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President Obama Recognizes IBM's Blue Gene Server Technology

IBM, one of the world's leading suppliers of high-end supercomputers, has announced today that President Obama has recognized the company's Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, for the breakthroughs in science, energy efficiency and analytics. The National...

18 September 2009
09:51 GMT

Innovation Is America's Key to the Future

President Barack Obama reasserted his trust in science as the only means of averting future economic crises in his radio address on Saturday, saying that long-term investments in research were the only things that could ensure a sustainable and strong economy. Results will not be visible right away, and the fact that...

3 August 2009
01:59 GMT

Gears of War Creator Explains Bald Space Marines and Brown Ruins in Games

Video games come in a lot of shapes, sizes and genres, but among the most popular ones are shooters, whether they are first or third person. Sadly though, in recent years, they have all begun to look the same and to have characters that are made using the same pattern: you play as a space marine, preferably bald or w...

6 July 2009
15:01 GMT

The Global Alliance of Technological Universities Is Now a Reality

The California Institute of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, the Imperial College London and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in Europe, and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Asi...

8 April 2009
13:11 GMT

Experts Say Humans and Nature Should Remain Connected

Increasing technological advances now allows humans to look at wildlife in its natural habitat directly on TV or on computer screens. Web cams and documentaries filmed with hidden cameras bring lions, hippopotamuses, whales and seals closer than ever before, but experts say that this trend may actually be one that wo...

2 April 2009
02:25 GMT

Tech May Be Too Much Even for Youngsters

New scientific evidence comes to show that even teenagers themselves have nowadays problems with the most modern gadgets, despite their being the main target of advertising campaigns. While those in their late teen years and early adulthood can handle most devices producers “throw” at them, the most compl...

26 March 2009
06:54 GMT

Microsoft to Award the Use of Its Technology within the Pharmaceutical Industry

Microsoft is looking for nothing short of breakthroughs in the use of its technology by companies in the pharmaceutical industry. In this context, the 2009 Microsoft Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Awards are designed to celebrate pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations that have embraced Microsoft...

13 March 2009
08:54 GMT

The US Will Lose Its Innovation Leader Role

For years now, political analysts have been talking about the fact that America is currently in its final years as a world superpower, and that it will soon fall back to the benefit of other countries, while its place will be taken by another nation. And although many have contradicted their opinions with potent argu...

4 March 2009
03:12 GMT

Tom Jones Is Not a Fan of Modern Technology

In a world in which communication has come to mean a quick text phone message asking “how r u” or a depersonalized e-mail we send to all those whose names we remember, iconic singer Tom Jones is the one to speak out on traditional means of keeping in touch with people. In a recent interview, the 68-year-o...

18 February 2009
07:48 GMT

Innovation, Connected Experiences, Customer Loyalty

Microsoft has a new mantra when it comes down to helping the retail business navigate the worldwide economical tsunami, namely technology innovation, connected experiences, and customer loyalty. Given the occasion of the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 98th Annual Convention & Expo, the Redmond company has f...

14 January 2009
05:33 GMT

US Teens Show a Positive Take on Sciences and Technology

The Lemelson-MIT Invention Index for 2009 showed without a doubt that America's youth is prepared and willing to embrace careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), with a very large percentage of them showing an active interest in learning “how things work.” Alt...

7 January 2009
09:25 GMT

India's Scientific Drama

The very name of the first lunar vehicle built by the Indians, Chandrayaan-1, says a lot about their hopes and efforts for the future. This is a statement that the probe is just the first in a series of similar bold attempts, which will place India among the largely-developed super-powers of the world who have their ...

15 December 2008
03:41 GMT

Sony Applies Blu-ray Technology to Regular CDs

As you might have read in one of our previous articles, Japanese giant Sony has had a pretty rough year, with its overall income recording a sharp decrease. For this reason (probably), the company's scrambling and struggling to come up with new technologies that will help it regain some of the ground it's l...

