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AMD chips in with Cray for world's fastest computer

News Things can only get peta [19 Jun 2006]

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Microsoft said to be developing iPod rival

News Microsoft is joining a crowded field of competitors in the music service sector, including an entertainment device and service expected from Amazon.com [19 Jun 2006]

Segway gains a seat Camera icon

Photo After Hours: Our favourite high-tech scooter now looks almost exactly like an electric wheelchair [16 Jun 2006]

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Father of energy efficiency to get Fermi Award

News Art Rosenfeld's energy efficiency research, begun in the 1970s, has led to far more efficient home appliances — but cars still need some work [14 Jun 2006]

Intel, ST get together for the memories

News Later than hoped but still looking good, a new memory technology could combine the appeal of Flash and RAM [12 Jun 2006]

European university of tech gets green light

News Europe has found it hard to translate R&D into commercial success, which some blame on the lack of innovation and entrepreneurial culture in higher education [12 Jun 2006]

Talking PCs? Talk to the hand

Feature Voice recognition and speech synthesis technologies may not have developed to the degree some science fiction writers hoped, but have nevertheless seen some startling successes [12 Jun 2006]

AMD's man of the future

Q&A AMD CTO Phil Hester discusses how AMD is helping the software industry deal with multiple processing cores, and gives his take on a hot topic of the moment, computers for the developing world [07 Jun 2006]

Microsoft vs. Google: Who's greener?

Feature Outside of the electricity that makes their businesses run, Microsoft and Google are among the leading adopters of green policies in corporate America [06 Jun 2006]

Tesco to track milk deliveries by RFID

News The move signals the next phase of Tesco's RFID plans, which involve using permanent radio tags on some transport items [02 Jun 2006]

Qualcomm plans 'universal' mobile TV chip

News The Universal Broadcast Modem should help the interoperability of mobile technologies, even though it doesn't support one of the most popular standards around [30 May 2006]

My friend, the robot

Q&A iRobot chief executive Colin Angle talks about the future of robotics, from home cleaning to health care [26 May 2006]

AMD: Vista does little for convergence

News Windows Vista includes features aimed at the living room, but AMD argues the industry is being held back by more than software [24 May 2006]

Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab Camera icon

Photo The scanning tunnelling microscope is one of the Nobel prize-winning technical breakthroughs to come out of IBM's Zurich laboratory. ZDNet UK went to have a peek at what the lab is working on now, as it gears up to celebrate its 50th birthday [22 May 2006]

Samsung turns to mobile phone fuel cells

News Fuel cells have been one of the great undelivered IT promises in recent years, but this hasn't deterred Samsung from announcing plans to create mobile phones using the technology [18 May 2006]

Transparency 'crucial' for RFID systems

News Privacy concerns must be addressed if RFID is to avoid the kind of consumer backlash that greeted GM foods, the European Commission has heard [17 May 2006]

2010: The year of the techie

News Tech professionals will find it easier to climb the corporate ladder by the end of the decade – helped in part by more intelligent cars [17 May 2006]

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Disabled and elderly excluded by new technology

News Charities claim many disabled and older people are still excluded from the information society, and have drawn up an 'e-Inclusion' charter to address the problem [15 May 2006]

Putting your brain on a microchip

Feature Despite false starts, cognitive computing research is finally bearing fruit, and billions of pounds of research is flowing in [12 May 2006]

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IBM backs £54m supercomputer centre

News The research centre will reduce the size of transistors and other devices to only a few nanometres [12 May 2006]

Sony unveils UK PS3 pricing, availability

News E3: The console's technology is a huge step above the PS2, and that will show up in the retail price [09 May 2006]

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Grand theft auto, the high-tech way

Feature It is becoming ever-easier for thieves to steal expensive vehicles by attacking their keyless ignition systems, but automakers don't seem to see the problem [08 May 2006]

Grid project hunts for bird flu cure

News A grid computing project originally designed for particle physicists has been loaned to an international effort against the H5N1 virus [05 May 2006]

RFID and tracking systems - the future of old age?

News Gadgets are replacing the support of an extended family for Europe's burgeoning elderly population [27 Apr 2006]

RFID industry set for Alien invasion

News Even if Alien Technologies' IPO falls flat, it may still prove a boon to the RFID market by encouraging other track-and-trace companies to go public, according to Gartner [24 Apr 2006]