Previous
Putting your brain on a microchip
News The human brain produces between 10^13 (10 to the 13th power) and 10^16 operations per second, emitting 100 watts of energy while at rest. And a study from the Department of Transportation said that robotic vehicles with safety warnings will likely...
[May 12, 2006, 11:35]
IT managers get clarification on recycling duties
News Launched on Wednesday, the "Green IT advisory Service" will provide companies with information on how to minimise the energy consumption of systems and the benefits of an IT refresh. One audience member at the seminar, representing the US...
[January 24, 2007, 16:04]
Nano Tech In The Extreme.
Blog Comment There may be ways in which to drill, tap, stroke energy out of atoms that we haven't conceived of yet but how much time do we have before things go even more pear shaped than they are? More than that, does anyone know the amount of resources used...
[October 14, 2008, 9:22]
Oiling the wheels of education
News Many years ago we told them they were an employee, and they did nothing," said Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, who holds the dual titles of second deputy prime minister and minister of energy and industry for Qatar.
[January 23, 2006, 12:20]
Gartner: End users will shape IT spending
News By 2010, 75 percent of organisations will use full life-cycle energy and carbon footprint as mandatory PC hardware-buying criteria Within two years, the brand and model of the enterprise laptop could be decided by the user, not the IT department.
[April 11, 2008, 8:31]
Microsoft launches 'Singularity' OS prototype
News Speaking at TechFest this year, Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, said that the company is attempting to use technology developments to create a lasting and positive impact on the world's most pressing issues, from...
[March 10, 2008, 13:56]
Weathering the Cyber Storm
News The Cyber Storm exercise included players from government at the federal, state and international level and key private sector participants to work through what would happen if there were significant cyberattacks that disrupted or impacted the...
[February 21, 2006, 14:35]
Unisys adjusts to life without Compaq
News Compaq, a company grappling with financial difficulties, said the vast majority of its customers use its own eight-processor servers, and the company prefers to spend its energy on its own eight- and 32-processor designs.
[May 2, 2001, 9:06]
Sun expands supercomputer effort
News The Sun Fire Link technology was developed partly through funding from the Energy Department's Advanced Simulation and Computing Path Forward program, part of a national effort to simulate nuclear weapons tests within computers, Perrenod said.
[November 18, 2002, 8:24]
Investment in tech could help UK reinvent itself
Leader On Wednesday, the European Commission adopted a preliminary draft EU budget for 2010 containing a further €2.4bn (£2.2bn) for broadband and energy infrastructure. In the same week that Lord Mandelson's Department for Business, Enterprise...
[April 29, 2009, 16:59]
Union asks Mandelson to stop Ericsson closure
News According to Unite's statement, the union has written to Ericsson chief executive Carl-Henric Svanberg, who will soon become head of energy giant BP, asking him to meet a Unite delegation and reconsider the closure.
[November 19, 2009, 15:04]
SWsoft offers cheaper virtualisation option
News Virtualisation is a hot area as customers seek to consolidate work onto fewer servers, cutting energy and maintenance bills and, in some cases, leading to a more flexible computing infrastructure. Among Virtuozzo customers are General Electric...
[April 24, 2007, 10:48]
Researchers claim battery-life breakthrough
News This dead end stumped researchers for 30 years, who instead poured their energy into improving graphite-based anodes in an effort to expand battery life. The new Li-ion batteries were developed by assistant professor Yi Cui and colleges at Stanford...
[January 15, 2008, 8:10]
Future Net: 'Dot coms' could face revenge of dinosaurs
News In just about every major industry, from manufacturing to financial services, consumer goods and energy, "dot com" companies have emerged to shake up the status quo. Federated Department Stores, operator of such industry stalwarts as Macy's and...
[September 7, 1999, 10:42]
HP tweaked Vista over power concerns
News Reports that Vista was an energy hog started to surface during beta testing last year. It's a little scary," said John Wozniak, a distinguished technologist in HP's notebook engineering department, referring to the work HP needed to do on making...
[May 4, 2007, 17:00]
Windows XP nears the finish line
News Still, Allchin appeared upbeat about Windows XP and meeting the 25 October shipping date, comparing the current stage of the software to the surge of energy that runners get during the last leg of a race.
[July 30, 2001, 8:54]
FBI cracks down on Internet fraud
News The need and challenge is to act quickly to stem this trend while the online marketplace is still young," Eileen Harrington of the Bureau of Consumer Protection told the House Energy subcommittee on commerce, trade and consumer protection.
[May 24, 2001, 10:27]
What did Einstein ever do for us?
News Einstein's first 1905 paper relied on the quantum description of light to explain how an increase in the light intensity caused more electrons to be emitted - but not higher-energy electrons, as the wave theory predicts.
[June 3, 2005, 12:00]
Government five-year IT plan points to cloud, Web 2.0
News It also points to location-aware services, human computer interaction — which removes the need for a keyboard — and technologies for more energy-efficient operations. The report avoids opportunities to provide clarity on live procurement issues...
[December 1, 2009, 7:41]
US anti-spyware bill clears another hurdle
News The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 45-4 in favour of the Spy Act, which targets software that hides in personal computers and secretly monitors people's activities or displays unwanted advertising.
[June 25, 2004, 11:55]
