Pre-orders open for the record-setting Elevation Dock

Elevation Lab has opened pre-orders for its promising iPhone dock which set a new record of $1.4M in pledges on Kickstarter.

Blog posts | February 14, 2012 7:15pm PST
CNET's New York TV test lab revealed (photos)

Take a photo tour of CNET's Manhattan TV testing lab with your hosts, David Katzmaier and Ty Pendlebury.

Image galleries | February 8, 2012 10:00am PST
Hungarian Lab found Stuxnet-like Duqu malware

The Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) in Hungary confirmed its participation in the initial discovery of the Duqu cyber-surveillance Trojan.

Blog posts | October 21, 2011 9:11am PDT
Inside Sprint's cell phone testing labs (photos)

CNET goes inside Sprint's testing labs in its Kansas headquarters to see how the carrier evaluates new cell phones before bringing them to market.

Image galleries | July 21, 2011 5:00pm PDT
MIT Media Lab celebrates 25 years (photos)

The lab opens its doors to outsiders during a 25-year anniversary celebration, showing, among other things, work from the Fluid Interfaces group.

Image galleries | October 15, 2010 11:00am PDT
Dell Virtual Labs: Saving money, improving access

What happens when students don't bother using computer labs anymore, driving up management and support costs for a multitude of hardware and software configurations?

Blog posts | August 9, 2010 8:28pm PDT
Hot ideas brew at MIT Media Lab (photos)

Road Trip 2010: By working with corporate sponsors, students and faculty at the famed R&D lab can see their ideas quickly productized.

Image galleries | July 23, 2010 4:10am PDT
Rethinking mobile labs

We've rolled out several mobile labs. Some people like to call them COWs (computers on wheels); I prefer to call them opportunities. The labs, as a result of failing, aging, and otherwise...

Blog posts | February 9, 2010 7:33am PST
Frugal Friday: Joblessness, DROID, Chrome OS, Richard Stallman, V.i. labs

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the dwindling IT employment landscape, my experiences with the Motorola/Verizon DROID, the Google Chrome OS developer code release, Ken's recent interview...

Blog posts | November 21, 2009 12:18pm PST
New Microsoft social computing lab formed under Ozzie

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has launched another new lab, this one focused on social computing. The 82-person Future Social Experiences Labs (FUSE) will be headed by General...

Blog posts | October 8, 2009 8:36am PDT
Moto Labs' multitouch display

Moto Labs shows off its updated Sensing Screen concept.

Image galleries | April 28, 2009 1:10pm PDT
Inside Dell's design labs

The company's design staff has ballooned in recent years as the maker of PCs and servers aims to create a new look for itself. Crave got a tour of two design labs at the company's headquarters.

Image galleries | March 11, 2009 4:00pm PDT
A better way to do legacy software

One of our middle school teachers runs a great technology education program. He covers everything from basic tools to electronics to biomedical engineering to CAD. The kids enjoy the class and...

Blog posts | October 30, 2008 9:46pm PDT
In-class computers vs. labs

Most of our decisions have come together fairly well on our elementary/middle school tech refreshes, particularly in terms of platform and software. However, there is some debate about using...

Blog posts | June 27, 2008 10:36am PDT
So what about mobile labs?

So here's another scenario for you. As we explore options for our elementary schools, it occurred to me that we have three major problems in our facilities: space, power, and infrastructure. The...

Blog posts | June 19, 2008 10:13am PDT
What's cooking at Xerox's PARC labs?

The Palo Alto Research Center, a spinoff lab from Xerox, recently opened its doors to show off paper with disappearing ink, solar concentrators, and a way to purify water that was inspired by...

Videos | April 30, 2008 4:17pm PDT
Followup on the GIMP on thin clients

I received several great suggestions when I asked for feedback on using the GIMP with thin clients. Some were complex, some were expensive, some involved a switch from Windows to Linux since...

Blog posts | February 4, 2008 8:46pm PST
Oak Ridge attacks linked to China

A US-CERT memo obtained by the New York Times strongly suggests that China is behind the phishing attacks on US nuclear weapons research labs. Starting in October hackers launched "coordinated...

Blog posts | December 10, 2007 8:38am PST
China connection eyed in Oak Ridge cyber attack

Last week's phishing attack at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee reportedly has a China connection. Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratory were hit with a cyber attack where...

Blog posts | December 10, 2007 4:25am PST
Department of Energy opens doors to tech entrepreneurs

Under the entrepreneur in residence program, the agency will invite executives to set up shop inside select labs to assess technologies.

News items | October 23, 2007 12:38pm PDT