5 November 2008
04:06 GMT

Blu-ray Killer to Arrive in 2009

Right now, Sony's Blu-ray is, without a doubt, the optical disc format capable of providing the largest amount of space for one's data or movies. However, it would seem that things are about to change quite soon, since a company called Royal Digital Media plans to introduce, in early 2009, what can only be ...

30 October 2008
03:31 GMT

Sony Hit Very Hard by the Financial Crisis

Even if it's one of the world's largest corporations and among the most important manufacturers of consumer electronics, Sony's taken quite a beating at the hands of the economic crisis that's ravaging our world as we speak. And that's because the company's second quarter results, which ...

29 October 2008
05:51 GMT

The Word of God Goes Digital, Sinners Beware

We live in a digital world, where huge amounts of information in electronic format are transferred and used on a daily basis (even the article you'll be reading as follows falls in this category). Given these circumstances, it's no wonder that the digital environment is the best possible solution to deliver...

28 October 2008
17:21 GMT

More HDTVs Sold in 2008 Than Standard Definition TVs

For many years, and even nowadays, in our technologically-advanced era, hearsay remains one of the best information channels out there. Moreover, it is also what, in many cases, drives the consumer world. That's because there are quite a lot of people out there who don't know exactly what HD, PDP, HDMI, LCD...

27 October 2008
10:51 GMT

Panasonic Unveils 3D "Scanner" Sensor That Works in Sunlight

Sensors that automatically count all the people that go through one area at any given moment? Gaming machines that actually "read" the gamers' movements without forcing them to wear any accessories? Robots that detect when people are approaching them? You might think that you only see this kind of stuff in SF mo...

24 October 2008
16:41 GMT

New Software to Help Cut Down HDTV Prices

As you're probably quite well aware, HDTVs are not exactly the most affordable electronic devices around, most people being forced to save quite a lot before they can actually afford to purchase such a product. However, it would seem that things might actually change in the future, since a British company has ju...

20 October 2008
09:02 GMT

Apple Patents Object-Oriented OS

Apple has patented an invention related to object-oriented computing environments. More particularly, the technology implies using a method for providing an object-oriented interface for a procedural operating system.“An apparatus for enabling an object-oriented application to access in an object-oriented manne...

13 October 2008
04:54 GMT

New Sanyo Blu-ray Module Enables 12X Write Speeds, Up to 100 GB Discs

It's a rather well-known fact that Sony's Blu-ray format, despite actually winning the format war, is not exactly faring very well, its rate of adoption being still pretty far from what its supporters initially hoped. Nevertheless, this might soon change, since the Japanese company has just made a major bre...

7 October 2008
14:01 GMT

Tiny PC Cooling System Could Revolutionize the Market

A strong cooling system is what stands between high-performance and frequent failures, for any computer. This is why a number of companies specialize in the development and manufacturing of better and easier to use cooling systems. But cooling manufacturers aren't the only ones looking for better ways to improve...

1 July 2008
10:10 GMT

iOpener, the Future of Racing Games

What's the thing people are screaming for when it comes to video games? "Realism! Realism!" Unfortunately, most of the games today are not able to give us the "Wow, so real!" feeling. Fortunately, a German company called iOpener Media has the answer to our problems and it comes with a solution that will literall...

19 June 2008
16:16 GMT

Fashionable Diamond-Encrusted Luxury Accessories

If you thought the ultimate in sophisticated accessories was having as many glamorous pairs of shoes and bags as possible, think again: in an age where cutting-edge technology and high fashion seem to collide more and more often, nothing spells "luxury" better than a diamond-encrusted digital camera and an equally sp...

19 June 2008
03:16 GMT

Asylum Plans to Bring Wii Q Games

Qube Software is a company who presented a pretty neat middleware for the Nintendo Wii console during the GDC San Francisco, one called Q. Game developers Asylum Entertainment loved it. So, they have decided to be the first to adopt the Q middleware and start developing a couple of Wii games as soon as possible. Also...

29 May 2008
02:39 GMT

NVIDIA's Next-Generation GPU Details Unveiled

After details on AMD's next generation graphic cards were officially announced, it looks like rumors of NVIDIA's upcoming GPUs have also been leaked. According to DailyTech, the leading manufacturer of graphic cards is planning to establish an embargo on its upcoming graphics core codenamed D10U. This GPU i...

