A laptop under US$100 could reach desks if a new venture formed by former chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child, Mary Lou Jepsen, can deliver on its promises.

U.S. government agencies need to take additional steps to protect against cybersecurity problems after a series of congressional hearings and reports exposed several weaknesses in 2007, representatives of Symantec said.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will crack open the door to its music vaults on Jan. 15, taking the DRM copy-prevention wrapper off a limited selection of downloadable tracks.

Az Intel elbúcsúzott az OLPC projekttől, az E-Lead Electronic pedig új UMPC-t mutat be a CES-en. A kifejezetten oktatási célokra szánt noteszek helyett egyre inkább az oktatásban - is - használható gépekről van szó.

Intel's resignation from the One Laptop Per Child Project's board of directors will have "no impact" on the group's operations, since the chip maker contributed little to the project since joining last year, OLPC President Walter Bender said in an interview.

IBM has bought XIV, an Israeli manufacturer of SAN (storage area network) equipment. XIV's main product is Nextra, a storage system based on a grid of standard hardware components.

The One Laptop Per Child project suffered a blow this week, with Chief Technology Officer Mary Lou Jepsen quitting the nonprofit to start a for-profit company to commercialize technology she invented with OLPC.

New rules will go into effect on Jan. 1 that prohibit air passengers in the U.S. from carrying spare lithium batteries in their checked baggage.

Az SAP AG bejelentette, hogy a közszolgáltatási szektor számára készült SAP for Public Sector megoldásával segíti az Egyesült Nemzetek és más nemzetközi szervezetek munkáját a hatékonyabb működésben.

The time for talking about bringing business skills into technology jobs is over, and hiring managers in 2008 expect to find IT professionals with as much business acumen as technical know-how.

Idén volt 25 éves a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a nyolcvanas évek népszerű, 8-bites mikroszámítógépe. A hagyományőrző Sinclair.hu is 10 éves, ezért a kettős évfordulót a szokásosnál nagyobb év végi találkozóval ünnepelték.

Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls where victims go on the Internet.

Toyota unveiled on Thursday the latest two creations from its robot project, including one that can play the violin, and said it is targeting the early 2010s for the development of a viable human-assistance robot.

Google released on Wednesday an iPhone application that puts Google's numerous services into a single interface on a navigation toolbar. Over time, the application will be available for other mobile devices, said Gummi Hafsteinsson, a product manager with the Google mobile team.

Supercomputers may soon be the same size as a laptop if IBM brings to market research detailed on Thursday, in which pulses of light replace electricity to make data transfer between processor cores on a chip up to one-hundred times faster.

AT&T will stop putting coins into its pay-phone business after next year, letting the call drop after generations of helping stranded travelers contact relatives and Clark Kent get an extreme makeover.

Motorola's chief technology officer has left the company, just days after Motorola announced it will replace CEO Ed Zander.

Az Activision és a Blizzard 18,9 milliárd dolláros üzlettel egyesül, létrehozva "a legjövedelmezőbb videójáték-birodalmat".

European media group Vivendi plans to acquire a majority stake in leading computer games publisher Activision and merge the company with its own gaming unit to form what will likely be the world's largest third-party publisher of computer games.

Az Alexandriai Nagykönyvtár az ismert világ tudáskincsének javával rendelkezett. Ezt a célt tűzte ki a Million Book Project is.