November 19, 2008 - Technology News
Technology sets sights on piracy
The hijacking of giant Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star has focused the world's attention on piracy. In the past five years, the number of ...
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November 13, 2008 - Technology News
Action urged over nanomaterials
Urgent regulatory action is needed on nano-scale materials widely used in industry, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has ...
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October 24, 2008 - Technology News
Sticky tape is source of X-rays
Peeling sticky tape emits X-rays strong enough to scan a human finger, a remarkable experiment has shown. US researchers used a motorised ...
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October 24, 2008 - Technology News
Supersonic car targets 1,000mph
The British team that claimed the land speed record in 1997, taking a car through the sound barrier for the first time, is planning to go even ...
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October 22, 2008 - Industry News
Tech firms warn of lower profits
Texas Instruments (TI) and computer hardware maker Sun Microsystems have both warned of lower future profits. Based on recent weak order ...
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October 20, 2008 - Technology News
The future of interaction?
Marc Cieslak looks at three new ways to use a computer that go beyond the traditional mouse and keyboard. By ditching that basic interface for ...
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October 17, 2008 - Technology News
In conversation with... a computer program
Stuck for someone to talk to? Elbot is a computer program pretending to be a person. And this week it won a prize for coming closest to ...
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September 22, 2008 - Technology News
Hadron Collider halted for months
The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) ...
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September 15, 2008 - Industry News
Drawing a picture of the future
From operating systems to video games, slick graphics are now the norm, as the chips behind the visuals grow up. Graphics chipsets are taking ...
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September 4, 2008 - Technology News
Broadband to 'skip a generation'
Communities bypassed by broadband should be the first to get even faster services, says an Ofcom advisory group. The regulator's Consumer Panel ...
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August 18, 2008 - Technology News
Looking ahead to tiny technology
Marc Cieslak travels to Zurich in Switzerland to discover some of the ambitions scientists have for the world's tiniest technology ...
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August 15, 2008 - Technology News
Robot wars helping British troops
A competition to design new technology for the military is being held in a mocked-up wartime village on Salisbury Plain. The BBC's Alison Harper ...
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August 7, 2008 - Technology News
Robots learn to move themselves
Researchers in Leipzig have demonstrated software designed for robots that allows them to "learn" to move through trial and error. ...
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July 28, 2008 - Industry News
Boom times ahead for mobile web
The world of mobile internet devices is set to explode in the next four years says chip maker Intel. Research carried out for the company ...
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July 2, 2008 - Industry News
Staff strike following jobs news
Officials at Fujitsu, in Solihull, said it needed to move its printed circuit board operations to the Texas plant. Factory staff took part ...
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June 27, 2008 - Industry News
EU acts to cut mobile phone costs
Europe's telecoms watchdog published guidelines for laws to harmonise so-called call termination fees across the European Union by 2011 ...
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June 16, 2008 - Top Story News
Intel: More than just chips
Even though this product makes billions for the business, Intel's chief technology officer and head of research Justin Ratner told the BBC ...
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June 4, 2008 - Industry News
Intel seeks wireless unification
Intel is the biggest supporter of Wimax, which offers high-speed, long-range wireless connections designed for the mobile net. "In our view ...
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May 2, 2008 - Top Story News
Electronics' 'missing link' found
Details of an entirely new kind of electronic device, which could make chips smaller and far more efficient, have been outlined by scientists ...
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April 18, 2008 - Technology News
Nano switch hints at future chips
The transistor, essentially an on/off switch, has been made using graphene, a two-dimensional material first discovered only four ...
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April 16, 2008 - Industry News
Nokia pushes '4G wireless' plans
The companies have formed a licensing framework for their patents for the emerging mobile standard, called Long Term Evolution (LTE). ...
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April 11, 2008 - Technology News
IBM races to make hi-tech memory
Researchers for the computer giant are working on a technology known as racetrack memory which uses tiny magnetic boundaries to store data ...
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April 8, 2008 - Industry News
Intel 'will survive US recession'
Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini says increasingly faster chips will drive the use of Wimax wirelss broadband. Intel will ride out any US ...
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April 7, 2008 - Technology News
Europe clears mobiles on aircraft
The use of mobiles on planes flying in European airspace has been given formal approval by the European Commission. The decision means that ...
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April 3, 2008 - Technology News
Computers to merge with humans
It is one of the predictions in a Microsoft-backed report drawn from the discussions of 45 academics from the fields of computing, science, ...
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