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Intel's photonic silicon speeds up computers
News Intel has developed a method to marry silicon and photonics, potentially increasing the speed computer chips communicate with each other.
Philips 107B20
Reviews A well-priced 17in. monitor, with image-enhancing LightFrame technology as an added bonus.
Documents To Go Professional Edition 4.0
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LHC on course for November restart
News The giant particle accelerator should restart in mid-November, and could commence high-energy experiments before the end of the year.
Tags: Hardware, Magnet, Gillies, Beam Collision, CERN, Beam, scientist, Large Hadron Collider, Hardware
Date set to fire up world's most-powerful particle accelerator
News Large Hadron Collider, which sits in a nearly 17-mile-long circular tunnel that lies beneath the French-Swiss border, is set to start circulating particles next month.
Tags: Particle Accelerator, CERN, Beam, Particle, black hole, leader, Large Hadron Collider
LHC restart pushed back further
News The U.K.'s Large Hadron Collider will come back online in late summer 2009 at the earliest, and not in June as previously expected.
Tags: Supercomputing, Infrastructure/architecture management, R&D, CERN, accident, theory, director, R&D, Infrastructure/architecture management, Supercomputing
Quantum holographic storage: It works
Techguide Feat shatters long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter.
Tags: Storage, R&D, Electron, Storage, Quantum Corp., Hologram, 3D, Robin Harris, Robin, laser
Researchers build 'flying' micro-robot
News The robot, which weighs about three-hundredths of an ounce, is manipulated by magnetic fields and has the potential for use in clean rooms or hazardous environments.
Tags: Hardware, Ontario, Micro-robot, magnetic field, Environment, laser, robot, researcher, University of Waterloo, camera
IBM shines light on future of chips
News Big Blue finally joins an industry effort to support a manufacturing process for faster, smaller chips.
AsiaSat to invest HK$74 million in satellite Internet provider
News Asia Satellite Telecommunications Ltd said that it will invest HK$74 million (US$9.5 million) in a provider of Internet distribution services.
Why Wi-Fi has to change--or else
Insight Ruckus Wireless CEO Selina Lo says Wi-Fi isn't up to the task of supporting the new apps and handheld devices entering the market.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi, Mobile/Wireless
CERN's big collider now in action
News The first particle beam successfully traverses the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest machine. Still to come: creating mini black holes.
Tags: Networking technology, CERN, Video, grid computing, image search, England, University of Cambridge, photograph, career, U.K.
Nortel delays fiber-optic components unit IPO until next year
News Nortel Networks Corp, the No 1 maker of phone equipment, delayed the initial stock sale of its fiber-optic components unit until next year, citing waning demand by investors for such shares.
Holograms on handsets by 2010
News Holographic mobile handsets capable of projecting, capturing and sending 3D images have been developed by an Indian tech company.
Tags: Cellular phones, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Mobile, Hologram, 3D, processor, technology company, Silicon.com, network, 2D
Australia: Queensland sets up hi-tech research fund
News The government of Australia's northern state of Queensland has announced a new A$15m (US$7.75m) fund to entice developers of hi-tech research to the state.
