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Never say never, but this may be the first blog ever posted live from the monumental earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake called Spiral Jetty.
Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell.
Reports say a blown transformer knocked out power to the Fisher Plaza data center, which is home to the Bing Travel servers, among others.
What soccer team would your company be? Martin Veitch at CIO.co.uk riffs on how certain football clubs resemble software companies, to good and painful effect.
Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way.
Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices.
q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.
Week in review: A speedier new Firefox Mozilla's latest version plays catch-up with the browser competition. Also: the latest in Windows 7 news, and a Yahoo data center in a new shade of green.
At the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, researchers look for ways to protect soldiers against "bugs" that could easily kill or sideline them.
Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it Open source has a role to play in cloud computing, but it's likely not to be the vanquisher of old, proprietary dominance.
Firefox 3.5 introduces a new embeddable font feature that can make Web typography much more visually appealing. But type foundries have to play along.
Sites that help you lodge complaints If you've been wronged or you're just not happy with the way you were treated, there are some sites on the Web that will help you get your voice heard.
A morning outage in Google App Engine--a hosting service for Web application developers--was resolved around noon Pacific Thursday.
iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing Some reports on Friday claim that Apple admitted in a tech note to having heat issues with the iPhone 3GS, but that's just not true.
Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenager to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her.
Net neutrality gets a boost from the feds The Obama administration includes the FCC's Net neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package.
Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws.
At a dinner speech recently, Henrik Fisker laid out his plans for Fisker Automotive and its first car, the plug-in hybrid Karma.
Vulnerability in the way iPhones handle text messages could be used to track the location of the phone, turn on the microphone, or turn phone into botnet zombie.
TracFone offers $45 unlimited plan TracFone's new StraightTalk service delivers 30MB of data plus unlimited calling and messaging for $45 per month.
A look at the high-tech research and development going on inside the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
Blogging live from Spiral Jetty
Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites
iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web
Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle
Defending against chemical and biological weapons
Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography
Google App Engine misfires
Report: Guilty verdict overturned in MySpace suicide case
DOJ opens formal investigation into Google Books settlement
Apple fixing iPhone SMS security hole
Photos: NASA's science, tech showcase
Tests of the computing grid that will manage data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment showed the systems successfully handled large amounts of information, according to Cern Cern's flagship particle accelerator, put out of commission by a quality-control flaw, will be switched on a couple of weeks later than previously expected
IBM probe detects an atom's charge
In a large-scale study at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Uppsala University, physicists and IBM will churn gigabytes a second to learn the sun's dangerous secrets
Flexible memory developed for chips
The London 2012 Games may pioneer smart tickets that can also be used as contactless payment and Oyster travel cards
Revived LHC could run through the winter
Wolfram Alpha boosted by super-fast HPC The machine, built out of Dell hardware by a company called R Systems, can sustain performance of 39.6 trillion mathematical operations per second
Ministers from the Department of Health and Cabinet Office are implementing and progressing plans to reduce carbon emissions, outlined in the Greening Government ICT Strategy
Smart meters promised for UK homes by 2020 Enabling the real-time transmission of gas and electricity meter readings to the utility means companies can save on manual checks and customers can manage consumption
A six-month trial of the Intelligent Speed Adaptation tech will start this summer, with the aim of exploring ways of reducing road deaths
SAP acquires carbon management firm The enterprise software giant has bought Clear Standards, a software business with tools for tracking and reporting a corporation's environmental impact
In a recent conference keynote, Qualcomm's Andrew Gilbert shared his insights on the mobile industry's future, including TV, banking and the 'internet of things'
Progress made in Large Hadron Collider repair The last of the replacement magnets has been installed for a section of the LHC that suffered an electrical fault and helium leak last September
A London School of Economics report suggests that a £15bn investment in broadband, smart grid and intelligent transport technology could create 700,000 jobs
Chancellor promises emerging-tech investment In his budget speech, chancellor Alistair Darling promised more funding for emerging technologies, but the CBI has questioned the funding allocation
Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a system that can authenticate your identity by eliciting and listening to specific sounds emitted by your ear
'Flying' micro-robot developed by researchers
