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IBM Research Spins 'Racetrack' Nano-Magnetic Memory

April 11, 2008
The advanced storage technique could eventually replace flash memory and hard drives, IBM scientists believe.

Algorithm Picks Kansas To Win Final Four

April 7, 2008
Engineers at George Tech say they've got a computer model which can predit the winner of Monday night's NCAA Championship.

Adware And Mobile Phone Malware On The Rise

April 3, 2008
Even though most malware targets the Symbian platform, Apple's SDK is expected to result in more sophisticated iPhone attacks and infections, researchers said.

Nokia's Low-End Phones Intended For Emerging Markets

April 2, 2008
Citing rapid growth of replacement market in developing economies, the company prices some of its handsets below $150.

IBM Labs Uses Complex Math To Fight Natural Disasters

April 2, 2008
The "stochastic optimization" prototype helps solve disaster event scenarios by using similar methods found in supply chain best practices.

Researchers Compress Music Files 1000 Times Smaller Than MP3s

April 1, 2008
Scientists with the University of Rochester demonstrated their methods by encoding a 20-second clarinet solo in less than a single kilobyte.

Firefox Gains On Internet Explorer In Businesses

April 1, 2008
Even if IT shops aren't formally pushing employees to Firefox, they are moving to support the browser in their enterprise Web apps, Forrester Research suggests.

Microsoft Upgrades Mobile Search With Voice, Maps

April 1, 2008
The expanded features for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices are designed to regain market share Microsoft is losing to desktop search.

Streaming Media To Draw $70 Billion In Revenue Before 2014

April 1, 2008
Internet, IPTV networks, and mobile handsets are expected to contribute to the increase, according to an Insight Research report.

Cell Phones Face Extinction As Smartphones Take Over

April 1, 2008
Apple's iPhone, Verizon's open network, and devices based in Google's open source Android mobile platform are expected to put simple cell phones to rest.

IPass Offers Dual 3G, Wi-Fi Hotspot Service

March 31, 2008
The iPassConnect wireless combo is aimed at busy road warriors with a price plan that starts at $29.95 a month.

Yahoo Launches Site For Women To 'Shine'

March 31, 2008
The search engine aims to reach the 40 million women whose demographic is being described as "chief household officer."

Consumers Push IT Execs To Use Video, Web 2.0, Survey Finds

March 28, 2008
Other factors in the Cisco poll included a desire to grow their businesses, reach new customers, and increase collaboration among employees.

Oldest Voice Recording, A French Folksong

March 28, 2008
A 10-second version of "Au Clair De La Lune," now archived online, is said to predate Thomas Edison's Manhattan railroad sounds.

Consumers Want Cheaper, Faster, Clearer Mobile Media

March 28, 2008
An industry survey found 51% believe subscription content costs too much, while nearly half predicted poor image quality.

Gartner Recommends HD Videoconferencing For Businesses

March 27, 2008
While the price of systems drop, other costs may include provisioning an appropriate room, ensuring adequate bandwidth, and anticipating an increase in use rates.

YouTube Debuts Viewer Analytics Tool

March 27, 2008
The service is designed to help video makers understand more about where their viewers are and how those viewers found their videos.

Google Search Within Search Box Hurts Affiliates, Says IDC

March 26, 2008
Follow-up searches without leaving Google.com means any ad revenue generated by this second search goes to Google and not to site owners, particularly publishers.

Notre Dame Leads Consortium In Nanotechnology Research

March 25, 2008
Support for the Midwest Academy for Nanoelectronics and Architectures is expected to top $25 million over the next three years.

Slowing Global Economy Threatens PC Shipments

March 25, 2008
Gartner's concerns include a deepening U.S. recession, a possible slowdown in China's economy following the Beijing Olympics, and the elevated price of oil.

TSMC Offers Designer Nano-Scale Manufacturing Process

March 25, 2008
Wafers built using the 40-nm technique will produce CPUs, graphics chips, networking processors, and FPGA designs for high-performance consumer devices.

Fujitsu Preps High-Performance Notebook Drives

March 24, 2008
The MHZ2 BJ drive, expected in June, will have twice the capacity of current drives while consuming the same amount of power for read and write operations.

Mobile Messaging Set To Grow

March 24, 2008
Global revenue from mobile messaging will reach $212 billion in five years, ABI predicts.

Pro-Tibet Groups Targeted In Cyberspace

March 21, 2008
The attacks on mailing lists and online forums contain information related to recent events in Tibet and may appear to come from a trusted person or organization.

Indian Companies To Scour Midwest, South For IT Talent

March 20, 2008
Wipro, Tata, and Satyam see U.S. talent as key to proving they can innovate, not just serve up low-cost, offshore talent.

Apple's Logo Makes You More Creative Than IBM's

March 19, 2008
Researchers with Duke University and Canada's University of Waterloo claim a mere 30-millisecond exposure to famous brand logos can influence view behavior.

Citizens Less Happy With E-Government Sites

March 19, 2008
It's the third consecutive quarter that satisfaction dropped, according to a University of Michigan customer satisfaction report.

