(PhysOrg.com) -- A new open source application developed at Murdoch University is giving researchers a revolutionary new way of accessing supercomputers.

Technology - Computer Sciences

Dec 12, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 1

Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc., today announced a new benchmark in NAND flash technology - the world's first 20 nanometer (nm), 128 gigabit (Gb), multilevel-cell (MLC) device. The companies ...

Electronics - Hardware

Dec 07, 2011 4.4 / 5 (7) 2

Toshiba Corporation today announced it has developed circuit techniques for embedded SRAM that operate in a wide supply voltage range, from 0.5V to 1.0V, that effectively contribute to lower power consumption by electronic ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Nov 16, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 1

Lowering energy consumption associated with computer data storage (specifically, cloud computing) and saving millions of dollars are possible now, thanks to new memory technology, a field that researchers at the University ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Nov 02, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanomanufacturing technology has enabled scientists to create metamaterials -- stuff that never existed in nature -- with unusual optical properties. They could lead to "superlenses" able ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Nov 02, 2011 5 / 5 (9) 7 |

(AP) -- To impress kids these days, it's not enough to make another video game. Mere action figures won't do, either. So Activision is merging the two.

Technology - Software

Oct 16, 2011 1.5 / 5 (2) 1

Cloud computing, which taps the resources of a network of remote computers, offers tremendous potential for storing and processing vast amounts of data quickly and cheaply. The catch: As cloud computing applications become ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Oct 14, 2011 not rated yet 0

Successfully managing, preserving, and sharing large amounts of digitally-based data has become more of an economic challenge than a technical one, as researchers must meet a new National Science Foundation (NSF) policy requiring ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Oct 05, 2011 not rated yet 0

US justice authorities hit a Japanese-Korean producer of optical disk drives with a $21.1 million fine for bid-rigging and price fixing, the Justice Department announced.

Technology - Business

Sep 30, 2011 not rated yet 1

The prospect of consumers and employees physically losing information-packed mobile devices, or getting them hacked, has become the driver for a red-hot sector of the tech industry: supplying mobile security.

Technology - Software

Sep 26, 2011 not rated yet 0

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published two new documents on cloud computing: the first edition of a cloud computing standards roadmap and a cloud computing reference architecture ...

Technology - Engineering

Sep 14, 2011 not rated yet 0

German physicists led by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Zabel have demonstrated the spin pumping effect in magnetic layers for the first time experimentally. The behaviour of the spin pumping had previously only been predicted theoretically. ...

Physics - General Physics

Sep 12, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

A digital dumping ground lies inside most computers, a wasteland where old, rarely used and unneeded files pile up. Such data can deplete precious storage space, bog down the system's efficiency and sap its ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Sep 01, 2011 4.6 / 5 (7) 6 |

Sony's first tablet computer will hit the Japanese market on September 17 as the company looks to take on Apple's popular iPad, the electronics giant said Thursday.

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Sep 01, 2011 not rated yet 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- As computers big and small grow ever faster, new and better ways to store more data must be developed as well to keep up with the demand. It wasn’t all that long ago that a 1 gigabyte hard drive on a ...

Electronics - Hardware

Aug 29, 2011 4 / 5 (6) 24 |