The hardware maker has announced a series of partnerships in a bid to be a bigger player in the digitisation of medical records
Microsoft aims to improve multitouch gestures
Robot scientist makes gene discovery
Gartner predicts ray of light for solar tech Long-term prospects for the photovoltaic market are encouraging, says the analyst house, although the market will have to weather the current economic gloom
The Commission calls for a large increase in tech R&D funding over the next decade, and has reiterated its call for a single European patent system
Using the iPhone and Wii remote for health
Microsoft TechFest video points to utopian future Microsoft imagines how a number of its current research technologies will work together in a decade's time
US researchers claim vast data-density increase A breakthrough by US researchers could lead to significant increases in data-storage capacity
How private lives are being redefined online
LHC restart now on hold until September
The company has outlined a plan to bring its European research together but has not given details on investment in the changes
EU supercomputers to be used for fusion modelling Nuclear-fusion researchers will be given access to distributed supercomputer processing power to aid their sustainable energy quest, the European Commission has announced
A report into the European Union's research and development investment as a proportion of GDP has noted 'stagnation', particularly when compared with the US, Japan and Korea
Keyboards, DRM, 9-to-5 to grow scarce, says survey A survey of more than 1,000 internet activists, journalists and technologists about tech life in 2020 has found expectations of haptic and voice interfaces
The future of mobile-device chargers
LHC restart pushed back further
The initiative is the first of several phases intended to eventually reproduce the computing power of the brain, as well as its efficiency
Nasa uses spacecraft to test interplanetary network Nasa is using a comet-watching spacecraft to test new interplanetary networking protocols, while the concepts are also being applied to networks closer to home
Cern bombards LHC grid with data
Ad tech developed that can tell men from women
Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has produced a system that uses sophisticated algorithms to differentiate facial features
Researchers have come up with a probe that can tell whether a gold atom has a positive, negative or neutral charge, which could lead to new computing devices
Swedes to unravel the secrets of solar storms
Researchers at US National Institute of Standards and Technology have created a flexible memristor, which can be bent or twisted and remain functional
Olympics tickets could double as cash, travel cards
Cern's particle accelerator, currently undergoing repairs, could have its operation extended beyond its schedule despite high energy
Air-based battery promises 10 times the power
Researchers at the University of St Andrews see promise in new battery technology using air as a fuel and say it could provide 10 times more power for electric cars, mobile phones and laptops
Ministers progress carbon neutrality plan
TfL to test speed-limiting tech this summer
Qualcomm exec offers glimpse of mobile future
Tech investment would boost jobs, says LSE
Noise emitted by ears used for biometric recognition
Canadian researchers have developed a tiny flying robot which can be moved through three dimensions using electro-magnets
Dell boosts its digital-healthcare strengths
At a conference this week, Microsoft is presenting ideas on how 'more natural' gestures could be used on multitouch devices
Scientists use virus to help build battery
Researchers have used a genetically modified virus to assemble materials for an energy-efficient battery, which they say could be used in hybrid cars
UK researchers have created a robot, 'Adam', that they believe to be the first machine to independently come up with new scientific findings
Robot fish and chips to fight water pollution
Five robot fish will swim the Spanish seas as part of an EC-funded project to pinpoint sources of pollution, such as leaks from ships or underwater pipelines
EC plans more funding for tech research
ZDNet UK spoke to scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute to see how communications technology is combining with gaming gadgetry to keep people healthy
3D display technology moves on
Markus Klippstein, head of the 3D display company Visumotion, tells ZDNet UK how the technology has developed in recent years, and what it is for
ZDNet UK visited Hanover in Germany to see what was on offer at this year's CeBIT technology fair
Microsoft: Why Surface is right for the enterprise
The tabletop technology, now available for purchase in the UK, has applications for business, Microsoft told ZDNet UK at CeBIT 2009
A tour of the highlights at TechFest 2009
At its annual TechFest event, Microsoft gives its researchers the opportunity to show off what they have cooking in the lab
Memories are made by tech
People are now able to make, store and share a digital record of their daily lives. Web pioneer Dame Wendy Hall talks about the consequences and uses of having every detail to hand
At the Digital Lives conference, web pioneer Dame Wendy Hall explains how technology has affected how and why people share information about themselves
Gordon Bell on life through a digital lens
Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell talked to ZDNet UK recently about his project to document his entire life. This video shows him demonstrating part of this in 2007
The latest postponement means the world's largest particle accelerator will be back online a year after an electrical malfunction forced its shutdown
Intel to unify its research in Europe
European R&D investment levels 'stagnating'
Apple's Macintosh has been one of the defining features of the past quarter century. How about the next?
