BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Atom
- any traditional nondigital means of delivering information, such as a newspaper, book, or magazine
Wiktionary Definition for: Atom
- (''obsolete'') The smallest mediaeval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
- (''Historical'') A theoretical particle of matter, imagined to be incapable of further division; the smallest possible unit of substance.
- physics The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
- mathematics A non-zero member of a wikipedia:Boolean algebra Boolean algebra that is not a join of any other elements.
- The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
- English atom; the smallest particle to retain the properties of the element
- #(''historical'') atom; the theoretically smallest possible particle
Additional Resources
- Intel: Moblin opens the way for Atom
- Doug Fisher(Credit: IntelFor Intel, the driving force behind its Moblin software efforts is its main role in life: a chipmaker.At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last month, the company showed off the latest version of its Linux-based Moblin operating system, designed for smartphones, Netbooks, and Nettops. In most...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Intel Atom support officially missing from Mac OS X 10.6.2
- By Brian GarnerPublished: 08:30 PM EST Intel Atom support is confirmed to be missing in the final release of 10.6.2, citing multiple prominent Hackintosh sources.Apple's latest update for Snow Leopard has broken support for Intel's Atom processor line. Mac OS X 10.6.2 was released Monday afternoon, and was Apple's second...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Apple rumored to disable Atom support with Mac OS X 10.6.2
- By Sam OliverPublished: 07:45 AM EST Mac OS X 10.6.2, the forthcoming update for Apple's Snow Leopard operating system, is reported to disable support for the Intel Atom processor, preventing unauthorized PC netbooks from running the operating system.Users at OS X Daily claim that Mac OS X 10.6.2 prevents Snow...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Latest Snow Leopard build resurrects Atom compatibility
- By Brian GarnerPublished: 06:50 PM EST Development build 10C535 of Snow Leopard update 10.6.2 retains Intel Atom support after the previous build had killed compatibility with the processor.According to the developer blog which initially told of the Atom incompatibility, the latest build of OS X 10.6.2 does retain support for...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Apple breaks Atom Hackintoshes with upcoming OS X 10.6.2 update
- Filed under: OS Updates , Hardware , Apple According to OSXDaily , Apple's next scheduled update to Snow Leopard, OS X 10.6.2, doesn't support Intel Atom processors. This is no problem for anyone on Apple hardware, because no Mac product runs an Atom. If...
- News items 2009-11-02
- MSI Confirms Wind U150 Netbook with Touchscreen and Intel's Next Atom [Notebooks]
- Copy this whole post to another site We heard that MSI may release a touchscreen netbook with Intel's next generation Pine Trail Atom platform, and it will. According to MSI, the new Intel Atom chipset is planned to be officially launched at CES. However, Intel tells us that it has...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Teleportation is a reality.(National Institute of Standards and Technology's research on atom transferring)(Brief Article)
- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST have demonstrated "teleportation" by transferring key properties of one atom to another atom without using any physical link. Unlike "beaming" of actual physi Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST have demonstrated...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- ABB ATOM APPOINTS NEW PRESIDENT
- Stefan Olsson has been appointed as the new President of ABB ATOM AB. At present, he is the general manager of ABB ATOM's Nuclear Fuel Division. He will assume his new duties as of November 1. Mr Olsson, who has a Master's Degree in engineering, majoriStefan Olsson...
- Research articles 1995-10-06
- ACCC alleges resale price maintenance by Netti Atom.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 August 2007-ACCC: ACCC alleges resale price maintenance by Netti AtomC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01082007 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted legal proceedings against Netti Atom Pty Ltd alleging the company engaged in resale price maintenance in relation...
- Research articles 2007-08-02
- NIST: NIST physicists demonstrate highly directional atom laser from Bose-Einstein condensate.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-12 March 1999-NIST: NIST physicists demonstrate highly directional atom laser from Bose-Einstein condensate C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:110399 Atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate can be manipulated with light to form a highly directional atom laser, physicists at the Commerce ...
- Research articles 1999-03-12
- Intel Atom: Deal with TSMC Will Expand Market
- Sam Diaz submits: Intel INTC and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) Monday announced a collaboration involving Intel’s Atom processor. Under the deal, Intel will port Atom CPU cores to TSMC’s technology platform, a move intended to expand its market for Atom System-on-Chip (SoC) processors. In a statement, the...
- External links 2009-03-02
- Apple Splits With Atom Support?
- Reports suggest Apple is killing support for Intel Atom chips with the latest software upgrade to Snow Leopard. According to the Apple-focused blog OS X Daily, Apple is expanding its ?Mac software on Mac hardware only? fight beyond iTunes and Palm Pre compatibility in onto the chipset: The company is...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Intel Atom Drives Chip Market In 3Q
- "Compared to where the market was at the beginning of 2009, PC processors have come back remarkably strong," said Shane Rau, IDC's program director of computing, networking, and storage semiconductors, in a statement. But despite the market recovery in the second half of this year, IDC was...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Apple fixes data deletion bug in Snow Leopard, blocks Atom 'hackintoshes'
- Apple on Monday updated Snow Leopard for the second time, fixing a data deletion flaw and an iMac performance issue, while blocking Atom-based netbooks from running its operating system. Some people, however, disputed Apple's claim that it had fixed a major performance problem on their new iMacs, saying that the...
- News items 2009-11-10
- RIKEN, NEC, and JST Successfully Demonstrate Laser Emission From Artificial Atom/Superconducting Qubit
- Tokyo, Japan, Oct 4, 2007 - JCN Newswire - RIKEN, NEC Corporation, and JST ("Japan Science and Technology Agency") have successfully demonstrated a laser emission from one artificial atom by coupling superconducting quantum bits ("qubits") to a resonator. The lasing effect was achieved by an extremely simple system - a...
- Research articles 2007-10-04
- Suncom Technologies Highlights New Space-Saving Atom Mouse At E3Expo
- WHEELING, Ill.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 28, 1998--Suncom Technologies Inc. marked the debut Thursday of its new Atom Mouse (MSRP $39.95). The new space-saving peripheral will debut at Suncom's E3Expo Booth No. 3062 in the World Congress Center in Atlanta. "With every inch of space...
- Research articles 1998-05-28
- Suncom Technologies Highlights New Space-Saving Atom Mouse At E3Expo
- WHEELING, Ill.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 28, 1998--Suncom Technologies Inc. marked the debut Thursday of its new Atom Mouse (MSRP $39.95).The new space-saving peripheral will debut at Suncom's E3Expo Booth No. 3062 in the World Congress Center in Atlanta."With every inch of space at a premium on the desktop these days, our new...
- Research articles 1998-05-28
- Cornell University team develop one atom transistor - Brief Article
- TELECOMWORLDWIRE-13 June 2002-Cornell University team develop one atom transistor C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Cornell University in New York has reported that it has built a transistor that is the size of an atom. The new development was made possible by scientists from the university implanting a...
- Research articles 2002-06-13
- Advancing the theory of the hydrogen atom - News Briefs - Brief Article
- The hydrogen atom is the most basic atom from the point of view of atomic structure theory. Historically, efforts to understand its detailed properties have led to many advances in understanding fundamental physics. This atom is important not only as a model system that tests the limits of atomic theory...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
- CSR brings Bluetooth connectivity to O2's latest device, the Xda Atom.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-27 March 2006-CSR PLC: CSR brings Bluetooth connectivity to O2's latest device, the Xda AtomC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27032006 Cambridge, UK - CSR plc (LSE: CSR.L) the world leader in Bluetooth technology, today announced that O2's latest product, the Xda...
- Research articles 2006-03-27
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