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(AP) -- The world's two biggest personal computer makers are locked in a pricey struggle over which can move away from the PC business the fastest. http://phys.org/news201776412.html Technology Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:00:23 EST news201776412 (AP) -- EMC Corp.'s net income more than doubled in the second quarter as corporations opened the spigot on spending for more data storage. http://phys.org/news198924138.html Technology Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:00:01 EST news198924138 Japan's Fujitsu said Friday it aimed to generate 1.5 trillion yen (17 billion dollars) in revenue from its global cloud computing business by March 2016, making it a cornerstone of its strategy. http://phys.org/news197871547.html Technology Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:50:01 EST news197871547 A new computer data compression technique called Genomic SQueeZ (G-SQZ), developed by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), will allow genetic researchers and others to store, analyze and share massive volumes of data in less space and at lower cost. http://phys.org/news197642697.html Biology Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:45:12 EST news197642697 Japan's Renesas Electronics Corp. said Tuesday it had reached an agreement to buy the wireless modem operations of mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. in a 200 million dollar deal. http://phys.org/news197636807.html Technology Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:30:01 EST news197636807 As cell phones and computers continue to shrink, many companies are seeking better ways to store hundreds of gigabytes of data in small, low-power devices. http://phys.org/news196429240.html Physics Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:50:01 EST news196429240 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Europe have created a time capsule they call a 'digital genome,' and deposited it in a bunker known as the Swiss Fort Knox, which lies deep beneath the ski slopes of the Swiss Alps. The aim of the project is to ensure future scientists will be able to decipher data stored using obsolete technologies. http://phys.org/news193639360.html Technology Fri, 21 May 2010 07:30:01 EST news193639360 Cloud computing used to be one of those wispy technical phrases that was hard to define. Was it a new name for outsourcing? A different kind of computer network? Or just marketing nonsense? http://phys.org/news193508594.html Technology Wed, 19 May 2010 18:30:02 EST news193508594 Samsung Electronics today announced availability of an eight gigabit (Gb) OneNAND chip that takes advantage of advanced 30 nanometer (nm) class process technology. http://phys.org/news192732368.html Electronics Mon, 10 May 2010 18:10:01 EST news192732368 Taiwan unveiled a plan Thursday to invest 24 billion Taiwan dollars (750 million US) in the development of cutting-edge Internet computing technology, saying it would create 50,000 new jobs. http://phys.org/news191742961.html Technology Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:30:01 EST news191742961 (PhysOrg.com) -- Though scientists argue that the emerging technology of spintronics may trump conventional electronics for building the next generation of faster, smaller, more efficient computers and high-tech devices, no one has actually seen the spin—a quantum mechanical property of electrons—in individual atoms until now. In a study published as an Advance Online Publication in the journal Nature Nanotechnology on Sunday, physicists at Ohio University and the University of Hamburg in Germany present the first images of spin in action. http://phys.org/news191515629.html Nanotechnology Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:47:31 EST news191515629 (PhysOrg.com) -- The memory capacity of electronics devices could be increased in future thanks to an organic data storage system using ternary rather than binary data storage. The current prototype is designed for permanent data storage, and can be written once but read multiple times, but the Chinese researchers hope to develop re-writable data storage based on the technology. http://phys.org/news190451302.html Nanotechnology Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:40:01 EST news190451302 (AP) -- Business software company CA Inc. said Tuesday that it's cutting 1,000 jobs - or about 8 percent of its work force - and consolidating offices as part of a restructuring plan to reduce costs and become more efficient. http://phys.org/news189771645.html Technology Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:30:01 EST news189771645 (AP) -- Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer hits U.S. shelves on Saturday, but fans who want the new touch-screen gadget shipped directly to them must wait a week. http://phys.org/news189082819.html Electronics Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:00:37 EST news189082819 Fujitsu Microelectronics today announced the development of new flash memory macro that enables NOR flash memory circuits to achieve high-speed read operations while operating at low power currents. http://phys.org/news188675353.html Technology Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:10:02 EST news188675353 The Dell Precision M4500 is the world's most powerful 15.6" mobile workstation with Intel Core i7 Extreme edition processor and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M GFX graphics solution. http://phys.org/news187558481.html Electronics Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:40:01 EST news187558481 Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new analytical method that opens the door to faster processing of large amounts of information, with applications in fields as diverse as the military, medical diagnostics and homeland security. http://phys.org/news187439321.html Technology Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:29:08 EST news187439321 (AP) -- Dell Inc. hopes to expand a key part of its business through a deal to sell computer hardware and technology consulting to medical practices that want to use new electronic medical records and related services from the American Medical Association. http://phys.org/news186667484.html Technology Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:40:01 EST news186667484 Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IBM Research-Zürich have fabricated an ultra sharp, diamond-like carbon tip possessing such high strength that it is 3,000 times more wear-resistant at the nanoscale than silicon. http://phys.org/news186340582.html Nanotechnology Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:10:02 EST news186340582 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth researcher Ivan Aprahamian and his team have developed a new molecular switch that changes its configuration as a function of the pH of the environment. This discovery might someday help lead to targeted drug delivery systems, molecular-level data storage, and molecular electronics - all important objectives in nanotechnology. http://phys.org/news186221245.html Nanotechnology Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:30:01 EST news186221245 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering professor Bryan Huey is developing a new hard drive-like device designed to improve the reliability of data storage and reduce cost and energy consumption. http://phys.org/news185452992.html Technology Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:00:01 EST news185452992 (PhysOrg.com) -- One-terabyte (TB) solid state drives (SSDs) are expected to be released in a couple of years, and they will be about the size of the average postage stamp. http://phys.org/news185438129.html Electronics Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:00:01 EST news185438129 Researchers in Chicago and London have developed a method for controlling the properties of magnets that could be used to improve the storage capacity of next-generation computer hard drives. http://phys.org/news184935265.html Physics Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:54:47 EST news184935265 IBM researchers today announced they have demonstrated a world record in areal data density on linear magnetic tape - a significant update to one of the computer industry's most resilient, reliable and affordable data storage technologies. http://phys.org/news183390187.html Technology Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:43:34 EST news183390187 Intel Corp. affirmed this week what many analysts have been talking about for some time: That a corporate spending wave is about to hit -- and a big part of it will come from the cloud. http://phys.org/news182959149.html Technology Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:59:29 EST news182959149 Innovative smart sensing devices promise to boost mobility and quality of life for the elderly, reduce healthcare costs and even give sports people an edge through more effective training. http://phys.org/news180853754.html Medicine & Health Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:09:32 EST news180853754 (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists theorize that quantum phenomena could provide a major boost to batteries, with the potential to increase energy density up to 10 times that of lithium ion batteries. According to a new proposal, billions of nanoscale capacitors could take advantage of quantum effects to overcome electric arcing, an electrical breakdown phenomenon which limits the amount of charge that conventional capacitors can store. http://phys.org/news180704455.html Physics Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:42:13 EST news180704455 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have found a new way to use a synthetic form of DNA to control the assembly of nanoparticles — this time resulting in switchable, three-dimensional and small-cluster structures that might be useful, for example, as biosensors, in solar cells, and as new materials for data storage. The work is described in Nature Nanotechnology, published online December 20, 2009. http://phys.org/news180624054.html Nanotechnology Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:21:26 EST news180624054 (PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, and the achievement brings spintronic devices using silicon as a semiconductor a step closer. http://phys.org/news178526124.html Physics Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:36:59 EST news178526124 IBM on Monday announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs. http://phys.org/news177592959.html Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:23:31 EST news177592959