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Jobs slashes Apple TV price, unveils 'Ping' social network

Sep 01, 2010 04:17 pm | Computerworld

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today introduced a smaller and less expensive Apple TV, laid out a completely revamped iPod music player lineup, talked up a pair of upgrades to its iOS mobile operating system and touted changes to the company's iTunes music software and store.

HP, Hynix to jointly bring next-gen memory to market

Sep 01, 2010 01:47 pm | Computerworld

Hewlett-Packard announced an agreement with chip fabricator Hynix to bring a new form of non-volatile memory out of research and into the commercial marketplace. The technology, which will be called ReRAM, is faster and denser than today's flash memory.

Water cooling returns to IBM mainframe

Sep 01, 2010 12:13 am | Computerworld

IBM next week will add water-cooling to a mainframe offering for the first time in 15 years; the company has started offering the technology fror blade servers and supercomputers in recent years.

Nanocrystal conductors using 'dirt-cheap material' promise massive 3-D storage

Aug 31, 2010 06:31 pm | Computerworld

Scientists at Rice University have been able to create a non-volitile memory using a chain of nano-sized silicon crystals that can be stacked atop one another to create 3-D memory that offers far great scale than today's flash memory.

Borders continues e-reader price war

Aug 31, 2010 03:30 pm | Computerworld

Borders today continued the e-reader price war by announcing that its Aluratek Libre eBook Pro will fall below the $100 mark when it goes on sale for $99.99 starting tomorrow.

Gartner projecting weaker second half for PC shipments

Aug 31, 2010 11:27 am | IDG News Service

Gartner on Tuesday joined PC and chip makers in projecting a weaker-than-expected second half for worldwide PC shipments in light of slower economic recovery in mature markets.

Microsoft to build giant data center in Virginia

Aug 30, 2010 08:01 pm | IDG News Service

Microsoft is to build another large data center, this time in Virginia, despite scaling back plans for an earlier facility in Iowa.

Chrome jumps into hardware speed-up game

Aug 30, 2010 12:11 pm | Computerworld

Google plans to follow the lead of Microsoft and Mozilla by offloading some browser chores to the graphics processor to speed up Chrome.

iPad lures business users in law, medicine and other fields

Aug 30, 2010 06:25 am | Computerworld

Doctors, lawyers and businesspeople are using iPads to ease their workloads, but many observers say Apple's tablet isn't ready to replace laptops for functions such as writing long documents.

MIT builds swimming, oil-eating robots

Aug 26, 2010 05:00 pm | Computerworld

MIT researchers have used nanotechnology to develop a robot that can autonomously navigate across the surface of the ocean to clean up an oil spill.