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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
Fujitsu boffins outline the future of IT

Fujitsu boffins outline the future of IT

Technologists at Fujitsu Siemens Computers are predicting that the computing power within a PC will have increased a million-fold in 25 years time.
IT Week May 16 2008 4:05PM Hardware
Gates looks ahead

Gates looks ahead

In his speech at the Microsoft CEO Summit, titled The Next Wave of Technology, Bill Gates has been looking ahead to how businesses can capitalise on the huge leaps being made in technology.
Staff Writers May 16 2008 4:05PM Hardware
Nanomaterials to boost solar cell efficiencies

Nanomaterials to boost solar cell efficiencies

Two new solar cell designs are using light-directing nanomaterials to develop thin-film solar cells with record-breaking conversion efficiencies.
Liz Tay May 16 2008 12:21PM Hardware
Google beams cash into solar power

Google beams cash into solar power

Google has stepped up its commitment to solar power with an investment of US$10 million in local company BrightSource Energy..
Shaun Nichols May 16 2008 7:30AM Hardware
Ants cripple computers in Texas

Ants cripple computers in Texas

Electrical systems in Houston have been failing after a huge influx of ants, according to reports from Associated Press..
Iain Thomson May 16 2008 7:30AM Hardware
Dell promises PC power cut

Dell promises PC power cut

Dell has announced it will cut the power consumption of its desktop and laptop systems by 25 percent by 2010, a move that will lower carbon dioxide emissions and save customers money on energy bills, the firm said.
Daniel Robinson May 15 2008 3:18PM Hardware
Samsung turns on 240Hz Blue Phase LCDs

Samsung turns on 240Hz Blue Phase LCDs

Samsung claims to have developed a 'Blue Phase' LCD panel which operates at an "unprecedented" 240Hz..
Robert Jaques May 15 2008 7:35AM Hardware
Mobile carriers find demand for GPS handsets

Mobile carriers find demand for GPS handsets

More than 550 million GPS-enabled mobile phone handsets will ship by 2012, market watchers predict..
Robert Jaques May 15 2008 7:35AM Hardware
IBM touts supercomputers for the enterprise

IBM touts supercomputers for the enterprise

IBM has announced an initiative to offer smaller versions of its high-performance computers to enterprise customers..
Shaun Nichols May 15 2008 7:35AM Hardware
Nokia's global influence growing fast

Nokia's global influence growing fast

Nokia is emerging as a "hidden power behind the throne" in the global semiconductor market, an industry expert reported today..
Robert Jaques May 14 2008 2:55PM Hardware
FIRST LOOK: HP Mini-Note 2133, makes my leg feel like it's on fire

FIRST LOOK: HP Mini-Note 2133, makes my leg feel like it's on fire

We're worried about the damn hot operating temperature, but otherwise we're blown away by this mini notebook.
William Maher May 14 2008 2:36PM Hardware
Review: FIRST LOOK: HP Mini-Note 2133, makes my leg feel like it's on fire

Review: FIRST LOOK: HP Mini-Note 2133, makes my leg feel like it's on fire

We're worried about the damn hot operating temperature, but otherwise we're blown away by this mini notebook.
William Maher May 14 2008 2:36PM Hardware
AMD execs quit in corporate shake-up

AMD execs quit in corporate shake-up

Two senior AMD executives have quit as part of a corporate restructuring designed to refocus the company more solidly onto engineering..
Iain Thomson May 14 2008 8:11AM Hardware
US gets own Difference Engine No. 2

US gets own Difference Engine No. 2

A working replica of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 has been installed in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California..
Iain Thomson May 13 2008 11:45AM Hardware

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