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 the cooling technology for today's computers. Some researchers at the Purdue University have also dedicated their time ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 literally bring real life racing into the virtual worlds! Just how cool is that? The company plans to suck in ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2008, 16:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 spectacular USB flash drive. Or at least that's what designers at the leading jewelry retailer Dalumi ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2008, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2008, 02:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 embarg ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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&l ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 momentum and Microsoft is one of the companies at the forefront of innovation. And believe it or not, the company alrea ... [read more >>]
	17 March 2008, 08:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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, on the organization's 50th anniversary on March 12, 2008. With the country's competitiveness at stake, Gates is pre ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2008, 11:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 technologies and integrating electronic components. As you probably know already, there are several companies o ... [read more >>]
	08 March 2008, 06:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 W ... [read more >>]
	28 January 2008, 05:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 side, VT technology can also be used in the crime world. The first idea of VR came in 1930, when researchers created a pl ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 the linking of profile data involving the person's physical body, content-based image retrieval allows the linking of l ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 06:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 nature. Small trees spread their roots in concrete and rock rifts which they widen while turning into vigorous trees. Trees ca ... [read more >>]
	06 December 2007, 09:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 and US authorities had to approve the equipment export to Russia, before concluding the transaction. As of now, AMD has b ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 04:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 and with gloves in hand, who is allowed to touch it with his hands within certain boundaries. OK, now that we got ... [read more >>]
	26 November 2007, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 Partnership Project (3GPP) looks to use LTE as a next generation mobile broadband technology. The LTE/SAE Tria ... [read more >>]
	07 November 2007, 11:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 quite popular gifts, depending on the customer's budgets, of course. So, if you're not yet sure what to get your loved ... [read more >>]
	29 October 2007, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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& ... [read more >>]
	28 September 2007, 09:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 host and hub as well as a gigabit Ethernet controller. The RTU7105 is a single chip solution that will provide a full seri ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 11:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 technologies for its next generation of mobile devices. As Freescale Semiconductor is a company active on the mob ... [read more >>]
	17 September 2007, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 statements was the fact that even if validation measures are taken to the extreme and are really tough to beat, a com ... [read more >>]
	21 August 2007, 10:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 looks like the very technology behind the batteries based on lithium-ion cells is dangerous as it has already been proven by num ... [read more >>]
	21 August 2007, 05:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 05:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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, Fujitsu and NEC, all of them Asian companies, that wish to develop a technology to produce computer chips using the 32 n ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 16 countries. According to the same publication, most of the young people are not interested in new technology but ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2007, 11:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 is no additional hardware required, as the phone only needs an extra software to be installed. This means that ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2007, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 morphing skin. The wise guys in the US Department of Defense, meaning the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2007, 10:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 second quarter confirms our convictions about our industry. First, customers want us to succeed. The unit g ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2007, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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 driver was trying to deliver the cargo to a factory in Switzerland and since he didn't know his way around the indus ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2007, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Should Mobile VoIP Be Unlocked?
	The Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) advises networks to unlock mobile VoIP services for mobile phones. The matter of this service being available on regular handsets for mobile phone users has been a questionable one, as carriers have a great deal to suffer in terms of profit rates. The white paper which the OMTP has published states that operators are entitled to remove or lock the VoIP apps on handsets which they offer to their c ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2007, 01:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Where Are the Robots?
	Robots have been part of human imagination for longer than you think. Though the modern science-fiction literary genre has made them so famous that they've become universal brands, like "Robocop", "Terminator", "Data", "R2-D2" or "iRobot", they have been present in mythology long before. You have probably seen, or at least heard of some movies that depict the never-ending theme of ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2007, 12:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

“Cell Weaver” Mobile Phone Technology Introduced
	A new technology will be available for mobile phone gamers everywhere, coming from Universomo. Cell Weaver is available for use on a wide range of Java based mobile phones and is actually a software engine compatible with many THQ Wireless games. Cell Weaver technology promises ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2007, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Virtual Fences Are Here, Are Virtual Prisons on the Way?
	A company is developing a new virtual fence that would give livestock the impression of being in an unlimited space, while protecting the environment by removing the need for real fences and reducing the labor. Building a fence might not seem such a big deal, but the process may take some time, requiring man power and building materials that may be not only unaesthetic, but also harmful for the environment. CSIRO Food Futures Flagshi ... [read more >>]
	15 June 2007, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mommy, May I Use the High-Definition TV with 16:9 Aspect Ratio, Please?
	A recent market research reveals that most of the kids are tending to become tech-addicted because their lives are based only on new generation devices. According to The NPD Group, as children use electronic devices at approximately 7 years, the televisions and the PCs are tried since the early age of 4 while the digital media players and the satellite radios are used by 9 year-old kids. It seems like the non-portable televisions ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2007, 06:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rainbow Colored Lasers
	We're all used to the red laser, mostly from electronic appliances like DVD players and bar-code scanners, or from movies, where there's always a good guy breaking through a network of red lasers with a can of spray or smoke. By using a new type of semiconductor, researchers aim to produce more colorful laser light much easier and cheaper than before. The new materials are engineered crystalline semiconductor specks ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2007, 08:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

