IBM Tries to Bring Brain Power to Computers
IBM Research wants to bring the brain's processing power to computers, making it possible for PCs to process vast amounts of...

Donated computers to aid seniors
NORTON SHORES ? The National Council on Aging has awarded eight computers to AgeWell Services, formerly Nutritional Services/Meals on Wheels, which is part of the newly opened Tanglewood Park senior citizen complex in Norton Shores. The grant is part of...

Computers For Kids In Need Stolen
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Christmas may still be several weeks away but it seems the Ginch has already arrived, recently striking a Jacksonville consulting firm and stealing the computers that were going to be given to needy children.

Laptop showroom in pipeline for Magnum Computers
CHENNAI, INDIA: Magnum Computers will be launching its first retail showroom in Chennai. The showroom is exclusively for laptops and electronic gadgets in Ritchie Street.

Infected computers search in vain for Srizbi botnet
Large numbers of infected computers have been searching in vain for the Srizbi botnet disrupted by the disconnection of ISP McColo a week ago, a security vendor has found.

Unified computers to get better backup protection
RACINE ? The computer room where the Racine Unified School District keeps important financial and student data will soon be a safer, more stable place.

Stealth.Com Introduces Powerful Small Form Factor Computers Ideal For In-Vehicle/Mobile/Embedded Applications
Stealth.Com Inc., a market leader in the industrial computer and peripherals market has released a new small form factor or mini PC designed specifically for in-vehicle/mobile/embedded applications.

School board to buy 1,152 computers with SPLOST funds
Less than two weeks after local voters narrowly approved a one-cent education sales tax, the Fayette County Board of Education voted to spend some of that future money for more than 1,100 new computers.

Computers, gift certificates stolen from St. Francis rectory
Two laptop computers and some gift certificates were reported stolen from the rectory at St. Francis of Assisi Parish on Sunday. Rochester police said the burglar or burglars got in through a window and went out a door at

Kill Comatose Computers
Companies waste money and energy letting obsolete machines keep running.

Local agency wants secure laptop computers
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to have its laptop computers loaded with programs to prevent tampering this week.

How Green Is Your Computer?
We'd be lost without our computers -- yet their negative effects on the environment are often overlooked.

Emirates Computers participates in Cisco Connected Hotel Forum
Emirates Computers announced that they are participating in Cisco's Connected Hotel Forum to be held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on November 20, 2008.

Not in My Backyard: Stopping Illegal Export of Junked Televisions and Computers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week fined electronics recycler Jet Ocean Technology of Chino, Calif., just over $10,000 for illegally exporting cathode-ray tubes from old television sets to China. Jet Ocean is only the second electronics recycler to be penalized for shipping and deliberately mislabeling the tubes, which contain the brain-damaging metal lead. It falsely ...

DRAMeXchange:Late Nov Mainstream DRAM Contract Price Down 10.9%
TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Contract prices of Dynamic Random Access Memory chips, whcih are widely used in personal computers, fell 10.9% in late November from early November, Taiwanese online chip clearinghouse DRAMeXchange said Thursday.

Ask Eartha Steward
I have several old computers and monitors to recycle and wanted to know where they go after you get them? I just watched a '60 Minutes' that featured a company from

Technology taking clothes to next level
Companies that make computers, televisions and automobiles promote technological upgrades with the version numbers and model years. But the fashion industry ? for all it promotes design changes ? rarely touts the steady improvement of fabric treatments that fight wrinkles, stains and other hazards.

Jonesville Schools? phones, computers to get first share of bond money for tech
The Jonesville Community Schools Board of Education continues to review plans for bond money as they are devised and refined. During Monday?s meeting, the board reviewed a rough draft of the technology plan for 2009-2012.

Quantum Computing Advances a Qubit Closer to Reality
Quantum computers are a sort of holy grail of information science. Their inherent computational advantage comes from their fundamental computational unit, the quantum bit ("qubit"). Unlike a digital bit in a classical computer, which can take the form of either 0 or 1, a qubit can be both zero and one simultaneously, throwing open the door to vastly more powerful computation. And although a ...

Orcon on top in broadband survey
A new internet broadband connections survey out on Monday morning has proved what many already thought. Broadband performance on more than 12,000 computers was tested, with the aim of examining average download speeds.