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Power boosts beyond battery advances
News In the face of slow progress in battery technology, PC makers are increasingly working on device components to extend battery life for laptop users.
Tags: Components, Battery, Hewlett-Packard Co., Notebook, phone, performance, energy efficiency, Dell Computer Corp., Components, Sony Corp.
Sony: Our innovation is back
News Drive to be more contemporary is helping company shed its image as one "ridiculed for its software development", says its chairman and CEO Howard Stringer.
Tags: Innovation, Personal applications, Software engineering/development, Consumer Technology, Development/design, Personal Computers, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation Portable, Innovation
Notebooks running on gas?
News Companies explore new designs and concepts. Welcome to the notebook of the future.
Toshiba buying out Panasonic's share of joint LCD venture
News Toshiba already held 60 percent, and will pay to take on Panasonic's 40 percent in order to more quickly restructure the company's liquid crystal display business.
Tags: Monitors and displays, Business structures, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Mobile, Mobile Device, LCD panel, Panasonic, light-emitting diode, Wall Street Journal, LCD
Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard power
News Researchers prove they can spy on a computer by using laser beams and by sniffing the electrical socket, bringing the James Bond world of espionage to everyday geeks.
Tags: PC security, Security, Attack, Wireless, computer, laser, Hardware, keyboard, Laptop Computer, researcher
Microsoft confirms Zune HD coming this fall
News New device will feature an HD Radio tuner and OLED screen, but will it be enough to take on the iPod Touch? Also, Microsoft is rebranding Xbox video service with Zune name.
Tags: Game players, Video, Music devices, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Microsoft Xbox, Touch Screen, Microsoft Zune, Apple iPod, hard drive, radio
Asia winning race to patent ideas in US?
News The world’s most innovative companies go to great lengths to guard their trade secrets, but do companies with the most patents have the best ideas?
Tags: Innovation, Patents, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patent, Canon Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, Japanese company, Japan, IFI Patent Intelligence, Korea
Linux watch: Ahead of its time?
News Besides telling time, the IBM/Citizen Watch prototype comes with calendar-scheduling software, a pager-like application and a Bluetooth chip.
Toshiba works on next-generation LCDs
News Toshiba is applying its experience with liquid-crystal displays to create the next generation of screen technology known as organic light-emitting diode displays.
Sony brightens prospects of OLED
News The consumer-electronics giant will invest in and start mass production of organic light-emitting diode displays next year, planning the screens for use in its own mobile devices.
Sony begins mass production of OLED screens
News The electronics giant has begun production of next-generation screens using organic light-emitting diode technology.
Tags: Monitors and displays
Next-gen skinny screens light up
News It'll be a decade before organic LED displays really catch on, but look for the new screens--which need no backlighting--to trickle into pagers and cell phones. They're thinner, brighter and cheaper than LCDs, says an analyst.
Intel tunes in a radio future
News The chip giant's CTO says at a conference that the company is contributing to a "renaissance of the radio" through research in antennas, networks, end-user devices and other technology.
Getting the skinny on mobile displays
News How do you build a better screen for cell phones? The industry thinks it may have some answers.
Tags: Monitors and displays, Cellular phones
AMD Athlon XP
Reviews A worthwhile upgrade, if only for the reduction in power consumption and resulting need for less cooling technology.
