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The computer revolution has been powered by chips that operated at ever-higher frequencies. From the Ataris and Commodores of the late 1970s, which ran at roughly one megahertz, to today's devices that run at nearly four gigahertz, one year's star at the

Thin, bendable, organic screens of sci-fi movies are almost here.
In the 2002 movie “Minority Report,” director Steven Spielberg painted the future as a place where no surface was still. Newspapers updated in readers’ hands and advertisements talked to p

A new ambulance communications system will enable doctors to diagnose and begin treating critically ill patients before they reach hospital.

Big Microsoft Study Supports Small World Theory
By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 2, 2008; Page A01

Turns out, it is a small world.

The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees

Happy birthday, Darwin! A computer science and mathematics team from Hampshire College in Massachusetts and the State University of New York in New Paltz has used evolutionary processes to solve a century-old algebra problem far faster and more efficientl

Passion for virtual tale gets team noticed

Jul 31 2008 by Karen Dent, The Journal
Teesside University's interactive Madame Bovary

Computer gaming is taking a leap into literature by inviting players into the virtual world of 19th Century adultero

An algorithm for spam recognition inspired by the immune system will be presented at the first European conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE XI) being held in Winchester this week.

On the eve of a Lords ruling over US demands for his extradition, a British computer hacker claims that American prosecutors threatened to haul him before a military tribunal

I love PHP as a language. It can be used for quick and dirty scripts. Or, you can harness the object-oriented features to make a project very structured. I've been doing the later almost exclusively for the past two years.

By James Sherwood [More by this author]
5th June 2008 11:11 GMT
Smartphones running Linux look set to become far more commonplace within the next five years, market watcher ABI Research has forecast.

ABI Research says in five years, more mobile phones will run on Mobile Linux than on Windows Mobile. According to a Reg Hardware piece, 23 percent of smartphones will feature Linux by 2013, putting the open source OS in second place — behind Symbian — in

This month’s IT Business Edge special report, “Long Live Windows XP,” kicks off today with an interview with InfoWorld Executive Editor Galen Gruman, who told Lora Bentley tha t his publication’s “Save XP” campaign was

After taking a look at the state of the browser market, The New York Times concluded this week that the war is heating back up. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has seen its market share slide down to 75 percent, mostly because of Firefox’s gains. The open s

Amid increasing reports from computer makers that desktop sales are falling in the U.S. while laptop sales are rising, Microsoft announced this week at the Computex trade show in Taiwan that it is now extending the lifespan of Windows XP on low-end deskto

A new 20-page white paper from Microsoft, “The Business Value of Windows Vista,” breaks down the five main areas of benefit that companies could expect in upgrading from XP to Vista now.

Brin offers 'refuge' to Yahoo CEO if investors oust him

Welcome to the future: a wire-free world of sensors and hi-tech cars, according to research published today by media regulator Ofcom.

IBM's Answer to the Food Crisis
Big Blue's World Community Grid and a University of Washington team are using PCs globally to develop better strains of rice

The latest talks clearly suggest Microsoft lacks a Plan B to compete with Google in search, while Yahoo is feeling the heat from Carl Icahn

Software isn't in a rut. In fact, its development has been so steady, we've come to expect continued progress (and therefore fail to appreciate it). Welcome to the 'endless value spiral.'

So with all this software reuse, will our bank CIO still need a programming staff? He'll always need a programming staff. That's one of the lessons of Backus' automatic programming.

Microsoft has proposed to Yahoo that it ally on a “transaction” that is something short of the full acquisition that Microsoft abandoned on May 3.

Sure, the software giant has plenty of cash, but that might not be enough to make a deal between the two companies worthwhile—and workable

Microsoft files an application with the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg to annul the European Commission antitrust fine

Windows Vista has experienced 639 unique vulnerabilities over the last six months

ClimateCounts survey on climate friendliness rates Apple far behind other computer companies

In an interview, Ian Murdock, formerly with the Linux Foundation and now with Sun, discusses the company's open-source efforts and how to monetize them

InfoWorld: I heard two different computer industry executives make the following comments. One is, how do you have a software industry if there's open source? And the other is, open source lowers revenues for everybody. How would you respond to those?

nfoWorld: No one is permitted to take ZFS and port it to Linux?

InfoWorld: Do you see a role for OpenSolaris in the Web 2.0 world?

The investment and financial institution ICSL is partnering with paybox to launch a new savings and payment system in Africa. The new system offers a cash-like way to save, spend and transfer money and can be used with any mobile phone, anywhere, anytime,