Intel, Microsoft Pledge $20 Million For Multi-Core App Development

March 18, 2008
Research facilities at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will try to help bolster parallel programming efforts.

Apple Mac Store Sales Strong In February

March 18, 2008
Overall consumer PC shipments to stores increased by 9% from a year ago, while revenue rose 5%, an NPD Group report found.

ZigBee-Powered Meter Measures Electrical Consumption

March 18, 2008
EOL's plogg device measures consumption and relays it back to management system to help control energy costs.

IT Workers Split On Presidential Candidates, But Give Money To Campaigns

March 18, 2008
Barack Obama and John McCain would each receive 29% of the vote if the election were held today, a CompTIA-sponsored phone survey of 600 IT workers found.

Data Centers To Fall Short In 2-5 Years, HP Predicts

March 17, 2008
One third of CIOs surveyed believed they would not be able to find the electricity, cooling capacity, space or budgets they need to continue to expand their data centers.

PlayStation 3 Sales Surpass Xbox 360

March 17, 2008
Surpassing both consoles, however, was the Wii as Nintendo shipped 432,000 of the lower-priced consoles, an NPD Group survey reveals.

Nine Inch Nails Free Download Experiment Nets Over $1.6 million

March 14, 2008
Band leader Trent Reznor now encourages user-generated videos for Ghosts I-IV album.

FCC Defends Its Database, Management Tools

March 14, 2008
A 53-page GAO report claims the agency doesn't properly collect and analyze data, making it impossible to analyze the effectiveness of its enforcement.

Blu-ray Player Prices On The Rise

March 13, 2008
In February, the month Toshiba said it would no longer lead the charge for HD DVD, the average price jumped to $604.

Thought-To-Speech Interface Gives Voice To Voiceless

March 13, 2008
Audeo captures neurological information from the brain and translates it into speech.

Remembering Joe Weizenbaum, ELIZA Creator

March 13, 2008
The MIT researcher and debunker of 'Thinking Machines' died earlier this month at the age of 85.

Microsoft Gets Emotional With Business Software Upgrade

March 12, 2008
Microsoft Dynamics developers used a new methodology that studies emotions to create "desirable" software.

LCD TV Shipments Forecast To Double In Four Years

March 12, 2008
The increasing availability of content in the form of Blu-ray DVDs, game consoles, and other devices is spurring sales, analysts with iSuppli suggest.

Wi-Fi, 3G: Friends And Rivals, Survey Finds

March 11, 2008
An iPass Mobile Broadband Index poll suggests no single technology can meet all the needs of an enterprise workforce.

Thieving Third-Party Gmail App Highlights Google Security Worries

March 11, 2008
A .Net programmer finds G-Archiver steals users' Gmail login details, adding to a growing number of security incidents.

Most Americans Never Read Political Blogs, Harris Poll Finds

March 10, 2008
Republicans are more likely to find value and accuracy in political blogs than Democrats, a survey of 2,300 U.S. adults revealed.

How Many Engineers Will It Take To Change The Light Bulb?

March 7, 2008
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 calls for incandescent lights to be 25% to 30% more energy efficient in 2012 than they are now.

HP Redirects Its R&D Toward Big Results

March 6, 2008
The company said it will take 150 small research projects and consolidate them into 20 to 30 "big bets" that HP will pursue and try to make pay off.

Cell Phones Beat Out Internet, TV As Must-Have

March 6, 2008
The latest Pew survey shows 62% of all Americans have either used a mobile handset for a "nonvoice data application" or accessed the Internet wirelessly.

Apple's 4Q Shipment Growth Surpasses Top Five Vendors

March 6, 2008
Apple's reinvigorated Intel microprocessor-based products obviously are striking a chord with PC buyers, analysts with iSuppli said.

Microsoft SharePoint Used But Underutilized, Survey Finds

March 5, 2008
Only 15% of end users have a formal plan or strategy in place describing where they will utilize their content management systems, according to AIIM.

Survey: Software Usability Is More Important Than Features

March 5, 2008
Only 1% of survey respondents said software functionality is a factor for realizing the value of a software deployment.

HomePlug Powerline Product Shipments Double

March 5, 2008
An industry report credits an increase to 16 million products last year on new applications for electric grid management, automatic meter reading applications, and broadband to the home.

Acer Passes Dell In Global Notebook Shipments

March 5, 2008
Acer, which had been a distant third to Dell, forged ahead with the acquisitions of Gateway and Packard Bell, a researcher said.

Overwhelmed By Unstructured Data, Users Seek New Platforms

March 4, 2008
Nearly half of the respondents surveyed by EMC said content management offerings require too much effort to implement.

Device Helps Reduce Fat From Too Many Video Games

March 4, 2008
University of Buffalo researchers said that children whose video habits were monitored but not restricted ended up reducing their viewing time by five hours each week.

National Security Trumps Personal Privacy, Government IT Pros Say

March 3, 2008
A public opinion research poll also found 69% of those surveyed believe identity management is very important to their organizations and agencies.