IBM develops microscope for nanoscale imaging
New microscope can show images with 100 million times greater resolution than those generated by an MRI scanner today, company said
A look at the damage that halted the LHC
Cern has released pictures of the impact of a liquid helium leak in September
Kinetic energy technology can charge mobile phones and devices without ever needing an electrical outlet
The future of paper
At the Palo Alto Research Center, scientists are developing a way to print an image that disappears, allowing paper to be used dozens of times
The world's most powerful particle accelerator now looks likely to be operational again in late summer 2009, rather than June
IBM wins Darpa cognitive-computing contract
The servers are intended for small to medium-sized businesses and are 'up to three times faster' than their predecessors, according to Lenovo
Microsoft opens mega datacentre in Dublin The first Microsoft mega datacentre outside the US will take advantage of the 'cool climate' and will power Azure and Bing, the company says
Dell is developing a pocket-size internet device to take on Apple's iPod Touch, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal
Sony PSP could get phone functions The company is considering developing a mobile phone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apple's iPod and iPhone
The chipmaker is calling on businesses to avoid lengthening their PC refresh cycles as a cost-cutting measure, as security-risk and maintenance bills could prove more costly
Gartner: PC sales show signs of revival Revising an earlier prediction, the research firm predicts a rebound in the fourth quarter that will lift sales for the year and continue momentum into next year
Palm has posted a narrower-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter loss, and highlighted strong demand for its recently launched Pre smartphone
UK chip company launches £3 processor
Swedish telecoms equipment manufacturer Ericsson predicts fraud detection and other secure elements for mobile phones
Adobe brings Flash to HTC's latest Android phone HTC's new Android-based Hero smartphone will feature built-in Flash support, putting it ahead of the iPhone
Water-cooled IBM supercomputer to heat buildings Surplus heat from the warm-water-cooled supercomputer will heat university buildings at research partner ETH's Zurich campus
IBM's Roadrunner and Cray's Jaguar retain top two positions on latest Top500 supercomputer list, which also saw four new systems in the top 10
Netgear to deliver 24TB NAS system The ReadyNAS rack-mounted appliance, aimed at the SMB market, will eventually hold up to 24TB as new drives become available
The company has upgraded software and hardware in its Constellation System supercomputer platform, in part to provide better support for cloud computing
Over 1m iPhone 3G S sold in first three days Apple says it has sold more than one million of its newest iPhone in the first three days of launch, beating analysts' expectations for the 3G S smartphone's debut
The chipmaker has provided insights into a number of research projects that extend beyond its processor business
LG announces thin-client monitor range The Smartvine N-series monitors will have thin clients built into them, allowing up to six people to use virtualised desktops running off a single PC
The enterprise is ready for a 'disruptive' approach to innovation when it comes to adopting green technology, according to Samsung Semiconductor's Jim Elliott
Toshiba plans restructure of system chip unit Toshiba, Japan's largest chipmaker, plans to mass produce 28nm system chips in the coming business year
Intel is planning to phase out some of its brands, including Centrino PCs, to focus on fewer top names as the chipmaker expands into new markets
Dell boosts enterprise virtualisation portfolio The company has unveiled pre-configured packages for deploying and managing virtualised infrastructures, new storage products and a consulting service called ProConsult
The company is hoping that its five new SAN systems for scale-out storage will pull in medium-sized business customers
Report: Sun abandons high-end chip project The company has killed off a project to develop an advanced server chip dubbed 'Rock', which it had hoped would leapfrog its technology past rivals, according to reports
New ProLiants are at the centre of HP's push into the 'scale-out' market, where datacentres with thousands of servers deal with cloud, Web 2.0 and high-performance computing
Apple's WWDC keynote in photos
Global revenue in the chip-foundry market is expected to post a rise in the second quarter, but 2009 will remain challenging for foundries, says the researcher
Apple launches summer product push
Apple reveals updates to iPhone, MacBook, OS X
The company plans to move into the rack-mount server business as part of its 'unified computing' push