22 May 2008
04:02 GMT

Apple Retail Stores Turn Seven

Yesterday was the day Apple Stores worldwide turned seven. Happy Birthday Apple Retail Stores! Apple has come a long way since its first stores were set up in Virginia and Glendale back in 2001, from the architectural structure to the way it handles its business.MacDailyNews notes that the first two Apple Stores open...

20 May 2008
06:05 GMT

Future Perspective: All Microsoft Technology, All the Time

The future is Microsoft-centric as far as the Redmond company is concerned. At this point in time, Microsoft effectively imagines its technology as an indispensable ingredient in the recipe of aspects that will build your mundane life. The increased dependency on technology is a tendency that will only gather up mome...

17 March 2008
08:25 GMT

Bill Gates Wants Fresh Blood to Fuel Technology Innovation

Microsoft Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates has come up with a recipe to continue fueling technology innovation in the U.S., and it involves fresh blood, an education reform and additional financial resources. Gates is scheduled to present this perspective before the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology, o...

12 March 2008
11:23 GMT

CeBIT 2008: The Tech-Fashion of the Future

Although CeBIT is nowhere near a fashion show, this is exactly what we've come across upon visiting the Future Parc section of the exhibition. And no, we're not talking about any haute-couture, but about what normal people might be wearing in just a few years' time, namely clothes built using advanced ...

8 March 2008
06:59 GMT

New Star Wars Technology Revealed

LucasArts' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the game that will be released this summer, is already a highly anticipated title by all the Jedi wannabes in the world. But the developers don't want this game to be just "another Star Wars" game - they want it to be unique and bring a fresh look for the genre lov...

28 January 2008
05:48 GMT

What is the Virtual Reality?

Virtual Reality allows us to enter into unseen worlds, created by computers, and even to influence this unreal world. VR goes from war games to the training of surgeons or pilots. It can be applied for supervising aerial traffic, in medicine, an agreement parks, in industries and administrative domains. On the other ...

24 January 2008
17:06 GMT

The Future of Search Engines and Stalkers is Here!

It's a bleak day for personal privacy and security, I think. Vitalas, an European Commission-funded project has come up with a way to link location data, by recognizing common objects in an image. The EU agency for network and information security, Enisa, has recently reported that "while face recognition allows...

12 December 2007
06:26 GMT

Biomimetics: Natural Models Applied in Technology

Nature's brevets are amazing. Since toddlers, we can fall, hit our heads, experience accidents and yet, in most cases we escape without much damage. At the same weight, a bone is harder than steel, because if their shape and molecular structure. This mix of strength and resistance is encountered everywhere in n...

6 December 2007
09:05 GMT

It Is Now Official: AMD to Export Technology to Zelenograd

The transaction between AMD and the Russian company Angstrem has reached the final stage. AMD has signed an agreement to supply the Zelenograd company with the necessary technology and equipment for 0.13-micron chip production. Pierre Brunswick, AMD Sales and Marketing Vice President in Russia confirmed that the EU ...

27 November 2007
04:04 GMT

FIFA Signed India's Satyam for 7 Years

You might have heard of FIFA, short for Fédération Internationale de Football Association. It deals with… football. Or soccer, as some know it - the team sport where there are eleven players on the pitch on each side and the ball is only kicked with the foot by all, except the one dressed differently from each team a...

26 November 2007
04:54 GMT

Trial for Higher Wireless Data Rates, Successful

The LTE/SAE (Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution) Trial Initiative (LSTI) launched in May this year has reported the successful delivery of the first in a series of test results. This means that the technology can move to the next trial phase and eventually make it out on the market.The Third Generation...

7 November 2007
11:57 GMT

Top 10 Gadgets You Might Consider for the Christmas Shopping List

Christmas is approaching rapidly, and everyone's checking their bank accounts (the customers) or their product stocks (the vendors) in order to make sure they'll be ready for the madness that will ensue. And mainly the same as the past years, gadgets and hi-tech consumer electronics will most likely be quit...

