R680, the upcoming enthusiast graphics card from ATI that is, apparently, as fast as 1000 Cray-1s. We're not allowed to say exactly how fast that is, but... Read more...

Samsung to produce faster graphics memory next year

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:31:40 +0000

Samsung Electronics next year plans to begin mass production of a new type of graphics memory that both consumes less power and is significantly faster than existing chips. Called GDDR (Graphics Double Data Rate) 5,... Read more...

Windows Server 2008 copies 45 Times Faster Than '03

Steven Parker — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:02:02 +0000

It's not unheard of for some of the earliest adopters of Microsoft's Vista this year to compare the experience to swimming in wet cement -- slow and not very pretty. But word is filtering out... Read more...

Internet2 just got 10 times faster

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:06:41 +0000

Until recently, Internet2 had a theoretical limit of 10 gigabits per second, but now, by sending data using 10 different colors of light over a single cable, operators are boosting the network's capacity to 100... Read more...

Next-gen memory 500 times faster, but slow to take off

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:14:06 +0000

The chip manufacturing community has long dreaded the day when flash memory could no longer shrink in size. But that day continues to be pushed back as chip manufacturers are seemingly slowing their commitment to... Read more...

IEEE group settles on faster Ethernet plans

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:02:45 +0000

A technical group working on the next generation of Ethernet has agreed to disagree and will now work on a single standard that covers both 40Gbps and 100Gbps speeds. The Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG),... Read more...

Snowflakes promise faster chips

Thu, 03 May 2007 13:59:32 +0000

IBM has developed a new process called airgap that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes - it enables trillions of microscopic vacuum holes to be placed between the copper wire in chips to act... Read more...

Intel says new chips will be about 45% faster

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:04:14 +0000

Intel Corporation said a new line of computer processors due out later this year will greatly speed up running computer games, videos and other heavy workloads. The world's biggest microchip maker, which powers about 75%... Read more...

Intel's Core 2 Duo Chips with Faster Bus to Emerge in Q3

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:35:08 +0000

Intel Corp. may be preparing another pricing attack on its arch-rival Advanced Micro Devices and is currently projected to start offering its successful Core 2 Duo microprocessors with higher speed processor system bus (PSB) at... Read more...

Videotron testing 400% Faster Internet Service

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:45:32 +0000

This one is for all the Neowinians in Canada. Shaw currently offers a download bandwidth of 25 Mbps, Videotron offers 20 Mbps, Telus offers 6 Mbps, Rogers offers 6 Mbps and Bell offers 5 Mbps.... Read more...

Faster HomePlug Power-Line Networking Gear--Finally

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:14:34 +0000

Power-line networks--networks that use the existing electrical wiring in your residence or small office--may yet prove the dark horse of home networking technologies. That's the message emerging from the HomePlug Powerline Alliance's annual technology conference... Read more...

Ballmer: Future Windows to arrive faster

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:58:35 +0000

Microsoft Corp.'s customers will never again face as long a wait between new versions of Windows software as they're enduring now, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer vowed Tuesday. Meanwhile, Chairman Bill Gates said the company's much-delayed... Read more...

Nanowire Transistors Faster than Silicon

Dave Legg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:46:59 +0000

Nanowires are made with regular crystal structures and uniform electronic properties - a level of predictability is essential for manufacturing high-performance electronics. Researchers at Harvard University have shown that nanowire transistors can be at least... Read more...

A Faster, Denser Hard Drive Debuts

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:12:08 +0000

The reorientation of hard drives has begun: The first drives to use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to pack more data into less space are out. And our tests reveal that they not only boost... Read more...

BT to launch faster broadband

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:51:04 +0000

British Telecom have announced plans to quadruple current broadband speeds from March 31st by adding BT ADSL Max and Premium to their current range of services. ... Read more...

IBM Creates Chips for Faster Wireless Data

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:09:35 +0000

International Business Machines Corp. on Monday said it has developed new chips for quickly transmitting data over wireless networks. The chips use a portion of the radio spectrum that can carry more data at faster... Read more...

Stanford engineers could hold the key to faster chips

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:53:22 +0000

In what may prove to be a technological breakthrough of immense proportions, Stanford University announced on Thursday that members of it's electrical engineering department have come up with a solution to what has until now... Read more...

