The Age of Touch Computing: A Complete Guide

Posted by aditya 22 days ago on Devices/Gadgets from http://www.pcmag.com

Touch computing—which started with the iPhone and is now making its way to your desktop—will change computing paradigms, at least for the most common read more

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Hot technologies to watch for in 2009

Posted by eeninja 22 days ago on Research Topics from http://www.eetimes.com

Every technologist, marketer, industry analyst and reporter on a hunt for the next big thing is bracing for the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show schedu read more

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EDA tools for FPGAs running out of gas

Posted by dlee 26 days ago on EDA from http://eetimes.com

The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) market has experienced lackluster and flat growth in recent times. But now, the sector faces a set of new ch read more

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Nano-magnetic sensors could pave the way for massive data storage capacity

Posted by davidwong 28 days ago on Memory/Storage from http://www.tgdaily.com

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created nanoscopic magnetic sensors. Comprised of carbon nanotubes embedded with bundles o read more

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IBM and Harvard search for organic solar power using cloud computing

Posted by aditya 29 days ago on Renewable/CleanTech Energy from http://www.tgdaily.com

Researchers from IBM and Harvard will team up to create the World Community Grid (WCG) project. This project will be comprised of over 413,000 member read more

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Intel breaks record with optical CMOS device

Posted by eeninja 29 days ago on Research Topics from http://www.eetimes.com

Researchers from Intel Corp. have demonstrated a photo detector built in CMOS that the company claims is the highest performance optical component of read more

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First superconducting transistor promises PC revolution

Posted by victorp 31 days ago on Research Topics from http://www.newscientist.com

THE world's first superconducting transistor, a long-standing goal for applied physicists, could lead to dramatically faster microchips. read more

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IEEE says Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers

Posted by victorp 31 days ago on CPU/GPU from http://www.spectrum.ieee.org

With no other way to improve the performance of processors further, chip makers have staked their future on putting more and more processor cores on read more

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Talk-powered cell phones? Nanoscale piezoelectrics could make it real!

Posted by kaustubh 33 days ago on Wireless/Mobile from http://www.networkworld.com

It's possible that in the future your voice conversations on your cell phone could generate enough electrical power to run the phone, without batteri read more

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Apple Hints At Future Liquid-Cooled Laptops

Posted by kaustubh 33 days ago on Devices/Gadgets from http://www.theregister.co.uk

The latest Apple patent to surface points out that the upcoming mobile round of Intel's Nehalem chips may require more cooling mojo than the current read more

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Intel and Microsoft launch parallel lab

Posted by eeninja 36 days ago on Research Topics from http://eetimes.com

Researchers officially christened the Parallel Computing Lab here Monday (Dec. 1) in a newly renovated space at the University of California, Berkele read more

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Hitachi and Intel to develop breakthrough enterprise-class SSDs by early 2010

Posted by aditya 35 days ago on Memory/Storage from http://www.tgdaily.com

In a joint press release, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) and Intel Corporation announced today they've signed a joint development agreemen read more

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Happy Accident Opens Door to Cheaper, Higher-Resolution Cameras

Posted by victorp 34 days ago on Devices/Gadgets from http://www.wired.com

Scientific accidents have brought some of the most groundbreaking discoveries — vulcanized rubber, X-rays, penicillin — and now scientists at UCLA ha read more

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Nokia calls home to save on energy

Posted by eeninja 36 days ago on Renewable/CleanTech Energy from http://eetimes.com

Nokia has started developing a wireless platform to control functions such as heating and security in homes. read more

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Micron to launch hyperfast SSD, touts 1GB/sec. throughput

Posted by kaustubh 39 days ago on Memory/Storage from http://www.computerworld.com

Within the next year, Micron Technology Inc. expects to bring to market a high-end solid-state disk drive that could achieve 1GB/sec. throughput, acc read more

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Blue OLEDs and foldable displays on tap

Posted by kaustubh 39 days ago on Digital TV/HDTV from http://arstechnica.com

A team of Korean scientists, however, claim to have made a breakthrough in building power-efficient blue OLEDs. Details on the supposed breakthrough read more

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Household bot makes theatrical debut

Posted by dlee 41 days ago on Embedded/Firmware from http://news.cnet.com

Tuesday marked the theatrical debut for the bot, which appeared onstage alongside real-life actors in a play that's being hailed as a first in robot- read more

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Memristors Make Chips Cheaper

Posted by sudhir 42 days ago on Research Topics from http://www.technologyreview.com

Researchers at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA, are betting that a new fundamental electronic component--the memristor--will keep computer power increasing read more

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Scientists add emotions to robotic head

Posted by davidwong 44 days ago on Embedded/Firmware from http://www.deviceguru.com

Claiming that service-class robots will one day be pervasive, researchers at the University of the West of England’s Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL read more

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