29 October 2007
10:26 GMT

100 Million Touchscreen Phones Next Year

ABI Research has just revealed the results of a recent study coming from them. It looks like year 2008 will be a great one for boosting the touchscreen handset production. More than 100 million such devices are expected to ship until the end of next year.Apple's iPhone is surely responsible for a great amount of...

28 September 2007
09:20 GMT

Realtek Presents a Host of New Products

Realtek Semiconductor Corporation announced that it will present and demonstrate a number of new products and technologies at the on-going Intel Developer Forum which takes place in San Francisco. Among the Realtek products there will be the high performance and low power consumption RTU7105 UWB chip, a wireless USB ...

19 September 2007
11:15 GMT

AMD Licenses Graphics Technology to Freescale

Advanced Micro Devices announced that it will begin to license some of its graphics technologies to Freescale Semiconductor, a company active in the mobile and multimedia platform solutions. The scope of this license agreement between the two hardware companies is that Freescale needs a number of 2D and 3D graphics t...

17 September 2007
09:18 GMT

Does Authentication Really Stand for Security?

I've just read something very interesting on SecurityPark, a piece of news that contained a lot of statements coming from Steve Hurn, CEO of Secerno. After reading what Hurn had to say I have to agree that authentication isn't the same thing with being secure. One of the most concerning things in his statem...

21 August 2007
10:57 GMT

Batteries Based on Lithium-ion Cells Are Dangerous

Lithium-ion cells are very popular when it comes to producing batteries for cell phones and mobile computing systems as the technology behind them allows manufacturers to create batteries with quite a long functioning time per charge and the production price is lower than in the case of other technologies. But it loo...

21 August 2007
05:15 GMT

Samsung to Put ShoZu Technology in Its Phones

Samsung has announced that they will start using ShoZu service in all its future cellphones. The technology allows users to upload and download media files without having to rely on a mobile browser for that.The first mobile phone to include ShoZu technology will be Samsung SCH-L760. The handset is a 3G camera phone ...

27 July 2007
05:49 GMT

32nm Chips Alliances

The current technological process of building computer and general use chips is centered on the 45 or the larger 60 nanometer scale. This may soon change as a number for alliances and partnerships were agreed upon by most of the big players on the computer hardware market. One such agreement is between Toshiba, Fujit...

26 July 2007
03:57 GMT

Teens Not Attracted by Technology

A new survey reveals that although the teenagers are accessing the computer very often and almost every one of them owns at least a mobile phone, they are not attracted by technology, Reuters reported today. The research concerned Internet users with ages between 8 and 24 and included no less than 18,000 persons from...

24 July 2007
11:09 GMT

Latest Tech: Mobile Phone Iris Scanner

Just how much high technology can you cram into a mobile phone? Putting an iris scanner into your mobile phone sounds like a highly futuristic concept, almost like trying out James Bond's shoes.The most interesting thing about this idea is that almost any camera-enabled handset is capable of supporting it. There...

24 July 2007
04:45 GMT

How to Build an Airplane with Morphing Skin? Ask the Pentagon

Stealth aircraft are designed to absorb and deflect radar, thus becoming harder to detect than conventional aircraft. This technology may take an unusual evolutionary path with the Pentagon's newest project that should do more than block radar waves, as it will be able to change shape using a chain-mail-like mor...

23 July 2007
10:49 GMT

Hot from AMD's Headquarters

According to AMD's chairman and CEO, Hector Ruiz, all important computer manufacturers are now using his company's chips in their products. He considers this to be a sign that the system integrators and the customers want that the small semiconductor supplier to succeed in its battle with rival Intel."The s...

23 July 2007
04:15 GMT

GPS Guides Truck Driver into Tree

GPS receivers have become widely used in recent years, using satellite signals in navigating airplanes, ships and automobiles and in using cell phones, mining, surveying and even transferring money, but even the most expensive piece of technology can't function in case of massive human stupidity.A German truck ...

21 July 2007
05:50 GMT


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