Everybody's talking about information technology that's environmentally conscious. But are CIOs and other IT leaders simply giving green tech lip service? CIO talked with IT leaders to find out.
At a recent robotics competition in Boston, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple was one of the judges. We caught up with him and asked him some questions on a variety of topics.
Toshiba's prototype robot can control devices in your living room. The robot, called ApriPoco, learns from users and then can act on their command. Toshiba hopes to commercialize ApriPoco one day.
In this week's 5-minute recap of the week's technology news: YouTube is blacked out in China; Intel dreams of future mobile devices; the world loses Arthur C Clarke; Intel expands Classmate sales; Vista SP1 is ready and new cameras from Tokyo's Photo Imaging Expo.
In this week's edition of World Tech Update: Bill Gates appeals to lawmakers for more H-1B visas, the EU approves the Google-DoubleClick merger, AOL buys Bebo, the safety of hands free cell phones comes into question, implanted brain chips control computers, new Atom-based notebooks are coming, and more gadgets from last week's Cebit.
After researchers at Princeton University showed how they could dig up the contents of a computer's memory just minutes after the machine had been turned off, it was only a matter of time before hackers began showing how this technique, called a cold boot attack, could be used in the real world.
Hewlett-Packard unveiled its Compaq 2133 ultraportable laptop, which uses a C7-M microprocessor from Taiwan's Via Technologies instead of a chip from Intel.
Intel unveiled an updated version of its Classmate PC laptop at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Shanghai, but changes made to the device are largely cosmetic -- at least for now.
On the eve of the RSA Conference a San Francisco gallery unveiled an exhibit called Infected Art. It's a collection of images created from the code of various viruses, worms, spam, and other malware.
In this week's show: the EC approves cell phones for airplanes, HP's 2133 competes with the Eee PC, computer viruses make art, US Homeland Security Secretary keynotes at RSA, Europe's Galileo is moving forward and you can now send smells.
BrainGate is a new technology where a chip is implanted in the brain that picks up electrical impulses. A computer then interprets those impulses as actions.
Bill Gates told US law makers on Wednesday that the country is driving away the world's best engineers and computer scientists by putting limits on H-1B visas and other immigrant worker programs.
IBM's developing a new type of solid-state memory that combines the best characteristics of flash, like having no moving parts, and the low cost of hard drives.
Europe is moving forward with their own satellite navigation system after years of setbacks and delays threatened to derail the ambitious project, which is the continent's answer to US-run GPS.
The head of Intel's mobility group, Dadi Perlmutter, outlined on Wednesday innovations the chip maker plans over the next few years to deliver faster and higher performance processors.
In this week's show: new phones and gadgets are on display at CTIA in Las Vegas; Mac is hacked first at CanSecWest; Toshiba's robot helps control remotes; Boston hosts a robotic competition and Steve Wozniak talks on tech; Intel introduces a new Classmate PC; Mobile Internet Devices use Intel's Atom processor; and AT&T uses Microsoft's Surface computer.