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Researchers at Tufts University are developing soft robots that can change shape and contract in ways that would allow them to maneuver over territory that would trip up traditional robots.
A new study says that more than 12,000 laptops go missing at U.S. airports each week, but a
Computerworld check at some of the airports and the Transportation Security Administration finds the numbers don't add up.
Hypervisors make moot some CPU-oriented green initiatives because the virtualization software subscribes to the "get the best performance per watt used" school of thought.
DreamWorks Animation is pushing aside chip maker AMD to team up with Intel for a move to 3-D animated films next year.
Have you enabled the best trackpad functions on your laptop?
Are you getting the most from your trackpad? Whether your Apple laptop is brand-new or long in the tooth, an array of specialized options can make navigating faster and easier.
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found a way to use nanotechnology to boil water more efficiently, which could help them better cool computer chips.
HP is building new customer service and technical support facilities in New Mexico and Arkansas after those states offered big incentive packages to lure the company out of Colorado Springs, Colo.
Joel Hagberg, Fujitsu's vice president of business development, said his company does not plan to launch any solid-state disk-drive products over the next two years because the value proposition of the technology is not compelling enough.
The Japan Meteorological Agency is laying 130 miles of fiber-optic cable designed to help detect earthquakes off the south coast of Japan.
The My Passport Studio is no speed demon, but it does offer decent capacity and performance in an attractive, slim design.
Pioneer has developed an optical disc that can hold up to 400GB of data, easily surpassing previously announced prototypes.
There's a big ideological gap between developers, who espouse the XO laptop as a watershed open-source project, and One Laptop Per Child, which wants to sell more cheap PCs, one observer says, and now OLPC is trying to mend fences.
Nvidia said it will take a one-time charge to cover costs related to repair of defective GPUs used in notebooks.
Logitech's WiLife provides a working video surveillance system at a relatively low price, although it does have limitations compared to professional setups.
Does your laptop have enough RAM? Does a hard disk or flash drive provide more bang for the buck? These questions are expensive imponderables for most laptop buyers, but our tests reveal the optimal configuration for your laptop.
A trade group is raising questions about IBM's acquisition of a competing mainframe vendor, Platform Solutions.
A former Hewlett-Packard vice president has been changed in federal court with stealing confidential information from a previous employer, IBM.
Researcher iSuppli said the price war between chip makers Intel and AMD appears to be abating based on first-quarter research.
The Axiom 600 was designed to provide high disk utilization rates and optimal performance for VMware software, Oracle databases and Microsoft Exchange. Pillar boosts utilization rates by providing up to eight RAID controllers for each storage pool.
AMD continued its recent new product push with the unveiling of three new high-end quad-core processors.
PC World's Steve Bass found a cool, little tripod perfect for digital cameras, and a small speaker case that packs a lot of sound.
The Fusion F2 is a portable eSATA RAID system. The Fusion F2 is a portable two-drive RAID system that uses external Serial ATA (eSATA) to connect to a host Mac or PC. It can connect using a Sonnet Tempo SATA ExpressCard/34 controller for the Apple MacBook Pro as well.
Lenovo this week brought out the IdeaCentre K210, it's first desktop computer aimed at the U.S. consumer market.
Researcher iSuppli says that global sales of PC hardware continued to be strong in the first quarter despite a sagging U.S. economy.
Designing new cancer drugs requires an understanding of the structure of proteins, with more than 90 million images to analyze and interpret.
Planning has begun on an undersea cable that will connect Japan and the U.S.; and Nokia said it plans to buy all of Symbian and release its operating system software to the open-source community.
A team of researchers at Purdue University is building a miniature refrigeration system that could significantly change the process of cooling desktop and laptop PCs.
Still, most of the data centers that conducted the tests in the Accenture report are operated by high-tech companies, which raises questions about whether other data centers will get the same results.
Mark Hall hears five reasons why thin clients are finally going to be embraced this year.
Ideas ranged from the exotic to the more down to earth, like improving air-flow management and using outside air in colder climates to cool equipment.
Buying replacement ink from a third-party vendor can save you big bucks. But will you pay with lousy-looking prints that fade in no time? We did months of testing to find out.
We trace the history of some of the industry's most mundane and most unusual terminology.
Mozilla's new Firefox 3.0 browser uses memory more efficiently than Internet Explorer, Flock, Opera and Safari, according to an independent tester who wrote a monitoring utility to track browser memory use.
Tests of Martian soil found by the Mars Lander robotic arm are finding that the planet can support human life.
Chemical tests of soil gathered by the Mars Lander's robotic arm shows that it can support life, say NASA scientists.
It fills a growing niche -- video eyewear that makes it possible to privately watch video stored on an iPod, other portable media player or other video device.
We explain how to sift through the sea of service plans, networks, features, technical data and more to get the handset and service plan that fits you.
SingleClick Remote Access software now allows access to users' personal multimedia files from home via the mobile network.
"We used to talk about a PC on every desk," a Microsoft executive said at a trade show this week. "But how about a data center in every town?"
