Eyes-on with Lenovo's eye-controlled laptop
ZDNet UK has looked at and inside a prototype laptop with eye-tracking technology from Swedish company Tobii that lets users make selections on-screen by looking at menus
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IBM looks to the stars with SKA research partnership
IBM has entered into a five-year research collaboration to develop technology to help scientists study data generated by a radio telescope with a collection area as wide as the US.The €32.
Sophos: Mac App Store applications can be pirated
Applications within Apple's Mac App Store can be pirated if developers do not code specific receipt validation systems into their products, researchers have found
Amazon brings Windows to free cloud offer
Amazon Web Services has made it possible for developers to run Windows Server 2008 R2 on its cloud for free.The offer, announced on Sunday, brings Windows to the company's free usage tier deal, which gives people access to a low-powered Amazon Web Services (AWS) virtual machine.
LibreOffice gets 3.5 release candidate
The Document Foundation has made a release candidate of LibreOffice 3.5 available for download.
Coming soon: 'Invisible knife' that lets doctors cut with sound
New technology uses a carbon nanotube-coated lens to convert light into sound waves that are then focused enough to cut through skin.
Judge rejects Oracle fraud claim against HP
A court has thrown out Oracle's claim that HP was fraudulent in its dealings with the company over Itanium and the hiring of ex-CEO Mark Hurd's replacements. HP argued that the ruling undermines Oracle's defence.
China cracks down on phishers
The Chinese government is collaborating with some of China's biggest search engines to put a halt to phishing attacks.The government will work with 10 Chinese search engines, including Baidu, to strengthen the web rankings of financial institutions to stop people being phished, the Ministry of Public Security announced on Friday.
Eden heads to Israel in Intel management shake-up
Intel has staged an executive shake-up that replaces its PC chip head, Mooly Eden, with datacentre expert Kirk Skaugen.In a sideways move, Mooly Eden, who ran the PC Client Group — Intel's largest division by revenue — will become general manager of research hub Intel Israel, the company announced on Friday.
Symbian grows mobile dominance in 2011
Even though Nokia is phasing out the Symbian mobile operating system in favour of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, the software grew its share of all mobile phones in 2011.The OS started the year with a 30.