RFID Tagging Could Mean No More Money
	In the near future, shopping may become a lot easier and will no longer mean that people must carry money or credit cars and fear theft. With the help of RFID technology, new tags placed on individual items in stores could mean you can just walk in the store, choose your product and walk out with them, without stopping to check out. A major retail industry organization, working with a global supply chain association and the University ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2007, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Most Realistic 3-D Virtual Tours of Ancient Egypt or Rome
	Do you feel like visiting ancient Roman vestiges or the Egyptian pyramids? Or maybe you already have, but the thousand-year-old remnants failed to impress you like the originals would have? The experience of walking through the original Roman Colosseum or the Egyptian pyramids is unfortunately not available in real life. No problem, a new initiative of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Warwick Manufa ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2007, 10:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Electric Vehicles Powered by “The Will of The People”
	Electric cars are an environmentally friendly alternative to old internal combustion engines that use fossil fuels and pollute the atmosphere. For now, they have their limitations regarding the autonomy, because electricity is very hard to store in conventional batteries. The more efficient cars are hybrids, using both electrical and internal combustion engines that recharge the electric batteries in motion. However, not many people em ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2007, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

All-in-one Fridge, Cooker and Electricity Generator Powered by Biomass
	A project called SCORE - Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity aims to create an all-in-one device that could be used in other remote areas like a mountain top cabin where electricity is not available and fuel sources are scarce or difficult to transport. It also could definitely improve the quality of life in rural areas of Africa and Asia. Dr Keith Pullen of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College Lond ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2007, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Linux-Powered Robots
	Robots have always been a controversial matter. Artificially created things which are able to make decisions on their own based on some kind of environmental sensors made the subject of many technological and engineering researches in time. The first record of a mechanical artificial agent man-created dates from 1738, when Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck able to eat, grain, flap its wings and excrete. In time, robots ha ... [read more >>]
	27 April 2007, 03:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How the Optical Mouse Works
	The mouse, a computer peripheral that probably doesn't save your life, but it sure makes it a lot easier, has evolved over the years, much like its biological counterpart, adapting itself (well, humans did the adapting for it, actually) to new "environmental" conditions. It's the survival of the fittest, a principle as valid in the silicon world as it is in nature. The name mouse, coined at th ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2007, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Have the Fastest Internet Connections Using Only Cable-TV Networks
	Watching an online video, teleworking, or easy access to government services, all these, required high-speed Internet connections. However, existing bandwidths will soon be inadequate, as just one TV programme converted to the digital domain requires about 5 megabit/second (MB/s). The EUREKA (Belgium) project has resulted in super-fast Internet connections over existing cable TV networks with no need for a consumer modem. ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2007, 10:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Smart Finder Locates Your Missing Gadgets... Don't Loose This
	It's safe to assume that it's impossible to feel happy when loosing something, right? Wrong! You can still be relaxed when you find out you lost your keys. How about if I tell you that you can find all your missing items by using a remote control (as long as you don't loose the remote control itself)? Meet the Mecha of all gadgets: the Smart Finder. Dear unorganized people, we're nothing withou ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2007, 15:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Making Semiconductors Out of Diamonds
	A well-designed product usually gets the peoples’ attention, if it has remarkable characteristics, it means that it will be appreciated by the general public, but when you say it has diamonds included in its manufacturing process, your mind flies away to some out of the ordinary gadget. This time you could actually have diamonds integrated into some product, use it, and not even be aware of its existence. Diamond Microwave Dev ... [read more >>]
	13 April 2007, 04:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Crucial Ballistix Memories Go Like Crazy
	One of the many reasons that Crucial Technology is recognized for is its Ballistix and Ballistix Tracer memory modules. They have breached the Gigahertz barrier with their new line of DDR2 products, which now run at 1066MHz. But alongside these modules, Crucial is also responsible for most of the memory modules you have in your computer. I'm not talking about the computer you went out and bought off E-bay or Amazon, but a ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2007, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Get Ready for 45nm Products
	One of the biggest, if not the biggest semiconductor manufacturing facility in Taiwan is the TSMC- they are the suppliers for an entire industry and, basically, millions of people use products that they made, and probably don't even realize it. As one of their main concerns is to keep up with the industry's demands, and sometimes even to be a step ahead of where everybody asks them to be, just to maintain the superiorit ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2007, 10:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cheaper Ways of Building 65nm Chips
	The need of improvement has something to do with our attempt to evolve, but instead of learning manners and how to behave as individuals in a society, we try to better the things around us while we grow more and more dependant of the technology. In Ancient Greece, there was a greater deal of manual labor, almost all of the things one person did were closely related to having to move stuff around. Therefore, in the sculptures the ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2007, 07:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Turn Single Core into Multicore
	The entire idea that stands behind a multicore processor is that it “might” help you do more things at the same time, the term also known as multitasking. And for that reason and that reason alone, the industry has shifted its attention towards milking as much as they can out of the fat cow of progress. In the pursuit of this purpose, we have games that are “enhanced for multicore processors”, ads seen everywhere say that if you ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2007, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Europe's Biggest Bang: Musikmesse
	You don't need to be a German or even an European to have heard about Musikmesse. It's simply the largest musical manifestation of the old continent and this year it looks like it will be even bigger than before: 200 product presentations, more than 30,000 instruments form 50 countries, 1,600 exhibitors from around the planet. Well, what do you say? The 2007 Musikmesse will have its doors open between March 28th and 31st so if ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2007, 04:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Do You Need an Upgrade?
	From the first 8086 processor and up to the Core 2 Duo, there has been a significant increase in computer raw power and computing capabilities, but just how much does a regular person use the computer and for what purposes? Software has evolved along side with hardware into a symbiotic alliance; one cannot exist without the other, or if it did, then it would serve no purpose. Now you might say that if you have a vacuum cleaner ... [read more >>]
	23 March 2007, 07:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia