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Digital home creating support headaches

Digital home creating support headaches

Analysts have highlighted a downside of the much vaunted 'digital home' in that few home owners are able to understand, let alone support, their new purchases..
Robert Jaques May 26 2008 12:03PM Hardware
Toshiba licenses Arm multi-processing technology

Toshiba licenses Arm multi-processing technology

Toshiba has signed a licensing agreement with Arm to gain access to range of multi-processing technologies..
Staff Writers May 24 2008 9:31AM Hardware
HP prints itself a green suit

HP prints itself a green suit

HP has come up with a way of making computer printing more eco friendly, by focusing, not on recycled paper, but rather on recycled plastic used to manufacture the actual body of the printer itself.
Silvie Barak May 23 2008 3:28PM Hardware
AMD boosts graphics performance

AMD boosts graphics performance

AMD has unveiled the first commercial implementation of its Graphics Double Data Rate version 5 (GDDR5) memory..
Clement James May 23 2008 2:57PM Hardware
Apple to 'rule the home' by 2013

Apple to 'rule the home' by 2013

Apple is poised to become the hub of the digital home by 2013, according to a new study from Forrester Research..
May 23 2008 7:24AM Hardware
RFID sector to be worth US$9.7 billion by 2013

RFID sector to be worth US$9.7 billion by 2013

New forecasts predict that the total global RFID market will turnover approximately US$9.7 billion by 2013..
Robert Jaques May 22 2008 7:45AM Hardware
Nanotubes 'as deadly as asbestos'

Nanotubes 'as deadly as asbestos'

Certain carbon nanotubes may be as hazardous to humans as asbestos, according to a new report..
Shaun Nichols May 21 2008 10:18PM Hardware
Living computers best left Open Source, researcher says

Living computers best left Open Source, researcher says

Researchers are making headway in creating computers from genetically altered bacteria -- but don’t expect to see these “living computers” in the enterprise anytime soon.
Liz Tay May 21 2008 4:08PM Hardware
Greenpeace says game consoles just aren't green

Greenpeace says game consoles just aren't green

Greenpeace's latest report, on the "green-ness" of game consoles, reckons that all three major gaming units, Nintendo’s Wii, Sony’s PlayStation 3 Elite, and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 still have a way to go before being eco-friendly.
Sylvie Barak May 21 2008 2:46PM Hardware
Seagate Momentus comes to Dell laptops

Seagate Momentus comes to Dell laptops

Dell has become the first PC manufacturer to ship systems using Seagate's Momentus 7200.3 hard drive, which the vendor claims is the industry's first 7,200rpm 320GB hard drive for mobile computing..
Robert Jaques May 21 2008 2:41PM Hardware
Australia’s IT banking revolution is here

Australia’s IT banking revolution is here

The antiquated systems of our banks are in need of an IT makeover and the pressure is starting to come to a head for the majors.
Mitchell Bingemann May 21 2008 11:12AM Hardware
iPhone drives touch-screen adoption

iPhone drives touch-screen adoption

Apple's iPhone continues to drive touch-screen adoption, and experts predict that global shipments of touch-screen display modules will more than double by 2012..
Robert Jaques May 21 2008 7:35AM Hardware
Superconductors feel the pressure

Superconductors feel the pressure

Boffins at Stanford University claim to have found a way to create "high temperature" superconductors..
Robert Jaques May 21 2008 7:35AM Hardware
IDC: HP and EDS - a marriage of convenience?

IDC: HP and EDS - a marriage of convenience?

Do opposites really attract? IDC Australia has taken a hard look at what HP's recent acquisition of EDS for US$13.9billion, really means for the Australian outsourcing market.
Staff Writers May 20 2008 2:56PM Hardware
Integrated circuit design to yield infinite mobile battery life

Integrated circuit design to yield infinite mobile battery life

Mobile phone users could benefit from patented technology that promises infinite battery life – if only electrical engineer Ray Winton would take it to market.
Liz Tay May 19 2008 12:35PM Hardware
Computer downtime could solve world hunger

Computer downtime could solve world hunger

IBM hopes to eradicate world hunger using donated processing power to study the atomic make-up of rice protein.
Ambrose McNevin May 19 2008 12:18PM Hardware
MIT engineers claim fuel cell breakthrough

MIT engineers claim fuel cell breakthrough

A group of engineers at MIT has developed a new type of membrane for one type of fuel cell which they claim could improve power output by more than 50 percent..
Staff Writers May 19 2008 7:45AM Hardware
Boffins take gigapixel photos using ordinary camera

Boffins take gigapixel photos using ordinary camera

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a device that lets a standard digital camera take pictures with a resolution of 1-gigapixel (1,000-megapixels)..
Iain Thomson May 17 2008 3:04PM Hardware
Gates builds out Touch Wall vision

Gates builds out Touch Wall vision

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates this week took the wraps off Touch Wall, a 6ft x 4ft prototype screen based on Microsoft's Surface multi-touch technology..
Guy Dixon May 17 2008 3:04PM Hardware
Weekly Roundup: Cryptography v.s. hackers: the battle continues

Weekly Roundup: Cryptography v.s. hackers: the battle continues

Heisenberg fan boys are shaking their heads this week to the tune of a pair of Swedish mathematicians who claim to have broken quantum cryptography.
Liz Tay May 17 2008 7:00AM Security

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