Archive: 01/19/2006

China to hasten telecom regulation

In a bid to curb rampant spam and growing fraud conducted over mobile services, China will speed up creation of a new telecom law this year that will insist on all mobile-phone subscribers to register using their real names.

Jan 19, 2006 3.3 / 5 (4) 0

2006 graphic cards debut new technology

It began with a straight line and grew from there. At the dawn of the 1970s a few rectangles, when properly animated on a television screen, were used to create the groundbreaking video game "Pong." From there, ...

Jan 19, 2006 3.3 / 5 (23) 0

Toward a Quantum Computer, One Dot at a Time

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a way to create semiconductor islands smaller than 10 nanometers in scale, known as quantum dots. The islands, made from germanium and placed on the surface of silicon ...

Jan 19, 2006 4.3 / 5 (19) 0