Future of netbooks revealed at Computex
The device would detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs, and police want it to be as easy to use as a breathalyser
HP delivers Istanbul-powered servers The seven ProLiants built on AMD's new six-core Opteron chip come with heat- and power-management functions designed to drive down energy consumption
PC World pulls Linux netbooks from stores Microsoft has praised the retail giant's decision, but Ubuntu backer Canonical says the battle is not over yet
The flash memory firm has revealed two solid-state drives and a range of memory cards that are specifically tailored for use in small, cheap subnotebooks
AMD launches dual-core Phenom, Athlon CPUs The chipmaker has unveiled its first dual-core Phenom and a dual-core Athlon that can work with the faster memory standard DDR3
Freescale shows off 'smartbook' prototypes
The SU2700 is designed for notebook computers that are larger and more powerful than netbooks, but still much thinner than traditional laptops
AMD launches 'Istanbul' six-core processors The new Opteron processors are aimed at the high-performance computing and virtualisation markets
The PDA manufacturer has settled its suit against Intel over the use of the word 'netbook', and will no longer object to use of the term
Qualcomm lines up 30 Snapdragon gadgets More than 30 products using the chipmaker's next-generation Snapdragon chipset are already in the pipeline
First-quarter figures for server revenue and shipments are the worst seen by the research firm for years, as buyers pull back on spending
HP refreshes small-business portfolio The manufacturer's new SME line-up includes new server, storage, virtualisation and client devices, as well as new printers
In a new wave of job cuts, the company is to lay off thousands of employees, including 710 who will be laid off in the closure of a factory in Erskine
HDS storage controller gets failover clustering High Availability Manager adds clustering capabilities to Universal Storage Platform V controller, with the promise of no downtime for applications or servers
The hardware giant will reportedly move its manufacturing of storage devices and servers from its Erskine plant to the Czech Republic
Sata 3.0 paves way for slimmer notebooks The new version of the Serial ATA specification, released on Wednesday, also promises smoother video playback from storage drives using the interface
Lenovo introduces latest ThinkServer lineup
Report: Dell developing Android gadget
Intel urges SMEs: Don't delay PC refresh
Palm beats targets with help from Pre
Cheap, reconfigurable consumer electronics are promised by Xmos's powerful hardware-emulating chip
RFID to be fitted in all mobiles by 2010
A look at HTC's Hero Android phone
The Hero uses an HTC-customised user interface skin called Sense, and is the first Android handset from the manufacturer not to carry Google branding
IBM's Roadrunner holds onto Top500 crown
Sun polishes up its Constellation HPC system
Intel showcases new technologies
Samsung exec: Enterprise ripe for green disruption
Intel to phase out 'Centrino' in rebranding push
Infortrend moves into enterprise storage
HP takes aim at 'scale-out' datacentres
Apple execs go onstage in San Francisco to show off the new iPhone 3G S and a new MacBook, plus updates to Mac OS X, Safari and QuickTime
Global chip-foundry sales to rise: iSuppli
Apple fulfilled rumours in the WWDC keynote with major upgrades to its portable computers and operating system. Oh, and a new iPhone
Apple: Snow Leopard set to unleash chip power
At the Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced a technology called Grand Central Dispatch to better tap into multicore chip power
At WWDC, the company showed off a faster version of the iPhone, faster notebooks, plus the upcoming Snow Leopard software, iPhone OS 3.0 and more
Cisco enters rack-mount server market
For a peek into the crystal ball of mobile computing, we take a look at what has been announced at Computex in Taiwan this week
Police in talks over pocket PC-crime detection tool
Acer launches first business netbook
The PC manufacturer has tailored its Aspire One netbook for the corporate crowd, adding greater storage and XP Professional
SanDisk fine-tunes SSDs for netbooks
First Tegra-based netbooks and MIDs unveiled
Nvidia's system-on-a-chip has shown up in a dozen netbooks and mobile internet devices at the Computex event in Taiwan
The chipmaker has worked alongside a US design school to come up with new concepts for ARM-based, Linux-driven mobile internet devices
Intel launches CULV chip for ultra-thin notebooks
Psion settles Intel 'netbook' trademark suit
IDC: Biggest quarterly drop in 12 years for servers
HP plans 5,700 job cuts in EMEA
Reports: HP to cut 840 jobs in Scotland