Guinness World Records Validates Longest Document Scan

February 29, 2008
The Truper 3600, a low-volume production scanner, processed a continuous single-page document for one hour, 17 minutes, and 22 seconds.

Modest Growth In Server Sales Reported For 4Q

February 28, 2008
Volume systems, such as x86 Windows and Linux servers, were the catalyst for growth in the server market in the fourth quarter, as well as the full year, IDC said.

Google Down But Not Out Due To Poor Ad Click Growth

February 27, 2008
Advertisers have gotten more sophisticated in the past year or two and are looking beyond click-based ads for other options, industry insiders remark.

Researchers Transmit Optical Data At 16.4 Tbps

February 27, 2008
The Bell Labs research, presented at the OFC/NFOEC conference, brings 100 Gbps transmission closer to reality.

Students Simulate Mission To Mars

February 27, 2008
A team of researchers in Utah are learning more about the logistical, mechanical, scientific, and e-mail issues Mars explorers are likely to face.

Startup MetaRAM Offers Low-Cost Server Memory

February 26, 2008
Servers and workstations with the technology are scheduled for release by the end of March from Appro, Colfax, Rackable, and Verari.

Starring In Ultra-Short Films, Electrons Captured In Motion

February 25, 2008
Scientists hope seeing how an individual electron rides on a light wave after just having been detached from its atom will help them decipher other atomic and sub-atomic objects.

Hospital Takes Its Grand Opening To Second Life

February 25, 2008
Virtual visitors to the Palomar West Medical Campus can tour the facilities and see some of the amenities of the $810 million, real-life publicly financed hospital in San Diego.

Small Business Tops CompTIA's 2008 Tech Policy Agenda

February 25, 2008
In addition to innovations, the group also wants to pass tax incentives for IT training and increase H-1B visa caps.

Nokia Uses Nano Tech For 'Morph' Concept Cell Phone

February 25, 2008
The research could lead to mobile devices that use transparent materials, repel dirt and fingerprints, and use solar energy to charge up.

Atom Needs 2 Billion Times Less Force To Move Than A Penny, IBM Discovers

February 22, 2008
Understanding the amount of energy required to move an atom is crucial if scientists are to continue to make advances in atomic scale computing and other nanotechnology applications.

People Prefer Shopping To Buying With Mobile Phones

February 22, 2008
Younger consumers are more likely to use their mobile phones for retail activities, the Gartner survey found.

Server Shipments Up Despite Fears Of Economic Slowdown

February 21, 2008
Of the top five vendors, IBM continued to lead in terms of revenue with a 31.1% share.

Five-Year Growth Expected For Federal Health IT Budget

February 21, 2008
Drivers for spending include aging baby boomers, returning veterans, and possible legislation from Congress, according to an industry report.

Might As Well Face It, You're Addicted To Tech

February 20, 2008
BlackBerry texting and ignoring offline social interaction can lead to chronic insomnia, relationship break-ups, and job loss, a University of Northampton researcher warns.

MoMA Exhibit Features MIT Telecom Research

February 20, 2008
Some of the works at the exhibit, opening Sunday, visualize global Internet and voice traffic in and out of New York City.

Report From India: Infosys CEO On Slowdowns, Innovation, And CIO Influence

February 19, 2008
CEO Gopalakrishnan says there are much higher expectations on Indian outsourcers, and the industry needs to step up.

Robots, Computers To Help Phase Out Animal Testing

February 15, 2008
The EPA and NIH agree to use high-speed, automated screening robots to test compounds researchers suspect are toxic.

Wii Expected To Take Installed-Base Lead From Xbox

February 14, 2008
If Nintendo succeeds, then it would be the first time that the Wii has taken the lead among new-generation home video game consoles.

Fear The Google Blacklist

February 14, 2008
What happens when search engine optimization backfires? Hitwise researchers illustrate one cautionary tale.

Tech Pay Hit Quarterly High, Then Dropped Off, Says Report

February 14, 2008
Average wages fell 88 cents to $31.51 in November, based on data on nearly 5,000 tech professionals contracted out for long- and short-term projects.

Lockheed Gets $1 Billion FBI Biometrics Contract

February 13, 2008
The FBI is expanding its biometric identification systems for criminal, civil, and national security reasons.

U.N.-Backed Alliance Aims To Improve Technology In Latin America

February 12, 2008
The organization wants to use information and communications technology to address social and economic problems in the region.

Text Messages Are For Lovers, Survey Finds

February 12, 2008
AT&T's data traffic analysis shows a 33% increase in text messages on Valentine's Day compared to other holidays.

BlackBerry Users Experience Service Outage

February 11, 2008
North American customers reported problems sending and receiving e-mail and other documents.

IP Crime Convictions Nearly Doubled In 2007

February 11, 2008
The number of defendants sentenced for IP crimes rose dramatically, from 149 in fiscal year 2005 to 287 in fiscal year 2007, according to a Department of Commerce report.