ATI "Fudo" 520 Faster than 2 SLI'd 6800's

Tue, 07 Jun 2005 05:50:59 +0000

DESPITE WHAT people were claiming, the G70 will score better than the 7800. The card never got the 7800 suffix based on its 3Dmark05 score and if it was number would end up significantly bigger.... Read more...

New DSL Standard Promises 10 Times Faster Speeds

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:32:05 +0000

An international standards group has approved a new DSL standard that claims it will increase DSL technology's upstream and downstream speeds to as much as 100 megabits per second, 10 times faster than the DSL... Read more...

ViewSonic Ups The Ante With Faster LCD Displays

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:50:55 +0000

ViewSonic on Wednesday announced what the company is billing as the world's fastest 17-and 19-inch LCD monitors. The new products, the 19-inch Xtreme VX924 and the 17-inch Xtreme VX724, feature an eight to ten times... Read more...

IBM brings Unix, faster chip to Power blades

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:03:18 +0000

IBM has improved the processor of its JS20 blade servers and now sells them with its AIX version of the Unix operating system, the company plans to announce Tuesday. The changes mean the blades now... Read more...

Intel plans faster bus for Pentium 4 Extreme Edition

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:17:12 +0000

Intel is planning to introduce a faster front-side bus on an upcoming version of its Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor that will help the firm increase the performance of its chips by improving a crucial... Read more...

Cable broadband just got faster [UK]

Tom Warren — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:14:26 +0000

Cable company Telewest is to offer the UK's first three megabit broadband service. In a shake-up of existing services it will speed up all its broadband products by 50% for free. ... Read more...

Prescott will be no faster than Pentium 4

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 11:33:48 +0000

ACE'S HARDWARE has filed another report about Intel's forthcoming Prescott chips and suggests that the main reason for the introduction is to give the chip company a chance to update the clock frequencies in the... Read more...

Faster, More Relevant, Intuitive Search

Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:18:53 +0000

Search is one of most heavily trafficked sites on Microsoft.com with more than 76 million page views per month, 28 million queries per month, and 13 million unique users per month. Although 25 incremental changes... Read more...

The WinFS File System For Windows Longhorn: Faster & Smarter

Tom Warren — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:57:44 +0000

WinFS is Destined to Supersede FAT and NTFS Around 20 years ago, Microsoft's widely used MS DOS 2.0 operating system could only handle hard drives up to 16 MB. Yet, for the... Read more...

Let debate recommence: PC faster than Mac?

Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:11:27 +0000

The long-time debate between PC and Mac partisans over which platform performs better reached an interesting impasse this week when long-time Apple partner Adobe published a document on its Web site supporting claims that the... Read more...

S3/Via's Columbia: faster than Radeon 9700?

Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:20:43 +0000

Thanks to bangbang023 for this one. "Via's graphic arm, S3, launched the Delta Chrome chip, formerly codenamed Columbia, we have tried to dig out some new information about it, and now we have... Read more...

AMD to move beyond PC, faster chips no longer key

Sun, 24 Nov 2002 12:30:29 +0000

Thanks OoO for this gem. "AMD said on Tuesday that it would embrace a strategy of developing processors for a wider range of products outside computers and called on the industry to focus... Read more...

Apple reveals faster Power Mac

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 08:35:40 +0000

Thanks neo1980 from our BPN Forum Apple Computer said Wednesday it has started shipping its top-of-the-line dual processor 1.25GHz Power Mac. Apple unveiled the machine last month but said that it... Read more...

Fed-up customers want faster bug alerts

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Jul 2002 08:10:10 +0000

Thanks Borg77 A study of more than 300 companies published last week found that nearly 80 percent of companies support security consultants and hackers releasing information about software vulnerabilities even when the... Read more...

Women Moving Onto the Web Faster Than Men

Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:44:35 +0000

The number of female Web surfers is growing much faster than the overall Internet population, according to a report released by Nielsen/NetRatings on Friday. The Internet research firm said the number of... Read more...

VIA parades go faster Athlon XP chipset

Steven Parker — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:36:15 +0000

From The Register: VIA has launched a new integrated chipset for the Athlon XP. It's called the VIA ProSavageDDR KM266 and the numbers at the end indicate that is supplied with 266MHz DDR DRAM... Read more...