Who's the UK's IT Community Hero of the Year?
News Entries are now open for the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2008, with a new category recognising achievements benefiting the IT community [30 Apr 2008]
British scientists create atom-thick transistor
News A team from the University of Manchester has managed to carve an electronic circuit out of graphene, a very thin carbon structure with huge implications for nanotechnology [21 Apr 2008]
Gartner: Seven IT challenges to change the world
News From self-charging devices to full gesture and speech recognition, analysts have mapped out the key tech challenges that could revolutionise business over the next 20 years [15 Apr 2008]
- 7 key challenges? - James B
- CIO or CTO? - Brian Murray
Government funds sat-nav integration project
News De Montfort University and a Nottingham company have got £113,000 of funding to build a navigation device able to work with GPS, Galileo and all rival satellite systems [03 Apr 2008]
Mapping prototypes on display at TechFest 
Video At Microsoft's event, a mobile device with front-and-back touchscreen sensitivity for better navigation of maps was among the tech on show [13 Mar 2008]
Microsoft shows off latest gadgets at TechFest
Video Craig Mundie, the software giant's chief research and strategy officer, talks about the latest technology from the labs [12 Mar 2008]
Interacting with your PC in mid-air
Video Wolfgang Reiner from the Fraunhofer Institute shows how to move a cursor and manipulate images by pointing at them from metres away [07 Mar 2008]
Thumbs-up for Windows Media Player
Video At CeBIT, Dr Frank Klefenz from the Fraunhofer Institute demonstrates how finger gesture filmed on a webcam can control Windows Media Player [07 Mar 2008]
Using telematics to manage a fleet of cars
Video At CeBIT, German firm IAV explains how it uses telematics to monitor the health of vehicles in a car fleet and help identify recurring problems, as well as tune engines on the go and communicate with emergency services [06 Mar 2008]
The Linux-based car's next challenge
Video Caroline is not just any old VW Passat; it has seven PCs monitoring its environment, making decisions and controlling it. Researcher Jörn Martern Wille talks about the tech and explains where it's headed [06 Mar 2008]
Zeno: The robot based on Lord of the Rings AI
Video Hanson Robotics's Zeno robot may be a toy, but its sophisticated artificial intelligence is far from child's play [06 Mar 2008]
The Linux car that drives itself 
Photo At the CeBIT 2008 technology show in Hanover, ZDNet.co.uk took a look inside Darpa Grand Challenge finalist Caroline — a car that doesn't need a driver [05 Mar 2008]
The best of CeBIT 2008: Day one
Roundup Europe's biggest IT show has already seen a keynote from Steve Ballmer and an update to the innovative Asus Eee PC [05 Mar 2008]
Cryogenics chilled systems at CeBIT
Photo Amid the talk of green and power-efficient computing at CeBIT this year, in some cases it is all about faster and cooler — and in one instance, that involves liquid nitrogen [04 Mar 2008]
CeBIT: Europe's biggest IT show opens
News CeBIT 2008 kicks off this week in Hanover, Germany, and will include new exhibitions around green technology [03 Mar 2008]
Europe launches £2bn nanotech push
News A well-funded partnership between European governments, the EU, industry and academia will set up its offices in Brussels within months [26 Feb 2008]
The future of banking at HP Innovation Day
Photo In London this week, the company hosted around 150 financial experts anxious to see HP tech that could help with the business of making money [08 Feb 2008]
Elderly to benefit from 'fuzzy logic' research
News De Montfort University and Missouri University are teaming up to improve quality of life for the elderly with a computational intelligence project [04 Jan 2008]
Auditors criticise EC over technology funding
News The European Court of Auditors has taken the Commission to task over its evaluation of technology research programmes from 1995 to 2013 [20 Dec 2007]
Intel Capital reveals prime tech for investment
News The chipmaker's investment arm has highlighted the five hottest technologies venture capitalists are looking to invest in [19 Dec 2007]
Tomorrow's tech at Microsoft Innovation Day
Photo A mirror that monitors blood pressure and a movement-reactive floor were among the emerging tech on display at the fourth Microsoft Innovation Day [06 Dec 2007]
