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IBM announced on Thursday that it had successfully implemented multi-level phase change memory (PCM). Phase change memory is a potential competitor for flash memory, and works by alternately crystallising and melting nanoscopic points of material on a chip through tiny pulses of energy.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It's a simple lesson, one learned by most of us by the time we're twenty (OK, fifty).
Nokia's chief technology officer, Richard Green, has taken indefinite leave from the company for personal reasons, Reuters has reported. No date has been given for his return.
Reuters is reporting that the Chinese government is threatening Google with unspecified consequences if it continues to report hacking attacks attributed to within China. The People's Daily said that Google was "deliberately pandering to negative Western perceptions of China" with its "spurious...
Following a Twitter storm of 'Is Skype down?' messages, ZDNet UK tests show that the Skype client is crashing after about a minute of attempting to connect.
In a two-hour keynote in San Francisco on Monday, Apple showed off the next versions of its iOS and OS X operating systems, and revealed its much-anticipated iCloud online storage and synchronisation service.Steve Jobs took the stage for a brief introdution, relinquishing it for Phil Schiller, senior VP of Marketing, who demonstrated gesture and touch integration on Lion, the forthcoming new version of OS X edition.
Hacker group Lulzec claimed yesterday to have gained access to over a million usernames and passwords on servers run by Sony Pictures, the movie arm of the Japanese tech giant.In a message on Twitter, the group said "1,000,000+ unencrypted users, unencrypted admin accounts, government and military passwords saved in plaintext.
The internet, it turns out, can be turned off. It can be filtered, it can be monitored, it can be turned against its users.
The deal's done, the strategy revealed, the entrails available for augury. None of this stops everyone asking the question — why would Microsoft pay $8.
You'll have heard of Nvidia, the graphics and mobile chip maker. Until today, you won't have heard of Icera, which hails from Bristol and makes data chips for mobiles.
Nearly half a century in the planning, armed with 13 new technologies and four of the most perfect spheres ever created, NASA's $750 million Gravity Probe B (GP-B)'s troubled mission is finally over.After 16 months of in-orbit data gathering and almost five years of data analysis, GP-B has mapped the space-time vortex that Einstein predicted would be created by the Earth's movement in space.
One of the unexpected revelations of the operation that assassinated Bin Laden was that President Obama watched it happen on live video from the White House.
Steve Jobs normally talks to the press about as often as the Earth gets visited by Halley's Comet. And, like the comet, it's usually a portent of doom.
According to Gigaom, Apple has bought the icloud.com domain name from Xcericon, a Swedish software company, for $4.
A Japanese joint venture between SanDisk and Toshiba has announced it is to produce 19nm NAND flash memory, with samples due imminently and full production by the end of the third quarter. The first chips will be 2 bits per cell 64Gb devices, giving 8GB per chip.
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