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Article | 1/05/2009 Weekly Tech News Update: 1st May, 2009

A speaker gets paper thin, a supercomputer may be coming to a popular TV game show and laptops and netbooks get refreshed with some new technology.

Article | 30/04/2009 IBM supercomputer to compete on Jeopardy

Alright everyone, here is today’s final Jeopardy clue. IBM is developing a computer system personified by this name to compete on Jeopardy?

Article | 23/04/2009 VMware intros vSphere

VMware threw a party at its Silicon Valley headquarters on Tuesday and declared that virtualization has arrived.

Article | 20/04/2009 The Pirate Bay four found guilty

On Friday the Stockholm district court found The Pirate Bay four guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law.

Article | 17/04/2009 Weekly Tech News Update: 17th April, 2009

Sony adds a new member to its walkman family, Sun intros new servers, and technology is on display at the New York International Auto Show.

Article | 9/04/2009 Students develop low-cost, open-source eye tracking system

Eye tracking software that allows a person to control a cursor with eye movements is typically an expensive package of hardware and software, but stud...

Article | 9/04/2009 Keyboard blocks typos

A keyboard with tactile error prevention prevents users from making typing errors.

Article | 8/04/2009 Cell phone pressure sensor lets receiver know if call is urgent

When your phone rings, most often you don't know whether its an urgent phone call or just a friend who wants to chat. A prototype on display at Boston...

Article | 8/04/2009 Nanotouch technology shrinks touchscreen displays

By moving a touchscreen device's interaction component to the back of the device, new technology can prevent fingers from occluding a touchsreen displ...

Article | 8/04/2009 Nanotouch technology shrinks touchscreen displays

Touchscreens can only get so small before fingers start to block most of the information on them, but a project from Microsoft Research and the Hasso ...

Article | 6/04/2009 CTIA: Wrap-up

Companies intro inexpensive phones for texting, world records get shattered, new OLED technology debuts and Clearwire expands coverage

Article | 6/04/2009 CTIA: Nokia intros new phones at CTIA

Nokia introduces a phone with an LED flashlight, a table top speaker and a U.S. version of the E71.

Article | 6/04/2009 CTIA: RIM opens App World for Blackberries

At CTIA in Las Vegas Research in Motion opened App World an on-device application store for Blackberries.

Article | 6/04/2009 CTIA: Motorola demos LTE

At CTIA Motorola gave a glimpse of LTE, the next-generation mobile technology for many of the world's carriers.

Article | 6/04/2009 CTIA: Samung unveils a mobile internet device that runs on WiMax networks

As the CTIA Wireless trade show got off the ground in Las Vegas, the South Korean electronics giant unveiled the Mondi, a mobile Internet device that ...