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Remote access app catches crook

Remote access app catches crook

Two thieves have been arrested after the owner of an Apple laptop used a remote access technology to identify the culprits..
Iain Thomson May 13 2008 7:26AM Hardware
Apple settles iPod battery suit

Apple settles iPod battery suit

Apple has settled a lawsuit in Canada over the battery life of its iPod music player by issuing US$45 store vouchers..
Andrew Charlesworth May 13 2008 7:26AM Hardware
XP SP3 crashes some AMD machines

XP SP3 crashes some AMD machines

The long-awaited and much-delayed update to Windows XP, Service Pack 3, is giving owners of machines with AMD hardware headaches aplenty it seems.
Stewart Meagher May 12 2008 7:45AM Hardware
Boffins aim to mass produce nanowire circuits

Boffins aim to mass produce nanowire circuits

An international team of scientists has developed a new technique for fabricating nanowire photonic and electronic integrated circuits that could be suitable for high-volume commercial production..
Robert Jaques May 12 2008 7:30AM Hardware
Ultra low-cost laptops to remain niche

Ultra low-cost laptops to remain niche

Ultra low-cost notebook PCs will remain niche products despite recent hype, and will not become market "blockbusters", experts predict..
Robert Jaques May 12 2008 7:30AM Hardware
AMD unveils plans for many-core chips

AMD unveils plans for many-core chips

Six-core and 12-core chips planned for coming years
Daniel Robinson May 9 2008 2:05PM Hardware
Researcher discusses iPod supercomputer

Researcher discusses iPod supercomputer

Microprocessors from portable electronics like iPods could yield low-cost, low-power supercomputers for specialised scientific applications, according to computer scientist John Shalf.
Liz Tay May 9 2008 1:52PM Hardware
US military plans robot swarms

US military plans robot swarms

Weapons manufacturers are planning the next generation of military robots using designs based on creatures from the natural world..
Iain Thomson May 9 2008 7:39AM Hardware
3D ultrasound wand to aid autonomous robotic surgeons

3D ultrasound wand to aid autonomous robotic surgeons

Researchers have developed ultrasound extensions to contemporary medical robots that could make surgical procedures safer for patients.
Liz Tay May 8 2008 3:04PM Hardware
RFID testbed could lower manufacture costs

RFID testbed could lower manufacture costs

U.S. researchers have designed a radio frequency identification (RFID) testbed for the rapid evaluation of new RFID tag prototypes.
Liz Tay May 8 2008 12:22PM Hardware
Laptops to overtake desktops in 2009

Laptops to overtake desktops in 2009

The PC microprocessor market is heading for an "inflection point" in late 2008 or early 2009, when the number of microprocessors shipping for notebooks will exceed those shipping for desktops for the first time..
Robert Jaques May 8 2008 7:18AM Hardware
US boffins design 'iPod supercomputer'

US boffins design 'iPod supercomputer'

Researchers from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have suggested building a supercomputer based on low-power embedded microprocessors to improve global climate change predictions..
Robert Jaques May 8 2008 7:18AM Hardware
Spintronics professor wins grant, discusses technology

Spintronics professor wins grant, discusses technology

The U.S. Department of Defense has invested half a million dollars in a grant that aims to further the emerging field of quantum spin-based electronics.
Liz Tay May 7 2008 4:38PM Hardware
US State Department loses a lot of laptops

US State Department loses a lot of laptops

It has surfaced that the US State Department can't account for up to about 1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department's Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program.
Egan Orion May 7 2008 2:25PM Hardware
AMD and Intel fling more legal briefs

AMD and Intel fling more legal briefs

AMD and Intel traded more court filings last week as their ongoing legal dispute in the antitrust case AMD filed in 2005 grinds towards trial next year.
Egan Orion May 7 2008 2:25PM Hardware
New HTC phone promises 3D graphics

New HTC phone promises 3D graphics

HTC claims that its Touch Diamond phone, due this summer, is the first in the world to feature a 3D graphical interface..
Iain Thomson May 7 2008 7:40AM Hardware
Dell’s building-block approach to virtualisation needs software support

Dell’s building-block approach to virtualisation needs software support

Dell has launched two new servers that have been designed to simplify virtualisation.
Liz Tay May 7 2008 12:01AM Hardware
Melting microchip defects may overcome manufacturing limitations

Melting microchip defects may overcome manufacturing limitations

A new method for fixing defects on microchips could extend Moore’s Law, leading to smaller, more powerful chips.
Liz Tay May 6 2008 5:32PM Hardware
AMD's Puma ready to pounce

AMD's Puma ready to pounce

Give Intel a taste of the cat
Nick Farrell May 6 2008 7:47AM Hardware
Google to team up with IBM again

Google to team up with IBM again

Not content with its plans to corner the Small and Medium Business market (SMB), IBM is now apparently looking to strike a deal with Google which would help it flog desktop applications to big businesses.
Sylvie Barak May 5 2008 7:44AM Hardware

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